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Latest Blog:  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.

Please note the new streaming videos available  under “media.”

Is Our Civilization Leaking from Below—A Subterranean  View of the Gulf Oil Spill

Explore the finanicial meltdown and its connection to psychopathy (the condition of being a psychopath):

Foxes and Reptiles—Psychopathy and the Financial Meltdown of 2008-9

(Vintage advertisement that unintentionally portrays the psychopath’s view of others.)

What connection does the movie Avatar have to

emergent archetypes in the collective unconscious related to an evolutionary event horizon?

Please Read: Avatar and the Singularity Archetype

New Video:  Two African American friends of mine said they wanted to come over to my apartment in the East Village and video tape me in 1984. I decided to create my own religion for the occasion—the Sacred Tenets of theReligion of the UFO Eye Knight. I was an English Teacher and Building Security Coordinator of a public high school in the South Bronx at the time and I got Galaxy, a graffiti artist I knew, to design the ID card and a rapper (I think with the Culture MCs) to write an official rap song for the religion. They knew nothing about the religion except its name.

The Sacred Tennets of the Religion of the UFO Eye Knight

This essay may change your view of romantic relationships forever:

No Tristans Allowed Beyond this Point—Debunking and Transforming the Western Myth of Romantic Love
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Rob also endorses Jonathan’s dream interpretation service.  In his weekly newsletter he wrote:
“Jonathan Zap, Visionary Philosopher and Dream Worker Extraordinaire. The best dream worker I’ve ever known.
Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of working on my dreams with some fine dream workers, but recently I discovered the best ever. His name is Jonathan Zap.

Highly intuitive, schooled in the wisdom of archetypes, and really smart,Jonathan has helped me crack the codes of some of my major dreams. His cost is quite reasonable, too. I exuberantly recommend his services.

(He’s not even paying me to say this. I’m simply motivated by the desire
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Tima Vlasto, a free lance writer and translator from Athens, Greece  who writes a column for the Examiner says of the Zap Oracle:

“… it has been a more positively transformative experience for me than any other form of inner searching I have done…and I have done a lot! It unabashedly touches and presses on every wound, every bright light, every hidden corner, and in such blunt honesty, that at the moment it “speaks”, there is no way to not face, absorb, realize and embrace those shadows that block the “connection”…and confirms, so readily like a snapshot of the “matrix dynamics” at that moment, one’s intuition. It is a great oracle.”

I’ve done three interviews with Mike Hagan/Radio Orbit now available for free download/streaming audio.  Add Radio Orbit to your favorites and listen to archived interviews with people like Alex Grey, Riane Eisler and John  Major Jenkins.

Image background created by Radio Orbit from an actual photo of me siting on a very cooperative young bengal tiger in Colorado

Click categories  to see an extensive library of  writings.
Here are some examples:
Dynamic Paradoxicalism the anti-ism ism
Dynamic paradoxicalism is my attempt to create a meta-philosophy that is a counter to fundamentalist and absolutist thought, which is nearly as common amongst New Agers and the Left as it is among religious fundamentalists and the Right.
About the creative process and my most autobiographical essay:

The Path of the Numinous—Living and Working with the Creative Muse

Born Under a Blood Red Moon—-Metamorphosis of the Feminine in the Dreams of Young Women
A brief meditation on the space-time of incarnation:
Temporal Fencing and Life Fields
A sometimes surreal study of Burning Man:Incendiary Person in the Desert Carnival Realm


Alex Grey, Jonathan at Cosm on the eve of the Solstice (2007) where many people got to try out the Zap Oracle. Visionary artist Alex joined my last  Coast to Coast show with George Noory to talk about his mind parasite experiences. I’ve  written an article entitled Alex Grey and Mind Parasites which analyzes Alex’s encounter with parasitic deities and his painting “Demons and Deities Drinking from the Milky Pool” in which he illustrates his experience.
My introductory essay to the mind parasite topic: Mind Parasites, Energy Parasites and Vampires
One definition of hell is, “The impossibility of reason.” For twelve years I have watched my friend and colleague John Major Jenkins go through exactly this kind of hell as he pursued and published his rigorous investigation into the Maya and the meaning of 2012 while the barkers of Carnival 2012 have gotten most of the attention. Finally, a vindication, a N.Y. Times article that begins to do justice to the subject and which provides the perceptive reader with enough information to get a sense of who is to be taken seriously on this subject, and who isn’t. As Carnival 2012 continues to gain momentum, you owe it to yourself to read this article: The Final Days Related readings: Dreamspell Dialogue –a dialogue between John and I on Jose Arguelles’s deceptive Dreamspell. A Trialogue with John Jenkins and Ron Lampert 2012: The Center of Time and Mythos Some things I’ve written on the subject:
The Mutant versus the Machine, the end of the Iron Age, and the Galactic Alignment of 2012, Clock Time Metastisizes Toward 2012
Cowritten with John:

A Mutant Convergence— How John Major Jenkins, Jonathan Zap and Terence McKenna met during a Weekend of High Strangeness in 1996

And a travelogue of a journey we took through Mayan ruins:
Vision at Chichén Itzá
The following link is to my major work on what I call the “Singularity Archetype” and what I believe it has to say about the evolutionary event horizon we are hurtling toward.  I first wrote about this subject in a philosophy honors paper in 1978:  Archetypes of a New Evolution. This updated treatment was first written in 1996 but has been very extensively rewritten and an epilogue has been added in 2009:
White Crows Rising—The Singularity Archetype and the Evolutionary Event Horizon
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