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About 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.
NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen Julich and:
April 6, 2024
Art Practice as Research, Creative Pathways and New Directions between East-WestPsychology and the MFA at CIIS
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 …
February 8, 2024
Order and Disorder in South Asia
This episode is dedicated to introducing the South Asian Studies Association (SASA) and their annual academic conference being co-hosted by the Asian …
January 14, 2024
Cultivating Contemplative Civilization and a New Civilization of Love and Ahimsa (Non-Violence)
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 …
September 11, 2023
The Emergence of Integral Consciousness and Sustainability and Contemplative Civilization
This is a special podcast to introduce two upcoming sister conferences at California Institute of Integral Studies this September, to celebrate 150 Ye…
September 4, 2023
The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul
In this episode we speak with Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness core faculty, Jack Bagby about his engagement with the philosophy of music, from…
June 2, 2023
Contemplative Psychotherapy
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…
May 15, 2023
Inside the Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Part 2)
This episode is a continuation of our conversation with ACTS student Devdip Ganguli. We discuss principals and politics of spiritual anarchy and Devdi…
May 8, 2023
Inside the Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Part 1)
In this episode, we meet ACTS student Devdip Ganguli and learn about his upbringing in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Devdip discusses his experiences grow…
April 6, 2023
How to Manifest a Posthuman Existence Not Only in Theory, but in Practice?
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…
March 30, 2023
Arts-Based Collective Reading of Existential Posthumanism
Today’s podcast features a collective reading of Francesca Ferrando’s new text Existential Posthumanism: A Manifesto. It is set to a drone instrument …
February 27, 2023
The Supramental Ship and Mothership Earth Conference
In episode 27, we met Dr. Sangeeta Sahi and discussed her innovative approaches to integrative health and wholeness, focusing on the individual. In th…
February 13, 2023
Towards the Integral Pluralism of Vijnana Vedanta through the lineage of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo
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…
February 2, 2023
ID
Understanding theories and notions of identity, self-making, personhood, transpersonal relationality between self and other, self and cosmos, are ques…
December 29, 2022
Postcolonial and Posthuman World-Making
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…
November 28, 2022
Sri Aurobindo, the Psychic Being, and Integrative Medicine
In this episode we meet Dr. Sangeeta Sahi, who during her medical training found that “scientifically unexplainable healing instances” lead her to for…
November 7, 2022
Faith Seeking Understanding
In this episode we speak to Patrick Beldio, academic professor, sculptor, devotee of Mehar Baba and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, about the intersecti…
October 31, 2022
"Thinking as Thanking”
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…
October 10, 2022
“Don’t follow leaders, watch your parking meters”
This episode features a monologue by Jim Ryan, long time California Institute of Integral Studies faculty, about his journey to India which inspired h…
September 19, 2022
Mandala of Individuation: An Integral Jungian Reinterpretation of Art History
In this podcast, we meet Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness Ph.D. Olena Provencher, who shares her journey from Russia to the USA and eventually …
September 5, 2022
“What is a Word?”
In this episode we meet Gail Sher, an award-winning poet, writer, teacher, psychotherapist, and Zen practitioner. We discuss Gail's cross-cultural spi…
August 22, 2022
Becoming-Animal, Primal Metaphysics, and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Scholar-Activism in the Environmental Humanities
Today we speak with Chantal Noa Forbes, PhD from the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Department at CIIS. Chantal talks about her roots growing up …
August 15, 2022
“Living One’s Own Experiment”
Today we speak with David Odorisio, East-West Psychology PhD, about Eastern and Western wisdom traditions, searching for wholeness, and the integratio…
August 8, 2022
Spiritual Evolution, the Problem of Suffering, and the Birth of the Future Human
Today Judson Davis, East-West Psychology PhD, takes us on a guided meditation and the conversation emerges from themes that arose in this liminal spac…
August 2, 2022
Classroom as a Sacred Space and Presence as Radical Respect
In this episode we speak to EWP PhD graduate and EWP and ITP adjunct faculty Holly Adler from her classroom in Oakland, CA. As a teacher of underprivi…