The Podcast of Author Jonathan Zap.
Casting Precious Into the Cracks of Doom-Androgyny, Alchemy, Evolution and the One Ring“God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.” —Meister Eckart“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 CookThe Gnostic Gospel According to Thomas:When Jesus was asked, “When will the kingdom come?” He replied: “It will not come by waiting for it…Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.” Jesus also said, “…the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you.”“..Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into as single one, so that the male will not be male and the female (not) be female…then shall you enter (the Kingdom).”“He has no knowledge of his soul. How could he tell her apart from things and men? He could find his soul in desire itself, but not in the objects of desire. If he possessed his desire, and his desire did not possess him, he would lay a hand on his soul, since his desire is the image and expression of his soul.” —C.G. Jung, The Red BookThis essay will explore androgyny as the key to unlock many of the mysteries of: the 6,000 years of Feminine-hating dominator societies that continue to rule our world, key forms of religious extremism, the torturous enchantments of romantic relations, gender identity, and the core meaning of the ring symbolism and other aspects of the Tolkien mythology. That's a fairly tall order and I am open to your feedback as to whether I seem to b e succeeding with such (grandiose?) ambitions. Given the density of the subject matter you can expect writing with a lot of density, but I'm hoping that it is readable for you, the perceptive reader.
Time and Tolkien's ElvesNote: Most of the following concerns time, but in the first section, I introduce Tolkien's elf mythology in the lord of the rings which is often counter intuitive to people who have seen the movies, and even for those who have read the trilogy. In the ring trilogy Tolkien vividly describes particular elf characters as so exemplary and heroic that it often comes as a surprise to discover in his notes and letters that Tolkien considers the elves as almost developmentally disabled. The first section explains Tolkien's ambivalent and paradoxical view of the elves which is necessary to understand the second section which concerns time perception.Who are the elves and what meanings do they have for us? Tolkien has conscious views of the elves which are expressed in his writings, particularly his letters, but there are also other layers of meanings, which are implied or which manifest directly out of the creative muse, with or without Tolkien's conscious approval. I believe that elves have such a resonance and inner recognition for us because they are a real biological form (if not necessarily carbon-based) which we recognize from within. (For much more on my view of the elves see Parallel Journeys, and The Glorified Body–Metamorphosis of the Body and the Crisis Phase of Human Evolution). For me, the elves resonate with the future as well as the past. (I didn't make links for this article, but all the articles referred to are easily found on the website.)Tolkien saw the elves as “man before the fall.” He did not, however, altogether idealize them. There was an anti-life aspect to the elves in his mythology in their desire to preserve and live in the past. Tolkien disparagingly referred to them several times as “embalmers.” Despite their love of nature, the elves were the opposite of Taoists in that they resisted change and sought to live in an “embalmed” past. In a letter Tolkien writes,But the elves are not wholly good or in the right. Not so much because they had flirted with Sauron; as because with or without his assistance they were ‘embalmers'. They wanted to have their cake and eat it; to live in the mortal historical Middle-earth because they had become fond of it (and perhaps because they there had the advantages of a superior caste), and so tried to stop its change and history, stop its growth, keep it as a pleasuance, even largely a desert, where they could be ‘artists'—and they were overburdened with sadness and nostalgic regret.Tolkien and the Developmental Need for Evil - https://zaporacle.com/tolkien-and-the-developmental-need-for-evil/Casting Precious Into the Cracks of Doom – Androgyny, Alchemy, Evolution and the One Ring - https://zaporacle.com/casting-precious-into-the-cracks-of-doom/The Mutant versus the Machine, the End of the Iron Age, and the Galactic Alignment of 2012 - https://zaporacle.com/the-mutant-versus-the-machine-the-end-of-the-iron-age-and-the-galactic-alignment-of-2012/The Hobbit - An Unexpectedly Good High Frame Rate Journey through Middle Earth - https://zaporacle.com/the-hobbit-an-unexpectedly-good-high-frame-rate-journey-through-middle-earth/check out Zap Oracle SteamCast on...APPLE PODCASTS - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zap-oracle-steamcast/id1530079905SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/show/2SN4smSECKiJk1s9rjDruQYOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7WiOlj7O4&list=PLjtubQliE-rpOgHAf1AznS4sSHIRGvk4yLIKE on FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/ZapOracle
