The Melanin Superpower: Humanity's Living Technology Is Just Beginning to Be Understood

Humanity's Living Technology Is Just Beginning to Be Understood

By Apex 9

What if the word superpower does not have to mean flying through buildings, shooting lasers from your eyes, or violating the laws of physics? What if a biological material capable of absorbing radiation, neutralizing reactive chemistry, converting light into heat, binding metals, conducting ionic and electronic charge, protecting genetic material, and inspiring next-generation electromagnetic shielding technology already qualifies?

Because that material exists. It is melanin. And humanity may have dramatically underestimated it.

For generations, melanin has been introduced with an almost insulting simplicity: it makes skin brown, gives eyes their color, and contributes to hair pigmentation. True — but incomplete. Modern research increasingly describes melanin as a family of biologically produced materials capable of interacting with light, electricity, free radicals, heat, metals, and multiple regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

A major 2024 Chemical Reviews paper surveyed melanin's interactions across electromagnetic radiation and highlighted functions involving UV protection, radiation protection, pigmentation, structural coloration, thermoregulation, and emerging functional materials. Then in 2025, researchers built highly ordered melanin-like nanofibers into aerogels with remarkable microwave absorption and electromagnetic-interference shielding properties.

Their material achieved a reported maximum reflection loss of about −68.87 dB and an effective absorption bandwidth of 5.25 GHz. That does not mean ordinary human skin behaves like an engineered shielding aerogel. It means something equally exciting: the chemistry and structural principles underlying melanin are technologically powerful enough to inspire serious electromagnetic engineering.

WHAT IF MELANIN'S SUPERPOWER IS ENERGY MANAGEMENT?

Melanin does something nature has perfected over billions of years: it deals with energy. Not by magically destroying it, but by absorbing it, redistributing it, dissipating it, converting it, and in some cases helping protect biological structures from the consequences of exposure.

This gives a scientific basis to a word often used more loosely in metaphysical discussions: transmutation. In physics, absorbed energy must go somewhere. When light strikes melanin, electronic states can become excited and then relax through ultrafast pathways that redirect much of that energy into molecular vibration and heat rather than leaving it available for damaging photochemistry.

In plain language, melanin can receive light and change what happens to its energy. Scientists are already exploiting that behavior in photothermal systems designed to absorb radiation and convert it into controlled heat.

SUPERPOWER ONE: ABSORBING LIGHT

One of eumelanin's defining characteristics is broadband optical absorption. Many molecules strongly absorb narrow bands of light. Melanin is unusual because its heterogeneous structure lets it interact with a very broad range of wavelengths.

That dark appearance is not emptiness. Physically, darkness often means absorption. Energy is arriving, and the material is interacting with it.

In human skin, eumelanin contributes to natural photoprotection. Melanin-containing structures in epidermal cells help reduce ultraviolet radiation reaching cellular DNA. That protection is real, although it is not absolute and does not make anyone immune to sun damage or skin cancer.

SUPERPOWER TWO: CONVERTING LIGHT INTO HEAT

Melanin-like materials are increasingly studied as photothermal agents. They can absorb incoming electromagnetic energy, especially optical and near-infrared radiation, and convert much of it into heat.

That property is already being investigated for medicine. Melanin-inspired nanoparticles can be designed to absorb near-infrared light and create highly localized heating. In principle, a therapeutic particle can be delivered toward diseased tissue, illuminated with the appropriate wavelength, and used to concentrate thermal energy where treatment is needed.

This is part of the logic behind photothermal therapy and light-triggered drug delivery. A property that helped organisms negotiate sunlight may someday help physicians target tumors, control medication release, fight infections, and build new forms of precision therapy.

SUPERPOWER THREE: ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING

In 2025, researchers reported that carefully engineered melanin-like polymers could be organized into powerful microwave-absorbing structures operating across the 2–18 GHz range. Their performance in electromagnetic-interference shielding was striking.

This does not establish that a naturally melanated human body is equivalent to an engineered microwave shield. Frequency, material thickness, molecular organization, geometry, hydration, and concentration all matter.

But the technological implication is huge. Melanin-inspired materials could contribute to future spacecraft, satellites, wearable electronics, sensitive medical equipment, EMI-resistant architecture, communication systems, robotics, implants, and hardware built for electromagnetically noisy environments.

Humanity spent a century building electromagnetic technologies from metals, ceramics, and synthetic polymers. The next century may borrow far more aggressively from biology.

SUPERPOWER FOUR: RADIATION PROTECTION

Another 2025 Nature Communications study molecularly engineered melanin materials for gamma-radiation protection. The researchers sought lightweight, metal-free radioprotective materials that combined physical attenuation with antioxidant chemistry.

In one mouse experiment involving 6 Gy total-body gamma irradiation, an engineered melanin formulation increased survival from roughly 12 percent to 100 percent under the reported experimental conditions.

Natural human melanin does not make anybody gamma-ray-proof. The material was deliberately engineered to enhance particular functions. But that is exactly what makes the discovery so exciting: evolution can provide the prototype, engineering can modify the architecture, and technology can magnify useful properties.

Imagine melanin-derived radiation protection for astronauts, medical devices, protective coatings, healthy-tissue preservation during radiotherapy, or lightweight materials for high-radiation environments.

SUPERPOWER FIVE: MELANIN CAN PARTICIPATE IN ELECTRICITY

Melanin is not merely optically active. Its electrical characteristics have drawn serious interest in bioelectronics. Hydrated eumelanin can support mixed ionic and electronic charge transport, with conductivity changing according to hydration, molecular structure, and redox state.

Researchers are therefore exploring melanin and melanin-like compounds for biosensors, humidity and pH sensors, organic electronic systems, biodegradable devices, implantable interfaces, and technologies intended to connect hard electronics with soft living tissue.

That challenge — translating between silicon-style electronics and the electrochemical language of cells — is one of the great engineering frontiers. Melanin-like biomaterials may become part of that translation layer.

SUPERPOWER SIX: MELANIN PARTICIPATES IN REDOX CHEMISTRY

The body is electrically and chemically alive because electrons are constantly moving. Mitochondria transfer electrons, oxygen participates, chemical gradients form, and reactive oxygen species — ROS — appear.

ROS were once discussed almost entirely as damaging free radicals. Modern biology paints a more nuanced picture. Excessive ROS can injure DNA, proteins, and membranes, but controlled ROS also participate in immune function, metabolism, adaptation, and cellular signaling.

