The hero meditation

Ok, things are bad. The human species is fucked up.

Give up hope that things are going to change and you change. Change radically, change the understanding of what you are. You are a territory, not a subject. There’s no more I am, there are only I do, I say, I act…

Free yourself from the imperatives set by who you think you are, who people think you are, or should be. You don’t exist, only what you do (and don’t do) exists. This is a necessary understanding that allows all learnt parameters through which we understand reality to fall apart. When this happens, you don’t need to be courageous to speak up when something is not right or to question all authorities (including the internal ones). You just have to act in specific occasions and to know how to act you just need strategies. So you can go for devising strategies rather than self-improvement.

There’s really nothing to improve, we are already heroes. We have pretty amazing powers already, we have the power to think, compare, discuss and we have opposable thumbs that allow us to organize what’s around us. It seems to me all I need to make myself the world I want to live in.


Only it is very important to become aware of these powers first. It’s just basic logic. Clark Kent was aware that he could be Superman at any time. If he didn’t know he could kick asses, he would never intervene in a situation of danger. Same for us.

Now, a way in which I practice this recognition is through meditation and working while sleeping. It can be done alone or with others, even from a distance. In that case it’s important to get synchronized before going to sleep.

I go to bed with the clear intention to become aware of my powers, to become a hero. Of course I have no idea of how to do it and the experiences we had until now were very different. The basic practice is to focus on the breathing to enter a state in between asleep and awake. Then you don’t have to do or even want anything specific. All that you need to do is to keep clearly in mind the intention of discovering your powers. The meditation and the sleep are processes through which you become aware, so there’s no right or wrong, just see what happens.