Stories about people with unusual powers and abilities have been popular for quite a few decades. Many popular comic book superheroes started in the 1930s, but there are stories of men and woman with strange super powers going back many centuries. As adults, we tend to think we are too old to enjoy such fantasies, but some part of us continues to find them appealing. Why?
    The answer is simple and has two parts. One is that we tend to see the world as a place that is somewhat messed up and needs to be fixed, but we don't think an ordinary person can do much to fix it, so a superhero is needed. Or several superheroes. The second is that nearly all of us sense that there is more to us than meets the eye. That we are more than just an accountant or programmer or store clerk. We sense a hidden self dying to come forward and claim its rightful place. A hidden self that can do more than the ordinary self of flesh and blood. A super being hiding within us. 
    Some would say that this is a fantasy, a delusion. It isn't Our inner superhero is real, but he doesn't have super strength or x-ray vision or even the ability to fly. Our super self is our Light Spirit which is an immortal being capable of knowing and doing much more than the short-lived physical being it's hiding in. A rare being like St. Francis or Gandhi manages to bring that super being out and accomplish true greatness (as opposed to the fleeting greatness of a Donald Trump or a Lady Gaga). We may not all succeed in bringing that super being within us out in the open, but we all need to try our best. We are in the End Times and we cannot put it off for a more convenient time.