Melanin itself contains redox-active chemical groups capable of participating in electron-transfer reactions and interacting with reactive species. This helps explain why natural and synthetic melanins are being studied for antioxidant and radical-scavenging functions.

AND THEN THE BODY STARTS GLOWING

Human beings emit light. Not metaphorically, not visibly, and not brightly enough to illuminate a room — but physically. Living tissues produce extraordinarily faint photons known as ultraweak photon emission, or UPE.

The best-supported mechanisms strongly involve oxidative metabolism and reactive oxygen chemistry. ROS-related reactions can generate electronically excited molecules. When those excited states relax, photons can be released. Biochemistry becomes electromagnetic radiation.

Research has measured biological photon emission through portions of the near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared spectrum. So the claim that the body produces ultraweak violet radiation contains a real piece of the story, but the phenomenon is broader than violet alone.

Your metabolism does not merely consume chemicals. It produces a faint optical signature. Humans are electrochemical, bioelectric, and — at an ultraweak level — photonic organisms.

ROS: THE CHEMISTRY THAT CAN BECOME LIGHT

A useful conceptual chain is: metabolism → electron transfer → ROS chemistry → electronically excited molecules → photon emission.

That chain is remarkable because it means a chemical event inside living tissue can ultimately leave the body as light. Researchers are exploring whether ultraweak photon emission can serve as a noninvasive indicator of oxidative metabolism, physiological stress, or disease-related biochemical change.

Perhaps future medicine will not only draw blood to understand metabolism. Perhaps it will also learn to listen to light.

FRITZ-ALBERT POPP WENT EVEN FURTHER

Biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp argued that biological photons might be more than accidental metabolic byproducts. He proposed that living systems may possess highly organized photon fields and that biological light could participate in cellular regulation and communication.

Popular presentations of his work often go further, claiming that DNA stores and releases photons or that healthy organisms exhibit special photonic coherence. Those broader claims remain controversial and are not established biological law.

The existence of ultraweak photon emission itself is well documented. The unresolved question is whether those photons form a coherent communication network with the regulatory role Popp envisioned.

That is where curiosity should become experimental design: measure coherence, manipulate wavelengths, control for heat and chemistry, selectively block photons, repeat the experiment, and let nature answer.

THE MELANIN-BIOPHOTON QUESTION

Now place the observations beside one another. The body produces ultraweak light partly through oxidative chemistry. Melanin strongly interacts with electromagnetic radiation. Melanin participates in redox chemistry. Hydrated melanin can support charge transport. Melanin can dissipate absorbed radiation. Melanin-like materials can perform photothermal conversion. Engineered melanin-like systems can absorb microwaves. Engineered melanins can provide experimental radioprotection.

What happens when those behaviors coexist inside one biological system? That is where the next generation of questions begins.

Could melanin influence local ultraweak photon dynamics? Could it participate in redox-optical feedback? Could melanin-rich tissues exhibit measurable optical or electrical behavior that has been overlooked? Could engineered melanins become intermediaries between light and nervous tissue, or become biological sensors, antennas, transducers, or therapeutic interfaces?

These are questions, not established conclusions. But they are exactly the kind of questions capable of opening new scientific territory.

THE SUPERPOWER HYPOTHESIS

So yes: melanin gives humans superpowers — if we define superpower intelligently.

A superpower can be an extraordinary biological capability that seems almost fantastic until its mechanism becomes understood. The immune system manufactures molecular defenses. The brain runs on electrochemical impulses and rewires itself through experience. Mitochondria maintain proton gradients and turn them into usable cellular energy. Wounds rebuild living tissue. DNA stores billions of bases of biological information.

By that same standard, melanin belongs in the conversation. It absorbs light, mitigates photochemical damage, participates in redox chemistry, converts radiation into heat, interacts with charge, and inspires new technologies for electromagnetic and ionizing-radiation protection.

Not because melanin violates physics. Because it demonstrates how astonishing physics becomes when organized by life.

THE CLAIMS THAT DESERVE TO BE TESTED NEXT

The more expansive melanin literature — especially alternative biophysics, biophoton research, and the claims circulating in independent media — often proposes an even larger picture. In that picture, melanin is envisioned as a biological electromagnetic interface capable of absorbing environmental electromagnetic energy, transducing radiation, participating in charge exchange, buffering electromagnetic stress, interacting with internally generated photons, and perhaps contributing to biological coherence.

Some advocates describe melanated biological systems as sophisticated receivers, transmitters, or resonators. Those stronger claims have not all been demonstrated experimentally in humans.

But not demonstrated is not the same as forbidden to investigate. If melanin influences electromagnetic biology, quantify it. If pigmentation alters responses to particular frequencies, characterize the wavelength, penetration depth, thermal contribution, dose, and biological endpoint. If melanin affects photon emission, measure it. If charge transfer matters physiologically, identify the pathway.

Turn the myth into a hypothesis. Then turn the hypothesis into an experiment.

AND THAT MAY BE WHERE APEX THINKING MATTERS MOST

Human civilization repeatedly creates technological revolutions by copying mechanisms nature mastered first. Birds inspired aircraft. Neurons inspired neural networks. Lotus leaves inspired hydrophobic surfaces. Gecko feet inspired dry adhesives. DNA inspired molecular data storage. Spider silk inspired high-performance fibers.

So what has melanin already figured out? Researchers are exploring natural and synthetic melanin for photothermal treatment, radioprotection, wound-healing systems, controlled drug release, biosensors, bioelectronics, solar-driven water purification, desalination, soft actuators, and electromagnetic shielding.

We may be standing at the beginning of a melanin technology age.

IMAGINE THE MEDICINE

Imagine biocompatible melanin nanoparticles carrying medication through the bloodstream. Light reaches the target, the particles heat, and the drug releases exactly where needed.

Imagine clinicians mapping oxidative stress by detecting faint photon emissions from tissue. Imagine wearable sensors built from melanin-derived electronics interfacing naturally with skin. Imagine wound dressings combining antioxidant chemistry, antimicrobial functions, and optical responsiveness.

Imagine cancer treatment using melanin-inspired nanoparticles to concentrate photothermal energy inside tumors, or radioprotective melanin-derived materials positioned to reduce injury to healthy tissue during therapeutic irradiation.

Not mystical healing. Engineered photomedicine.

