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May 18, 2006
Imagery part III: Building your Superhero
How does this Imagery thing work?
I can hear many screaming at the preceding words, yelling; "HEY! How can I become my own Superhero?" Well I believe there are formulas to everything. The formula for this is broken into several steps:
1) Take an inventory of any and every talent or useful skill or ability you have. By useful, I don't mean balancing a breath steamed spoon on the tip of your nose, as that is not useful. When listing these positive attributes, take care to create a separate list of the negative traits you may have. These are the traits you would endeavor to discard, change or improve upon, but should in no way mingle with the good traits upon which you are using as your building blocks.
2) Examine your physical capabilities and body type. If you are incapacitated or physically challenged then forego this step ONLY after you have inventoried your workable abilities.
3) Examine your mental abilities. Are you smart? Are you creative? Are you imaginative? Are you psychic? Are you telekinetic? Are you insightful? Are you clairvoyant? Are you a natural problem solver? Are you good at math? Are you a fast thinker? Are you artistic?
4) Develop an active imagination. If you have none, then you're doomed for that is all that it takes. Imagination is the only thing truly required for this to work.
5) Examine the list from 1 and build upon the strongest points. Select the ones that can be honed into the most useful of talents for which to build upon.
6) Practise these skills and increase their strengths.
7) Imagine all the talents you could assemble and build them into a person you could make extraordinary. Put then on paper and teak the description or draw it if you can. Become confident in the abilities you possess at the level that they are at and keep in mind that the more you use them, the greater you will become. Treat these talents as "gifts" or actual objects you can use like tools.
8) Imagine you ARE that person you created because these are YOUR skills.
9) Be proud of this "super being" you created. Step up to the plate when it is YOUR special ability that shines in a given situation.
10) Give this persona a name and and image, then live in your new persona and live it well, but moreover live it fabulously.
Now I can see you saying: "You're simply mad! Grow up! This isn't a comic book".
Now let me say one thing about that. Fantasy films and books are simply what happens when the mind is too lazy to make the imagined happen in real life. It's easier to dismiss what one fathoms as supernatural rather than examine the natural and make it super. If you excel at something and people compliment you on you prowess, then evidently you are super in that aspect. An Olympic athlete is a Superhero to one who cannot run fast or push their body to great lengths and do great feats. When a basketball player launches his body far higher than anyone to slam dunk a basket with explosive power, he seems rather "super" to me. If a psychic proves they can find a missing child or predicts a major disaster or shows some sort of telekinetic prowess that moves objects, they are quite super to the "normal" person.
We look upon things that are outside of our spectrum as bizarre or abnormal or perverse or twisted because the "norm" has no imagination and limits our mode of thinking. These thought patterns are destroyed by the "doubting Thomas'" of the world.
If you showed any psychic ability or success in the metaphysical arts, you'd be labeled every name from "freak" to "heretic" to "blasphemer". However, most psychic ability is inherent in all of us. That "feeling in your gut" you call instinct is just the spark that could ignite your metaphysical fire.
Some things are physically impossible. You must be able to separate the real from the OVER imagined. You cannot gain immortality from drinking blood just as you would not be able to turn yourself into a bat and flit away in the night. However, there are those who believe they are vampires. Some because they can drain energies from others. These are called "psi-vamps". They have tapped into their inner gifts of the mind. The "Sanguine" or blood drinking vampires believe they derive health and vitality from drinking the life fluids of another, usually a donor. I personally would believe in a psychic vampire over a Sanguine one.
Now back to the thought on what is physically possible. Lets go over a few talents and see how they could be construed on the homo-superior" level:
"I can tell whats going to happen in the future when I dream..." (or in any other form of successful clairvoyance.) You are "The Seer" or "The Oracle"
"I am a great orator... So much so, when I speak, not only to people listen, but they follow whatever I say..." You are "the Leader", or "Dynamic".
"I am skilled at the arts of magick. I have been successful in spellcasting..." You are "The Witch" or
"Warlock" .
A person who's able to get into someone's psyche and guide them to success would be called "the Muse".
A person who is amazing with math and numbers and investments, upon becoming successful with this, might call themself, "The Financeer or "The Mogul".
A person who a very fast runner, might call themselves "The Human Bullet" or "The Laser".
Someone who is very intelligent or good at designing things or implementing ideas, might be known as "The Brain", "The Thinker" or "The Planner".
Someone who has a great sense of humour and can effortlessly bring one or many to their knees in stitches with laughter would be known as "The Jokester".
People give their trust and open up to those they feel safe, secure and comfortable with. They open up more. They let their guard down.
If you had the uncanny knack of blending in with different people or making them feel comfortable as you mirror them and become them, adopting their styles and mannerisms, that would help you gain access to their trust and I would call you "The Chameleon".
Be as creative with your names as possible. Give them adjectives. I'm only using simple names as suggestions.
If you have many talents and cannot pinpoint just one, then create a unique alter ego for yourself. I have called mine:"The Darkstar"
Now you may be physically challenged in some way. That doesn't have to stop you from seeing something super within you. I had a friend who was severely overweight from the waist up and in a wheelchair, paralyzed with polio since he was nine. However, he was rather charismatic, had a true gift of gab and was confident in himself. He was quite the charmer. In the past I remember himself involved with some rather lovely ladies romantically because he had such a strong and personable personality. I would call him, "the Charmer" or "The Lover" or "Magnetic Man". He chose to call himself "Buster" or "Bus" for short. He even had a tag line for himself : "The Bus every girl wants to ride on".
I saw a man the other day. He was was behind the counter of a drug store as a clerk. I wondered, before I wrote this, how he could be "super"? He wasn't handsome, he had long nice wavy hair, only it was dirty and full of dandruff. He had a pot belly and had a dull bored look in his face. Here we see a man who let life defeat him. Now were he to clean himself up, possibly follow the 10 steps, he could better his life.
I don't know anything about him, yet I believe that if he could dig deep inside himself, he could find something within which he could gain an unconquerable confidence and make himself super. I believe this in those who read this also. Dig deep inside and pull your alter ego out!
Posted by at May 18, 2006 06:22 PM

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