A Mind Parasite Encounter in Dune © 2000 Jonathan Zap ( The cover design comes from a pen and ink drawing I made when I was seventeen entitled, "Parasites.") ORDERING INFO FOR MIND PARASITE MATRIX: I have just produced a multi hour audio presentation entitled Mind Parasite Matrix----we are editing it today, so I don't know the running time, but I'm guessing about six hours. You can get the entire program on one MP3 CD for $9.95 (playable on most computers, some DVD players, etc.) or on several regular CDs for $19.95. Both prices include shipping, we'll try to get them out sooner, but allow 3-4 weeks for delivery. Click on the teal colored orb on the main page to go to the shop. Pay by check or MO info on there as well. Mind Parasite Matrix will include everything I've learned about this ...
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"Vision at Chichén Itzá" © Copyright 2004, 2009 by Jonathan Zap Edited by Austin Iredale Disclaimer: Notice the title of this piece is “Vision at Chichén Itzá,” not “Vision about Chichén Itzá.” I make no claim here, as in absolutely no claim, that what I experienced at Chichén Itzá is a revelation of anything about the ancient or modern Mayan people or culture. What follows are a few highlights of my recent trip to Mexico, including a visionary experience at Chichén Itzá. Tulum, Mexico: September 25, 2004 Yesterday was a blur of travel---all the papers that needed stamping, the waiting in lines, the identity and security checks, the bureaucracy, the seatbelted claustrophobia of confinement to an airborne plastic tube where I breathed recycled air and ate pretzels out of bags of gold mylar, the ...
The Path of the Numinous----Living and Working with the Creative Muse © 2005, 2008 Jonathan Zap Revised 2008 Edited by Austin Iredale If you give birth to the genius within you, it will free you. If you do not give birth to the genius within you, it will destroy you. --- Jesus, The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas ...
A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler © 2003, 2008 Jonathan Zap An Invitation to You, the Interdimensional Traveler >Self Portrait Interdimensional Passport collage © by Jonathan Zap > Self Portrait Interdimensional Traveler collage © Jonathan Zap This invitation is extended to you, the Interdimensional Traveler. Do you still doubt that this is what you are? Do you still believe the lie that you are only a citizen, a consumer, a gendered role-player in the soap opera/horror story known as the Babylon Matrix? Or have you already glimpsed that you emerged at birth from another dimension, and hurtle inexorably toward the event horizon popularly known as death — the emergence into another dimension? If these poles of incarnation seem distant, then wait a few hours till darkness falls and you become tired, sleepy. ...
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 ...
STOP THE HOTTIE !
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 ...
Time and Tolkien’s Elves © Copyright 2004 by Jonathan Zap Note: Most of the following concerns time, but in the first section, I introduce Tolkien’s elf mythology which is often counter intuitive to people who have seen the movies, and even for those who have read the trilogy. In the ring trilogy Tolkien vividly describes particular elf characters as so exemplary and heroic that it often comes as a surprise to discover in his notes and letters that he considers the elves as almost developmentally disabled. The first section explains Tolkien’s ambivalent and paradoxical ...
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The psyche consists essentially of images. It is a series of images in the truest sense, not an accidental juxtaposition or sequence, but a structure that is throughout full of meaning and purpose; it is a “picturing” of vital activities. And just as the material of the body that is ready for life has need of the psyche in order to be capable of life, so the psyche presupposes the living body in order that its images may live.
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