IMAGINE THE TECHNOLOGY

Now go beyond medicine: melanin-inspired electronics that biodegrade after use, radiation-resistant coatings for spacecraft, lightweight EMI shielding, solar absorbers, adaptive thermal materials, soft robotics controlled by light, water purification driven by solar heating, smart materials that respond differently to wavelength, biocompatible neural interfaces, and technologies we cannot yet properly name.

One of humanity's next material revolutions may not be hidden beneath the Earth. It may already be inside us.

FOR MELANATED PEOPLE, THERE IS ALSO SOMETHING SYMBOLIC HERE

There is a historical irony difficult to ignore. Traits associated with darker pigmentation have repeatedly been used as excuses for hierarchy, exclusion, and pseudoscientific ideas of inferiority. Yet modern materials science now examines melanin and finds photoprotection, radiation interaction, antioxidant chemistry, charge transport, photothermal conversion, biocompatibility, and electromagnetic applications.

That does not establish biological superiority of one population over another. Every human population possesses melanin, while pigmentation, melanin chemistry, and melanosome biology vary between individuals and populations.

But there is something deeply satisfying about science revealing profound sophistication inside a biological characteristic historically used to devalue people.

Darkness was never emptiness. Darkness was absorption. And absorption can be power.

THE NEXT FRONTIER

The future question should not simply be: what does melanin do? Ask something bigger: what can civilization learn from what melanin does?

Can we engineer its radiation response? Amplify useful charge transport? Use its photothermal properties for precision medicine? Design melanins for specific electromagnetic frequencies? Combine melanin with graphene, biomolecules, quantum dots, or nanostructures? Protect astronauts? Improve prosthetics? Build safer neural interfaces? Read metabolism by reading biological light?

And what other capabilities are hidden inside biological matter simply because our instruments have not yet become sensitive enough to see them?

That is where hope lives — not in pretending we already possess every answer, but in realizing how many answers remain possible.

MAYBE SUPERHUMAN WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO MEAN SUPERNATURAL

Perhaps the greatest mistake in imagining human superpowers was assuming that they would require us to break the laws of nature. Maybe the revelation is the opposite: nature itself is sufficiently extraordinary.

You contain electrical gradients. Your mitochondria manipulate electrons. Your cells communicate through chemistry and voltage. Reactive oxygen species carry signals. Your tissues repair themselves. Your metabolism generates measurable ultraweak photons. And your melanins interact with light, radicals, charge, heat, and radiation in ways engineers are now attempting to reproduce technologically.

We do not need to fabricate wonder. We need better instruments, better experiments, and better questions.

Melanin may not be magic. It may be something more useful: a technology — one evolution began developing long before humanity discovered electricity and one we are only beginning to reverse-engineer.

If coming decades reveal that melanin's optical, electrical, redox, and electromagnetic properties are even more interconnected than science currently understands, the implications could reach from precision medicine to bioelectronics, energy systems, radiation protection, space exploration, and entirely new categories of human-machine technology.

The future does not demand that we choose between wonder and rigor. We can have both. Study everything. Measure everything. Question everything. Engineer what works.

Melanin was never just color. It is interaction. It is protection. It is conversion. It is chemistry. It is information waiting to be decoded. And we may only be witnessing the first chapter of what it can become.

SELECTED SOURCES

Nature Communications (2025), melanin-like nanofibers for microwave absorption and electromagnetic-interference shielding: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62367-9

PR Labs overview of Fritz-Albert Popp and biophoton hypotheses: https://prlabs.com/blog/biophoton-fritz-albert-popp.html

Additional literature discussed in this article includes peer-reviewed work on melanin photophysics, photothermal conversion, bioelectronics, redox chemistry, ultraweak photon emission, and engineered radioprotective melanins.

The Preacher Who Said He Could Walk on Water: Rev. W. L. Jenkins, Simão Toko & Black Prophetic Power

By Edward Brown

Some stories don't disappear because they're false. Sometimes they disappear because nobody knows where to put them. And sometimes a story is so strange that later generations assume it must have been invented. Then somebody finds the newspaper.

In 1972, in Jackson, Mississippi, a Black preacher named Rev. W. L. Jenkins announced something audacious enough to force Christianity out of the sanctuary and into public view.

He said he was going to walk on water.

Not metaphorically. Not as a sermon illustration. Not “walk above your circumstances.” Water.

The location was the Ross Barnett Reservoir, a massive body of water northeast of Jackson. Jenkins announced that the demonstration would take place at precisely 4:03 p.m. on Sunday, May 21, 1972. Contemporary newspaper reports describe him as calling himself the “Third Prophet of God.” Jenkins told reporters that he believed God had commissioned him to teach humanity and that the demonstration would show people that God was still alive and active in the world.

THREE DAYS BEFORE THE WATER

On May 18, 1972, Jenkins told reporters that five unidentified men attacked him. According to his account, they rendered him unconscious, strapped him to a large wooden cross, placed a crown of thorns on his head, and left him there for approximately four hours before young people found him and got him down.

According to Jenkins, his attackers told him they were going to show him what it was like to be Jesus.

That story was not added by Instagram fifty years later. A contemporary religious publication discussing Jenkins in June 1972 recorded the allegation while attacking his prophetic claims.

Think about the chronology. A Black preacher publicly announces: I am going to demonstrate supernatural power. Days before the demonstration, he says men seize him and stage a mock crucifixion. Then Sunday arrives. And somebody shoots him.

THE BULLET

Early on the morning of May 21, Jenkins was wounded in the leg by gunfire reportedly coming from a passing automobile. Authorities acknowledged that he had received what was described as a flesh wound. His public water walk was cancelled.

A crowd had already gathered at the reservoir. The man who announced he would walk on water never arrived to do it.

Critics laughed. The newspapers reported it. Skeptics had their punchline: “Waterproof, but not bulletproof.” That was literally the title later used by one religious critic attacking Jenkins.

And if the story ended there, Jenkins would probably survive today as a bizarre footnote in Mississippi religious history. A preacher made an impossible claim. Got shot. Cancelled. End of story.

Except Jenkins came back.

JULY 1972: ‘I DID IT.’

Roughly six weeks later, something happened that changes the historical record considerably.

On July 8, 1972, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis published an Associated Press report from Jackson under the headline: “Minister Says Photos ‘Prove’ Walk on Water.”

The AP dispatch reported that Jenkins now claimed he had fulfilled his promise. He said he had gone back to the Ross Barnett Reservoir the previous evening. Not before the enormous crowd. Not after broadcasting another date across Mississippi. Quietly. With a small group.

