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Site News June 20 :

 

Please read and send a link to friends:  

Is our Civilization Spilling from Below? ---A Subterranean Perspective on the Gulf Oil Spill  

Here's the link:

 http://jonathanzap.xanga.com/728960143/is-our-civilization-leaking-from-below/ 

You can hear a free online talk I gave on dreams, with extensive Q & A, at a Boulder group called "Evolver" which is also an online community with branches in many parts of the country.  Here's the link:http://www.archive.org/details/EvolverBoulderApril  There are a few ways to download, but the player in the upper right worked best for me. You'll hear a brief intro first, followed by a dog barking, followed by talk that gets more interesting as you go along. 


Explore the finanicial meltdown and its connection to psychopathy (the condition of being a psychopath):

Foxes and Reptiles---Psychopathy and the Financial Meltdown of 2008-9

 

(Vintage advertisement that unintentionally portrays the psychopath’s view of others.)

What connection does the movie Avatar have to 
emergent archetypes in the collective unconscious related to an evolutionary event horizon? 


New Video:  Two African American friends of mine
said they wanted to come over to my apartment in
the East Village and video tape me in 1985. I decided
to create my own religion for the occasion—the Sacred Tenets of the Religion of the UFO Eye Knight. I was an English Teacher and Building Security Coordinator of a public high school in the South Bronx
at the time and I got Galaxy, a graffiti artist I knew, to design the ID card and a rapper (I think with the 
Culture MCs) to write an official rap song for the religion. They knew nothing about the religion except its name.

 



This essay may change your view of
romantic relationships forever:

No Tristans Allowed Beyond this Point---Debunking and Transforming the Western Myth of Romantic Love

Testimonials:

Rob Brezsny,  author, visionary, and musician whose syndicated column appears in more than 200 newspapers says “My friend Jonathan Zap has created the Zap Oracle, a source you can use to do divinations for yourself. Because he has such a cagey, interesting, and holy mind, I trust the spirit behind his oracles."

Rob also endorses Jonathan's dream interpretation service.  In his weekly newsletter he wrote: 

"Jonathan Zap, Visionary Philosopher and Dream Worker Extraordinaire. The best dream worker I've ever known.

Over the years, I've had the pleasure of working on my dreams with some 
fine dream workers, but recently I discovered the best ever. His name is 
Jonathan Zap. 

Highly intuitive, schooled in the wisdom of archetypes, and really smart, 
Jonathan has helped me crack the codes of some of my major dreams. His 
cost is quite reasonable, too. I exuberantly recommend his services. 

(He's not even paying me to say this. I'm simply motivated by the desire 
to share his treasure with my readers.) "

It's been said that an uninterpreted dream is like an unread letter.  Click the teal colored orb to find out more about Jonathan Zap's dream interpretation service as well as I Ching readings, and Zap Oracle readings by the originator of the Zap Oracle.

Tima Vlasto, a free lance writer and translator from Athens, Greece  who writes a column for the Examinersays of the Zap Oracle:
  

"...it has been a more positively transformative experience for me than any other form of inner searching I have done…and I have done a lot! It unabashedly touches and presses on every wound, every bright light, every hidden corner, and in such blunt honesty, that at the moment it “speaks”, there is no way to not face, absorb, realize and embrace those shadows that block the “connection”…and confirms, so readily like a snapshot of the “matrix dynamics” at that moment, one’s intuition. It is a great oracle."


I've done three interviews with Mike Hagan/Radio Orbit now available for free download/streaming audio.  Add Radio Orbit to your favorites and listen to archived interviews with people like Alex Grey, Riane Eisler and John Jenkins. 

  

 

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Image background created by Radio Orbit from an actual photo of me siting on a very cooperative young bengal tiger in Colorado

Click the blue orb to see an extensive library of my writings.

Here are some examples:

Dynamic Paradoxicalism the anti-ism ism 
  Dynamic paradoxicalism is my attempt to create a meta-philosophy that is a counter to fundamentalist and absolutist thought, which is nearly as common amongst New Agers and the Left as it is among religious fundamentalists and the Right. 

