Jul 22, 2025

A Search for Wholeness – Integral Aspirations, Reflections, and Intersections of the Scholar-Practitioner

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay

Summary

In this 50th episode, your hosts, Jonathan Kay and Stephen Julich, reflect on the intersections that shape the evolving path of the scholar-practitioner. This episode traces a search for wholeness through three vital crossings:

• the intersection of thinking and doing, where lived practice challenges the silos of classical knowledge production;
the intersection of the arts and knowledge-making, where expression becomes a mode of inquiry;
and the intersection of soul, creativity, and contemplative introspection, where inner life becomes central to how we know, make, and become.

We reflecting upon the themes from the last 49 episode through the central framework of the East-West Psychology Department; East–West–Earth–World and how they have lead us to better understand the scholar-practitioner model. We explore the limitations of classical knowledge production and the possibilities that emerge when we embrace a holistic approach to co-creative and participatory inquiry. We discuss how the scholar-practitioner is not a hybrid figure balancing roles—but a generative and integral site where research, art, and spirit converge. We ask: How might the humanities begin to embody the kind of quantum paradigm shift that physics once underwent? What forms of cultural practice and shared transformation emerge when we no longer separate thinking from being, or knowledge from soul? This episode is a 50th episode celebration of crossing thresholds—between disciplines, between inner and outer, and toward an integral vision of scholarship attuned to both the whole and the parts.

The EWP Podcast credits

Connect with EWP: Youtube • Facebook
Hosted by Stephen Julich (EWP Core Faculty) and Jonathan Kay (PhD grad)
Produced by: Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Edited and Mixed by: Jonathan Kay
Introduction music: Mosaic, by Monsoon on the album Mandala
Music at the end of the episode: Sound-Space Entanglement (4x+1), by Jonathan Kay
Introduction Voiceover: Roche Wadehra

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Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay

Stephen Julich has worked as an adjunct instructor in History and Anthropology at the City College of New York, as a lecturer in Jungian Studies at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles, and as an adjunct instructor at the California Institute of Integral Studies where he has taught classes on ensouled writing and Western Esotericism.

Jonathan Kay is a professional musician, and is currently a PhD student in the department of East-West Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco under the mentorship of Dr. Debashish Banerji.

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