Filter.
They were familiar with it, yes. And they're already trying to figure out how to give you more control over it, maybe even cure it completely. Bottom line is that isn't something you can do on your own.
It'd make me feel better. And yeah, I have this whole Sacred Destiny thing, blah blah blah. Basically it just means that I'm faster and stronger than most people and am usually up to my eyeballs in supernatural crap.