Imagine Getting More (Zap Oracle Card # 332)   copyright 2007, Jonathan Zap One of the most potent of spells or enchantments that can bind you into the matrix is to live under the compulsion of always having to imagine getting more in the future.  Under this spell you become a donkey forever hypnotized by an imaginary carrot just up ahead. The carrot, the “more”, that ever glitters in your mind’s eye like a ring of power, could be many things-----sex, money, power, fame, looks----often the imagined more is a vision of that more perfected life just up ahead, the one in which you have realized your ideal weight, made your first hundred million, and ...

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 ...

Alex Grey and Mind Parasites by  Jonathan Zap © 2006 (The following derives from a discussion I had with Alex Grey in 2005.) Alex (left) and Jonathan at Cosm in NYC ( The cover design comes from a pen and ink drawing I made when I was seventeen entitled, "Parasites.") Alex was in a loft in Boston where a colleague of Timothy Leary had given a bunch of people, most of them quite inexperienced, LSD.  Alex had also taken LSD. The social environment of Alex’s trip was extremely chaotic----some people were laughing uncontrollably, some were vomiting, some were groping other people, and there was no one who was managing the chaos.  Alex began to have an out-of-body experience, found himself hovering above the weirdness of what was going on in the loft.  On some different plane he saw ...

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 ...

Energy Sappers © 2006 by Jonathan Zap The phenomenon of “energy sappers,” of people who are energy drainers, is well known to many from real life experience.  The most insightful discussion of the subject I have to date encountered is in Breakthrough to Creativity, a wonderful book on parapsychology which was copyrighted in 1967 by Shafica Karagulla, MD. By an odd non coincidence, Dr. Karagulla was George Noory’s (of Coast -to-Coast AM fame) aunt.  Unfortunately, Dr. Karagulla’s life was cut short by a car accident and we lost a leading pioneer in parapsychological research. The discussion of “energy sappers” is to be found in a chapter entitled, “Energy Fields Around Human Beings.” Dr. Karagulla summarizes the testimony of ...

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 ...