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Parallel Journeys
Does this reality feel fundamentally wrong to you? What if the truths of what lies hidden are exposed in the journal of a survivor of an extinction-level event in our near future? His journals have been sent back in time to warn us about the perilous edge between extinction and evolutionary metamorphosis on which the fate of our species trembles. The survivor writing to us is an empathic eighteen-year-old named Tommy. He’s been sealed in a 3-acre biosphere with just one other person, and the outside world has been radio-silent for the three years of their enclosure. Tommy is in telepathic contact with someone living during our time who may hold the key to an evolutionary metamorphosis. The journals, entitled, Parallel Journeys, have been sent back in time to inspire you to create your own metamorphic butterfly effects to help our species avoid extinction and survive in a new form.
1068 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 26, 2023
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February 8, 2025
Some books you read. Some books transport you into it. Parallel Journeys is something else altogether.
This is a tricky book to review. It refused to be pinned down and got deep under my skin. It slides between categories: part adventure, part psychological excavation, part metaphysical thought experiment. Hyper rich iin content and never losing momentum. There's an undercurrent of fantasy—one that seduces, but also unsettles. Something in me doesn't want to acknowledge it, yet I can't stop reflecting on it.
At its core, Parallel Journeys is about transformation—the kind we long for, the kind we resist, the kind that comes whether we invite it or not. Jonathan Zap is ruthlessly transparent about his own quirks, threading together philosophy, fiction, and psychological depth in a way that makes it impossible to separate the story from its themes. Probable futures, improbable encounters, personal limitations that feel eerily familiar.
It felt like like each of the characters had something of me in them. Their struggles aren’t distant—it's about the grey zones we all navigate. Trying to do good in a world that’s constantly shifting. Trying to evolve without losing the parts of ourselves that matter. The book doesn't offer easy answers, and that's what makes it work. Instead of resolving problems, it shows how they keep transforming when one keeps engaging with them. A new phase for humans comes with new kinds of problems.
I finished this book on the lunar new year, the day we shift from the year of the dragon (my sign) to the year of the snake. That same day, my own journey flipped—asked to leave where I was staying, the project I’d planned dissolving into thin air. The next day, an unlikely route home appeared. Coincidence? Maybe. But that’s the thing with this book: it wove itself into my life, aligning with it in ways that felt too precise to ignore.
If you feel like the world is on the verge of something—something vast, something in need of intervention—you’ll enjoy reading this. If you’ve ever felt a little alien, like your real connections are rare but deep, this book will speak to you. If you're drawn to the hidden undercurrents of humanity, this is your kind of trip. Just be warned: it might entangle itself with your life in ways you didn’t expect.
This is a tricky book to review. It refused to be pinned down and got deep under my skin. It slides between categories: part adventure, part psychological excavation, part metaphysical thought experiment. Hyper rich iin content and never losing momentum. There's an undercurrent of fantasy—one that seduces, but also unsettles. Something in me doesn't want to acknowledge it, yet I can't stop reflecting on it.
At its core, Parallel Journeys is about transformation—the kind we long for, the kind we resist, the kind that comes whether we invite it or not. Jonathan Zap is ruthlessly transparent about his own quirks, threading together philosophy, fiction, and psychological depth in a way that makes it impossible to separate the story from its themes. Probable futures, improbable encounters, personal limitations that feel eerily familiar.
It felt like like each of the characters had something of me in them. Their struggles aren’t distant—it's about the grey zones we all navigate. Trying to do good in a world that’s constantly shifting. Trying to evolve without losing the parts of ourselves that matter. The book doesn't offer easy answers, and that's what makes it work. Instead of resolving problems, it shows how they keep transforming when one keeps engaging with them. A new phase for humans comes with new kinds of problems.
I finished this book on the lunar new year, the day we shift from the year of the dragon (my sign) to the year of the snake. That same day, my own journey flipped—asked to leave where I was staying, the project I’d planned dissolving into thin air. The next day, an unlikely route home appeared. Coincidence? Maybe. But that’s the thing with this book: it wove itself into my life, aligning with it in ways that felt too precise to ignore.
If you feel like the world is on the verge of something—something vast, something in need of intervention—you’ll enjoy reading this. If you’ve ever felt a little alien, like your real connections are rare but deep, this book will speak to you. If you're drawn to the hidden undercurrents of humanity, this is your kind of trip. Just be warned: it might entangle itself with your life in ways you didn’t expect.
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