No Tristans Allowed Beyond This Point---- Debunking the Western Myth of Romantic Love © 2010 Jonathan Zap “Romantic love is the single greatest energy system in the Western Psyche. In our culture it has supplanted religion as the arena in which men and women seek meaning, transcendence, wholeness, and ecstasy.” ----from We by Robert Johnson Western romance mythology centers around being in love as an ecstatic state in which we feel we have been completed, found the ultimate meaning in life, and have larger than life feelings of intensity. Unconsciously we have the expectation that our lover provide us with these feelings continuously. We also assume that our model of romance is the best and that love relationships not based on “being in love” must be pale, insignificant shadows by comparison. We are convinced of this despite all the evidence that tells us that few enterprises, ...
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New free streaming video: This is part 2 start with Dialogues about Prophecy and the End of Time below Looking Toward the Event Horizon Jonathan Zap, interviewed by John Major Jenkins recorded August, 2004 by Lost Arts Media---two hours, part two of this four hour presentation. Jonathan Zap discusses evolutionary changes currently underway and what the “singularity archetype” indicates about the evolutionary event horizon we are approaching. Topics include evidence that a more visual and telepathic mode of consciousness and communication is developing, the mind parasite phenomenon, and suggestions on how to thrive during a time of greatly accelerated change. Part one of two Part two of two
New: Free Streaming Video Dialogues on Prophecy and the End of Time Jonathan Zap and John Major Jenkins recorded August, 2004 by Lost Arts Media Two hours. This is part one of a four hour presentation. Among many other topics, Jonathan Zap talks about the psychology of prophecy and why prophecies are almost always wrong about time frames. Prophecy and the idea of an end time are examined from the perspective of Jungian psychology and the “singularity archetype” is introduced. John Major Jenkins (author of nine books on the Maya) talks about the Mayan calendar and his discoveries about the meaning of 2012 and the cycle of galactic alignment recognized by a number of cultures. (Note there are a few seconds of dark blue screen lead in before the opening credits.) Part one of two Part two of two
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 poem for the religion. They knew nothing about the religion except its name. Part Two
Avatar and the Singularity Archetype ©2010 by Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale What is the Singularity Archetype? Some of the most significant layers of meaning in Avatar are not to be found in the articles available on the web that discuss its underlying mythology, at least from what I’ve read. Avatar is charged with emergent archetypal messages from the collective unconscious that relate to an evolutionary event horizon which I’ve discussed in my writings on “the Singularity Archetype.” The Singularity Archetype, a term I coined many years ago, is a primordial image of an evolutionary event horizon that seems to be an implicit potentiality glowing in the collective unconscious of our species. I first wrote about the Singularity Archetype (though I didn’t use the term at the time) in an undergraduate philosophy honors paper I wrote in ...
An Interdimensional Traveler's Codex © 2009 Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale Interdimensional Traveler Collage © Jonathan Zap It is before dawn and I only just awoke from sleeping, dreaming a variety of absurd things. A pathetic robot, sort of like a rickety torso on a skateboard. I was sending it down a grassy hill, but I knew that it didn’t have the horsepower to make it back up the hill, and I gradually became aware that I was creating this pathetic situation. This was just a haphazard little reality my bored psyche was generating for its amusement, a boy with a box of crayons on a rainy afternoon. So I left the robot to coast, and withdrew into a darkened space unbound ...
Tags: Babylon Matrix, Interdimensional
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 /> self portrait age 14 or 15 (with Alex Grey at Cosm in New York City) Jonathan Zap grew up in the Bronx and attended the Bronx High School of Science. He graduated from Ursinus College with honors in Philosophy and English and received his Masters degree in English from NYU. Jonathan is a photographer, author, teacher, paranormal researcher and philosopher who has written extensively on human evolution and contemporary mythology. Jonathan has worked as a staff gemologist and instructor for the Gemological Institute of America. He has taught English in High School and College ...
Challenging Thoughts on Love © 1999 Jonathan Zap Revised 2009 Edited by Austin Iredale Many people seem to view love as a feeling, and in New Age circles love often seems like a dose of aromatherapy, a passive, sentimentalized, set of hollow declarations that leaves a saccharine, toxic aftertaste, like eating Rose Bouquet Air Wick Solid for dessert. What many people have pointed out is that love is not so much a feeling it is as a verb. If you have love, that means you take action. As someone once pointed out, if you want to find out what you really love, notice what you spend time on. Anyone can say they love their kids, or in their absence have a Kodak moment ...
Tags: Eros: Love and Sexuality
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One man Dale Carnegie interviewed, who was a CEO or captain of industry of some sort, found that he was bombarded by memos and calls from people of the, “What should we do about the xyz problem?” sort. He solved this by asking his staff to format all their memos in the following way:
1. What is the problem? 2. What is the cause of the problem? 3. What are all possible solutions to the problem? 4. What solution do you suggest?