A Spiraling, Eye-Encrusted Overview of the Art of Alex Grey (and some related topics, and a response from Alex)https://zaporacle.com/a-spiraling-eye-encrusted-overview-of-the-art-of-alex-grey/On the morning I started writing this, a five-year-old named Caleb happened to be visiting the house and interrupted my writing session to tell me (and this is an exact quote):"Jonathan, I see ghosty things other people don't see."I was tempted to reply: “That's interesting because I just started writing about a grown-up named Alex Grey who also sees ghosty things other people don't see.” Instead, I asked Caleb to describe one of the ghosty things, and he said he saw a cupcake with a “skeleton head” in it. There were more details I couldn't quite follow due to the limits of his five-year-old vocabulary and his unfortunate inability to paint like Alex Grey. This synchronistic incident was a timely, and somewhat eerie, reminder of why we need Alex Grey—he sees ghosty things other people don't see and he does paint like Alex Grey.In fact, Alex Grey can paint unseen, ghosty things to a degree of potency that can only be compared to a Thor-hammer blow to the head while your body is being strafed by DMT-coated diamond bullets. Scientific testing indicates that some of Alex's paintings generate phased bursts of nuclear magnetic resonance. This type of scalar wave NMR has been linked to high-lumen retro-chronal causation effects (sometimes called “balefire“), which are capable of matrix deletion of toxic patriarchal structures extending into the past. For example, ever since Alex began painting Net of Being, I can no longer find any record online, or anywhere, of Rasputin‘s two decade reign over Oceania. At their best, Alex's paintings seem like unauthorized glimpses through the interstices of the matrix, the fever dreams of third-stage, space-folding Guild Navigators living in giant tanks of pure spice gas causing illegal ruptures in the space-time continuum. (Note to literalists: The above are what are called “jokes,” so stop asking me to clarify or document.)
https://zaporacle.com/lucid-dreaming-and-virtual-reality-mutant-mind-meld-2-with-jonathan-zap-and-topher-sipes/ - 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 digital artist. The list of things we discussed may give a feeling for the late night and THC-infused context : Cognitive sleep state, telepathic bleed through and the movie Scanners Parallel realities, multiple perspective auto-erotic experiences and ego transcendence Archonic time police versus the guild of time shifters as an autonomous internally generated bardo Cephalization, neurological simulacra and the growth of interiority as an evolutionary teleology Interactive performance art as collective lucid dream The evolution of video game technology and its influence on dreaming Using off-the-shelf hardware to incorporate players' archetypal dominants into individualized video game interactive narratives Flotation tanks as lucid dreams on demand and to augment VR Pulling back the frame to observe real time liminality
https://zaporacle.com/the-siren-call-of-hungry-ghosts/It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in the head. The accomplishment is to make sure that it is telling you the truth, because the demons are of many kinds:“Some are made of ions, some of mind; the ones of ketamine, you'll find, stutter often and are blind.”—Terence McKenna in The Archaic RevivalThe Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts is a spell binding paranormal detective story, elegantly written, and as haunting and irresistible as its title implies. The implications of what British paranormal investigator and writer Joe Fisher discovers, at the apparent cost of his life, are staggering, and have such profound implications for all inhabitants of this particular plane of reality, that as over the top as this may sound, this book may be one of the more important ever written.The title capsulates, in perfect microcosm, the subject of the book, and also the effect of the book on the reader…at least this reader. I actually had a paranormal experience the last night of reading this book, which I will relate later, that was of a type related to phenomena reported in the book and also related to the “mind parasite” subject which I have written about extensively. This book is itself a rabbit hole, a rabbit hole with a certain suction, an undertow pulling you in as the author is pulled into an ever more high stakes involvement with the phenomenon.Joe Fisher experiences the classic pitfall of the paranormal researcher. He begins as an observer, but becomes ever more obsessed and affected, even over-powered by the object of investigation.
