Practical Psychological Tools, Insights and Strategies for Dealing with Everyday Life

Someone once defined stories as “equipment of living.” Although nonfiction, the documents int his section are also designed to be equipment for living. Explore this section for tools, insights and strategies for dealing with the many difficulties of human incarnation.

ZIJ—Dealing with Zones of Inner Jeopardy

ZIJ—Dealing with Zones of Inner Jeopardy

text and top photo copyright Jonathan Zap, 2011

Edited by Austin Iredale

photo: Manhattan store front window with reflections

Zones of inner jeopardy [...]

Confessions of a Self-Aware Starship

Confessions of a Self-Aware Starship

The Enterprise, a Federation starship whose self-awareness has not fully awakened
Excerpted from Parallel Journeys, —Journal of My Second Incarnation in [...]

Stephen Colbert is a comedic genius who has great appeal to Millenials

Anti-Homophobic Homoerotic Joking—A Positive Mutation of the Millennial Generation?

Stephen Colbert, a visionary Gen-X comedian who is especially popular with Millennials

(unedited, rough draft) © 2011 Jonathan Zap

An interesting trend [...]

Transcending Online Road Rage

Transcending Online Road Rage

photo by Whereisat

© Jonathan Zap, 2011

Part I Edited by Austin Iredale

Part I of this article was originally written for Reality Sandwich. [...]

Adhesions and the Timelines of the Unconsicous

Adhesions and the Timelines of the Unconsicous

Emotionally intense experiences, life phases, and relationships tend to form timelines that continue in the unconscious, and sometimes these alternate timelines can enrich the soul, and other times they can divert massive amounts of psychic energy from our being fully engaged with the present.

Pushing the Envelope, Boundary Expansion into Novelty in Personal and Evolutionary Contexts

Pushing the Envelope, Boundary Expansion into Novelty in Personal and Evolutionary Contexts

Chris, airborne, seconds before injury.

What does it mean to push the envelope? The answer is more complex and charged with [...]

Imagine Getting More

One of the most potent of spells or enchantments that can bind you into the matrix is to live under the compulsion of always having to imagine getting more in the future. Under this spell you become a donkey forever hypnotized by an imaginary carrot just up ahead.

Reality Testing is Politically Incorrect!

Reality Testing is Politically Incorrect!

I think I just realized why I get into trouble with so many people—-somehow I never realized what now seems obvious—-reality testing is politically incorrect! Whether you are a religious fundamentalist or a New Age fundamentalist, on the right or on the left, if it feels emotionally satisfying, then it’s true.

Pathfinding/ Day Mapping

Pathfinding/ Day Mapping

A very practical and grounded way to navigate your pathway through a chaotic world.

email dialouge between me and John Jenkins about the nature of time:

email dialouge between me and John Jenkins about the nature of time:

Raphael 1483-1528, The School (Plato and Aristotle)  This is just a visual representation of Socratic Dialogue—it doesn’t mean that John [...]

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