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 over ride our rights. I despise the name of this bill as propagandistic psy-ops type bullshit. Think of the implication of anyone being against the "Patriot Act." We should focus on that bill like laser beams, but ...

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 this paper as follows: When I was about fourteen years old I woke up ...

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 - but not the Islamic perspective you are accustomed to. I append this caveat because I am the embodiment of a great many human ...

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." and that José has an "obsidian staff." ( ...

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: Your "communion wafer with imbedded integrated circuits" immediately reminded me of my poem "Silicon Wafer" written in 1988. The first line ...

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 about an “article on the aging of God.”  That odd subject was never fully explained, but the ‘aging of God’ phrase immediately sent ...

READ PART I FIRST CLICK HERE Projection----the Enemy of Peace and Justice---Part II copyright Jonathan Zap, 2005 There was an implication stated at the dinner that “the media distorts the situation,” no mention of who it distorts in favor of, but an apparent assumption that political correctness made that unnecessary to spell out,  that, of course, all media distortions must be in Israel’s favor.  The media distorts all sorts of things and in all sorts of directions.  Some major media venues in this country are owned by Saudi Arabia which also has the intimate backing of the Bush administration. Some have pointed out that media reports of suicide bombings in this country often give more sympathetic treatment to the bombers than their victims.  For example in February of 2002 CNN’s web site mentioned the “killing of two Israelis” by a suicide bomber.  The bomber was identified, ...

Projection---the Enemy of Peace and Justice Part I copyright 2005 by Jonathan Zap photo copyright 2000 by Jonathan Zap This essay came into being in a strange way.  At the time I wrote this I worked for a non profit, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, and recently I attended a dinner they put on, and heard some one who is part of their International Collective (RMPJC is an umbrella organization with many separate components) speak about an international issue from a point of view that I found dangerously one-sided.  I began to think about writing an email to the staff on this subject and found the creative muse pushing me with incredible force toward that.  (for more on how the muse works in me and in others see The Path of the Numinous).  While I was brainstorming about the document I would compose, I ...

The Philosopher's Assassin—A Heads Up from the Collective Unconsious? © Jonathan Zap. August 2004. Someone brought me a dream for interpretation a couple of days ago that seems to resonate with the uneasy feelings I have about the time interval that begins now, the time of the Republican convention, and that continues into the upcoming presidential election and its aftermath. Dreams, as Jung demonstrated, are not necessarily manifestations of the personal unconscious—they may also be manifestations of the collective unconscious, dreams of the body politic. When Jung was working as a pyschoanalyst in the Weimar Republic (pre WWII Germany) he noticed that his educated, highly civilized German patients were dreaming about Wotan, a war god. The phenomenon was so striking that he called it "Wotanism" and understood that there was a war-like spirit, a "blonde beast" growing in the German unconscious that ...