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Zap on Coast-to-Coast this Saturday Night (2/25)

jon — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:14:40 PST

I WILL BE ON COAST-TO-COAST AM THIS SATURDAY EVENING (2/25) INTO SUNDAY MORNING TALKING ABOUT MY BOOK AND/OR PSYCHOPATHY AND THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN WITH HOST JOHN B. WELLS. GO HERE: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations TO FIND THE STATION CLOSEST TO YOU. COAST-TO-COAST AM IS NORTH AMERICA’S MOST LISTENED TO LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW CARRIED BY 560 RADIO STATIONS TO AN AUDIENCE OF MILLIONS. THE SHOW STARTS AN HOUR EARLIER, BUT I WILL BE ON FOR THREE HOURS STARTING 11PM PST, MIDNIGHT MST, 1AM (SUNDAY MORNING) [...]

OWL In Memorium —-David “Owl” Koppelman

jon — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:13:38 PST

(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

David “Owl” Koppelman 1963-2012

Owl was, above all, an unforgettable character, and since there was always a level of performance art about the way he lived his life, he was an outstanding success in leaving an indelible tie-dye colored impression in the minds of a great many people. Since [...]

The Dangerous Methods of David Cronenberg—-A Brief Review of A Dangerous Method

jon — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:22:13 PST

If you are getting this as an email, stop, you can see a much sexier version here: http://www.zaporacle.com/the-dangerous-methods-of-david-cronenberg-a-brief-review-of-a-dangerous-method/ text copyright 2012, Jonathan Zap edited by Austin Iredale Vigo Mortensen as Freud, and Michael Fassbender as Jung, in A Dangerous Method

“…he made on me personally the impression of a man obsessed with fixed ideas. I can make nothing in my own case with his dream theories, and obviously “symbolism” is a most dangerous method.”

—William James, referring to Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Geneva psychologist Theodor Flournoy

A homeless [...]

The Dangerous Methods of David Cronenberg—-A Brief Review of A Dangerous Method

jon — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:18:26 PST

Vigo Mortensen as Freud, and Michael Fassbender as Jung, in A Dangerous Method

—William James, referring to Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Geneva psychologist Theodor Flournoy

A homeless mutant whose psyche is invaded by mundane telepathic intrusions in Scanners---Cronenberg's classic 1981 sci-fi [...]

The Way of the Warrior

jon — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:17:45 PST

I recently recorded a podcast of The Way of the Warrior <<<<click the link to hear it/ download it. I’ve found this life stance to hold up even during the darkest moments. Here’s the first couple of paragraphs:

WHAT IS A WARRIOR?

Why is being a Warrior important, and what is meant by being a Warrior anyway?

Language is so often a barrier to understanding. The word, ” Warrior ,” for example, presents many problems. Sometimes the best available word has a shadow, a [...]

ZIJ—Dealing with Zones of Inner Jeopardy

jon — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:08:41 PST

Manhattan store front window with reflections

Getting this newsletter as an email. See a much sexier version by going here: http://www.zaporacle.com/zij-dealing-with-zones-of-inner-jeopardy-2/

ZIJ—Dealing with Zones of Inner Jeopardy is my latest document and podcast. Here’s a couple of paragraphs:

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 usually there are multiple causes such as metabolic disequilibria, social/sexual [...]

The Strange Story of How this Site was Created, an Introduction to the Zap Oracle Team and our Mission Statement

tanner — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:32:25 PST

text and collage © Jonathan Zap, 2011

Edited by Austin Iredale

With both misgivings and excitement I followed Adrian into the cave, our headlamps casting dense shadows amidst the illuminated surfaces of jagged rock. Adrian’s fantastic tale of an antique bronze ship of some sort secreted in an antechamber of this still largely unexplored cavern was impossible to resist, but also filled me with doubts and fears. Could it be that Adrian’s quirky and quicksilver personality had tipped over some edge and [...]

Casting Precious Into the Cracks of Doom – Androgyny, Alchemy, Evolution and the One Ring

tanner — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:25:59 PST

“I am in some sense boundless, my being encompassing the farthest limits of the universe, touching and moving every atom of existence. The same is true of everything else…It is not just that ‘we are all in it’ together. We all are it, rising and falling as one living body.” Francis Cook (location of Godhead)

When Jesus was asked, “When will the kingdom come?” He [...]

An Eyes Wide Shut Meets Burning Man Descent into News Years Eve 2012

jon — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:12:53 PST

See the end of this document for a sad epilogue to this experience not recorded on this podcast.

Got a last minute invite to a New Year’s Eve party somewhere in the outskirts of Boulder. I was told it was a wealthy Burning Man crowd. In the hour before I left for the party, I was hanging out with my best friend and his 4 and 7- year-old sons and was immersed in their innocent and magical world [...]

