Beauty in the Eye of the Phase Shifter © 2006, 2008 Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale (On May 31 of 1996, a morning of intense intuitions drastically changed my view of corporeality, beauty, sexuality, and eros. This experience is described in "The Path of the Numinous" and the intuitions of that morning are developed in "The Glorified Body---Metamorphosis of the Body and the Crisis Phase of Human Evolution,” and that work serves as a foundation for the present reflections. In writing the following reflection, I use the pronoun “we,” by which I mean “me,” but also the many others who have parallel feelings. There are some for whom the experience of beauty may be quite different, especially those who have been conditioned ...

Adhesions and the Timelines of the Unconscious © 2006 by Jonathan Zap   revised  2008 Edited by Austin Iredale The following is a slightly adapted journal entry, and when I write for myself I tend to do so in a highly dense manner, but I hope this will still be accessible because it relates to a phenomenon that affects most of our lives.  Emotionally intense experiences, life phases, and relationships, tend to form timelines that continue in the unconscious, and sometimes these alternate timelines can enrich the soul, and other times they can divert massive amounts of psychic energy away from our being fully engaged with the present. Last night’s dream was a variation on a dream I have had many times before, where ...

March Forth! ---A March 4th Mutant Manifesto © 2006 Jonathan Zap March Forth! March Forth! Mutant Warriors! March Forth! and cast off the shackles of wage slave bondage, the mind parasite tentacles, the multi-heart attack drunken vice presidents with loaded shot guns, the mustachioed police troopers ready to pump 9 mm holes in alleged perpetrators of victimless crimes, the Abercrombie and Finch hottie torsos beckoning you into retail adventurism, the five dollar lattes and gallons of dinosaur juice, the social sqwuackers and vidiot slackers, March Forth! and assert your multiverse-given right to non-monotonous incarnation, your right to shatter Babylon McMatrix into other worlds than these, your right to phase and shape-shift at will, your right to shatter a ...

The following was sent to me by Dawoud , a genuinely spiritual Sufi/Muslim Imam in response to parts one and two.  I met Dawoud at Alex Grey's CoSM and was impressed by his presence and perspective. © 2006 Dawoud and Jonathan Zap (from Dawoud:) Peace; I read the blog you posted on your website. While there is a great deal in it that is beyond dispute (for which you have earned my respect), I must admonish you for your shortsightedness and limited vision in the matter of the religion of Islam. Frankly, I expect better of someone who is skilled in dream interpretation, and has had a glimpse of the Other Side. Before I begin, I must make clear that what I am writing is from an Islamic perspective ...

W's Victory is Actually Good News! Copyright 2004 by Jonathan Zap Yes, like most of you, like all of you who have any hope of remaining on my email mailing list, I felt upset about the election news.  I felt like someone looking forward to four years of chemotherapy with a prognosis of agonizing death, felt like a 100 year old coal miner with sever rheumatoid arthritis approaching a four year shift in the coals mines after a breaksfast of cold gruel, felt like I had been hit in the chest with a depleted uranium canon ball the size of a Death Star. But then, about sixty seconds ago, I realized what a blessing in disguise this really is.  All my life I have expected ...

From Jonathan Zap To John M Jenkins Sent July 23, 2003 . . . By the way, I forget to tell you about my encounters with Dreamspell at the gathering. All of the Dreamspell practitioners I ran into were very receptive when I told them that it was an interesting oracular system but shouldn't be presented as "Mayan" since it is more an artifact of José than of the Maya or their calender that is still being kept to this day. I directed them to your website and told them about the online book available there . On one occassion though, I ran into a Dreamspell honcho who was trying to make a big impression at the gathering. He got rather irate and said that Dreamspell is based on an authentic "wizard count" that José was initiated into by "Mayan Elders." ...

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Part II Dialogue on Mythos with Ron Lampi   Copyright 2006 Lampi and Zap If you didn't already read it, begin with Part One 1/23/06 (Ron's reply) Okay, we have gotten to some exciting and essential insights here. In many ways, we are on the same page at this point; to much of what you wrote this last time I could only say Yes, Yes, Yes. You see it does take some discussion to get to the essential notion of The Mythos. Certain assumptions, knee-jerk reactions, preconceptions have to be sifted through. You made the point well: the new Mythos is not another mold-stamping meme to cage us up like those we've known from the past. Side note: ...

2012, the Center of Time and Mythos with John Major Jenkins and Ron Lampi   Last Entry on 1/22/06  For more recent entries go to Part II Copyright 2006 Zap, Jenkins, Lampi (The first entry,  sent by me to JMJ is very, very dense, a telegraphic style of communicating ideas to someone with whom I have had years of dialogue. Subsequent entries are less dense and more readable, but there is a lot of meaning in this one, if you can decipher it. The Lampi dialogue is much more readable throughout. ) Hey John, Right near the end of listening to the show (John’s 12/27/05 interview with George Noory on Coast-to-Coast AM)  time a woman said something ...