In 1936 they had their first and only real success. The agency had been consulting with people who had been involved with Eastern disciplines and finding a certain agreement among them that great power was accessed in the "chakras" of the lower spine. "Svadhishthana" they called it. Great human potential could be unlocked through this region. People who had mastered certain disciplines involving this subtle region of the body could learn to do remarkable things, exhibit great strength, even levitate, but it would take much out of them to do it and mastering the power even this much required many hours spent in deep meditation.
Dr. Aaron Phillips and his team conceived the notion that rendering the Svadhishthana
more neurologically robust could increase the power available from it. A certain plant that grew high in the Himalayas was said to enhance the Svadhisthana if the smoke from the burning leaves was inhaled. Phillips discovered the active chemical in it and created a serum based on it.They had made experiments in the fetal development of monkeys that showed promise. The spinal cord in the sacrum was induced to grow larger than normal creating sort of a sacral "brain", as well, the serum was injected into the developing sacral brain. The monkeys were born healthy but were of course incapable of learning the disciplines to harness their new power. The procedure had to be performed on a human fetus.
Ultimately there were six volunteers, unwed expectant mothers who were told that research on curing polio was taking place and they were to have their child provided for its entire life if they took part. The first two of the procedures failed. One of the children was miscarried, the other born paralyzed from the hips down and dies soon after. Two more failed to survive their first month of life. The final two, a boy and a girl were born healthy within days of one another. They were both developmentally slow. They seemed like newborns their entire first year, but finally both started crawling sometime after their 18
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month. When the war came they were still toddlers and money had been diverted away from the project leaving only a bare bones staff. The mother of the girl had taken a job in a munitions plant. She was killed in an industrial accident her second month on the job. The girl was adopted by Dr. Phillips and his wife. The stripped down project was unable to provide the promised lifetime support and the mother of the boy took her son and went her own way. Both mother and son reportedly perished in an automobile accident in 1944. At that time the eight year old could have been easily mistaken for a two year old.
The girl was the only one left and the project essentially came to an end. The underdeveloped child showed no sign of being a next step in human evolution.
Phillips had not given up. Although the girl, called Svadhi, was still physically a moppet, she was quite bright. She had an extensive vocabulary and spoke two foreign languages as well. By the end of the war, Svadhi was 9 and resembled a healthy 4 year old. Phillips had decided that she was developed enough to begin the yoga disciplines as well as a program of callisthenic exercise, running and gymnastics. She excelled in all as well as her academic studies which were seen to by Dr. Phillps personally. Throughout the '50s she continued to develop physically, albeit slowly. In 1956 she appeared to be an 11 year old on the occasion of her 20
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birthday. During her entire childhood she had watched several generations of friends grow past her believing that she suffered an endocrine condition. Only a few remained in touch with her into adulthood. Through her early 20s she still showed little interest in boys, but starting in 1961 she began the changes of puberty. It was not a sudden flowering of incipient womanhood. The changes came slowly. She got her first menses and it was seven months before the second. Her hips spread at an imperceptible rate and her bosom emerged equally slowly. It wasn't until 1968 that she really appeared to be a blossoming teen. She was actually quite beautiful and the local boys noticed.
By this time Phillips and his wife were retired and certainly not up to the task of controlling a girl on the brink of adulthood at the age of 32! They had earlier engaged a staff of instructors in both fields of yogic discipline and more standard academic studies. As well as other physical pursuits, she also explored herself as a girl will and had her first orgasm. This was the first wakening of the sacral brain and she began to transform in ways only half expected. She found that by activating the sacral brain she could perform amazing feats, make great leaps, lift great weights in response to the awakened sacral brain. That awakening came as a result of orgasm and only lasted for an hour or so following it. Also predictably during these years she took an interest in boys (and also other girls it would later be learned) and actual sexual intercourse leading to multiple orgasms would enhance her abilities far more than mere masturbation. It was then she learned that she could levitate and ultimately fly. She gained a bit of a reputation around town even in these days of "free love". Despite the fact she was in her thirties, she had the appearance of a sixteen year old and she was mostly choosing sixteen to nineteen year old young men as paramours. Some of them were certainly aware of the powers lovemaking gave her. Weather it turned them on or frightened them varied from boy to boy, but the truth is that she broke many hearts. Although her appetite for sex was ever growing, she had little use for love at this stage of her life. The truth is that this would be a lifelong problem for Svadhi Phillips. He life experience made it very difficult to connect on a truly intimate level with people. Part of it had to do with the fact that the Phillips' were just not the kind of people who gave a lot of hugs or were generally demonstrative and also they were always fearful that something related to the process of her creation would take her from them and that made them a bit distant. Furthermore she experienced sex so differently from other girls. It filled her with a mighty charge of power that she wanted to leap forth and put to use. She was utterly disinclined from post coital cuddling.
It was around this time of her life that she took to referring to her genitals as her "engine". It was indeed her source of power and she was increasingly uncomfortable without it exposed to the environment. She stopped wearing underwear and would only wear skirts that would make that apparent with the slightest breeze.
In 1981 Dr. Phillips succumbed to cancer and his wife went into a nursing home with dementia. She would pass on two years later. At the age of 47, Svadhi was on her own. She still looked like a girl of 18. She had noticed quite early in life that she had never been sick. She seemed to be immune to all diseases. Given her frequency of unprotected sex, that was a very good thing. Based also on her sexual appetite, it was also apparent that she was sterile. Part of how her sacral brain was created was through calculated exposure to radium, but the price of that was her eggs could not be fertilized. Even without having an orgasm, she was much stronger than the average person and thanks to her gymnastics training she was also much more swift and agile. She came to the decision that she could and should become a force for good in the world. A superheroine.
There were no superheroes outside of comic books, bud Svadhi knew that her powers made it possible for her. Even her father had an idea that might be her destiny. He had drawn a sketch that he had based on Superman, a deep blue neck to toe leotard with a four petaled lotus on her chest. Svadhi had her own ideas.
