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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:

East-West Psychology Podcast September 11, 2023

The Emergence of Integral Consciousness and Sustainability and Contemplative Civilization

A Discussion with Debashish Banerji and Glenn Aparicio Parry

Debashish Banerji and Glenn Aparicio Parry

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
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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 Years of Sri Aurobindo, the pioneer of Integral …
East-West Psychology Podcast September 4, 2023

The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul

A Discussion with Jack Bagby

Jack Bagby

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode we speak with Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness core faculty, Jack Bagby about his engagement with the philosophy of music, from Socrates, to Schopenhauer, and Bergson. We discuss …
East-West Psychology Podcast June 2, 2023

Contemplative Psychotherapy

Intersections of Science, Spirituality and Buddhism

Joseph Loizzo

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
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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’ experience studying the beneficial effects of contemplative practices …
East-West Psychology Podcast May 15, 2023

Inside the Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Part 2)

Integral Education and the Politics of Spiritual Anarchy

Devdip Ganguli

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
This episode is a continuation of our conversation with ACTS student Devdip Ganguli. We discuss principals and politics of spiritual anarchy and Devdip speaks about Peter Heehs’ controversial book “The …
East-West Psychology Podcast May 8, 2023

Inside the Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Part 1)

Integral Education and the Politics of Spiritual Anarchy

Devdip Ganguli

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode, we meet ACTS student Devdip Ganguli and learn about his upbringing in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Devdip discusses his experiences growing up in an intentional yogic community …
East-West Psychology Podcast April 6, 2023

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

Francesca Ferrando

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
This episode is a continuation from our previous reading of Francesca Ferrando’s new text Existential Posthumanism: A Manifesto. We will take a deep dive into unpacking this text section by …
East-West Psychology Podcast March 30, 2023

Arts-Based Collective Reading of Existential Posthumanism

A Manifesto

Francesca Ferrando

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Today’s podcast features a collective reading of Francesca Ferrando’s new text Existential Posthumanism: A Manifesto. It is set to a drone instrument called a sound bed, made up on a …
East-West Psychology Podcast February 27, 2023

The Supramental Ship and Mothership Earth Conference

A Conversation with Sangeeta Sahi

Sangeeta Sahi

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In episode 27, we met Dr. Sangeeta Sahi and discussed her innovative approaches to integrative health and wholeness, focusing on the individual. In this episode we extend the scope of …
East-West Psychology Podcast February 13, 2023

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

An interview with Swami Medhananda

Swami Medhananda

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode we meet Swami Medhananda, ordained monk in the order of Sri Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. He is also an extremely well respected scholar working in the fields of …
East-West Psychology Podcast February 2, 2023

ID

Identity Dialogues with Debashish Banerji and Leslie Combs

Debashish Banerji and Leslie Combs

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Understanding theories and notions of identity, self-making, personhood, transpersonal relationality between self and other, self and cosmos, are questions of central importance to the East-West Psychology department. Throughout history, cultures …
East-West Psychology Podcast December 29, 2022

Postcolonial and Posthuman World-Making

Introducing Asian Contemplative and Transcultural Studies (ACTS)

Debashish Banerji

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode we speak with East-West Psychology chair Debashish Banerji to discuss the foundations of a new concentration in the EWP department titled Asian Contemplative and Transcultural Studies (ACTS) …
East-West Psychology Podcast November 28, 2022

Sri Aurobindo, the Psychic Being, and Integrative Medicine

A Discussion with Sangeeta Sahi

Sangeeta Sahi

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode we meet Dr. Sangeeta Sahi, who during her medical training found that “scientifically unexplainable healing instances” lead her to formulate a framework called Integrative Medicine. Sangeeta shares …
East-West Psychology Podcast November 7, 2022

Faith Seeking Understanding

Scholar-Practitioner approaches to Theology, Religious Studies, and Symbols in Integral Transformation