And according to Jenkins, he walked.

More importantly: he said somebody photographed it.

The contemporary AP account identifies Jenkins as pastor of New Hope Church at Camden and says he presented a series of photographs that allegedly depicted him walking on the reservoir. The report also says one of a small, selected group of friends photographed the event.

We are no longer dealing merely with a twenty-first-century internet legend claiming that some mysterious 1972 newspaper once existed. We found the 1972 paper trail.

A religious publication dated August 25, 1972 reproduced the AP newspaper story while attempting to refute Jenkins. The critic didn't deny that Jenkins had made the claim. He argued that photographs weren't sufficient proof. He complained that the witnesses had not publicly testified. He questioned whether some physical trick could have been involved.

Which means something fascinating happened to this investigation: the skeptical source accidentally preserved the story.

THEN LUKE FORSYTH PULLS OUT THE NEWSPAPER

More than half a century later, preacher Luke Forsyth began telling the Jenkins story publicly. And he didn't merely repeat something somebody posted. Forsyth displayed what appears to be an aged physical newspaper clipping from the period while recounting the story.

He says he was alive when these events occurred. He says the article is genuine. He describes Jenkins eventually demonstrating the walk before witnesses. And Forsyth's account adds another remarkable detail: twelve friends.

Twelve.

Now, we need precision here. The Associated Press report Apex has independently located says a small, select group of friends witnessed Jenkins's claimed walk. It does not, in the preserved text located so far, specify twelve. So the number twelve presently belongs to the later testimony surrounding the event rather than the AP text itself.

But spiritually? You already know why twelve catches the biblical imagination. Twelve tribes. Twelve apostles. Twelve gates. Twelve foundations.

Does symbolic resonance prove a miracle? No. But you'd have to have the imagination of a parking meter not to notice it.

Apex isn't interested in confusing symbolism with evidence. We're interested in something more dangerous: following both wherever they lead.

THE QUESTION HAS CHANGED

Originally, the obvious question was: Did newspapers really report that Jenkins later claimed to have walked on water? We can answer that now. Yes. They did.

The AP story existed. Jenkins publicly claimed he completed the feat. He said photographs were made. Contemporary critics responded to that exact claim in 1972.

The question now becomes: WHERE ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHS?

And after that: Who took them? Who were the witnesses? Did any survive long enough to give later testimony? Can the reservoir location be reconstructed? Do other newspaper archives contain the images? Did Jenkins preserve copies? What exactly does Luke Forsyth possess? Who is the Wes Pedon Forsyth reportedly identifies as having recently verified elements of the story, and what precisely was verified?

Those questions matter. Because extraordinary claims should invite extraordinary investigation, not extraordinary laziness.

Skepticism isn't the enemy here. Poor investigation is.

AND PERHAPS THE STRANGEST POSSIBILITY: JENKINS MAY HAVE LIVED INTO OUR ERA

Modern ministry material attributed to a Rev. W. L. Jenkins describes a Mississippi-rooted preacher whose career began in the Jackson media and ministry world and continued across roughly six decades. The biographical details appear strikingly compatible with the Jenkins described in the 1972 reporting, although Apex would want direct identity confirmation before declaring every modern reference to be the same man.

Forsyth makes the even more astonishing claim: Jenkins is still alive. That needs independent confirmation.

But if it is true, we shouldn't merely write about him. We should find him.

Because fifty-four years later there is one question that cuts through theology, mythology, criticism and speculation: Rev. Jenkins, what happened to the photographs?

WHY THIS STORY DISTURBS MODERN CHRISTIANITY

But this article isn't really about proving one Mississippi preacher could violate buoyancy. Jenkins is the doorway. The deeper question is much more uncomfortable.

Christianity itself begins with claims that most modern churches would consider absurd if somebody announced them next Sunday. A man walked on water. A man multiplied food. A man restored sight. A man commanded storms. A man healed paralysis. A man raised the dead.

Then that man looked at ordinary human beings and said: Follow me.

Not: Admire me forever. Follow.

That is apprenticeship language. It suggests imitation. Development. Transformation. Participation.

If Jesus is merely someone to worship from an impossible distance, Christianity is comfortable. But if Jesus is also demonstrating what a human being aligned with God can become? Now we have a problem. A glorious one.

‘CHRISTIAN’ — WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE BECOMING?

Acts 11:26 tells us that the disciples were first called Christians at Antioch. Strictly speaking, the Greek Christianos means something closer to a follower, adherent or partisan of Christ. The popular spiritual rendering “little Christs” is devotional rather than a literal dictionary translation.

But perhaps that devotional interpretation accidentally exposes something important.

If you belong to Christ, shouldn't something about Christ eventually become visible? Compassion. Wisdom. Courage. Healing. Authority. Self-mastery. Faith. Discernment. Power.

The earliest Christians were not remarkable merely because they agreed with Jesus. Something about their lives made observers associate them with him.

That raises one brutal question for Christianity in 2026: If Christ is supernatural, why has so much Christianity become terrified of the supernatural?

WILLIAM J. SEYMOUR: WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT CROSSED THE COLOR LINE

Rev. Jenkins wasn't the first Black religious figure whose ministry collided with extraordinary claims of spiritual manifestation.

One of the most consequential figures in modern Christian history was William J. Seymour, the son of formerly enslaved parents, a Black preacher nearly blind in one eye, operating in an America where lynching and racial segregation were normal facts of life.

Beginning in 1906, Seymour became the central leader associated with the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles. People reported tongues. Prophecy. Ecstatic worship. Healing. Spiritual manifestations. And thousands came.

But one of the greatest miracles may have been happening directly in front of everybody: Black people. White people. Latino people. Men. Women. Rich. Poor. Worshipping together in Jim Crow America.

The movement helped ignite Pentecostal Christianity across the planet. Sometimes the first supernatural act is simply doing what the social order says cannot be done.

THEN AFRICA GIVES US SIMÃO TOKO

And then we cross the Atlantic. Because if Jenkins forces us to confront supernatural Christianity in Black America, Simão Gonçalves Toko forces us to confront what happens when Black spiritual authority challenges colonial power.

Toko was born in Angola in 1918. In 1949, while in Léopoldville, now Kinshasa, his religious community underwent what followers understood as an extraordinary descent of the Holy Spirit. Reports describe shaking, ecstatic spiritual manifestations and unusual speech.

