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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:
March 5, 2026
Complementarity and Integration
Today we meet EWP adjunct faculty Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith to explore her work in Utopian studies, shaped by her upbringing in Auroville and he…
December 28, 2025
Divine Materialism and Integral Cosmology
In this episode, we explore Marco Masi’s article “The Integral Cosmology of Sri Aurobindo: An Introduction from the Perspective of Consciousness Studi…
December 23, 2025
“Look hard enough at anything and you will eventually see everything”
In this episode, we meet Lon Milo DuQuette, who shares his lifelong journey in the Western hermetic and magical traditions, including his initiation i…
December 20, 2025
Integral Perspectives
In this episode, Sean MacCracken reflects on his experience at the American Academy of Religion, noticing a shift toward more participatory, contempla…
August 5, 2025
“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Revolutionary Spirituality
In this episode, “Truth is a Pathless Land,” we speak with Transformative Inquiry Program faculty member Connie Jones to explore the micropolitical st…
July 22, 2025
A Search for Wholeness – Integral Aspirations, Reflections, and Intersections of the Scholar-Practitioner
In this 50th episode, your hosts, Jonathan Kay and Stephen Julich, reflect on the intersections that shape the evolving path of the scholar-practition…
December 25, 2024
Tantra, Religious Studies, Methodology and the Practitioner-Scholar Turn with Sundari Johansen
In this podcast we meet CIIS faculty member Sundari Johansen and speak about how her academic background in religious studies informs the critical per…
December 22, 2024
Spiritual Activism, Liberation Magic, and the Great Mystery with Lou Florez
Today we speak with Lou Florez about his life as a diviner and metaphysical reader who facilitates spiritual connectivity and transformational empower…
December 2, 2024
Liminal Objects of Attraction
In this episode we meet Krysti Keener, a student in the East-West Psychology/MFA Masters Program, and hear of how she came to cultivate a transformati…
November 3, 2024
Consciousness Studies Beyond Disciplines: The Metaphysics of Transdisciplinarity
In this podcast we meet Matt Segall, core faculty in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness Program at CIIS. We discuss the need for new methods…
October 13, 2024
Earth-bound Spirituality, the Ethics of Care, and Indigenous Song as Medicine
Today we speak to East-West Psychology adjunct faculty Susana Bustos, about growing up in Chile and how her roots in music and psychology lead her to …
August 25, 2024
Polyphonic Becoming
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 …
June 23, 2024
Bodies of Culture
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…
May 11, 2024
African Cosmologies with Dr. Butterfly
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…
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 …