Everyone at some point in time has imagined what it would be like to have superhuman powers. Some people have dreamed of being faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap over tall buildings in a single bound. Others have wondered what it would be like to walk on water, multiply loaves and fishes, change water into wine, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out real demons, and command the weather with a single word. And some have even conducted scientific research into human paranormal abilities such as telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance, and astral projection. Every human being has, at one point or another, fantasized about being capable of seeing more, doing more, and being more than a mere flesh-and-blood being trapped within the tight confines of space and time. And when the average person actually does catch a glimpse of the superhuman, a taste of life beyond the restrictions of space and time, he or she is filled with excitement and inspiration. But what fills that average person with excitement and inspiration actually causes the average government to cringe. That is because what the common civilian sees as an exciting and inspiring new way of life, government sees as a potential for the worst threat against all forms of legislative authority and law enforcement.
The reason governments perceive the development of civilian superhuman abilities as a threat arises from the very nature of every government's intrinsic purpose. All governments consist of a political organization that dictates, manages, and protects the rights, privileges, and affairs of its subjects. The political organization can consist of one or more persons, and some large organizations can contain more than one legislative office. Nevertheless, all governments must be able to control their subjects in order to effectively govern them. Any government that can no longer control its subjects effectively ceases to exist, and this means that the very society once upheld by that government also ceases to exist. An important part of government control is law enforcement. In most societies, law enforcement protects law-abiding citizens while punishing law-breakers. In extreme cases of law-enforcement, officers must be capable of arresting, subduing, and neutralizing a suspected criminal, and government agencies must be capable of punishing convicted criminals according to law. Many non-government individuals might wonder what any of this government talk has to do with a perfectly harmless quest for miraculous empowerment and superhuman abilities. In the government official's mind, no such quest is harmless. Suppose a civilian does find some way to withstand certain forces or elements that would otherwise kill a human being outright. And that civilian wants to use his or her newfound power for good, to help others in distress. To the government official, it doesn't matter how benign, virtuous, heroic, or law-abiding this super-civilian may be. That same power could also be used to withstand any and every instrument or weapon used by law-enforcement to control the civilian population, and that threat is simply unacceptable. Worse still would be the realization that such a superhuman power could be acquired by anyone. According to government opinion, if nearly all law-abiding citizens and criminals alike acquired the power to withstand all of a given government's traditional instruments and weapons of control, then that government would be struggling for its very existence, if it hadn't already been extinguished. And if that government finally does cease to exist, then social order would vanish right along with it, and the violent anarchy arising from superhuman rivalries and cataclysmic turf-wars would swiftly fill the gaping void. Furthermore, such a horrific problem would scarcely remain isolated within the borders of one city, one state, or one nation alone. With every human being craving this power, the problem of superhuman anarchy would rapidly become a global crisis, threatening every government throughout the world. One would very well reason, "Why should I obey any government when I have the power to be my own God?"
This is the nightmare that ultra-secretive government organizations have been striving to prevent for decades, if not for centuries. Such organizations keep their existence a secret in order to carry out their agendas without any resistance from the public at large, and they exist as an integral part of every major government throughout the world. In order to maintain their agenda of preventing and neutralizing the civilian manifestation, development, and utilization of extreme miraculous and superhuman abilities, these secret organizations work tirelessly to suppress, conceal, neutralize, and destroy any and every object, element, substance, nourishment, phenomenon, place, event, or idea that could lead to even one civilian acquiring such superhuman abilities. Throughout the world, these secret organizations have methodically spirited away every major, detailed ancient writing that successfully teaches people how to acquire and utilize superhuman abilities. These writings have either been hidden in the most remote, unknown, inaccessible parts of the world, only to be used by the nameless members of the organizations that have hidden them, or they have been completely destroyed due to their "lethality." The current global library of spiritual, esoteric, and occult writings is nothing more than a dumbed-down version, one that the world population at large has been deceived into accepting as the original library. Throughout the more modern decades of our society, these same secret organizations have enacted ubiquitous technological countermeasures against civilian superhuman abilities. These countermeasures include, but are scarcely limited to, the constant broadcasting of specific electromagnetic signals from both the power grid and numerous modern electronic devices, the tight regulation of available foods and beverages, the creation and use of special synthetic chemicals throughout society, the tight regulation and constant use of specific chemicals in the food supply, the genetic reengineering of the food supply, the constant pollution of the environment with specific chemicals, and the carefully orchestrated use of specific patterns of phrases, images, sounds, and advertisements in printed, graphical, audio, cinematic, and video media. Nearly all of these modern countermeasures have been refined by decades of ultra-secret mind-control experiments to the level of an art.
And yet, even centuries before the existence of modern technology and covert mind-control experiments, ancient governments have had the same fears against the presence of superhuman powers within the civilian population, even if their efforts against the civilian manifestation and utilization of such powers were far less covert and considerably more violent. Consider this peasant carpenter named Jesus who lived in Nazareth during the days of the Roman Empire. As a holy man who preached that he was the long-awaited Messiah, he demonstrated incredibly miraculous powers, including the ability to walk on water, multiply loaves and fishes, change water into wine, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out real demons, and command the weather with a single word. Furthermore, until he chose to lay down his life, no one was able to kill him. But when he finally did lay down his life, the Jewish religious government wasted no time in having him crucified. After he was resurrected from the dead (which the same Jewish religious government has denied even to this day: they claim that his disciples stole his body), he then commissioned his disciples to continue preaching in his name. And because those men also manifested the same superhuman miracles, both the Jewish religious government and the Imperial Government of Rome viciously hunted them down and had them put to death. It wasn't until enough of the early church had been infiltrated over the centuries, and the superhuman powers were no longer a threat, that the Roman Government finally ceased persecuting the church. Three centuries after the church was born, Emperor Constantine, claiming that a divine Christian revelation gave him victory in battle, finally made Christianity the religion of Rome. Emperor Constantine's pro-Christian legislation was also another example of how high-ranking government officials encourage their own miraculous empowerment while discouraging the same empowerment within the masses. As long as the highest leader was the one working the miracles, all was right with the world. But if a civilian possessed more miraculous power than what the leader possessed, then that civilian was considered the ultimate threat, and therefore had to be put to death immediately. Regardless of the time and place, no government likes to be upstaged when it comes to power, and especially not by one of its own lowly citizens.
Now if you ask any American government official whether or not the United States Government is actively pursuing an agenda of neutralizing the civilian development and utilization of miraculous, superhuman abilities, that government official might openly respond with either a sincere denial or scornful laughter against the idea, or both. That is how he or she would respond openly. But don't get it twisted. Behind closed doors, in the highest offices of power, those same officials either discuss this ultimate threat with their colleagues or work on existing covert projects against the threat (think Black-Ops), or both. All of these aforementioned risks and dangers should give any seeker of miraculous, superhuman powers pause to reconsider the reasons for his or her quest. If you are such a seeker, then are you ready for the severe responsibilities these powers will bring? Could you really handle the government hunting down either you or your loved ones? Here's an even more serious consideration: if your power somehow does exceed any and every power throughout human society, then can you really say that you would police yourself? Do you really think that you would be fit to have such superhuman powers if you are still a slave to the same carnal lusts and selfish corruption? Even Jesus the carpenter refused to use his superhuman powers to turn stones into bread, no matter how hungry he was in the wilderness. No matter how noble or impassioned you are in your quest for the miraculous, always consider the big picture. And if you can't do that, then maybe it's a good thing the government is hindering you after all.