Then something very earthly happened. The authorities got nervous.

Belgian authorities arrested Toko and followers and deported them. Portuguese colonial authorities subsequently subjected Tokoists to forced labor, imprisonment, dispersal, surveillance and exile. Academic research documents Toko himself undergoing prison, forced labor, geographical isolation and later exile in the Azores from 1963 until 1974.

Portuguese political police monitored Tokoist correspondence so extensively that thousands of intercepted letters and documents survive in archival collections.

This isn't somebody's Facebook post. This is colonial history.

And it tells us something. Colonial authorities did not behave as though Toko was merely an irrelevant man saying strange prayers. They treated his movement as power.

BUT THEN THE TOKO STORY GETS STRANGER

Within Tokoist memory, accounts surrounding Simão Toko go far beyond political resistance. Followers attributed extraordinary healing and prophetic abilities to him. Traditions emerged around attempts upon his life.

One especially astonishing body of testimony says authorities attempted repeatedly to kill him. Later Tokoist accounts describe an alleged attempt to throw him from an aircraft, an operation in Portugal in which followers maintained his heart was removed, and extraordinary survival narratives surrounding these events.

These stories are documented by scholars as Tokoist religious memory, even though that does not independently establish the supernatural interpretation as medical fact.

That distinction matters. But don't miss what else matters.

These stories formed around a historical man who really was arrested. Really was imprisoned. Really was exiled. Really was monitored. Really was viewed as dangerous enough that colonial authorities repeatedly tried to isolate him from his own followers.

And still the movement spread.

The government scattered the believers. The doctrine traveled with them. They attempted to isolate the prophet. He became larger in their imagination. They attempted to suppress the movement. Suppression helped transform it into a national religious phenomenon.

You want resurrection symbolism? There it is. Bury the seed. Watch what happens.

WHAT IF WE HAVE BEEN READING MIRACLES BACKWARDS?

Modern Christianity has developed a strange contradiction. We affirm a book overflowing with impossible phenomena while constructing churches where virtually nothing impossible is expected.

Moses divides a sea. Elijah commands fire. Elisha raises a child. Jesus walks upon water. Peter briefly follows. Jesus heals blindness. The apostles heal people. Paul survives circumstances that should destroy him.

Then somewhere around Revelation we shut the book and act like God retired.

We turned supernatural Christianity into historical Christianity. Everything astonishing happened yesterday. Everything powerful belongs to someone else. Everything miraculous is safely trapped between Genesis and Revelation.

And your job? Sit down. Pay your tithe. Sing three songs. Go home.

Paul warned of people possessing a form of godliness while denying its power. 2 Timothy 3:5. That scripture cuts deeper than believers sometimes allow.

Because we have form. Oh, we have form. LED screens. Fog machines. Conferences. Celebrity pastors. Algorithms. Brand consultants. Livestream studios. Churches with production equipment television stations would envy.

Nothing inherently wrong with any of that. Apex appreciates production. But let's establish something: production is not power.

A microphone can amplify your voice. It cannot manufacture authority. A spotlight can illuminate a preacher. It cannot create illumination. A camera can record a healing claim. It cannot heal anybody. You can simulate fire on a ten-thousand-dollar LED wall. That is not the same thing as carrying it.

And Paul says: “The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” — 1 Corinthians 4:20

Christianity was never supposed to become a museum where people gather weekly to admire what God used to do.

THE TWO WITNESSES MAY BE STRANGER THAN WE THINK

Now we enter prophetic territory. Revelation 11 describes two witnesses. They prophesy. They possess extraordinary authority. The text associates them with fire, rain, water and judgment.

Because these manifestations resemble biblical episodes involving Moses and Elijah, Christians have often interpreted the witnesses as those two prophets returning. Maybe.

But Revelation gives us another clue. The witnesses are described as two olive trees and two lampstands. And Revelation itself has already interpreted lampstands. Revelation 1:20 associates them with churches.

So consider another possibility. Not doctrine. Not certainty. A possibility.

What if the Two Witnesses aren't merely two individual humans? What if they symbolize two prophetic communities? Two bodies. Two streams. Two companies of awakened believers.

One carrying the Moses current: Liberation. Deliverance. Judgment upon oppression. Confrontation with Pharaoh. Authority against systems.

The other carrying the Elijah current: Prophetic fire. Restoration. Confrontation with corrupted religion. Authority connected with the heavens. Calling people back to God.

Suddenly Revelation becomes more than something Christians sit around waiting to watch. It becomes something a generation might be expected to become.

WHY DON'T WE SEE MORE POWER?

Maybe because Western Christianity has spent generations producing spectators.

Pastor prays. Congregation watches. Choir sings. Congregation watches. Prophet speaks. Congregation watches. Celebrity preacher writes. Congregation buys.

But Jesus did not create spectators. He created disciples.

A disciple is an apprentice. An apprentice learns the master's method.

Jesus didn't merely say: Watch how I heal. Watch how I confront fear. Watch how I pray. Watch how I fast. Watch how I resist temptation. Watch how I confront empire. Watch how I treat the rejected. Watch how I command myself. Then applaud.

He says: Follow me.

That is radically different. And perhaps that is why stories like Jenkins and Toko bother us so deeply. They threaten to pull Christianity out of the category of belief system and back into the category of practice.

DON'T USE SKEPTICISM AS A SEDATIVE

If Jenkins employed a hidden apparatus? Find it. If his photographs were manipulated? Analyze them. If his witnesses lied? Demonstrate it. If Tokoist miracle narratives grew in the telling? Document their development.

Truth doesn't need protection from investigation.

But here's the other side: skepticism doesn't automatically equal intelligence. Saying “impossible” before investigating something isn't science. It's dogma wearing a lab coat.

The proper answer to an extraordinary claim is: Show me. Then test. Then test again. And if something survives? Keep going.

Because the goal isn't to protect belief. The goal is to discover reality.

THE REAL MIRACLE MAY BE ACTIVATION

Maybe you never walk across the Ross Barnett Reservoir. Fair enough.

Can you walk into generational poverty and create wealth? Can you enter trauma without reproducing it? Can you walk into addiction and regain command of yourself? Can you walk into ignorance and emerge educated? Can you enter hatred without becoming hateful? Can you enter a broken neighborhood and leave infrastructure?

