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 ...

Projection---the Enemy of Peace and Justice Part I copyright 2005 by Jonathan Zap photo copyright 2000 by Jonathan Zap "Projection can be observed at work everywhere, in mental illness, in ideas of persecution and hallucinations, in so-called normal people who see the mote in their brother's eye without seeing the beam in their own, and finally, in extreme form, in political propaganda."  ---C.G. Jung This essay came into being in a strange way.  At the time I wrote this I worked for a non profit, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center , and recently I attended a dinner they put on, and heard some one who is part of their International Collective (RMPJC is an umbrella organization with many separate components) speak about an international issue from a point of view that I found dangerously one-sided.  I began to think about writing an email to the staff ...

The Philosopher's Assassin—A Heads Up from the Collective Unconsious? © Jonathan Zap. August 2004. Someone brought me a dream for interpretation a couple of days ago that seems to resonate with the uneasy feelings I have about the time interval that begins now, the time of the Republican convention, and that continues into the upcoming presidential election and its aftermath. Dreams, as Jung demonstrated, are not necessarily manifestations of the personal unconscious—they may also be manifestations of the collective unconscious, dreams of the body politic. When Jung was working as a pyschoanalyst in the Weimar Republic (pre WWII Germany) he noticed that his educated, highly civilized German patients were dreaming about Wotan, a war god. The phenomenon was so striking that he called it "Wotanism" and understood that there was a war-like spirit, a "blonde beast" growing in the German unconscious that ...

Operation Infinite Projection copyright 2001 by Jonathan Zap (Note: Somewhat dated writing on 9-11, written days after the event) If you can't stand to hear or read one more word on the terrorism of 9-11 you might as well keep reading because you've just read twenty-seven more words, now twenty-nine on this subject so might as well as surrender to the fact that we'll never hear the end of it as Operation Infinite Empty Rhetoric gathers full steam. And what I have to say is going to be a disorganized rant on the infinite levels of projection going on. I seem to notice that one week was like a magic line drawn in the sand. Most of what I heard people saying during the first week had some connection to genuine feeling. After the first week I noticed ...

Temporary Indeterminate Zone (Note: Somewhat dated writing on 9-11, written days after the event) Copyright Jonathan Zap 9-22-01 On the morning of 9-11, having received no news of the disaster yet, I awoke from a disturbing dream. I was on a ship that was on fire and former students of mine whom I had taught in New York during the Eighties were coming to me asking for help because the captain of the ...

Must See Premonition Of Twin Towers Destruction!!! 16 Sep 2001 22:33:16 Please open enclosed attachment and see an ad I synchronistically found in a National Geographic from September of 1989. I WILL GET THIS SCANNED IN SOON For those unable to open the attachment I will describe the ad to you. There is a picture of the Twin Towers and below it this caption: "Low-rises. 2060 A. D." Then there is a picture of a Samsung CD player and the caption: "Hi-Tech. 2060 A.D." Below that is this ad copy: "Will today's hi-rises be the low-rises of tomorrow? That remains to be seen. But Samsung audio products will surely be high on everyone's list." (Recently I was visiting with a friend and he had on his wall an ad for the Windows on the World restaurant on top of the Twin Towers. The headline of the ad read, "As close to ...

Jihad Against the Feminine By Sean Moffitt of womensassistance.com Subjugation and abuse of women is one of the most critical social issues in all of human history.  Violent oppression of women has been, and remains, a serious obstacle to the full intellectual growth and evolution of the human species. In recent years the subservient position of women suffering under Islamic regimes has become somewhat common knowledge in the western world where most people seem familiar with the oppression of women, particularly in Afghanistan . Yet for so many women and girls living in Islamic and Hindu communities, reality is far worse than what most westerners imagine. ...

Reality Testing is Politically Incorrect! © 2006, 2010 by Jonathan Zap I think I just realized why I get into trouble with so many people----somehow I never realized what now seems obvious----reality testing is politically incorrect!  Whether you are a religious fundamentalist or a New Age fundamentalist, on the right or on the left, if it feels emotionally satisfying, then it’s true. What really drives me crazy about this  is that people on the left and New Agers, who would be the first to criticize Christian fundamentalists for rigid, irrational beliefs, often have no self-criticism about their own irrational beliefs.  For example, twice this week people have forwarded me the following emailed announcement. Here it is in its entirety: A cosmic trigger event is occurring on the 17th of October 2006. This is the beginning, one of many trigger events to come between now and  2013. An ultraviolet (UV) pulse ...

Green Energy Vortex---- Money as a Magical Far from Equilibrium Dissipative Structure and the Secret of Turning the Green Energy Blues into a Mountain of Gold Doubloons copyright 2007 by Jonathan Zap One of the most obnoxiously persistent themes in so many people lives is money.  For most people the issue is scarcity and right livelihood, but even people with an abundance of money have issues.  A constellation of synchronicities this morning suggested this theme, and some of its inner meanings. What is money?  Hard to write about something without some working definition of what it is.  Money is essentially a magical artifact, a power object in this World of Warcraft and Consumerism ® in which we live, what I sometimes call ...