Patrick Beldio

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode we speak to Patrick Beldio, academic professor, sculptor, devotee of Mehar Baba and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, about the intersection of theology and religious studies in …
East-West Psychology Podcast October 31, 2022

"Thinking as Thanking”

From Original Thinking to Original Love with Glenn Aparicio Parry

Glenn Aparicio Parry

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Today, the podcast starts with a prayer from our guest, Glenn Aparicio Parry, PhD (Humanities); East-West Psychology MA (both from CIIS), and now adjunct faculty at CIIS. Glenn speaks about …
East-West Psychology Podcast October 10, 2022

“Don’t follow leaders, watch your parking meters”

Haridas Chaudhuri, Anti-Gurus, and Cross-Cultural Adventures with Jim Ryan

Jim Ryan

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
This episode features a monologue by Jim Ryan, long time California Institute of Integral Studies faculty, about his journey to India which inspired him to do a PhD in Tamil …
East-West Psychology Podcast September 19, 2022

Mandala of Individuation: An Integral Jungian Reinterpretation of Art History

A Discussion with Olena Provencher

Olena Provencher

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this podcast, we meet Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness Ph.D. Olena Provencher, who shares her journey from Russia to the USA and eventually being called to CIIS to pursue her …
East-West Psychology Podcast September 5, 2022

“What is a Word?”

Language Beyond Language, Wisdom Mind Poems, and Zen Koans with Gail Sher

Gail Sher

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode we meet Gail Sher, an award-winning poet, writer, teacher, psychotherapist, and Zen practitioner. We discuss Gail's cross-cultural spiritual and artistic life, including forty years of her Zen …
East-West Psychology Podcast August 22, 2022

Becoming-Animal, Primal Metaphysics, and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Scholar-Activism in the Environmental Humanities

A Discussion with Chantal Noa Forbes

Chantal Noa Forbes

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Today we speak with Chantal Noa Forbes, PhD from the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion Department at CIIS. Chantal talks about her roots growing up in South Africa and how attending …
East-West Psychology Podcast August 15, 2022

“Living One’s Own Experiment”

Heretical Individuation, Alchemical Hermeneutics, and Cross-Cultural Mytho-Poetics

David Odorisio

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Today we speak with David Odorisio, East-West Psychology PhD, about Eastern and Western wisdom traditions, searching for wholeness, and the integration of monasticism and contemplative spirituality with relationship and partnership …
East-West Psychology Podcast August 8, 2022

Spiritual Evolution, the Problem of Suffering, and the Birth of the Future Human

A Discussion with Judson Davis

Judson Davis

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Today Judson Davis, East-West Psychology PhD, takes us on a guided meditation and the conversation emerges from themes that arose in this liminal space. Through integral frameworks we discuss the …
East-West Psychology Podcast August 2, 2022

Classroom as a Sacred Space and Presence as Radical Respect

Pedagogy Beyond Neo-liberal Narratives and Dystopian Realities with Holly Adler

Holly Adler

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
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 underprivileged and marginalized …
East-West Psychology Podcast July 25, 2022

Micro-Presencing

Psycho-Somatic Soul Work as Movement, Expression, and Improvisation through Connection with the Small

Shannon Gray

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode we meet East-West Psychology MA Graduate, Shannon Gray, a trapeze artist and circus performer who after a devastating fall, came to EWP to process and explore this …
East-West Psychology Podcast July 18, 2022

“Every Step a Prayer”

Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous Wisdom Traditions and Decolonizing Shamanism

Phillip Scott

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode, we meet East-West Psychology adjunct faculty member, Chief Philip Scott, who recounts his journey from learning ballet in his youth to becoming a professional ballet dancer and …
East-West Psychology Podcast July 11, 2022

Sitting in Forgetfulness, Alchemical Transformation, and Spiritual Homeland

A Discussion with Qi Ge

Qi Ge

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode we meet East-West Psychology Phd student, Qi Ge, who recalls early hardships in her life and how through a spiritual crisis she left her roots in China …