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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 Cook

The 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 Book

This 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 Elves

Note: 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/

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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 Revival

The 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 Slip

Exploring the Unconscious

Real People Suck —An Imaginary Person’s Manifesto

Hurtling Toward Trumpocalypse 

Beware the Hollow Folk

A Splinter in Your Mind

A Shocking Rise in White Death Rates in Midlife—And What It Says About American Society

Zap Oracle website home page

Consult the Zap Oracle

Crossing the Event Horizon—The Singularity Archetype and Human Metamorphosis

Tolkien and the Developmental Need for Evil

Dynamic Paradoxicalism—the Anti-Ism Ism

Never Trust a Winner 

Can Post Trumpocalyptic Retrocausation Save Mankind?

Jonathan J. Zap Making Facebook Great Again

Docudrama on Trump’s Early Years Provides Cautionary Insights

Breaking News—RNC to Replace Trump/Pence with Camacho/Smith Ticket

All the Conspiracy Theories about Killary are True

Dispatch from the Trumpocalypse 

You Are Living in a 3% Alternate Reality Since Trumpocalypse

Trump Promoting Fake News a Cottage Industry for Macedonian Teenagers

Twin Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse

Take the Red Pill—Trumpocalypse  Reveals that You Live in a Simulated Matrix

Aboriginals Celebrate Sith Culture and More Sith News

An Interview with Sith Historian Sean Moffitt

Take the Red Pill Exegesis

Interpretive Magic

Mind Parasites, Energy Parasites and Vampires

Alex Grey and the Mind Parasites

A Gnostic View of Mind Parasites

Mind Parasite Section of Zap Oracle

Problems with the Conspiratist World View

If Not Trump, You a Dream on the Morning of the Inauguration

How Soon is Now Podcast (Episodes 3 and 7 are trialogues with Daniel Pinchbeck, Jonathan Zap and Anthony Peake

Trump a Black Swan Hatched from the Sulfurous Corpse of Roy Cohn

Trump’s Third Rail—Forgetting that the American Psyche has more than One Subpersonality

Trump’s Cognitive Decline

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.