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Go to I STATUS UPDATE, THEREFORE I AM to see some thoughts about my ambivalence about Facebook as well as some archived status updates.
What's up with the fascination with zombies and vampires? Why is the skeptic movement actually the exact opposite of true skepticism? A couple of interviews I did you may find interesting: Sky Blue Symposia (formerly Time Monk Radio) has one of the most in-depth interview forums with a panel of well-prepared interviewers (from different countries) coming at you from various angles. This was my best opportunity to share thoughts I've had about the meanings of the evolving zombie and vampire mythology happening in popular culture (among other topics). Here is their description of the interview: We talk to Jonathan Zap about using a modern application of Jungian archetypes to help understand ourselves and our world. For over 30 years he has been using the tools of Jungian psychology to study popular culture, contemporary mythology, and dreams. Topics include: anima, animus, and the shadow. Zombies, vampires and parasites. Dream interpretation. Zombie banks, wall street and psychopaths. Femininity, patriarchy, and the white madonna and black madonna. 2012 and Y2K. Jonathan uses movies, books and current events to illustrate how various archetypes give us another perspective to make sense of our world. Skyblue Symposia Interview with Jonathan Zap I also an interview with WGXC and my friend Emory Mort who plays a Colbert like character, Dr. Jim McCourt, who is an arch skeptic/debunker. Some funny moments. It gets a bit confrontational at times and was a good opportunity for me to take on scientism and phony skepticism. copy and paste into your browser: http://wgxc.org/archives/6286
I also an interview with WGXC and my friend Emory Mort who plays a Colbert like character, Dr. Jim McCourt, who is an arch skeptic/debunker. Some funny moments. It gets a bit confrontational at times and was a good opportunity for me to take on scientism and phony skepticism: Zap on WGXC
On October 12, 2012 Jonathan gave a talk on the Singularity Archetype and the evolutionary event horizon at the Boulder Evolver. The first 40 minutes are available as two Youtubes:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7CfJP7zq6s
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFmT8U4fwU
You can also listen to the complete audio as a podcast here: http://www.disinfo.com/2012/11/jonathan-zap-on-the-singularity-archetype-and-human-evolution/
Time Monk Radio did a 175 minute commercial free interview with me that was the most thorough interview I've ever done. There were several interviewers in various countries (all available in realtime on Skype). We covered the Singularity Archeytpe, psychopathy, mind parasites, dynamic paradoxicalism and many other topics.
3/17/12 The Edge with Daniel Ott
With 5 interviews scheduled in a 4 week period I didn't look too closely at the background of the interviewers. This one turned out to be a right wing, indoor-cowboy- hat-wearing, science-hating, Obama-demonizing birther which brought out the confrontational Bronx side of my personality. You might find the result an hilarious conflict of types:
Download Jonathan_Zap_03.17.12.mp3
3/20/12 Serious Wonder
Download 3_20_12JonathanZapOnSeriousWonder.mp3
I did three interviews with Mike Hagan of Radio Orbit. Here are the links to three interviews followed by an image Radio Orbit photoshopped from an actual photo of me sitting on a bengal tiger (oh, and in response to several inquiries—this tiger was not being abused, was not chained up—I worked for many years at the Prairie Wind Animal Refuge (where the photo was taken and which is now under new management) where we rescued tigers and other big cats from guaranteed hunts and other abusive situations. This particular tiger loved interacting with people and was exceptionally well trained.
See A Glossary of Zap Terms for definitions of some of the eccentric words and phrases used on this site such as "Babylon Matrix," "mutant" (used here in a special sense) and "singularity archetype."
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Hi Jon
I love your website and I love your work! Too much to say of a complimentary nature so will keep this brief. Incidentally I did send you
two emails about 12 months ago – was hoping for a reply but perhaps you didn’t receive them. I just wished to say, could you make the opening page an image of something beautiful, inspiring, uplifting, and organic? Waterfalls and forests come to mind but that’s just an example. I know you like the desert…so far it’s a further reminder of the machinations of my mind and the cogs of Newtons Error, and the irony that if the swiss banking elite control the economy – that they are fabled for their clockmaking! Hahaha. It would be great to meet your site with a vision of splendour, beauty and awe. Same too for that new tan background…it’s an improvement but please, Jon, you’re an artist surely you can be a bit more innovative!
Thanks so much love
Hi Jonathan,
I tried sending you a note and photo you took last night at Tonic, with my camera but it bounced back. It was your hotmail address. Shall I resend to another address? Please advise and Happy Halloween!
Lovedy
Hi,
Was blown away by your energy parasite article! So that’s what I saw on my left thigh in a dream-vision; looked like app. 3 4″ long thin black leaches. They scared me to death. And coincidentally, I started having disability probs with my left thigh in 06. Would like to talk with you more via my email about other.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COURAGE AND INSIGHT.
Hello
Theresa I read your comment and that was why I was on this site to begin with. I had a very similar experience on 11-24 the night before Thanksgiving. Ill spare all the details but Ive been going thru a period of immense negativity and as depressed as I have ever been in my life and couldnt pinpoint why. So I spent a lot of time meditating that night and had a dream vision of my own; I looked up and my living room was covered with these worm like things that were pulsating and moving and wriggling around. They looked simialr to your description like a leech body, no eyes or anything I could see, like they were on autopilot. Some were an inch or 2, some were 3 feet or so.
The next thought I had was “Brain Worms” and I thought of a Jonathan Zap article I read 5+ yrs ago (and not one time since), as though my subconcious/higher self/spirit was directing me. Intuitively I knew the parasites were around because I had been deferring to my lower nature a lot in recent months (alcohol, sex, thoughtlessness) so I found the article and thats why Im on the site. But because of that I know what I need to correct in my life, but more importantly that Mind Parasites are as real as a dog or cat or any other species.
Thank you Jonathan for being brave enough to withstand all the misunderstanding you have no doubt weathered. Everyone’s time will come in this life or the next.
THANK YOU
Jonathan, I just tried to download you podcast/s to put on my iphone to listen to on a long trip I’m about to take, but when I clicked download, it took me to a webpage. Do you have a way to move to itunes?
Thanks,
rae
Rae – here is a link to the show as an itunes file.
http://ia601202.us.archive.org/31/items/3-20-2012JonathanZapOnSeriousWonder/3_20_12JonathanZapOnSeriousWonder.m4a