East-West Psychology Podcast

East-West Psychology Podcast

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Polyphonic Becoming: Creative Spirituality, the Arts, and the Essence of Freedom in Education with Lucien Dante Lazar

August 25, 2024

Polyphonic Becoming

Lucien Dante Lazar

In this podcast we meet CIIS student Lucian Dante Lazar to discuss his research at the intersections of spirituality and the arts, aiming towards the …

Bodies of Culture: Introducing the Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis with Preston Vargas and Deanna Jimenez

June 23, 2024

Bodies of Culture

Preston Vargas and Deanna Jimenez

In this episode we meet Preston Vargas, the director of the Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis, and Deanna Jimenez, Assistant Professor in the Som…

African Cosmologies with Dr. Butterfly

May 11, 2024

African Cosmologies with Dr. Butterfly

Anthony “Butterfly” Williams

In this episode we speak with EWP adjunct professor Dr. Butterfly, along with students, Tayina Fenelus and Cameron Rice, who both took his class on Af…

Art Practice as Research, Creative Pathways and New Directions between East-West Psychology and the MFA at CIIS

April 6, 2024

Art Practice as Research, Creative Pathways and New Directions between East-WestPsychology and the MFA at CIIS

Cindy Shearer and Debashish Banerji

In this episode, we speak to Cindy Shearer, head of the MFA, and Debashish Banerji, chair of East-West Psychology about how their ideas on the vision …

Order and Disorder in South Asia with Christopher Chapple and Debashish Banerji

February 8, 2024

Order and Disorder in South Asia

Christopher Chapple and Debashish Banerji

This episode is dedicated to introducing the South Asian Studies Association (SASA) and their annual academic conference being co-hosted by the Asian …

Cultivating Contemplative Civilization and a New Civilization of Love and Ahimsa (Non-Violence) with Ananta Giri Kumar

January 14, 2024

Cultivating Contemplative Civilization and a New Civilization of Love and Ahimsa (Non-Violence)

Ananta Giri Kumar

This episode we speak with Dr. Ananta Giri Kumar, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, who was recently a guest speaker at the …

The Emergence of Integral Consciousness and Sustainability and Contemplative Civilization

September 11, 2023

The Emergence of Integral Consciousness and Sustainability and Contemplative Civilization

Debashish Banerji and Glenn Aparicio Parry
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This is a special podcast to introduce two upcoming sister conferences at California Institute of Integral Studies this September, to celebrate 150 Ye…

The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul with Jack Bagby

September 4, 2023

The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul

Jack Bagby

In this episode we speak with Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness core faculty, Jack Bagby about his engagement with the philosophy of music, from…

Contemplative Psychotherapy: Intersections of Science, Spirituality and Buddhism

June 2, 2023

Contemplative Psychotherapy

Joseph Loizzo
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In this episode we meet Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD, who is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over forty years’ exp…

Inside the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Integral Education, and the Politics of Spiritual Anarchy with Devdip Ganguli (Part 2)

May 15, 2023

Inside the Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Part 2)

Devdip Ganguli

This episode is a continuation of our conversation with ACTS student Devdip Ganguli. We discuss principals and politics of spiritual anarchy and Devdi…

Inside the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Integral Education, and the Politics of Spiritual Anarchy with Devdip Ganguli (Part 1)

May 8, 2023

Inside the Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Part 1)

Devdip Ganguli

In this episode, we meet ACTS student Devdip Ganguli and learn about his upbringing in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Devdip discusses his experiences grow…

How to Manifest a Posthuman Existence Not Only in Theory, but in Practice?

April 6, 2023

How to Manifest a Posthuman Existence Not Only in Theory, but in Practice?

Francesca Ferrando

This episode is a continuation from our previous reading of Francesca Ferrando’s new text Existential Posthumanism: A Manifesto. We will take a deep d…

Arts-Based Collective Reading of Existential Posthumanism: A Manifesto with Francesca Ferrando

March 30, 2023

Arts-Based Collective Reading of Existential Posthumanism

Francesca Ferrando

Today’s podcast features a collective reading of Francesca Ferrando’s new text Existential Posthumanism: A Manifesto. It is set to a drone instrument …

The Supramental Ship and Mothership Earth Conference with Sangeeta Sahi

February 27, 2023

The Supramental Ship and Mothership Earth Conference

Sangeeta Sahi

In episode 27, we met Dr. Sangeeta Sahi and discussed her innovative approaches to integrative health and wholeness, focusing on the individual. In th…

Towards the Integral Pluralism of Vijnana Vedanta through the lineage of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo

February 13, 2023

Towards the Integral Pluralism of Vijnana Vedanta through the lineage of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo

Swami Medhananda

In this episode we meet Swami Medhananda, ordained monk in the order of Sri Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. He is also an extremely well respected schola…

ID: Identity Dialogues with Debashish Banerji and Leslie Combs

February 2, 2023

ID

Debashish Banerji and Leslie Combs

Understanding theories and notions of identity, self-making, personhood, transpersonal relationality between self and other, self and cosmos, are ques…

Postcolonial and Posthuman World-Making: Introducing Asian Contemplative and Transcultural Studies (ACTS)

December 29, 2022

Postcolonial and Posthuman World-Making

Debashish Banerji

In this episode we speak with East-West Psychology chair Debashish Banerji to discuss the foundations of a new concentration in the EWP department tit…

Sri Aurobindo, the Psychic Being, and Integrative Medicine with Sangeeta Sahi

November 28, 2022

Sri Aurobindo, the Psychic Being, and Integrative Medicine

Sangeeta Sahi

In this episode we meet Dr. Sangeeta Sahi, who during her medical training found that “scientifically unexplainable healing instances” lead her to for…

Faith Seeking Understanding: Scholar-Practitioner approaches to Theology, Religious Studies, and Symbols in Integral Transformation

November 7, 2022

Faith Seeking Understanding

Patrick Beldio

In this episode we speak to Patrick Beldio, academic professor, sculptor, devotee of Mehar Baba and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, about the intersecti…

"Thinking as Thanking”: From Original Thinking to Original Love with Glenn Aparicio Parry

October 31, 2022

"Thinking as Thanking”

Glenn Aparicio Parry

Today, the podcast starts with a prayer from our guest, Glenn Aparicio Parry, PhD (Humanities); East-West Psychology MA (both from CIIS), and now adju…