Confessions of a Self-Aware Starship —Newsletter

jon — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:57:56 PST

If you’re reading this as an email, you can see a much sexier version of this newsletter here: http://www.zaporacle.com/confessions-of-a-self-aware-starship-newsletter/

I’ve just finished a new work that is mostly about the Social Matrix: Confessions of a Self-Aware Starship which is also available as a podcast. As we have now entered the frenzy of commercial activity ramping up to the annual retail festival of 12/25, this may be an ideal time to encounter this work about the Social Matrix.

X MASS often constellates the painful [...]

ZIJ—Dealing with Zones of Inner Jeopardy

jon — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:04:21 PST

text and top photo copyright Jonathan Zap, 2011

Edited by Austin Iredale

photo: Manhattan store front window with reflections

A Note on ZIJ Terminology

“ZIJ” is used in this essay [...]

Confessions of a Self-Aware Starship

jon — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:18:29 PST

The Enterprise, a Federation starship whose self-awareness has not fully awakened Excerpted from Parallel Journeys, —Journal of My Second Incarnation in the Bridge Realms Copyright Jonathan Zap, 2011 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 some painful drama with another starship that had played itself out as I slept. Slowly the dream faded, and the waking consciousness [...]

Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites, a New Development Amongst Millenials

jon — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:02:11 PDT

Some of you may have already read this but Reality Sandwich just published a new version of Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites. This article, based on some conversations with Alex, analyzes a visionary experience he had on LSD that led to his classic painting, Demons and Deities Drinking from the Milky Pool.

While you are on Reality Sandwich check out another featured article there Synchronicity, Myth and the New World Order —-as brilliant and incisive an article as I’ve ever read [...]

Anti-Homophobic Homoerotic Joking—A Positive Mutation of the Millennial Generation?

jon — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:48:28 PDT

Stephen Colbert, a visionary Gen-X comedian who is especially popular with Millennials

An interesting trend I’ve noticed on Facebook is that young guys, who are mostly known to be heterosexual, and who usually have higher-than-average social status, make graphic statements about loving gay sex as jokes. For example, a probably heterosexual twenty-one-year-old student at CU posted a Facebook status update: “I love the way cock feels in and around my mouth.” Friends left good-natured comments [...]

Beware the Hungry Whirlpools

jon — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:46:11 PDT

STOP! If you’re reading this as an email, it’s going to look lame. See the much sexier online version here: http://www.zaporacle.com/beware-the-hungry-whirlpools/ (Zap Oracle Card #644) Beware the hungry whirlpools my friends, the dark undertow of collective vortices that would love to undertake you into their burgeoning carnivals of lost souls. The hungry whirlpools are slippery concavities dotting the thin ice of modern life. They might take the form of some tiny substance, a bit of white powder, a pill that makes you [...]

Inner Adversary

jon — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:09:18 PDT

Quick book update: Close to a final draft, but still debating mainstream publication vs. Amazon Create Space. Open to anyone who has advice on the subject.

“As a myth, the death-instinct is a counterpart to the Devil, the Devil, like the death-instinct, is the Spirit that continually negates. Both constructs point to something devoted to spoiling the quality of life. ”

“…the human soul is divided against itself, as much, perhaps, in love with death as with life. Against [...]

Man from Underground in an Unknown Country

jon — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:45:54 PDT

If you didn’t get to hear my Coast interview, a half hour interview about apocalypticism, 2012, and the Singularity Archetype was just put up on Whitley Streiber’s Unknown Country Listen here: http://www.unknowncountry.com/revelations/pathology-2012-millennialsim

Also, yesterday I had a dream that illustrates the inward/outward telepathic paradox of art and how it relates to the Singularity Archetype. I added this brief piece on the dream as an addendum to my essay on creativity The Path of the Numinous—Living and Working with the [...]

Free podcast/pdf, Coast show on Crossing the Event Horizon

jon — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:56:54 PDT

The first 40 pages of my new book, Crossing the Event Horizon—the Singularity Archetype and Human Metamorphosis, are now available for free as both a PDF and a podcast: http://www.zaporacle.com/crossing-the-event-horizon-podcast/ Hard copies, and ebook versions should be available later this summer.

I will be discussing the book this Wednesday 7/13/11 (going into very early Thursday morning) with George Noory of Coast-to-Coast. Here’s the promo for the show: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2011/07/13 Coast is North America’s most listened to late night talk show, broadcast on 545 [...]

Crossing The Event Horizon Podcast

tanner — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:44:40 PDT

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To Collapse or Not to Collapse the Wave Function?

tanner — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:17:21 PDT

Schrödinger's cat is a famous thought experiment to illustrate a paradoxical aspect of wave function collapse. The cat is neither alive nor dead until an observer opens the box to find out. This image comes from http://io9.com/5528321/how-smart-do-you-need-to-be-to-collapse-a-wave-function - an excellent article on the subject.

If you got this card as an email, go here to see the much better looking version: http://www.zaporacle.com/card/to-collapse-or-not-to-collapse-the-wave-function/

This card uses wave function collapse, a concept from quantum mechanics, as a metaphor for two states in the human domain [...]