THE GLORIFIED BODY Metamorphosis of The Body and the Evolutionary Event Horizon copyright 2005 by Jonathan Zap > "Glad Day" by William Blake (Note: this is the article form of what was originally a book proposoal.  The Glorified Body book proposal contains some important information that is not presented here.  You could read this as an introduction and then skip the similar overview in the book proposal and read the remaining sections.  To find out what inspired this writing, and why it remained a book proposal read The Path of the Numinous ) 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. ...

The first time I ever photographed an I Ching coin toss caught a coin landing on its edge  photo copyright Jonathan Zap " Synchronicity " is a term that was coined by C.G. Jung in the 1940s after some dinner conversations with Einstein.  Jung defined synchronicity as an "an acausal connecting principle." In other words, synchronicity describes relationships that are not mediated by cause and effect, but instead have an acausal parallelism. Jung was searching for a way to account for those uncanny, completely improbable "coincidences" (assumption of randomness) where something from the inner life and something from the outer world would "synch up." For example, Jung reccounts an incident that occurred when he was treating a woman patient.  This woman, according to Jung, was blocked from progressing in her psychoanalytical treatment because she tried to apply a superficial ...

Some Things to Consider Before Dream Interpretation © 2000 Jonathan Zap The phrase, “dream interpretation,” can be somewhat misleading.  From my point of view dreams are not puzzles awaiting solution, but life experiences.  Dream interpretation is at least as subjective and limiting as “life interpretation.”  It would probably be meaningless, for example, to attempt an interpretation of what you did last Tuesday.  But on some Tuesday there could be a dramatic episode of the sort that would later become a frequently repeated story or anecdote. These dramatic episodes could be subject to interpretations such as, “That certainly taught me never to believe that people are who they say they are.”  Similarly, most of the dreams that people bring for dream interpretation are dramatic episodes where insistent meanings are ...

The Way of the Warrior: An Authentic Life Stance with Heart © 1996, 2009 by Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale WHAT IS A WARRIOR? Being an interdimensional traveler involves an arduous journey, and the stance that I recommend for this journey is that of the Warrior. Why is being a Warrior important, and what is meant by being a Warrior anyway? Language is so often a barrier to understanding. The word, " Warrior ," for example, presents many problems. Sometimes the best available word has a shadow, a dark area of connotations that may be alien or even contradictory to what we are trying to convey. If we want to convey the possibility of a more effective focus in our lives, the word "discipline" comes to mind. But "discipline" can also mean to punish, and our Puritan heritage gives the word an ...

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I had to exchange media with my friend Mica of Mind Temple Productions who is working on a documentary with me, Logos Beheld, (about my theories about evolution and visual communication) and he was setting up to do the music and lighting for a film wrap party or something like that, and he invited me to stay, and out of politeness I did, not expecting to stay for long. But I found myself involved in interesting conversation with a young ethnobotanist named Evan, and while this conversation unfolded I noticed that Mica, who was spinning records, and John, a drummer, were in a egoless mind meld of flawless musical virtuosity. I already knew that Mica was a master at matching beats and flowing musically with the energy of rave or club, but John, who I had never met before, was obviously one of the best ...

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 ...

Introduction to the I Ching/ Some Things to Consider Before Getting an I Ching Reading by Jonathan Zap What is the I Ching? The I Ching is an ancient Chinese oracle between five and six thousand years old. Its exact origins are lost in the mists of time as no written record has been discovered that can tell us of its earliest development. The I Ching is considered the world's oldest book, far older than the earliest books of the Bible. The I Ching is more central to Eastern culture than the Bible is to Western culture. For example, the following are based on the I Ching: Taoism, Yin/Yang, T'ai Chi, Kung Fu, Feng Shui, the Tao Te Ching, Chinese medicine and herbalism (including the underlying principals of acupuncture). Zen Buddhism is also largely inspired and derived from the I Ching. ...

THE GLORIFIED BODY Metamorphosis of the Body and the Crisis Phase of Human Evolution --- a book proposal-- © 1996 Jonathan Zap revised 11/29/05 >Glad Day "Glad Day" by William Blake (To find out what inspired the following, and why it remains in this form, see The Path of the Numinous, but essentially I found that when I had written the proposal I had recorded what I had to say on the subject, and had no desire to turn it into a book. I have also rewritten this book proposal as a briefer article, you will miss some important sections but there is more flow, and you won't have the annoyance of frequently hearing about a nonexistant future book. To read the article click here) I. OVERVIEW Suffering associated with body image has reached such epidemic proportions in our culture ...