About the creative process and my most autobiographical essay:

The Path of the Numinous---Living and Working with the Creative Muse  

Read a very brief essay: Resource Fluctuations Happen---Working with Scarcity and Abundance

A brief meditation on the space-time of incarnation:

 

Temporal Fencing and Life Fields

 

General advice on dealing with human incarnation: 

Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler

A sometimes surreal study of Burning Man:

Incendiary Person in the Desert Carnival Realm 

Alex Grey, Jonathan at Cosm  on the eve of the Solstice (2007) where many people got to try out the Zap Oracle. Visionary artistAlex Grey joined my last  Coast to Coast show with George Noory to talk about his mind parasite experiences. 

I've  written an article entitled Alex Grey and Mind Parasites  which analyzes Alex's encounter with parasitic deities and his painting "Demons and Deities Drinking from the Milky Pool" in which he illustrates his experience.

My introductory essay to the mind parasite topic:

Mind Parasites, Energy Parasites and Vampires


One definition of hell is, "The impossibility of reason."For twelve years I have watched my friend and colleague John Major Jenkins go through exactly this kind of hell as he pursued and published his rigorous investigation into the Maya and the meaning of 2012 while the barkers of Carnival 2012 have gotten most of the attention. Finally, a vindication, a N.Y. Times article that begins to do justice to the subject and which provides the perceptive reader with enough information to get a sense of who is to be taken seriously on this subject, and who isn't. As Carnival 2012 continues to gain momentum, you owe it to yourself to read this article:

The Final Days

 

 Related readings: Dreamspell Dialogue --a dialogue between John and I on Jose Arguelles's deceptive Dreamspell. A Trialogue with John Jenkins and Ron Lampert 2012: The Center of Time and MythosSome things I've written on the subject:

 

The Mutant versus the Machine, the end of the Iron Age, and the Galactic Alignment of 2012

 

Clock Time Metastisizes Toward 2012 

 

cowritten with John:

 

A Mutant Convergence--- How John Major Jenkins, Jonathan Zap and Terence McKenna met during a Weekend of High Strangeness in 1996 

 

And a travelogue of a journey we took through Mayan ruins: 

 

Vision at Chichén Itzá 

 

The following link is to my major work on what I call the "Singularity Archetype" and what I believe it has to say about the evolutionary event horizon we are hurtling toward.  I first wrote about this subject in a philosophy honors paper in 1978:    Archetypes of a New Evolution.   This updated treatment was first written in 1996 but has been very extensively rewritten and an epilogue has been added in 2009.

White Crows Rising---The Singularity Archetype and the Evolutionary Event Horizon


 

  Send your comments to jonathanzap@hotmail.com

     
 Parallel Journeys (an epic journey across dimensions) This is my attempt to express in fantasy fiction some real life experiences and a journey down the rabbit hole, a journey that is still continuing.

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Detail of 1996 Parallel Journeys Collage. The two black and white photos of me were taken by my father at age 8 and as a new born.  Image © Jonathan Zap 

Scroll down to read the quote of the day, it's actually more like the quote of the moment and can be viewed and interacted with as an oracle, since the quote you see was picked for you at the moment you signed on (and another will be picked if you hit refesh). 

Thank you to those who support this web site with donations.  Even small amounts of green energy help to allow the time and resources to further develop the oracle, to do research and to assemble the words and images, the zeros and ones,  comprising this site.  I am also deeply grateful to those who provide feedback and to everyone who graces this site with their precious time and attention.  I hope that you find benefit from your visit.   ----Jonathan   

   

The blue box at the bottom of this screen is your visitor number.  Though I didn't choose the birth time, the site became fully functional (with the Zap Oracle function coming on line) Halloween Eve of 2005. The webmaster is Mathael, Drew Stricker of Vaxination Designs created the site and is the graphics designer. Software engineer David Thomas wrote the code for the Versions 1.0 and 2.0 of the Zap Oracle and Mathael created Version 3.0 and later upgrades. Mathael also wrote the code for Theme Tracker.
 
 
 





 


 

 


 


Quote of the Day:

A warrior acknowledges his pain but he doesn't indulge in it. The mood of the warrior who enters into the unknown is not one of sadness; on the contrary, he's joyful because he feels humbled by his great fortune, confident that his spirit is impeccable, and above all, fully aware of his efficiency. A warrior's joyfulness comes from having accepted his fate, and from having truthfully assessed what lies ahead of him. ----Don Juan as reported by hoaxer and visionary genius Carlos Casteneda