Links Related to Dispatches from the Trumpocalypse in the order in which they are mentioned in the recording.Trump's Freudian SlipExploring the UnconsciousReal People Suck —An Imaginary Person's ManifestoHurtling Toward Trumpocalypse Beware the Hollow FolkA Splinter in Your MindA Shocking Rise in White Death Rates in Midlife—And What It Says About American SocietyZap Oracle website home pageConsult the Zap OracleCrossing the Event Horizon—The Singularity Archetype and Human MetamorphosisTolkien and the Developmental Need for EvilDynamic Paradoxicalism—the Anti-Ism IsmNever Trust a Winner Can Post Trumpocalyptic Retrocausation Save Mankind?Jonathan J. Zap Making Facebook Great AgainDocudrama on Trump's Early Years Provides Cautionary InsightsBreaking News—RNC to Replace Trump/Pence with Camacho/Smith TicketAll the Conspiracy Theories about Killary are TrueDispatch from the Trumpocalypse You Are Living in a 3% Alternate Reality Since TrumpocalypseTrump Promoting Fake News a Cottage Industry for Macedonian TeenagersTwin Horsemen of the TrumpocalypseTake the Red Pill—Trumpocalypse Reveals that You Live in a Simulated MatrixAboriginals Celebrate Sith Culture and More Sith NewsAn Interview with Sith Historian Sean MoffittTake the Red Pill ExegesisInterpretive MagicMind Parasites, Energy Parasites and VampiresAlex Grey and the Mind ParasitesA Gnostic View of Mind ParasitesMind Parasite Section of Zap OracleProblems with the Conspiratist World ViewIf Not Trump, You a Dream on the Morning of the InaugurationHow Soon is Now Podcast (Episodes 3 and 7 are trialogues with Daniel Pinchbeck, Jonathan Zap and Anthony PeakeTrump a Black Swan Hatched from the Sulfurous Corpse of Roy CohnTrump's Third Rail—Forgetting that the American Psyche has more than One SubpersonalityTrump's Cognitive Decline
Jonathan Zap talks about interdimensional relationships, after-death communication, and alternate self relationships at the Paranormal Research Forum. The talk begins with an extensive context directly related to the CO VID 19 Corona Virus Pandemic.
https://zaporacle.com/home-is-where-your-timeline-is-a-sci-fi-word-movie-journey-through-the-facebook-matrix/
https://zaporacle.com/rabbit-hole-navigation-skills-free-video-guide-for-orienteering-in-zones-of-high-strangeness/
Filmed at Zap Oracle Headquarters in Boulder, Colorado this video includes a trans-temporal phone call with Leonardo Da VInci use an experimental prototype technology.
https://zaporacle.com/looking-across-the-event-horizon-and-into-the-singularity
I met up with Simeon Hein recently at the International Congress on Consciousness in Miami where he was a presenter. As the conference was wrapping up, we recorded an interview that is a deep dive into the UFOlogical rabbit hole. We covered a great many key topics such as: psychological and cultural reasons for irrational resistance to paranormal research, key paranormal events in Simeon's early life, and what NASA and aerospace insiders say about hidden NASA space programs, reverse engineering of extra-terrestrial craft, etc.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, Rey Hernandez, and a number of PhDs in physics, neuroscience, psychology and research methodologies founded FREE a non-profit dedicated to investigating the links between various paranormal phenomena and a new paradigm they are developing called "Quantum Holographic Consciousness."
