Oracles, Life, Love
(this is an interview with Jonathan on Radio Orbit recorded 01-07-08) I feel I am writing for myself and fellow “mutants,” not for the many, certainly not for what Jung called “mass man,” and the...
View ArticleCarnival 2012—A Psychological Study of the 2012 Phenomenon and the 22 Classic...
The cycle end-date of the Mayan Long Count calendar, an authentic artifact of an ancient Mesoamerican culture worthy of serious investigation, became the focus of contemporary psychopathology and...
View ArticleZap Oracle Instructions/ Credits and History
The thirty-five year history of the Zap Oracle (the oracle, not the website), plus some thoughts about using it and other oracles.
View ArticleLife Lessons from the Living Dead
If you want to learn about what’s at the core of life, the essential and ultimate universal values beneath all the distractions, deceptions and delusions, then ask the living dead. No, I don’t mean...
View ArticleGreen Energy Vortex
One of the most obnoxiously persistent themes in so many people lives is money. A surreal rant on this magical and tainted artifact of the Babylon Matrix.
View ArticleParallel Journeys
An intro and the first two chapters of Parallel Journey----an epic journey across dimensions.
View ArticleFriends Don’t let Friends Incarnate In the Babylon Matrix
A surreal journey into incarnation in the Babylon Matrix.
View ArticleTolkien and the Developmental Need for Evil
The developmental need for evil as illustrated by the Tolkien mythos.
View ArticleEnter the Void
A sort-of review of this visionary film that suggests it has a different meaning than its creator intended, and takes you on a surreal journey.
View ArticleJohnny
This story, a fragmentary take on the life of a home boy, was written in the Eighties when I knew a lot about that subject as I was teaching in the South Bronx.
View ArticleResource Fluctuations Happen-Working with Scarcity and Abundance
Resources do matter, but they have always fluctuated, and that fluctuation occurs with need as well as want resources. A good strategy is to learn how to thrive, or at least work with, the resources...
View ArticleIncendiary Person in the Desert Carnival Realm
f you are not particularly interested in Burning Man don't be turned away, because the topics covered go far beyond this one event and include: Transforming our Thanatos Self Radical Self Reliance...
View ArticleYou are Only as Old as you are-the Six Noble Truths of the Zap Philosophy of...
A surreal and comic rant that reveals some psychological truths about attitudes toward aging and offers some practical advice.
View ArticleMechanical Resistance Matrix
“Mechanical resistance” is one of the great defining aspects of the matrix in which we are presently incarnated. It is a force in our lives as powerful as gravity or mortality and it overlaps and...
View ArticleLogos Beheld
Logos Beheld works alone or as sequel to Looking Toward the Event Horizon is based on twenty-eight years of research exploring evidence from a variety of fields that we are already undergoing a...
View ArticleZap Trap By the Culture MCs
This rap song dates back to the dawn of hip-hop and was written approximately 1982-3. At the time I was the building security coordinator and dean of Samuel Gompers Vocational Technical High School in...
View ArticleCorridor
Short experimental work written by Jonathan Zap in the Eighties.He was taken from her and rolled down a long corridor and into a room. In the room a steel needle entered his body. He could feel its...
View ArticleLessons for an Entity Incarnating as a Mammal
You are Not Another Mammal---Navigating Eachness and Oneness in Mammalian Incarnation. Another mammal is not an organ of your body. Your body has all its own parts. Another mammal is not you, or...
View ArticlePathfinding/ Day Mapping
A very practical and grounded way to navigate your pathway through a chaotic world.
View ArticleReality Testing is Politically Incorrect!
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...
View ArticleWhen Worlds Don’t Necessarily Collide—Orbiting with Planet Hottie
Another star in the galaxy of souls, one out of the six or seven billion Swarming across this rotating, orbiting ball in space, Comes spinning into my trajectory, And we converge, For a time we form a...
View ArticleYou
I saw you survive red flames twisting glass and steel burning the dry night air.I saw you and I saw every particle of sand on your naked skin as you awakened in desert night, spirit drawing back into...
View ArticlePushing the Envelope, Boundary Expansion into Novelty in Personal and...
The definition of pushing the envelope I have come up with and will employ here is: Boundary expansion into a zone of novelty previously unexplored by the species or an individual.
View ArticleAdhesions and the Timelines of the Unconsicous
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...
View ArticleBeauty in the Eye of the Phase Shifter
The personal quest for human beauty can be an urge to phase shift into the glorified body.
View ArticleLooking Towards the Event Horizon
Note this is part two, start with Dialogues on Prophecy and the End of Time below Looking Toward the Event Horizon Jonathan Zap, interviewed by John Major Jenkins recorded August, 2004 by Lost Arts...
View ArticleSite News
I will be teaching workshops on the Singularity Archetype at a few festivals late spring and summer: Apogaea, Sonic Bloom, Arise and Burning Man. I am now an editor as well as a featured...
View ArticleCrossing The Event Horizon Podcast
Enter your email to download the pdf. Fill this space with really interesting content that you can
View ArticleConfessions of a Self-Aware Starship
Awakening from uneasy dreams, I was aware of myself as a self-reflecting starship. For a few moments I lingered in that warpy place between dreams and wakefulness, still feeling partly caught up in...
