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A very practical and grounded way to navigate your pathway through a chaotic world.

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This essay covers, among many topics, projection as the key to understanding conflict in the Middle East and violence generally, the problem with fundamentalism and particularly Islamic fundamentalism, some thoughts and personal experiences related to anti-Semitism and it concludes with one of the most amazing synchronicites of my entire life which occurred as I worked on this, and that even has implications of the spirit surviving the death of the body.

In the Spring of 2006, John Major Jenkins and Jonathan Zap were reminded that it had been exactly ten years since they had met through the late visionary genius Terence McKenna during a long, strange weekend in 1996. Both still felt haunted by Terence’s untimely passing, and thought about writing a book about him and how his work related to and influenced theirs, a kind of trialogue with the dead. Then they tentatively decided the book would focus on 2012 and the working title became: “Dialogues at the Edge of 2012 ----Journeying toward the Event Horizon amidst the New Age Carnival and Fundamentalist Doom Sayers.” Jonathan wanted the title to be “Carnival 2012” and aimed to expose all the projections and unworthy intentions swirling around this date. But man proposes, and the muse disposes. What ended up happening is that they each wrote about this long, strange weekend which culminated in an all night tape-recorded conversation in Jonathan’s camper. During the camper conversation they each introduced the strange convergence of elements that became the call to adventure leading them into mutant pathways and the weekend of convergence. And then, about a third of the way into transcription of the camper conversation, the muse suddenly diverted both of them into other projects, and the account of the weekend lay neglected, a curio made of zeros and ones lying on dusty shelves in various hard drives. Jonathan (who wrote this little introduction) rediscovered it in 2008, languishing within the narrow confines of an old thumb drive, and decided it was time to release it into the wild.

The cycle end-date of the Mayan Long Count calendar, an authentic artifact of an ancient Mesoamerican culture worthy of serious investigation, became the focus of contemporary psychopathology and cultural projection in a way that is fascinating as its own artifact worthy of serious investigation.

This is Part II of an ongoing dialogue with Ron Lampi on Mythos

My most autobiographical essay, I discuss my history of relating to the creative muse and general principles that can assist anyone in relating to the creative process. Besides the article I wrote for Holistic Education Review, Crossing the Great Stream----Education and the Evolving Self, this essay has the most to say about my philosophy of education.

An Invitation to You, the Interdimensional Traveler. Proof that you are an Interdimensional Traveler. Who are you? The Babylon Matrix. The Looking Glass of Ones and Zeros. The Secret of Life. The I Ching and Inner Independence. Grasping for the Hottie. The Inner Marriage of Yin and Yang. Grasping for Precious and Plato’s Symposium. Fractured Androgyny and the Matrix. Hexagram 44 and Meeting Halfway—the Touchstone for Relationship.