The digital domain of Jonathan Zap

and home of the Zap Oracle

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Site News June 4, 2008 :

Many interesting new developments in my dialog on magic with Australian hermetic philosopher Harald Kleeman.  My most recent entry, just posted today is entitled, "Of Simulations, White Crows and Language Crystals"  Here's the link to the complete dialog: http://www.zaporacle.com/textpattern/article/151/magik-with-tears

Did you know that the Zap Oracle has almost 500 cards and that a free membership allows you to store all your readings?  The oracle now has a function unprecedented in the history of oracles called Theme Tracker which analyzes a single reading or all your readings for a date range you choose and graphs which of 46 archetypal themes are most ascendant in your interaction with the oracle.  Here's a sample new Zap


Oracle card:

Lights Through the Veil of Darkness
  text and photo © Jonathan Zap   466
Even in the midst of veils of darkness points of light may be seen. If you are open to them, you may notice moments of compassion amidst the noisy business of human transaction. There are moments when the world reveals its inner beauty and novelty and categories like good, bad, natural and artificial fall away as you behold the beauty of suchness, the implied magnificent precision of the whole phantasmagoria of light and dark forms coming at you throughout human incarnation. If you see only darkness then your vision is woefully incomplete. The scintillations of light all around may be offset more brilliantly by the surrounding veils of darkness.





Presently I'm working on an anthology of my writings entitled: A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler (not to be confused with the much smaller document with same name available on site).  I am working with a very talented editor, Austin Iredale, click on his name to find out more about his services.

My interview with Mike Hagan/Radio Orbit on Monday Jan. 7th now available for free download/streaming audio. Go to  Radio Orbit to hear two earlier archived interviews.  Add Radio Orbit to your favorites and listen to archived interviews with people like Alex Grey, Riane Eisler and John Jenkins.  Many new entries in my dialogue on magic and manifestation with Australian Hermetic philosopher Harald Kleeman see Magik with Tears.

 

My friend Rob Brezsny (freewillastrology.com) featured some quotations from my writings in a recent newsletter.  Here are the quotes he picked and some others:  Zap Quotes

Click on the red orb to view my latest blog.

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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

Struggling with money and other resources?  Read Resource Fluctuations Happen---Working with Scarcity and Abundance

Just wrote a brief meditation on the space-time of incarnation: Temporal Fencing and Life Fields

I've been working recently on a new philosophy:  Dynamic Paradoxicalism and would love to get your feedback on it. 

Many, many more writings available in the writing section (blue orb), use the colored orbs above to navigate to the various sections of the site.

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 meaining 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-- it is well worth the extra minute to register for free:

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 Mythos Some 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  

Please note: Guestbook entries closed due to excess spaming.  Send your comments to jonathanzap@hotmail.com

Alex Grey, Jonathan at Cosm  on the eve of the Solstice (2007) where many people got to try out the Zap Oracle. Visionary artist Alex 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 dieties and his painting "Demons and Dieties Drinking from the Milky Pool" in which he illustrates his experience.

Rob Brezny (freewillastrology.com), whose column appears in 140 newspapers , described Jonathan Zap as a "Visionary Philosopher and Dream Worker Extraordinaire." In his Free Will Astrology Newsletter he wrote:

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 uread 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.

 The quote of the day function (at the bottom of this page) has been upgraded, so that it can now be used as an oracle.  There are hundreds of new quotes, and every time you sign onto the site (or hit refresh) a new quote is picked, so you can use it as a Chinese Fortune Cookie type oracle, but with absolutely no risk of MSG consumption.

     
 
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.

;Self Portrait
  black and white copy of Parallel Journeys collage copyright Jonathan Zap  

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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 and or purchases of DVDs and services.  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.   Mathael is still working on the oracle and major changes are in process.




Quote of the Day:

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. Colton