My friend Rob Brezsny asked me to pick out some quotations from my writings that he could feature in his newsletter.  I did, but most of the ones he came up with were ones he found himself.  Here’s an excerpt from his newsletter, followed by the quotes that I came up with.  I’ve always had a weakness for quotations.  Here’s one of my favorites: “I hate quotations.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter JANUARY 9, 2008 FreeWillAstrology.com "You have everything you need in the present situation to work with impeccability. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't work toward manifesting additional resources and opportunities. It does mean that the present situation supplies you with everything ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...