The Tomorrow People
Gentle Readers,
After what for some might have been a very long study into the Book of Revelation. We are now set to embark upon a new (or perhaps not ) direction. Here in America we are now able to watch the third generation of a British SiFi series called, you guessed it "The Tomorrow People" All incarnations of the show concerned the emergence of the next stage of human evolution (Homo superior) known colloquially as Tomorrow People. In the original series the Tomorrow People are also referred to by the term Homo superior. The term "Homo Superior" appears in David Bowie's song "Oh! You Pretty Things": "Let me make it plain. You gotta make way for the Homo Superior." Born to human parents, an apparently-normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called "breaking out", when they develop their special abilities. These abilities include psionic powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. However, their psychological makeup prevents them from intentionally killing others.
Sound interesting I hope so for your sake. For like Sheldon Cooper trying to teach Penny Physics. We are going to look at history, "Doctor Who", the X men, Edgar Cayce the prophets of old Israel and others along the way.
Some were called Prophets, or Seers other terms are clairvoyant, forecaster, fortune teller, seer, prescient, psychic, diviner, mystic, telepathist, sibyl, parapsychologist, spiritualist but all seem to have this one commonality they perceive with greater clarity than most not only the outcome of current events but future events based on perception that eludes many.
Could this be a gift from God? Or are these people more sensitive to their surroundings? Do they have superior intelligence. Or are they using more of their brain? What about those who can read your mind? Is that even possible? We've often been told that we only use about 10 percent of our brains. Famous people such as Albert Einstein and Margaret Mead have been quoted as stating a variation of it. This myth is probably one of the most well-known myths about the brain, in part because it's been publicized in the media for what seems like forever. Where did it come from? Many sources point to an American psychologist of the early 1900s named William James, who said that "the average person rarely achieves but a small portion of his or her potential". Somehow, that was converted into only using 10 percent of our brain.
This seems really puzzling at first glance. Why would we have the biggest brain in proportion to our bodies of any animal if we didn't actually use all of it? Many people have jumped on the idea, writing books and selling products that claim to harness the power of the other 90 percent. Believers in psychic abilities such as ESP point to it as proof, saying that people with these abilities have tapped into the rest of their brains.
Here's the thing, though; it's not really true. In addition to those 100 billion neurons, the brain is also full of other types of cells that are continually in use. We can become disabled from damage to just small areas of the brain depending on where it's located, so there's no way that we could function with only 10 percent of our brain in use.
Brain scans have shown that no matter what we're doing, our brains are always active. Some areas are more active at any one time than others, but unless we have brain damage, there is no one part of the brain that is absolutely not functioning. Here's an example. If you're sitting at a table and eating a sandwich, you're not actively using your feet. You're concentrating on bringing the sandwich to your mouth, chewing and swallowing it. But that doesn't mean that your feet aren't working -- there's still activity in them, such as blood flow, even when you're not actually moving them.
So there's no hidden, extra potential you can tap into, in terms of actual brain space. But there's still so much to learn about the brain. That we’ll have to take that up at another time.