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December 2009 
Julian's Two Year Zaadz/Gaia Selected Archive
Posted on Aug 26th, 2008
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Julian
Julian
It's my Two Year Anniversary - Happy Birthday Blog!
What is the post-New Age paradigm? How do we TRULY integrate East and West, mind and body, sense and soul, psyche and spirit, spacious contemplation and razor-sharp discernment? What can we learn from honestly examining the mistakes of the past and how do we move forward as initiated spiritual adults?
Hi Everyone!
I started blogging here at Zaadz two years ago this month. Which also happens to be my regular birthday month. This has been an amazing experience.
Birthday cake 2
The central underlying theme of my entire blog is that this new vision has three key elements:
1) Cognitive Development/Critical Thinking
2) Shadow Work/Psychological Awareness and Process
3) Inquiry-Based Practice
I began as a way to try and organize my thoughts toward writing a book, and to create more community around both my ideas of a 21st Century Spirituality and the practical application of Ken Wilber's Integral Theory.
Prior to beginning this blog I didn't know a single person who read Ken Wilber, six months in I had been invited to do a dialog with him on The Secret for his Integral Naked Website! I also have no educational background to speak of - I came to America a poor refugee immigrant on the run from a pending jail sentence as a South African conscientious objector in the waning years of Apartheid. It has been extraordinary to find a community of spiritual intellectuals with wide interests and education and get into the engaging dialog we have created!
I am marking this two year anniversary with some birthday aspirations/intentions. As I did on my one year anniversary,I am going to make this into an archival blog post that will be a way for readers to navigate through my extensive body of work: symposia, movie reviews/analysis, and theoretical writing on my own thinking about my work in the world as a healer/bodyworker/DJ/retreat leader/cleanse coach/dance facilitator/yoga teacher/mentor to other teachers and healers.
This archival organization will include work from both my first and second year here on Zaadz/Gaia, but will select only the pieces I am the most proud of and that are the most widely read.
By the way - I was recently nominated as a Brillante Weblog for the Premio awards!
brillante-weblog
See below for the Two Year Selected Archive or Click here for the complete One Year Anniversary list.
Perhaps you are already feeling what comes next: I will not be blogging for a while, but plan instead to focus on both writing my book and getting it published. Words cannot express my gratitude to those who have supported, challenged, refined and cheered on my efforts here over the past two years. I need to restructure my time so as to devote more attention to my personal practice of yoga and meditation, serious writing toward Making The Leap: 21st Century Spirituality and taking my work in the world to it's next level as I enter my15th year in that endeavor.
In the meantime, I am leaving you with a deep archive of material to explore, and I hope you will link people to this blogpost when you want to introduce them to my thinking.
The website for my teaching and healing work (which will get a major face-lift later this year) is www.julianwalkeryoga.com
Those of you who want to experience that work in person, consider coming to my Earth and Sky Retreat to Ojai May 28-31, 2009.
I will also be in Tampa Bay, Vancouver, and at Kripalu and Esalen in 2009 - stay tuned to my above website for info...
THE JULIAN WALKER TWO YEAR SELECTED BLOG ARCHIVE
Contents:
Inspirational Pieces
On My Work
The Symposia
Integral Theory Related
Debunking the New Age
Religion and Mythology
Movie Reviews and Analysis
*Inspirational Pieces
Imagine: A Spiritual Manifesto
Spiritual Passion: The Magic of the Real
A Call to Depth
* On My Work
Radical Transformation: A Map to Mind-Body Ecstasy
Buddhist Lovingkindness Meditation Video
Open Sky Bodywork (video)
The Four Initiations
Simply Put #1: Meditation Video
Simply Put #2: Meditation Video
Simply Put #3: Meditation Video
Simply Put #4
My Life, My Practice: Reflections of a Contemporary Yogi
An Integral Healing System
* The Symposia
I created a symposium format which included between 5 and 7 other writers at a time presenting papers on a given topic over the course of a week or so and hosting conference-style panel discussions. Thank you to the amazing participants and readers of these events. More to come in the future!
Z1: Integrative Spirituality:Grounded Contemporary Perspectives
Z2: Riding the Kundalini Dragon: Integrating Altered States
Z3: Eco Business and Conscious Capitalism
Z4: Enactivism, Integral Theory and 21st Century Spirituality
* Integral Theory Related
Z- Bate! Faith, Reason & The Four Quadrants
The Power of Worldviews: Part One
Part Two: Spiritual Kitsch, Paranoid Process and Relativist Nihilism
Santa Claus, Jesus, Wilber, Kohut and Piaget
VA Tech Tragedy: Integral vs New Age Perspectives
Spirituality, Altitude, Politics and Interpreting Art
The Spiritual Problem of the New Age for Integral
Sam Harris: Orange Meanie or Teal Secular Humanist?
