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 and worked with troubled youth as the Dean of a South Bronx High School. As a wilderness guide, Jonathan has led inner city kids and other young people on expeditions to remote desert canyons and to the summit of Mount Rainer. (See Crossing the Great Stream—Education and the Evolving Selfpublished in Holistic Education Review for more on his experiences in education.)

Jonathan is the author of The Glorified Body, The Capsule of Intentionality, A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler, Parallel Journeys among many other works. He was recently featured in two DVDs—-Prophecy and the “End of Time”—a dialog between Jonathan and Mayan scholar John Major Jenkins about the nature of prophecy and the 2012 end date among other topics, and Looking Toward the Event Horizon in which Jonathan discusses his research into the metamorphosis of the human species.

Jonathan has done numerous radio interviews including two recent three hour interviews on Coast to Coast AM—the world’s most listened to late night talk show. Alex Grey joined him in the most recent interview.

Jonathan has an extensive background in Jungian psychology, paranormal research and dream interpretation. For twenty-eight years he has been using the tools of Jungian psychology to study popular culture, contemporary mythology, and dreams for evidence that we are getting signals from the collective unconscious about the nature of a quantum evolutionary event approaching the human species.

Jonathan currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.

Anyway, that’s the dry recitation of resume like facts expected in a bio section in which it is impossible to recognize anything resembling a human being. My most autobiographical work is The Path of the Numinous where you can find a slightly more fleshed out version of some of the factoids listed above.

Some more photos follow:

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