Can you heal? Can you teach? Can you organize? Can you build? Can you create? Can you liberate? Can you remain truthful when lying would be profitable? Can you retain sovereignty while algorithms compete for your mind? Can you stand upright when an entire system benefits from you crawling?

Now we're getting somewhere.

Because divine power isn't proven exclusively through violations of physics. Sometimes the impossible thing is the person history says should no longer exist.

Black America knows something about that miracle. Africa knows something about that miracle. Indigenous peoples know something about that miracle. Every people who have survived conquest know something about that miracle.

Still here. Still creating. Still praying. Still building. Still remembering. Still becoming.

BUT WHAT IF THAT IS ONLY THE BEGINNING?

And here is where Apex refuses to stop at the safe interpretation.

Because perhaps healing trauma isn't the replacement for miraculous healing. Perhaps discipline isn't the replacement for spiritual gifts. Perhaps transforming society isn't the replacement for prophecy. Perhaps psychological explanations aren't necessarily the endpoint of mystical experiences.

Maybe they are the foundation.

What if humanity first has to recover attention, discipline, faith, breath, prayer, fasting, intuition, compassion and self-command before more unusual capacities can be carried responsibly?

Scripture repeatedly pairs power with preparation. Moses goes into wilderness. Elijah retreats. Jesus fasts. The disciples pray. Paul disappears into formation.

Power appears downstream from transformation.

That might be the piece modern miracle culture gets backwards. Everybody wants the gift. Few want the refinement required to carry it without becoming corrupted by it.

FROM SPECTATORS TO ‘LITTLE CHRISTS’

Jenkins's story is no longer merely: An old legend claims a Mississippi preacher walked on water.

The historical record is stranger. A Black preacher publicly announced that he would demonstrate supernatural power. He alleged that five men kidnapped him and strapped him to a cross. Days later he was shot. He cancelled the demonstration. Then roughly six weeks later he told the Associated Press: I went back. I did it. There are photographs.

Whether those photographs ultimately demonstrate a literal miracle is another question entirely. But the story happened. The controversy happened. The reporting happened. And now the trail is alive again.

Maybe that's the jewel.

We've spent centuries arguing over whether supernatural power exists while often neglecting the transformation required to responsibly possess power of any kind.

Christ wasn't asking for fans. He was creating reflections. People courageous enough to confront empire. Compassionate enough to touch those society rejects. Disciplined enough to master themselves. Perceptive enough to recognize deception. Faithful enough to enter situations everybody else calls impossible. Powerful enough to alter reality around them.

Call them disciples. Call them Christians. Poetically call them little Christs if you wish. Whatever name you choose, they should look different from spectators.

WHAT IF TOKO WASN'T THE END?

What if Seymour wasn't an anomaly? What if Jenkins wasn't merely a strange Mississippi story? What if Toko's warning, preserved within the tradition surrounding him, contains the deeper archetype? That another generation would rise.

Not one superstar prophet. A generation.

Millions of people awakening to dimensions of human and spiritual possibility that industrial civilization trained them to dismiss.

Not gullible. Not intoxicated with fantasy. Not worshipping spiritual celebrities.

Disciplined. Investigative. Prayerful. Fearless. Testing everything. Keeping what proves true. Developing the body. Developing consciousness. Developing community. Developing power. And developing the wisdom not to abuse it.

Because power without character simply creates another Pharaoh.

THE AGE OF THE SPECTATOR IS ENDING

Ecclesiastes says there is nothing new under the sun. Maybe history doesn't merely repeat. Maybe certain patterns wait. And wait. Until humanity develops enough consciousness to recognize them.

Seymour's generation shook Christianity. Toko's movement survived colonial suppression. Jenkins dared Mississippi to watch.

And perhaps the next chapter isn't about waiting for another Seymour. Another Toko. Another Jenkins. Another Moses. Another Elijah.

Maybe it's about producing a people.

Not people drunk on fantasies of power. People disciplined enough to carry it. Not people performing spirituality for cameras. People whose lives become evidence. Not celebrities. Witnesses. Not audiences. Participants.

Not people endlessly waiting for God to move. People asking: What if God has been waiting for us to move?

Because perhaps the question was never merely: Can a man walk on water?

The deeper question is: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HUMANITY REMEMBERS WHAT IT BELIEVES LIVES INSIDE OF IT?

What happens when prayer becomes training? When faith becomes practice? When intuition becomes disciplined? When consciousness becomes studied? When spiritual gifts are developed instead of merely preached about? When healers learn measurement? When prophets learn discernment? When mystics learn investigation? When scientists become courageous enough to investigate anomaly? When believers become mature enough to question themselves? And when power finally meets responsibility?

That's where the conversation becomes dangerous. That's where it becomes beautiful. And that's where Activation begins.

You don't need another performance. YOU NEED AWAKENING.

And after awakening? Training. Mastery. Service. Power. Responsibility.

The water is only the beginning.

APEX 9 — Elevate Your Edge.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING

1972 Words of Truth archive discussing Jenkins and reproducing the July 1972 AP report: https://www.therestorationmovement.com/_journals/wot/Words%20of%20Truth%20-%20Vol%207%20-%201972.pdf

Academic research on Simão Toko and Tokoist history: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141844.2013.806946

Academic research on Tokoist correspondence and colonial surveillance: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2012.737525

THE AGE OF THE CHILD Justice for Jermany Coleman

I am not neutral. When the choice is between protecting the adult tribe and protecting the child, I choose the child.

By Edward “EAoN Sovereign” Brown

Her name was Jermany Coleman.

She was fifteen months old.

She was also the daughter of my best friend Dedrion Coleman.

So before this becomes philosophy, politics, psychology, gender debate or another piece of internet content, understand something:

This was somebody’s baby.

On September 2, 2026, a Kalamazoo jury convicted Tiffany Briana Moore of felony murder, second degree murder and first degree child abuse in Jermany’s death. Jermany died after suffering multiple blunt force injuries while in Moore’s care. Moore is scheduled to be sentenced October 30. (WKZO)

I am grateful that justice finally answered.

But justice arrived after Jermany was gone.

And that forces a larger question upon all of us:

Who speaks for the child when adults become more interested in defending themselves?

My answer is simple.

I do.

And I am calling on you to do the same.

I AM TAKING A SIDE

We live in an era that is terrified of moral certainty.

Everything requires twelve disclaimers.

Everything becomes context.

Everything becomes my truth.

Not this.

An adult who intentionally murders a defenseless child has committed "F" rank human conduct, the bottom of the moral hierarchy.

