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This rough document is based on Savage Reflections—the Soulful Poetry of Jack Savage which should be read before this. ∞♦∞♦∞♦∞♦♦♦∞♦∞♦∞♦ This is a very rough draft of some thoughts about Jack’s poetry. I’m very open to feedback from anyone as to which parts belong or should be augmented and which parts of this might better be left out. Of course I’ll give the greatest weight to people close to Jack. I started writing some of this on the poetry page, but got feedback (inner and outer) that it was way too much intrusion of my voice and the poems should be allowed to speak for themselves. That’s why this is on a separate page. I’m also open to removing more words of my narration from the Savage Reflections page and putting them here so as to get out of the way more.  This document begins by repeating some words that are still on the poetry page (and to which I just added some personal context about Jack)  and then  I expand on them: In the last set of emailed poems, the largest number he ever put in one message (an email dated 8/7/11) Jack whimsically addressed me in a brief message [...]

John “Jack” Spencer Savage 1989-2013    poetry copyright Jack Savage, 2013,  photos copyright Jonathan Zap, 2013 This page last updated May 12, 2013 I added a new page of thoughts about the Jack revealed by his poems: Some Thoughts on the Poems of Jack Savage     ∞♦∞♦∞♦∞♦♦♦∞♦∞♦∞♦∞ Among other talents, Jack was a brilliant poet. After spending more time with the poems the last few days, I believe Jack was, and is, one of the greatest poetic voices of his generation. It’s not that I’ve read so many millennial generation poets, it’s a general feeling I have based on the power with which Jack’s poetic voice is the voice of the soul. Sometimes this poetic voice is celebratory, at other times it is struggling and even tormented. But it is always profound, authentic, accessible and deeply present with the reader. Jack’s voice has a presence, an emotional immediacy and intimacy with a sympathetic reader that is comparable to Walt Whitman, who was Jack’s greatest poetic inspiration. Jack’s poems, even the ones that he wrote when he was 19, do not seem like an awkward, adolescent attempt at being Whitmanesque. They are alike, because both poets are voices of the soul. [...]

This overview of the artwork of Alex Grey (also published as a multi-part series on Reality Sandwich) looks at problems the art world has with spiritually themed art, Alex’s transforming relationship to darkness and shadow material, what his art says about sexuality, and the public roles Alex plays versus his studio work.

Accepting Mortality Accepting People are in All Stages of Development Accepting Shock Accessing Spirit Helpers Acknowledging Inner Child Issues Cloaking Dealing with Power Issues Dealing with Reptile Drives Dreaming Emerging from Darkness Engaging the Moment Flowing with Life Cycles Following the Creative Muse Following Warrior Path Individuating Integrating Shadow Interdimensional Traveling Metamorphosing Monitoring the Collective Moving toward Androgyny Moving toward the light Nourishing Passing Threshold Guardians Positive Trickster Rebirthing of the Feminine Reclaiming Eros Recognizing Abundance Recognizing Magical Influence Recognizing mind parasites Regaining Wholeness Relating to Friends and Spiritual Allies Seeing the Unseen Seeing through the Persona Self-Love Self-Witnessing Setting conscious boundaries Sojourning Standing your ground Summoning your power Synchronizing Valuing Solitude Viewing from Cosmic Vantage Working Alchemically Working on body issues Working on Right Livelihood and Money Issues Working with Oracles

© graffiti sign indicating gender separated  restrooms at BC music festival © 2005, 2011 Jonathan Zap “I am in some sense boundless, my being encompassing the farthest limits of the universe, touching and moving every atom of existence. The same is true of everything else…It is not just that ‘we are all in it’ together. We all are it, rising and falling as one living body.” Francis Cook  (location of Godhead) When Jesus was asked, “When will the kingdom come?” He replied: “It will not come by waiting for it…Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.” Jesus also said, “…the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you.”  —Gospel of Thomas, Gnostic Gospels “God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.”  —Meister Eckart Note: This is a working copy of an unfinished treatise on androgyny as the key to unlock many of the mysteries of: the 6,000 years of Feminine-hating dominator societies that continue to rule our world, key forms of religious extremism, the torturous enchantments of romantic relations, [...]