View ArticleZIJ—Dealing with Zones of Inner Jeopardy
Zones of inner jeopardy (ZIJ) are those familiar times when we are inwardly stressed, our thoughts and emotions are agitated, and we may be enveloped by dark moods. The causes of ZIJ are various, and...
View ArticleAn Eyes Wide Shut Meets Burning Man Descent into News Years Eve 2012
I couldn't smell anything from the mostly neglected bongs and unused bowls of giant kola buds, because the air was heavy with the olfactory cacophony of expensive perfumes and colognes, musks and...
View ArticleThe Strange Story of How this Site was Created, an Introduction to the Zap...
The surreal story of the origins of the Zap Oracle website.
View ArticleOWL In Memorium —-David “Owl” Kopelman
(Owl at the 2009 National Rainbow Gathering in New Mexico) I’m still writing this and inviting comments so come back and check again soon as this memorial expands in content. Jonathan 9:30 am 2/19/12...
View ArticleCrossing the Event Horizon: The Singularity Archetype and Human Metamorphosis...
Note: In order to make this description concise it is necessarily dense. The book is much more readable. A better intro to the book is the free PDF download or podcast of the introductory chapter....
View ArticleCrossing the Event Horizon
There should be several color photos here. See them better displayed by going here: http://www.zaporacle.com/crossing-the-event-horizon/ Apparently a lot of people on the book notification list...
View ArticleZap on Serious Wonder
Just recorded a commercial free 75 minute interview with Serious Wonder Media. Gray Scott, the interviewer, was very perceptive and asked some great questions. As part of our discussion of visual...
View ArticleThe Batman Shootings and Crossover Effects
The tragedy of people getting shot at a showing of The Dark Knight Rises, is not a random, incomprehensible event. Mass shootings, like the one that just happened in Aurora, have become a recurrent...
View ArticleA Spiraling, Eye-Encrusted Overview of the Art of Alex Grey (and some related...
This overview of the artwork of Alex Grey (also published as a multi-part series on Reality Sandwich) looks at problems the art world has with spiritually themed art, Alex’s transforming relationship...
View ArticleSavage Reflections–The Soulful Poems of Jack Savage
John “Jack” Spencer Savage 1989-2013 poetry copyright Jack Savage, 2013, photos copyright Jonathan Zap, 2013 This page last updated August 6 2013—check Jack’s memorial page (bottom) for lots of new...
View ArticleSonic Bloom 2013 Trialogue with Mark Heley, Michael Garfield and Jonathan Zap
Recorded live at Sonic Bloom 2013 Mark Heley, Michael Garfield on festival culture, the science of transformation and man's place in the cosmos
View ArticleHow to Empower Evil: Keep Talking About They
Across all times and places, people have empowered evil by outsourcing darkness to various “theys.”
View ArticleAre You an Invisible? —Manichean Mutant Metamorphosis, A Chaos Magic Artifact...
A sometimes surreal exploration of Grant Morrison’s graphic novel masterpiece THE INVISIBLES asks the reader to consider whether they might be an Invisible---an empowered and transforming mutant.
View ArticleJohnny Haeberlin on Permaculture, Singularity, & Plant Allies Interviewed by...
July 31, 2013 interview of Johnny Haeberlin covering his thoughts about permaculture as an aspect of the singularity, plants as allies, and the cultural implications and aspects of the singularity.
View ArticleThe Path of the Sacred Highlighter—a Podcast Anthology of Zap Oracle Cards
An anthology of Zap Oracle cards read by the author.
View ArticleAdapting to Life in the Babylon Matrix—An Anthology of Zap Oracle Cards Part II
Photo: The late Jack Savage (1989-2013), a brilliant poet, who often struggled to adapt to life in the Babylon Matrix. This is part II of an anthology of Zap Oracle cards read by the author.
View ArticleSith Culture—an Interview with Sean Moffitt about the Dark Side of the Force
Sean Moffitt discusses Sith culture and social structure, their power and strategies, relative strengths, etc.
View ArticleZap at Fractal Planet Speaker Dome/Burning Man 2013 Talking about Singularity...
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE SOME OF MY PHOTOS OF BURNING MAN 2013 This is an hour long talk I gave at the Fractal Planet Speaker dome (a 60′ tall geodesic dome) at Burning Man 2013 The talk was on Aug. 27 and...
View ArticleProblems with the Conspiratist World View
The conspiraitist world view---the belief that a unified cabal of elitists is manipulating world events, mind controlling the population, that we already live in a police state and a New World Order,...
View ArticleMutant Mind Meld 1 Dr. Bruce Damer and Jonathan Zap at Burning Man 2013
Painting by Nathan Zap, 1977 To see a gallery of his paintings: Nocturnal Images—The Paintings of Nathan Zap NOTE: THE AUDIO PLAYER IS CURRENTLY ONLY PLAYING THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE PODCAST. PLEASE...
View ArticleLucid Dreaming and Virtual Reality—-Mutant Mind Meld # 2 with Jonathan Zap...
This Mutant Mind Meld Podcast was recorded very late at night at the Star Water Bar in the Arise music festival in Loveland, Colorado on August 9th, 2014. Topher Sipes is a lucid dreaming teacher and...
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