Oh, Superman, where are you now?
When everything's gone wrong somehow?
-Land Of Confusion

Superman.
The Man of Steel.
People all over the world know who Superman is.
There have been Superman comics, Superman TV shows, Superman cartoons and of course, Superman movies.
I think the Superman logo has been slapped on everything that you can put it on.
There's Superman watches, Superman posters, you can even do an entire Superman birthday party for kids.

But have you ever wished The Man of Tomorrow was Real?
What if....he is?

I know, this sounds totally loony and really crazy.
If Superman was real...where was he on 9/11?
Katrina?
Various earthquakes and natural disasters?

Why the heck would anyone even claim he is real in the first place?

Well while looking over some books one day, a title caught my eye.
It was written by Alvin Schwartz, the man wrote the Superman and Batman comic books in the 1940s and 1950s (He also wrote some of the Captain Marvel comics as well).
The book is called "An Unlikely Prophet", and in the book, Schwartz claims that he was contacted by a Tibetan tulpa named Thongden.
Thongden told Schwartz that he was willed into existence by an explorer named Everett Nelson who was being taught the mystic way of life in a Buddhist monastery.
Okay, let me backtrack a moment here....
A Tulpa is a Tibetan Buddhist concept, discipline and teaching tool. It is a being or object which is created through sheer willpower alone.
So Thongden was supposed to be a created being. He said that his creator (Nelson) had died, and that he was slowly fading from existence, and that he needed help to be "energized".
Since Schwartz had already done this with Superman and Batman, he hoped he could do it with him.

Now Unlikely Prophet was written as a metaphysical autobiography, so how much of it is real (to him at least) and how much is metaphor I suppose is up to the reader.
But in the book, Schwartz says that he actually met Superman in a New York City taxi.
And he also relates a tale told to him by a Hawaiian kahuna, that told him Superman traveled 2,000 years back in time to keep the Hawaiian Islands from being destroyed by volcanic activity.
?????
(Sorry, that's all I could think of to say)

According to Schwartz "Superman is one of the specific forms that embodies our reality when we’re at our highest point, when we’re truly impermeable, indestructible, totally concentrated, and living entirely in the now".
And the whole idea of this reminds me of Carlos Castaneda and his Don Juan books (but without all the smarmy back story).

The idea of Superman as a Tulpa reminds me of Grant Morrison and his "hypersigil" work that I mentioned in one of my Manifesting Abundance Hubs.
The idea that an extended writing could focus psychic energy into something and make it real.
Morrison (who really is a trip) claims that he has altered reality through his comics.

By the way, Morrison also claims to have met Superman....
" I can say here and now that the Superman proposal by Waid, Peyer, Morrison, and Millar was the best, most thoroughly worked-out take on a major character you are ever likely to see. It was Superman Plus. I wrote most of it after meeting the Man of Steel at 2am opposite the Sheraton in San Diego - a true shamanic moment."
You can read more about that meeting here:
http://alankistler.squarespace.com/journal/2009/2/13/kistlers-history-of-superman-part-4.html

So with all this mystical Superman energy floating about, why haven't mere mortal men seen him?

Maybe they have.....maybe reality is starting to bend into our own Superman Universe...

Superman Sighting...?
" Police are investigating after villagers in Romania claimed to see a Superman-like figure flying through the sky. Almost 20 villagers, from Gemeni, Mehedinti county, claim the UFO was wearing a shiny blue suit, just like Superman’s. Police officers took written statements from all of the witnesses and say they described the figure in the same way."
You can verify this here:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\09\21\story_21-9-2007_pg9_9

Krypton...?
Planet hunters have discovered an icy "super-Earth" circling a distant star.
International astronomers suspect it is a bare, icy, rocky world, much colder than the Earth and 13 times its mass.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4801842.stm

Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface.
The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6589157.stm
Gliese 581 is a red dwarf star.

The Fortress of Solitude...?
Geologist Juan Manuel García-Ruiz calls it "the Sistine Chapel of crystals," but Superman could call it home.
A sort of south-of-the-border Fortress of Solitude, Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) contains some of the world's largest known natural crystals—translucent beams of gypsum as long as 36 feet (11 meters).
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleries/giant-crystals-cave/

Kryptonite...?
'Kryptonite' discovered in Serbia
Kryptonite, Superman's sole weakness, is no longer a fictional material as scientists claim they have discovered a new mineral matching its unique chemistry.
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/kryptonite-discovered-in-serbia-$1078972.htm

I just recently read that "An Unlikely Prophet" is being turned into a film.
I'm really anxious to see how they pull this off.

Alvin Schwartz also wrote a sequel of sorts to An Unlikely Prophet, called A Gathering of Selves, which focuses a lot on Batman.

So keep watch on the roof-tops of New York...or Chicago...