I couldn’t smell anything from the mostly neglected bongs and unused bowls of giant kola buds, because the air was heavy with the olfactory cacophony of expensive perfumes and colognes, musks and nocturnal blends meant to be seductive and alluring, but which when thrown together in one giant air space merged into a single musky incencse that if marketed, would be sold in black glass flasks labeled “Obsession Bardo” or “Carnival of the Hungry Ghosts.” If you listen to the podcast make sure you check the online document for a couple of epilogues that have altered the meaning of this descent into decadence.

Some of you may have already read this but Reality Sandwich just published a new version of Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites. This article, based on some conversations with Alex, analyzes a visionary experience he had on LSD that led to his classic painting, Demons and Deities Drinking from the Milky Pool. While you are on Reality Sandwich check out another featured article there Synchronicity, Myth and the New World Order —-as brilliant and incisive an article as I’ve ever read anywhere. I just wrote a new article about an interesting cultural change I’ve noticed, mostly on Facebook, amongst members of the millennial generation. If any millennials out there have any observations to add I would love to add their comments to the article. See: Anti-Homophobic Homoerotic Joking—A Positive Mutation of the Millennial Generation? Send comments to jonathanzap@hotmail.com

STOP!  If you’re reading this as an email, it’s going to look lame.  See the much sexier online version here: http://www.zaporacle.com/beware-the-hungry-whirlpools/ (Zap Oracle Card #644) Beware the hungry whirlpools my friends, the dark undertow of collective vortices that would love to undertake you into their burgeoning carnivals of lost souls. The hungry whirlpools are slippery concavities dotting the thin ice of modern life. They might take the form of some tiny substance, a bit of white powder, a pill that makes you smaller, some little thing that crosses the blood-brain barrier and thereby seizes power. Every hungry whirlpool has a little black hole at its center, an object of unprofitable obsession, the neon spectacle, the fleshy, ever-receding corridors of online pornography, the glittering purchase drawing you into the sticky depths of credit card debt, the infatuation that confuses the hottie with the godhead, the poison Tea Party of political ideology, the glib success formula, the get-rich-quick scheme, the craving for celebrity, the food-like substance that melts in your mouth and spikes your blood sugar, the clueless delusion that sex can be casual, the moments that slip by to make up a dull day, the vapid allure of status updates and [...]

Shield yourself from the Medusa Head — a reptile-brain-dominated psyche. We are all too easily taken over by our appetites and fight-or-flight reflexes. ;According to some evolutionary biologists, marsupials, like kangaroos, are limited in their possible evolution because they lack the corpus callosum ‚Äî the dense bundle of neurons connecting the two hemispheres vital to superior intra-brain communication. These evolutionary biologists further speculate that Homo sapiens may also have a brain communication problem and that it could lead to our extinction. We have very poor communication between our cerebral cortex, our center of higher thinking, and our brain stem, the reptile brain that governs appetites and aggression. Anyone that has tried to break a physical addiction discovers how tough it is to get these parts to work together. Headline news is largely composed of variations on the theme of higher thinking being impotent to restrain territorial aggression and other reptilian drives. ;But there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in the philosophy of neurological materialists and fatalistic observers of human history. As William James said, “All that is necessary to disprove the notion that all crows are black is one white crow.” If any human being [...]

Cutting off Medusa’s head — direct intervention with inner reptile drives of appetites and aggression. This is a moment of empowerment when you can use your will and intent to transform yourself. We are all too easily taken over by our appetites and fight-or-flight reflexes. ;According to some evolutionary biologists, marsupials, like kangaroos, are limited in their possible evolution because they lack the corpus callosum ‚Äî the dense bundle of neurons connecting the two hemispheres vital to superior intra-brain communication. These evolutionary biologists further speculate that Homo sapiens may also have a brain communication problem and that it could lead to our extinction. We have very poor communication between our cerebral cortex, our center of higher thinking, and our brain stem, the reptile brain that governs appetites and aggression. Anyone that has tried to break a physical addiction discovers how tough it is to get these parts to work together. Headline news is largely composed of variations on the theme of higher thinking being impotent to restrain territorial aggression and other reptilian drives. ;But there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in the philosophy of neurological materialists and fatalistic observers of human history. As William James [...]