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." ...

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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: ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

These three little stories, which were written in one sitting as notebook sketches, were composed around 1990 when I was teaching at public high school in Long Island New York . Three Stories Copyright 1990, Jonathan Zap Smoke “Life sucks.”  Marc said in a flat, quiet voice while passing a joint to his friend, Andrew.  It was late August and the two boys were reclining on the slopping walls of dusty grass and tangled weeds leading to the bottom of the sump where they frequently went to smoke. “You always say that.” said Andrew “Because it’s true.” replied Marc. There wasn’t much that could be added to this since they both felt it ...

This story, a fragmentary take on the life of a home boy, was written in the Eighties when I knew a lot about that subject as I was teaching in the South Bronx .  This place and time was ground zero for the hip-hop explosion.  Grand Master Flash came from my high school, and I was especially close to some of the more talented graffiti writers.  I knew Keith Haring and the Fun Gallery was right across the street from where I lived in the East Village so I was able to help some get their work shown.    This story was published in Long Shot (http://www.longshot.org/), a literary journal edited by my friend and fellow teacher in the South Bronx , Danny Shot.  Allen Ginsberg, who lived a block away ...

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 ...