Looking Toward the Event Horizon---The Singularity Archetype and the Metamorphosis of the Species © Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale (This article was published in Australian Magazine New Dawn on December 1st, 2008, and is reproduced here with their permission). Through a Glass Darkly When we talk about the future we attempt to look, through a glass darkly, at a landscape that is unknown and unformed. Prophecy is a notoriously tricky and unreliable enterprise. Many people who have sought to look through that dark glass have seen images that were distorted reflections of themselves---of their hopes, fears and expectations. If there is a universal theme in the visions of prophets it is the prediction that extremely dramatic events will occur within ...

Consider this my pre-election special. You probably already know that after months of intensive lobbying by the McCain and Obama campaigns the coveted zaporacle.com endorsement has gone to Barak Obama.  For more on the present political situation and why Real People suck please read the following. Real People Suck: An Imaginary Person’s Manifesto © 2008, Jonathan Zap Elitist Imaginary Person and World Government Federation Chairman, Jonathan Zap “Real food for Real People.” ----Ad slogan for Nutrisystem, a company that sends pre-packaged diet foods to subscribers through the mail. (What Real Food looks like.) Teal People at ...

How Others See You text © Jonathan Zap photo of Jonathan copyright 2007, AOB How Others See You How do others see you? One answer is that they often see you through a glass darkly. Sometimes what they see in the dark glass is a distorted reflection of themselves which is projected onto you. Some people will project their shadow onto you, the parts of themselves they don't accept and may consider inferior or unwanted. Other people may project onto you their soul, or the unintegrated masculine or feminine side of their being, or other aspects of themselves which will cause you to light up in their psyches with an idealized glow. Still others may see you empathically and see aspects of you more clearly than ...

My friend Rob Brezsny asked me to pick out some quotations from my writings that he could feature in his newsletter.  I did, but most of the ones he came up with were ones he found himself.  Here’s an excerpt from his newsletter, followed by the quotes that I came up with.  I’ve always had a weakness for quotations.  Here’s one of my favorites: “I hate quotations.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter JANUARY 9, 2008 FreeWillAstrology.com "You have everything you need in the present situation to work with impeccability. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't work toward manifesting additional resources and opportunities. It does mean that the present situation supplies you with everything ...

Imagine Getting More (Zap Oracle Card # 332)   copyright 2007, Jonathan Zap 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. The carrot, the “more”, that ever glitters in your mind’s eye like a ring of power, could be many things-----sex, money, power, fame, looks----often the imagined more is a vision of that more perfected life just up ahead, the one in which you have realized your ideal weight, made your first hundred million, and ...

Left Off Balance copyright 2001, Jonathan Zap ( An email rant I wrote just after 9-11, but seems just as relevant today.)   (unfortunately the document has some lame formating I can't get rid of, perhaps the Bush administration is responsible?) Before I get into why I believe that most of my friends on the left are off balanced and one-sided in their world view, the issue happening right now that I join them in being acutely concerned about is the bill before the Congress right now entitled the "Patriot Act" that would allow greater government ability to invade our privacy and ...

Alex Grey and Mind Parasites by  Jonathan Zap © 2006 (The following derives from a discussion I had with Alex Grey in 2005.) Alex (left) and Jonathan at Cosm in NYC ( The cover design comes from a pen and ink drawing I made when I was seventeen entitled, "Parasites.") Alex was in a loft in Boston where a colleague of Timothy Leary had given a bunch of people, most of them quite inexperienced, LSD.  Alex had also taken LSD. The social environment of Alex’s trip was extremely chaotic----some people were laughing uncontrollably, some were vomiting, some were groping other people, and there was no one who was managing the chaos.  Alex began to have an out-of-body experience, found himself hovering above the weirdness of what was going on in the loft.  On some different plane he saw ...

Have you ever felt that the world might be your dream, felt alienated, set apart from others, overwhelmed at times by your inner thought process?  If you have, then you may find Dostoevsky and the Profound Egocentric , written when I was just nineteen years old, to be very relevant to your inner experience.  My adult consciousness began with the writing of this paper, but it wasn’t until the following year, when I was twenty, that I connected the psychological state of profound egocentrism with an evolutionary model, and recognized its connection to the  dawning of a  new mode of consciousness and communication (see Archetypes of a New Evolution) . In The Path of the Numinous I describe the origins of ...

Energy Sappers © 2006 by Jonathan Zap The phenomenon of “energy sappers,” of people who are energy drainers, is well known to many from real life experience.  The most insightful discussion of the subject I have to date encountered is in Breakthrough to Creativity, a wonderful book on parapsychology which was copyrighted in 1967 by Shafica Karagulla, MD. By an odd non coincidence, Dr. Karagulla was George Noory’s (of Coast -to-Coast AM fame) aunt.  Unfortunately, Dr. Karagulla’s life was cut short by a car accident and we lost a leading pioneer in parapsychological research. The discussion of “energy sappers” is to be found in a chapter entitled, “Energy Fields Around Human Beings.” Dr. Karagulla summarizes the testimony of ...