A chain of synchronicities, like a trail of leaf cutter ants, led me to an unexpected conversation with entomologist Sandy Koi on the consciousness of insects. http://realitysandwich.com/321801/i-sting-therefore-i-am-insect-consciousness/
Dr. Kenneth Ring, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and pioneer NDE researcher, connects NDE and the Singularity Archetype by wondering if near-death experiencers might be "the prototype of a new, more advanced strain of the human species striving to come into manifestation? No longer Homo sapiens perhaps. […] Could NDErs be, then, an evolutionary bridge to the next step in our destiny as a species, a 'missing link' in our midst?" (HTO 255). According to Dr Ring, "NDEs are a kind of experiential catalyst for human evolution, that potentially, at least, these experiences that we know have occurred to many millions of persons across the globe are serving the purpose of jump-stepping the human race to a higher level of spiritual awareness and pscyhophysical functioning" (OP 11-12). From my perspective, NDEs are individual encounters with the Singularity Archetype. Possibly, their increased prevalence, and the exponentially increased awareness of them in the collective, may act as a catalyst for the species wide movement toward the evolutionary event horizon.Zap, Jonathan (2012-02-24). Crossing The Event Horizon (Kindle Locations 1822-1834). . Kindle Edition.
https://zaporacle.com/johnmajorjenkins/ - Under somewhat ominous circumstances on Sunday, February 12th of 2017, I drove from where I live in Boulder to the home of my old friend and colleague, John Major Jenkins, who lives in Windsor, Colorado. It was a beautiful day with Colorado's glorious high-altitude lighting and unseasonably warm temperatures. The metaphorical weather, however, was out of synch with the actual weather because there were dark, storm clouds massing on the personal horizon of my old friend. John is facing a life-threatening health crisis, and the main purpose of my visit was to record the long conversation you have in front of you, an in-depth reflection on the meaning of John's most important discoveries, and the triumphs and tribulations of a path of exploration he began when he first visited Mayan ruins at the age of twenty-two.
This dialogue took place in NYC on April 21, 2015 and is meant for people who have already seen Ex Machina. A novel way of looking at the film as a Turing Test directed at the human species is presented.
https://zaporacle.com/carnival-2012-a-psychological-study-of-the-2012-phenomenon-and-the-22-classic-pitfalls-and-blind-spots-of-esoteric-research/
"curious mercurious" and "lapis singularitorum" by Travis Rios
A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler is now available as podcast. The subject headings (which follow) may give you some idea of what's covered:Are you an Interdimensional Traveler? The Secret of Life Inner Independence The Inner Marriage of Yin and Yang Gerund Filter Ego Bashing A Flaw in Many Eastern and New Age Paths Shadow Projection and Integration The Wayfarer's Path Mind and Ego in the Hierarchy of Psychic Functions True Will and Taoism The Ruler and the Minister of the Psyche The Power of Holding Back Solitude as Default Position Reticence Dealing with Afflictive Thoughts and Feelings Emotional Alchemy Neurological Materialism Neural Architecture and The Emotional Body The Low Resolution Amygdala Schemas: Stereotyped Patterns of Emotional Reactivity Trigger Events And Storylines The Law of Dependent Causation Breaking Inner Tape Loops with Numbers Exercises Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle And Self-Observation Mindfulness Pain Management Mindful Self-Observation The Magic Quarter Second Dealing with Shock The Necessity of Shock and the I Ching Homeostasis and Punctuated Equilibrium Contra Naturum Development Initiation and Self-Initiation Subtle and Gross Shocks Catching Things Before they Exit the Gate of Change Attuning to Subtle Shocks Avoid Presumptions about the Shocks of Others Are Shocks Good News or Bad News? Shock as Evolutionary Catalyst When in the Belly of the Beast Never Surrender Thought Experiment In Subcreation Send feedback to jonathanzap@hotmail.comGO TO>>>>>>>>> A GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXEDINTERDIMENSIONAL TRAVELER
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Mutant Mind Meld 1 - http://www.zaporacle.com/bruce-damer - Dr. Bruce Damer and Jonathan Zap at Burning Man 2013. Recorded at Palenque Norte/ Burning Man on August 31, 2013
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