Church of Scientology Ready to Unveil Super Power
Personally, I don't believe such claims — I think that such alleged powers are probably about as legitimate and credible as Uri Geller.
Under wraps for decades, Super Power now is being prepped for its eventual rollout in Scientology’s massive building in downtown Clearwater. That will be the only place worldwide where the program, much anticipated by Scientologists, will be offered.
A key aim of Super Power is to enhance one’s perceptions - and not just the five senses we all know - hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard taught that people have 57 “perceptics.” They include an ability to discern relative sizes, blood circulation, balance, compass direction, temperature, gravity and an “awareness of importance, unimportance.”
Source: St. Petersburg Times
Of course, if they could trot out super-powered humans before the world, it would demonstrate that there is at least something valid behind what Scientology teaches. Even Hubbard seemed to believe this:
Hubbard promised Super Power would improve perceptions and “put the person into a new realm of ability.” He believed it would unlock abilities needed to spread Scientology across the planet.
So why not actually use Super Power to spread Scientology? Why all the secrecy around it?
Details of Super Power training have been kept secret even from church members. Like much of Scientology training, details aren’t revealed until one pays to take the course.
Asked about Super Power, church spokesman Ben Shaw provided a written statement: “Super Power is a series of spiritual counseling processes designed to give a person back his own viewpoint, increase his perception, exercise his power of choice, and greatly enhance other spiritual abilities.”
Shaw would not say how much the program will cost. Upper levels of Scientology training can run tens of thousands of dollars.
According to former Scientologists Bruce Hines and Chuck Beatty, Hubbard wanted to roll out Super Power back in 1978. Here we are, almost 30 years later, and it’s still a secret program with apparently nothing to show for it. What are the chances that this is because there really isn’t anything to show and that there’s simply nothing substantive at all behind this alleged “Super Power”?
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Didn’t Scientology have to raise the “maximum” level once or twice in it’s history? I seem to recall reading somewhere where that after so many members achieved the (then) top tier, they had to incorporate more levels to keep them in the fold…??