Learn What It MEANS To Have SOURCEFUL POWERS..!!

Today the Super Hero film THE BLACK PANTHER opens around multiplexes everywhere.  And it is getting reviews that is putting it into a stratosphere that trumps most Hollywood Blockbusters. (within the SuperHero vein or or not) Internet trolls keep buzzing about that the fantasy genre including all of our favorite caped crusaders is quickly coming to an end as a result of audience burnout.  Yet, both box office receipts and top notch national reviewers are singing quite a different tune.  And I have much more than a sneaking suspicion as to why this genre just seems to roll on to rollicking results year after year. After all, it's been almost 20 years since the first X-men movie rolled out that was the impetus for the popularity of this form of entertainment!  And as you New Age Nerds have probably surmised, it has a great deal to do with The Hero's Journey and the unmatched power of STORY!! 

We currently live in the time of confusion and many of us feel truly lost in our own lives.  Technology has made intimate connection a relic for so many of us.  We see horrific acts of violence on our tv screens on a nightly basis.  Yesterday was the perfect example of what I am trying to convey.  As most of you may have heard by now, a shooter in Florida opened up with gunfire that killed 18 people and injured many more.  On Valentine's Day no less.  And believe it or not, that was the 18TH SHOOTING at a school already in 2018!!  Just crushing to even ponder.....

The majority of us obviously sense that something in this World just isn't right, and we understand that something needs to drastically change!  Too many of us are refusing to heed the call to our life's true CALLING by following our Hero's Journey.  And so we absolutely crave the stories of HEROES using their super powers to bring some sense of justice, safety, and peace to the world!  

Jonathan Gotschall, the author of ‘The Storytelling Animal.’  explains our thirst for STORY this way, “ What fascinates me about story is that we do it at all.  It's spectacularly improbable that humans would be this species that spends so much of our time on Earth in fabrication realities.  When I talk to my students, I ask them why do they spend so much time wrapped up in various forms of fiction?  Why do we like fiction so much?  They tell me it is because stories give us an escape.  That life is hard and it is an opportunity to go on a short vacation from the stress and problems of everyday life.  We can leave it unscathed and unchanged.  But, that is EXACTLY what the research is NOT showing.  The research is showing that the time we immerse ourselves in various forms of our favorite WONDERLANDS actually creates profound change in us.  This change comes on an emotional, and behavioral, and psychological level.  AND this can all be measured in a lab!

See, this movement within our zeitgeist can actually be measured in a lab!!  We all imagine what we could do to help raise the consciousness of the world if we JUST HAD SUPER POWERS!  Well, I'm here to tell you that we actually do have them......   That's right!  But I actually call them SOURCEFUL POWERS!  Because they come straight from Source Energy.  and in many ways, they are actually more potent in nature than straight up Super Powers!   Because there is no greater power in the Universe than the Source energy that created everything.  Wouldn't you agree?!?!

But in order to obtain these SOURCEFUL POWERS, we MUST have the courage to accept and follow our Life's Calling.  For as soon as we commit to this Journey that Source energy swoops in to give us the internal strength, compassion, courage, wisdom, understanding, and the ability to spread LOVE in a manner you never thought possible and might make Superman wince in envy!!

That's why I love this quote by David Taylor from his book ‘Tell Me a Story’.
He espouses, “ I think the greatmess of seeing life through the lens of story is that I have the freedom to make real choices, I'm not determined by my biology, my gender, my history, or genes.  Those are all part of the story but at the end of the day, I have a choice to make and this is the most encouraging possibility of all.  You can be something other than you are if you wish to be.  You can be the GREATEST VERSION of who you are.”  Couldn't have said it better myself...so I won't!   :0)

At the end of the day, we are all seeking ways to move through this life with GRACE, HOPE, Peace, and Joy.   Us New Age Nerds get much of our inspiration and strength from the stories all around us.  But there are SO many paths back to the LIGHT!  Thankfully, we have been left a powerful ally and blueprint to create such a world for ourselves and others through obtaining our SOURCEFUL POWERS through having the COURAGE to follow our Hero's/Heroine's Journey......

Nerdmaste,

Jeffrey Louis Martinez