Male or female.

Mother or father.

Rich or poor.

Black or white.

Left or right.

Religious or atheist.

I do not care what tribe you belong to.

If you intentionally destroy a child you were supposed to protect, you have forfeited the right to be trusted with the vulnerable.

You should be lawfully separated from children and from positions where you can repeat that harm.

That does not mean abandoning courts, evidence, mental health science or due process.

It means remembering what all those systems are ultimately supposed to protect:

LIFE.

MOORE WAS WRONG. THE KILLING OF THE CLANCY CHILDREN WAS WRONG.

And here I refuse the false choice.

I can acknowledge severe mental illness and still mourn the victims first.

Lindsay Clancy admitted killing her three children Cora, Dawson and Callan. Her defense argued that postpartum psychosis rendered her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors argued that despite serious mental health problems, she understood what she was doing.

Today, after seven days of deliberations, the jury remained deadlocked and the judge declared a mistrial. The legal question therefore remains unresolved. (Reuters)

I will not pretend that medical question is meaningless.

Postpartum psychosis is real.

Mental illness is real.

Psychiatric emergencies deserve immediate treatment.

And if illness substantially destroys someone's capacity to understand reality, the law should recognize that.

But hear the distinction:

Explanation can change culpability. It does not change the tragedy.

Three children are still dead.

That must remain morally visible.

Cora.

Dawson.

Callan.

And here in Kalamazoo:

Jermany.

Do not erase the children while arguing about the adult.

IF YOUR TRIBE MAKES YOU FORGET THE CHILD, YOUR TRIBE HAS BECOME AN IDOL

Looking at the Clancy case, I saw people identifying so intensely with the accused that the discussion sometimes seemed to shift away from the children entirely.

This disease is bigger than women.

Human beings protect their tribes.

Women sometimes protect women.

Men protect men.

Police protect police.

Politicians protect their parties.

Fans protect celebrities.

Religious institutions protect leaders.

Racial communities can protect their own.

Corporations protect corporations.

Everybody suddenly discovers nuance when the accused belongs to them.

So I propose another allegiance.

A tribe larger than gender.

Larger than party.

Larger than algorithm.

THE TRIBE OF THE CHILD.

If men and women insist upon fighting over who should rule the household while children suffer underneath them, then both sides have misunderstood the assignment.

The age of patriarchy versus matriarchy is exhausted. We must collectively take responsibility for what's born from the belly of the beast!

The Age of the Child begins now.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

Not that children govern adults.

It means honoring the thoughts and opinions of the children as adults and finally understanding why we are governing at all.

The child is the future temporarily placed in our custody.

Think about that.

A baby cannot vote.

Cannot leave an abusive household.

Cannot retain counsel.

Cannot call a press conference.

Cannot understand psychiatric diagnoses.

Cannot fight an adult.

Cannot explain why somebody hurt them.

Children survive because adults voluntarily place restraints upon their own power.

That restraint has a name:

HONOR.

A father possesses physical strength and does not use it against his child.

A mother possesses authority and does not weaponize it against her child.

A caregiver receives somebody else's most precious human being and understands:

I am the wall now.

Whatever chaos exists inside me,

rage,

depression,

trauma,

fear,

psychosis,

addiction,

resentment,

the child does not become its sacrifice.

We seek help.

We surrender control if necessary.

We call family.

We call doctors.

We walk away.

We check ourselves into treatment.

We sacrifice pride.

We sacrifice comfort.

If necessary, we sacrifice everything.

Because the ancient duty of the guardian is simple:

If darkness is coming for the child, it reaches me first.

THAT IS THE PHARAOH PRINCIPLE

When I speak of this Moral Principle, I am not speaking about dominating other human beings.

I am speaking about ruling the kingdom inside yourself.

The first kingdom is consciousness.

Your anger has subjects.

Your appetite has armies.

Your trauma has ghosts.

Your ego wants a throne.

Your fear wants emergency powers.

Your impulses constantly propose legislation.

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And consciousness must decide who actually governs.

That is sovereignty.

Not merely doing whatever you want.

Sovereignty is the ability to command yourself when doing what is right becomes difficult.

The Pharaoh archetype stands at the gate of the kingdom and says:

Not through me.

Not my rage.

Not my trauma.

Not my addictions.

Not my excuses.

Not another generation.

That is the warrior.

That is the mother.

That is the father.

That is the guardian.

WE HAVE BEEN RAISING CHILDREN FOR THE PRESENT. WE SHOULD BE RAISING THEM FOR THE FUTURE.

This is where the argument becomes bigger than crime.

Because protecting children does not end with preventing violence.

A society can keep a child alive and still suffocate everything magnificent inside them.

Curiosity.

Sensitivity.

Creativity.

Wonder.

Imagination.

The instinct to ask:

Why?

Children look at reality and immediately begin rewriting it.

A cardboard box becomes a spaceship.

A stick becomes a sword.

A blanket becomes a kingdom.

Then adulthood teaches:

Be realistic.

And slowly the portals close.

But every major leap in civilization required somebody who refused to completely surrender that faculty.

Flight existed in imagination before aviation.

Moon travel existed in imagination before Apollo.

Artificial intelligence existed in stories before laboratories.

The impossible keeps becoming engineering.

Which is why I like separating the word poetically:

I-MAGI-NATION.

Not as literal etymology.

As philosophy.

The nation of the magician begins in imagination.

We become capable of creating what does not yet exist.

THAT IS THE REAL AMERICAN MYTH

America has committed enormous contradictions.

Slavery while declaring liberty.

Segregation beneath claims of equality.

Indigenous dispossession beside declarations of natural rights.

Poverty inside enormous abundance.

Political corruption beneath republican ideals.

We do not become patriotic by pretending those things never happened.

We become worthy of the ideal by confronting them.

Because America was never merely a place.

America was a proposition.

That ordinary people could possess rights no ruler invented.

That written law could bind power.

That citizens could replace governments without replacing civilization.

That immigrants and natives, descendants of slaves and descendants of settlers, people arriving through wildly different histories could participate in one unfinished political experiment.

America has often failed its own prophecy.

But listen carefully:

The prophecy was bigger than the prophets.

Men wrote that human beings were created equal while failing to apply the statement equally.

Then future generations picked up their words and said:

Good. We will finish the sentence.

Black Americans did it.

Women did it.

Workers did it.

Civil rights movements did it.

