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. In this version I have corrected a couple of factual errors in my recounting of the novel Childhood's End). 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 their own lifetimes. The authors of the book of ...
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Avatar and the Singularity Archetype ©2010 by Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale What is the Singularity Archetype? Some of the most significant layers of meaning in Avatar are not to be found in the articles available on the web that discuss its underlying mythology, at least from what I’ve read. Avatar is charged with emergent archetypal messages from the collective unconscious that relate to an evolutionary event horizon which I’ve discussed in my writings on “the Singularity Archetype.” The Singularity Archetype, a term I coined many years ago, is a primordial image of an evolutionary event horizon that seems to be an implicit potentiality glowing in the collective unconscious of our species. I first wrote about the Singularity Archetype (though I didn’t use the term at the time) in an undergraduate philosophy honors paper I wrote in ...
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 ...
Parallel Journeys Part II copyright Jonathan Zap > black and white photo of Parallel Journeys Collage----copyright Jonathan Zap IX Slowly, I spiraled downward in the quirky darkness of the duck’s mind, and as I descended the speed of my rotations accelerated, like water spinning down a drain. When I reached the epicenter of the duck’s mind I plummeted downward, like a snowball tossed into an elevator shaft. Instead of hitting the bottom of anything, I crossed the threshold of the new reality and found myself shooting upward like a rocket in the star dappled heavens of a new world. Unlike the skimpy universe I had tumbled in previously, this seemed to be a proper universe with a rich array of stars and nebulae. And I was not just tumbling either, I had a powerful upward trajectory and in the vacuum of outer space there was nothing ...
The Glorified Body—-Metamorphosis of The Body and the Crisis Phase of Human Evolution—–article
The metabolism of our species is reaching a feverish intensity as we approach an evolutionary event horizon. One symptom of this feverish metamorphosis is our mutating relationship to body. Suffering associated with body image has reached such epidemic proportions in our culture that it must be counted as one of the greatest spiritual plagues ever to be visited upon mankind. Media bombards us unceasingly with images of ever more idealized youth and beauty while vast portions of our population undergo voluntary starvation, grueling exercise regimens and surgery in an effort to control their body image. Attempts to control body image often result in collapsing self-esteem, intense suffering and premature death through self-imposed famine. The temptation is to view body image problems as an isolated illness, rather than a phenomenon that points right to the core of our evolutionary predicament. What from one vantage seems an illness ...
Mind Parasites, Energy Parasites and Vampires Theory and Authentic First Hand Narratives of Encounters with Mind Parasites and Vampires © 2006, Jonathan Zap Revised 2008 Edited by Austin Iredale ( The cover design comes from a pen and ink drawing I made when I was seventeen entitled, "Parasites.") "Are you willing to look at the feeders?" And suddenly I wasn't so sure if I was willing. I sensed the edge of the abyss, but I knew my life only allowed for one possible answer and I willed myself to say, "Yes." "Then look down." I looked down and saw that which unraveled me for several long heartbeats before I was willing to let what my eyes scanned enter my mind. Attached to my body, coming from my body, through my body, was a broken lattice of dark filaments, undulating filaments like a broken spider web spun of black silk, moving chaotically like ...
THE CAPSULE OF INTENTIONALITY A Warrior’s Tool and Field Guide for Journeying into the Strange Wilderness of a New Millennium © 1996, 2004 by Jonathan Zap 1. Introduction: Application for Human Incarnation Application for Human Incarnation. A Special Message from the Author. Who the Capsule of Intentionality is for. The Secret of Life. Chapter 2. "Get Real"—Facing the Darkness and Challenge of the Human Condition Dazed and Confused. The Industrial Crucifixion. Take the Pain. Don't let go of the Rope. An Authentic and Viable Way to Face Human Suffering. Chapter 3. The Capsule of Intentionality—A Core Ritual System with Two Levels The Capsule of Intentionality as a Physical Object. Level One—The Mission Statement. Living With The Capsule of Intentionality. Level Two—Daily Mission Parameters Chapter 4. The Way of the Warrior—An Authentic Life Stance with Heart What is a Warrior? Don Juan's Philosophy of Being a Warrior. The Shambala Warrior Teachings. The Cocoon. Fear. Emotions —The Mindfulness ...
The Mutant Versus The Machine: The End of the Iron Age and the Galactic Alignment of 2012 © 2004, 2008 Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale The Equinox party at the Circle A Ranch---a communal living situation created by young anarchists at the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado---was a magical nexus for me, one of those zones of heightened synchronicity where many threads of the great tapestry wove together into a pattern recognizable, even revelatory. With a luck that felt almost uncanny, the unpredictable lottery of high desert weather had produced a glorious winner. The first day of spring turned out to be a preview of summer, and the unexpected warmth of the evening felt almost like an enchantment, an invitation into mystery. The ...
Clock Time Metastasizing Toward 2012 © 2004, 2008 Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. And not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections; not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time". ---Meister Eckart . (c. 1260–c. 1328) Eagerly awaiting 2012 feels like hurrying toward tranquility. We are beset with time sickness, and the reset of that orientation is not to be found in time, but beyond time. In his book, The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley points out that the religions and political philosophies that are framed in linear time are the ...
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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul had gradually been turned into a Navareth from which nothing good can come. Therefore let us fetch it from the four corners of the earth the more far-fetched and bizarre it is the better! –
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