Some Thoughts on Human Sexuality © 2003, Jonathan Zap Revised 2008   Edited by Austin Iredale Recently, I was called on to comment on a document that attempted, with the best intentions, to come up with a conscious, inclusive, reformed approach to human sexuality. Although there were many good things in this document, I began to have a strong reaction when I noticed that there was an attempt to create a softer-edged template, a model of romantic relationships that emphasized long-term committed relationships. Although my personal bias favors long-term committed relationships, I found that in reaction to the document I ended up going on a rant against the well-intentioned impulse to regularize human sexuality and conduct. My rant, written at high speed, had a life of its own, and the finished product was more of a personal discourse than something that could be ...

collage and text   ©Jonathan Zap You You. I know you. I saw you survive red flames twisting glass and steel burning the dry night air. Saw the heat of greedy fingers on the smooth skin of your youth as you splintered into fragments of light glittering through the dark suction of tunnels spiraling upward to entrance threshold intensity. I saw you and I saw every particle of sand on your naked skin as you awakened in desert night, spirit drawing back into wounded flesh and rousing itself into mosaic perceptions of reptiles, cactus spines, red rock, stars. I saw you, you with the will to survive and to glow upon the open mesa, tendrils of light penetrating the minds of strangers, penetrating me. You. You that awakens me and walks through the alleys and streets of empty cities to stand beside roads as I drive by and ...

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 by pornography, those who view sex as reducible to concrete actions on the genital level, and those most attracted to the human form ...

Born Under a Blood Red Moon Metamorphosis of the Feminine in the Dreams of Young Women © 2006, 2008  Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale A young woman I know sent me a dream with themes that resonate with the dreams of other young women I have interpreted, and now I wish  I had written down more of them, because so many of their dreams were powerful and illuminating of the state of the feminine after six thousand years of patriarchal history. In this essay I will discuss what I have learned from these dreams and from other cultural observations.  I will conclude with analysis of two  dreams, including the one from this young woman. The most consistent theme these dreams expose is the toxicity of promiscuous patriarchal sexuality.  Jung often used the word enantiodromia, a term he got from the Greek philosopher, ...

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STOP THE HOTTIE ! Copyright 2004 Jonathan Zap Stop the Hottie! The title, Stop the Hottie, and the writing that follows were largely determined by a synchronicity that happened in the last hour. I was walking in the parking lot of King Soopers, the setting Colorado sun illuminated everything in an orangey-yellow light that made every complexion, every hub cap, glow with the glamour of Boulder high dessert mountain town orangey-yellow sunset lighting. Metal flake paint on the late model SUVs sparkled like fairy dust. Even King Soopers itself seemed imbued with a larger than life all-American vitality, as if it were seen through the eyes of a Hudson River School painter while Aaron Copeland’s Appalachian Spring played in the background. I had just left a friend’s basement, the lighting in there was terrible, but he provided me with something that enhanced my appreciation of colors and turned the ...

Some Thoughts on Human Sexuality © 2003, Jonathan Zap Revised 2008 Edited by Austin Iredale Recently, I was called on to comment on a document that attempted, with the best intentions, to come up with a conscious, inclusive, reformed approach to human sexuality. Although there were many good things in this document, I began to have a strong reaction when I noticed that there was an attempt to create a softer-edged template, a model of romantic relationships that emphasized long-term committed relationships. Although my personal bias favors long-term committed relationships, I found that in reaction to the document I ended up going on a rant against the well-intentioned impulse to regularize human sexuality and conduct. My rant, written at high speed, had a life of its own, and the finished product was more of a personal discourse than something that could be considered actual feedback. The ...

When Worlds Don’t Necessarily Collide---- Orbiting with Planet Hottie ©2005 Jonathan Zap Another star in the galaxy of souls, one out of the six or seven billion Swarming across this rotating, orbiting ball in space, Comes spinning into my trajectory, And we converge, For a time we form a binary orbit, Weak and strong forces push and pull, We exert tidal forces on each other--- My weather changes, but so does yours. You are a planet orbiting with me, the other. And you have spin and counter spin, But then, so do I. Your planet is still a young world, The cells of your planet have fewer transcription errors, And are juicier than those of planets just a few years older. Your cells coalesce in a way that creates topographical symmetry and glow, A curvilinear tautness, And from the horizon of my world you seem iridescent, opalescent, prismatic, shimmering and scintillating, sparkly and all attractive. Astronomers on my world call such a ...

Other Intentions -----What are my/your intentions toward the other? photos and text © 2007, Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale Someone recently asked me to state what my intentions were in relating to them.  What a great question, if only it were asked and answered more often and more honestly!  Sometimes we question the intentions of others, but forget to question our own mixed intentions, which are even more important for us to recognize and acknowledge.  So consider reading this document a propitious time to be asking yourself about your intentions to the other. What follows will be all the more powerful if you commit your own answer to writing. To start the process off I am going to share my intentions toward the other. (By “other,” I mean someone we are connected to by inner ties, ...