Kenan Azam, Steward of StarGate Labs, is a contemplative explorer who spent thirteen years as an engineer in academia before turning to the study of consciousness and ancient wisdom. He hosts the Potential Paradigms Show, creating thoughtful dialogues at the frontiers of consciousness. Through StarGate Labs, he explores how cross-cultural wisdom traditions reveal us as living doorways of cosmic exploration.
Collaborators
Aaron Kemp’s journey brings a unique lens to StarGate Labs. With a doctorate in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute he is able to bridge ancient worldviews with our contemporary understandings of reality. Aaron is a practitioner of Kashmir Shaivism with a deep interest in philosophy both East and West, and member of the Universal Shaiva Fellowship. He also has a past career as a wildland firefighter and later as a film editing career in Los Angeles.
Jonathan Kay is an internationally recognized improvising jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, esraj, bansuri, shakuhachi) with a doctorate from California Institute of Integral Studies. In search of non-western ways of musical knowing, Jonathan moved to Kolkata, India, and for 10 years traditionally studied North Indian Raga music, innovating its expression on the saxophone. He has also traveled on two occasions to learn Japanese shakuhachi music in Kyoto. At StarGate Labs, Johnathan is co-hosting the dialogue series, ‘Technology and the Evolution of Consciousness’.
