Jonathan Zap's blog

Money is magic, a highly symbolic artifact woven together by the massive intentions of the collective human psyche. It is a signifier of stored energy, as much as a battery or a gas tank, an ability to do work, to do magic, to make things happen. (more)

To really engage the creative process you cannot merely look through a sealed looking glass into an alternate reality, you must fall through the looking glass and allow yourself to be swept along by the current. (more)

I had come to the High Desert Carnival Realm with a magical agenda: to ritualize the experience by associating the Incendiary Person with aspects of myself that I wanted to transform, aspects I linked to Thanatos, the death drive, so that the burning would parallel my intention to transcend.  (more)

Some movies that have high access to the contents of the collective unconscious are "window zones" or portals between realms, and weird and uncanny things happen in their wake. Particularly, movies about dark, occult things have a long history of these crossover effects. (more)

Now that it is politically incorrect for age to be a number, apparently my age is based on how I feel. But how I feel is always changing. So let's take off the beer goggles of you-create-your-own-reality, New Age wish-fulfillment thinking. You are as old as you are and what people really mean by aging is something far more serious and tragic than age. (more)

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 amongst religious fundamentalists and the Right.  (more)

Many entities revel in the momentary explosions which are called "orgasms," mini-reversals of the Big Bang; they are like little bangs where Eachness explodes into Oneness. Often Eachness and Oneness get entangled and confused, and the desire to experience Oneness through a Hottie causes blindness to the Eachness of the Hottie. (more)

We must be aware of psychopaths when we design financial structures. Since psychopaths are a force of nature we are unlikely to eliminate, we should harness their unique talents to serve the socially useful purpose of catching other psychopaths. We need a highly motivated team of clever reptiles and foxes to catch other reptiles and foxes. (more)

I caution people about going to a rave with a sketchy vibe and taking a boundary-dissolving substance. Unless you want to internalize a carnival of lost souls it is probably unwise to blow yourself wide open in a setting of trance-inducing music/lighting and stoned people, many of them on the prowl for parasitic sexual encounters. (more)

The Singularity Archetype is a resonance, flowing backward through time, of an approaching Singularity at the end of human history. Since the Singularity Archetype is a ubiquitous hologram, you don’t have to see it through my eyes. It is like a mote of light you can see reflected in the eyes of multitudes. (more)

To push a larger envelope you need panoramic vision. You need to be able to look all around you to make sure that you are pushing the largest envelope possible. If you commit yourself to pushing the envelope into a narrow tunnel, significant parts of you get stripped off so that you can fit into that space. (more)

An Interdimensional Traveler must have a moral purpose, and must be aware of all the shrinking rays that press upon us. The price of freedom for the Traveler is eternal vigilance about the sticky enchantments that would like to bind us to the Babylon Matrix and turn us into hordes of automatons and hungry ghosts. (more)