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Disappointment because we fail to gain supernatural powers Supernatural powers are highly overrated. They are more an impediment to growth than furthering it. • Being able to see future, past and potential of everyone
around us is rather depressing. It mainly reveals the immense inner and outer restrictions so many people inadvertently subject themselves to. Being able to see what's in other peoples' mind is mostly so dull and uninspiring that we'd rather not look - lest it
infects us too. • Being able to walk through walls puts us at odds with
privacy. As we wouldn't like other people to emerge from of our walls, as little would they like us to suddenly appear in their rooms. Being able to levitate makes us a circus-attraction rather than superman. Levitation is highly unpractical for long distance travel. (Just picture yourself - suitcase in one hand, umbrella in the other - hovering across the Atlantic three feet above the water ...) Telepathy is highly effective for transmitting complex contents in shortest possible time.
Yet hardly anyone knows that telepathy requires a willing recipient as much as a sender. Currently few people are able to raise and maintain the energy sys
tematic communication of this type requires. Supernatural powers are fun and thrilling as long as we only pretend to have them to impress others. We bask in their
