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Projection – the Enemy of Peace and Justice Part I
copyright 2005 by Jonathan Zap (and with updates and revisions continuing through 2014) Note added Sepetember 16, 2014: My thoughts on projection and the Middle East are always fluctuating and maybe...
View ArticleCorporate Controlled Media Continues to Underplay Celebrity Pregnancies
Why is that every time I go on google news and other corporate controlled media all I hear about is the death of the Pope, the voting for a new Pope, the Marburg virus going airborne,blah, blah, blah...
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Temporary Indeterminate Zone
Storming the Empire, original collage, 1986 by Michale Langenstein Temporary Indeterminate Zone (Note: Somewhat dated writing on 9-11, written days after the event) Copyright Jonathan Zap 9-22-01 On...
View ArticleReality Testing is Politically Incorrect!
I’m all for going down the rabbit hole, but don’t relinquish your discernment. Writing and Photo © 2006, 2010 by Jonathan Zap I think I just realized why I get into trouble with so many...
View ArticleJihad Against the Feminine
Jihad Against the Feminine By Sean Moffitt of womensassistance.com photo, “Rebirth of the Feminine” copyright Jonathan Zap Subjugation and abuse of women is one of the most critical social issues in...
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The Batman Shootings and Crossover Effects
Podcast on youtube – http://youtu.be/FkF_NhbLLQk Download podcast mp3 file – http://archive.org/download/TheBatmanShootingsAndCrossoverEffects/Batman-Crossover-2.mp3 copyright Jonathan Zap, 2012 The...
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Timelines Trembling Before the Collapse of the Wave Function
copyright Jonathan Zap 2012 painting copyright Nathan Zap see a gallery of my dad’s paintings here: Nocturnal Visions—the Paintings of Nathan Zap (This painting was based on a Kodachrome slide I took...
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American Cyclopath
copyright Jonathan Zap, 2013 (A review of the Lance Armstrong/Oprah Winfrey interview. Watch excerpts on the: OWN network website) There are liars, damned liars and then there is Lance Armstrong, who...
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How to Empower Evil: Keep Talking About They
Image by Steve Von Schultz © Jonathan Zap, 2013 “I Stood Upon a High Place” I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, 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 the main stream media is nothing but lies and that we...
View ArticleFloat like a Butterfly, Sting like A Bee—a Personal Reaction to the Death of Ali
I thought of Ali yesterday, before the news, when I read that Iceland (where I’m traveling) was about the size of Kentucky, which made me wonder about how Ali, who is from Kentucky, was doing these...
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Bowie—Our Greatest Personification of the Androgyne and the Singularity...
More than any other figure in popular culture, David Bowie embodied and personified androgyny* and the “Singularity Archetype** (see definitions of these terms below).” Androgyny is about far more than...
View ArticleTrump’s Amazing Freudian Slip
The unconscious can talk right past our ego and persona, sometimes to perfectly contradict what our false personality is saying. Freud wrote about this in 1900, and such moments came to be called...
View ArticleE.L. Doctorow, 1931-2015
I just learned that my mentor and adviser at the NYU creative writing program, and one of America’s greatest novelists, E.L. Doctorow, died at age 84. Edgar (he was named after Edgar Allen Poe whom he...
View ArticleToo Much Info Bro – Even if You are a Superstar, Giving Away Too Much of...
Social media poses temptations to disclose too much to people in general, but even private messages and conversations with friends can also be cases of “meeting more than halfway” as the I Ching puts...
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Year of the Selfie—Are Camera Phones Killing Photography?
photos and text by Jonathan Zap Cover Image: Shadow Selfie by Jonathan Zap, taken with an Iphone 4s at the Sonic Bloom Festival, 2012 Article inspiring this blog: The death of photography: are camera...
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Take a Three Question Quiz to test your Perception of the World
photo: stenciled graffiti I found in an underpass in Boulder, Colorado Image for Zap Oracle card #423 Light and Dark are Interrelated Elements Take a quick three question quiz to test your sense of the...
View ArticleBreaking News Alert: Stop Telling Me About the Following Predictable Crap
On a planet of 7 billion people, every few weeks a train derailment will unfortunately kill a few people, something will go wrong with a passenger jet, a bus with a high school sports team will crash,...
View ArticleWhy Black Friday Matters
During the annual Thursday that I now call Black Friday Eve, my thoughts and feelings turn with joyous exuberance to this day that has come to remind us of what this country is all about and what...
View ArticleRomney’s Freudian Slips and Fluctuations in the Force
We are going to talk about aspirations and American ideals; about bringing people together to serve….to solve the urgent problems facing our nation. And when that message wins in America, it will be...
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