The Transformative Power of Development: A Three Part Distinction
* Debunking The New Age
Psychic Delusions: Sylvia Browne, Shawn Hornbeck and James Randi
The Spiritual Psyche's Shadow: Gurus, Cults and Aliens
Testing Astrology
Karla McLaren: Bridging the Two Cultures
What the Bleep and Wilber's Four Quadrants
The Secret: Spiritual Cinema?
Beyond The New Age: An Integral Vision
The Alien Channel and Other Spiritual Circus Sideshows
* Religion and Mythology
Myth, Fairy Tale and The Psyche in Pan's Labyrinth
"God," Language and Evocative Meaning: An Integral Conundrum
Jesus, Quetzalcoatl & Dionysus: Archetypal Yearning
The Distance Between Spiritual Experience and Interpretation
The Many Faces of God
Sam Harris Debates Reza Aslan
A Moth to the Flame: Rumi, The Shadow and Connie Zweig
* Movie Reviews and Analysis
Pan's Labyrinth: The Mythic Psyche Unveiled
The Matrix Series
The Fountain: Integral Cinema at it's Best
The Last King of Scotland and other films about Social Transformation
Zeitgeist: In The Spirit of Paranoia
All of the above work humbly dedicated to a vision of 21st Century Spirituality that integrates mind, body and heart in a way that brings healthy, mature and deep soulfulness to the surface.
May it be of benefit...
All the best!
~Julian
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Happy Birthday, Julian! You're already 2? What a big boy you are. :)
Nice blog archive! I've been meaning to look at some of your previous blogs.
may the road rise up to meet you my friend…
it's been an honour and a pleasure.
and it's not done yet…
best wishes for the focus on the locus of hocus pocus!
adam
thanks ben!
more to come adam - more to come!
happy Blogiversary, bro. keep on chuggin' :)
~C
Typical Leo, always showing off :P
Happy bloGaiaversaryDay! May there be many, many more…
(And Julian… how many words is that? I'm almost scrared to ask.)
ummm virgo actuallly.. but i had to look it up!
Happy Birthday and Blogiversary, Julian!
Great archive! This will come in handy.
Best of luck on the book
Happy “birthday,” Julian! Your archive really brings it home what great work you've done here and how prolific you've been. I sometimes tell myself (and my wife tells me) that I need to get offline and start writing on something for publication. I am so happy that you are actually taking that step. Best of luck, bro! I'm sure it will be an excellent book.
Best wishes,
Bruce
Happy anniversary, and happy birthday!
look forward to seeing you in print bruce! thanks…
ah the return of the classic hokai avatar/icon….. i love it!
thanks my friend.
how exciting! and what a lot of blog rabbit holes for us all to explore :) many more happy years on Gaia, hopefully! light and peace
Good work, dude! All the best to you!! Keep goin' strong.
thanks nicole - ya i hope so!
nice to see you jim - hope its gotten a little cooler over there!?
missed you in the Z4 symposium - weigh in if you get a chance… ;O)
it was a pleasure schooling you on 911 julian!lol
your a good sport, too!
all the best to you but i'll make you a soft bet that you can't go 40 days away from this site and it always easier when we don't deny our addictions….:)
looking forward to reading your book, j…happy birthday, indeed…much love…S.
haha - 40 days - i wasnt even planning on it!
thanks sarah!
loved hillary's speech last night.
i bet they already offered her a cabinet position prior to announcing biden - cause she knocked it out of the park and bill seemed happy and emotionally open…
Julian,
I never knew about your past. Have you ever blogged about your prior life in South Africa or your experience in becoming a refugee? Maybe its not something you'd want to share on the web. Anyways, glad things have worked out well for you in your current life situation.
no too much ben.
basically i had to flee after becoming a conscientious objector gainst the draft to support apartheid. i had 4 days to spare until a warrrant would have been issued and i would have been called to stand trial and face a 6 year jail sentence…. i always knew it would come to that though - so was prepared psychologically.
always hard to emigrate though - especially with little money..
4 days isn't long to prepare for such a decision, but being psychologically prepared would make it slightly easier.
So, how did you go from a poor refugee immigrant to a yoga teacher being interviewed by Ken Wilber?
only in America…
hmmm in 20 words or less? :O)
i mean i left the country with four days to spare - had been preparing for a few years. my family had already left - i only cut it so close b/c i was playing concerts in a protest rock band - under assumed names for fear of reprisals…
i followed my passions. lived without a car. meditated, read and did yoga. worked for minimum wage. became self employed. taught guitar lessons, did modeling for drawing classes, started doing massage and teaching yoga, got into wilber, kornfield, jung, campbell, watts, welwood, chodron, grof, lowen, reich, pierakos etc… found maverick yoga and bodywork mentors & a community of experimental experiential adventurers, traveled to india, never looked back…
Happy birthday, Julian. Have you made a wish?
Quite a body of work, there, quite a service to mankind, er, personkind.
Sounds like you are taking a deep and meaningful step toward your goals… Congratulations!
Based on what you've shared here and in your teaching, your book will be a good read.
You are correct that the water is wonderful… even in the deep end… good to have you in the water.
thanks david and annie!