Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon

Joe Dispenza opens his book by acknowledging that publishing Becoming Supernatural is a risk to his reputation and could be dismissed by the scientific community as pseudoscience. However, he aims to direct his efforts toward studying the supernatural and engaging with the people who want to listen rather than trying to convince these skeptics. He understands that he is making a difference in people’s lives by making complex scientific information easy to understand so others can apply it and benefit from it.

Dispenza and his team of researchers have scientifically measured, recorded, and analyzed changes in people’s biology to show that “common people can do the uncommon” and make significant changes to their health (xvii), and he wrote this book to demonstrate that people can create better lives for themselves using the tools already dormant within their anatomy, chemistry, and physiology. Becoming Supernatural presents some of the studies he and his researchers have conducted in his advanced meditation workshops that demonstrate the improvements in brain function that his students experience as a result of the practices outlined in the book. Additionally, a research organization called the HeartMath Institute helped measure internal changes in