Generation after generation looked at America's declared ideals and forced the country to confront its contradictions.

That is not weakness.

That is American alchemy.

250 YEARS PREGNANT

As America reaches its 250th year, I see another image.

America has been pregnant with its own idea.

The American Dream entered the belly of the beast nearly two and a half centuries ago.

And inside that womb came:

slavery,

war,

industrialization,

migration,

depression,

civil rights,

nuclear power,

computing,

the internet,

biotechnology,

artificial intelligence.

And after all of it, the original experiment remains unfinished:

Can free people govern themselves well enough to remain free?

Maybe the America described in our highest ideals hasn't fully been born yet.

Maybe we mistook conception for completion.

Maybe generations before us were carrying something.

And maybe the child of America is being born now.

Not another empire.

Not another left.

Not another right.

Not matriarchy.

Not patriarchy.

Sovereignty.

Millions of self governing individuals capable of cooperation without surrendering conscience.

THE NEW AMERICAN SOVEREIGN

The American Sovereign is not someone who screams freedom while being enslaved by impulse.

He studies.

She studies.

We study.

History.

Law.

Money.

Technology.

Psychology.

Health.

Business.

Science.

Art.

Politics.

Then:

Study to show thyself approved.

Know what things are.

Understand how they became that way.

And then possess enough imagination to say:

They do not have to remain that way.

That is where adulthood and childhood reunite.

The adult contributes discipline.

The child contributes imagination.

The adult says:

I understand reality.

The child says:

But what if?

The Sovereign says:

LET'S BUILD IT.

THE SUPREME ALCHEMIST

That is the American I want awakened.

The supreme alchemist.

Not turning literal lead into gold.

Turning trauma into wisdom.

Poverty into productive capacity.

Anger into organization.

Knowledge into invention.

Grief into purpose.

Confusion into clarity.

Citizens into creators.

Lead into Gold.

We stop believing every system around us descended from heaven fully assembled.

Human beings designed these systems.

Human beings wrote these policies.

Human beings created these corporations.

Human beings designed these streets.

Human beings built these schools.

Human beings created markets.

Human beings wrote code.

Human beings created the laws that can lawfully be changed.

The people responsible were not another species.

They were humans no better endowed with imagination than us.

So when systems fail the population, free people study them and redesign them.

Not through chaos.

Through organized sovereign power:

voice.

pen.

vote.

court.

jury.

petition.

business.

technology.

assembly.

journalism.

art.

constitutional process.

community.

capital.

Creation.

We don't burn civilization down because something is broken.

We become better architects.

AND THIS RETURNS ME TO JERMANY

Because all of these ideas sound enormous until you remember what civilization is actually for.

Jermany was fifteen months old.

She did not need an ideology.

She needed adults worthy of her trust.

She should have gotten birthdays.

School pictures.

Songs.

Mistakes.

Inside jokes.

First loves.

Bad haircuts.

Discoveries.

Dreams.

A career.

Maybe children of her own.

Maybe inventions we would never know she could create.

That is the true horror when a child dies.

We don't only lose who they were.

We lose everyone they might have become.

An entire unwritten universe disappears.

And that gives us what I call:

JERMANY'S PRINCIPLE

Wherever power encounters innocence, power becomes responsible for what happens next.

Carry that into homes.

Schools.

Courts.

Hospitals.

Churches.

Government.

Technology.

Artificial intelligence.

Business.

Everywhere.

Power should make vulnerable people safer because it exists.

Otherwise it has failed its highest purpose.

MY DECREE

So here is where I stand.

I choose children over gender tribes.

I choose responsibility over excuses.

I choose mental health treatment before catastrophe.

I choose lawful accountability after harm.

I choose evidence over identification.

Quality over convenience.

Honor over praise.

Creation over consumption.

Wonder without naivety.

Strength without cruelty.

Sensitivity without weakness.

Stoic endurance without emotional death.

Freedom with discipline.

Power with responsibility.

Science with conscience.

Spirit with action.

And imagination with engineering.

I choose a society that protects the smallest sovereign until that sovereign becomes capable of protecting someone else.

THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE BETTER THAN US

At least it should be.

Our descendants should understand things we don't.

Build things we cannot.

Heal diseases we fear.

Solve problems we failed to solve.

Travel farther.

Think deeper.

Create more beautifully.

And I am perfectly comfortable with that.

Because humanity is not supposed to be jealous of its children.

We are supposed to prepare them to surpass us.

That is the secret.

We are not the final civilization.

We are somebody's ancestors.

We are not the destination.

We are the bridge.

The future does not belong to us.

But for one extraordinary moment,

it has been placed in our hands.

AMERICA: AWAKEN.

Protect the child.

Master the self.

Study the system.

Correct the corruption.

Challenge unconstitutional power through lawful sovereign action.

Build businesses.

Invent technologies.

Heal families.

Transform neighborhoods.

Make art.

Protect innocence.

Teach discernment.

Recover wonder.

Reject the lie that reality must remain exactly as we inherited it.

Know things for what they are,

and possess the courage to create what they can become.

The sleeping giant does not awaken when Americans become angrier.

It awakens when Americans become capable.

Capable of thought.

Capable of discipline.

Capable of love.

Capable of sacrifice.

Capable of building.

Capable of protecting.

Capable of imagining.

Jermany Coleman deserved that America.

Cora Clancy deserved that America.

Dawson Clancy deserved that America.

Callan Clancy deserved that America.

We cannot give yesterday back to them.

But we can change what tomorrow receives from us.

So let this generation make its declaration:

NO MORE CHILDREN SACRIFICED TO THE UNMASTERED DARKNESS OF ADULTS.

Let us fight our demons before our children inherit them.

Let us heal our wounds before our children bleed from them.

Let us repair our institutions before our children are imprisoned by them.

Let us create a civilization whose greatness can be measured by one question:

How safe is it to be small here?

That is kingship.

That is queenship.

That is citizenship.

That is guardianship.

That is sovereignty.

That is love possessing power.

And that is the kingdom worthy of building.

From grief, to

purpose.

From confusion, to

wisdom.

From corruption, to

order.

From imagination, to

creation.

From lead, to

gold.

And from an unfinished American dream to

A CIVILIZATION WORTHY OF ITS CHILDREN.

THE AGE OF THE CHILD IS HERE.

Protect the child. Master the self. Create the future.

Rest in power, Jermany Coleman.

May what was taken from you become a command to the living.