Jon Monday (born 1947) is an American producer and distributor of CDs and DVDs across an eclectic range of material such as

Swami Prabhavananda Swami Prabhavananda (December 26, 1893 – July 4, 1976) was an Indian philosopher, monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and religious teacher. He moved to America in 1923 to take up the role of assistant minister in the San Francisco Vedanta Society. ...

Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley ( ; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction novel, non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the ...

Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include '' Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical ...

Huston Smith Huston Cummings Smith (May 31, 1919 – December 30, 2016) was a scholar of religious studies in the United States, He authored at least thirteen books on world's religions and philosophy, and his book about comparative religion, ''The World's R ...

, and

Chalmers Johnson Chalmers Ashby Johnson (August 6, 1931 – November 20, 2010) was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consult ...

. In 1980 Monday filmed what turned out to be the very last live poetry reading

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German Americans, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambien ...

gave, at the Sweetwater in Redondo Beach, which was released as '' The Last Straw'' on DVD.IMDB The Last Str

/Ref> Monday directed and co-produced with Jennifer Douglas the feature-length documentary '' Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio''.IMDB Entry for Save KLSD
/ref> He is also President of

Benchmark Recordings Benchmark Recordings is a record label that was founded in 2000 by music industry veterans Bill Coben and Denny Bruce. The initial catalog included the first four albums by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, which were originally released in the late 19 ...

, which owns and distributes the early catalog of

The Fabulous Thunderbirds The Fabulous Thunderbirds is an American blues rock band formed in 1974. Singer Kim Wilson is the only constant member through the band's entire history. Their 1986 album ''Tuff Enuff'' sold over a million copies, and spawned two minor hit singl ...

CDs and a live recording of

Mike Bloomfield Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago, he became one of the first popular music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrume ...

. After retiring, his work with Huston Smith and the Vedanta Society of Southern California has created audio and video commercial releases as well as establishing free online archives of the historic material.

Music business

Monday got his start in multimedia through his own psychedelic light-show company in the Bay Area in early 1967, providing visuals for concerts by

Country Joe and the Fish Country Joe and the Fish was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 1965. The band was among the influential groups in the San Francisco music scene during the mid-to-late 1960s. Much of the band's music was writ ...

Janis Joplin Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful Rock music, rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and her "electric" ...

Big Brother and the Holding Company Big Brother and the Holding Company are an American rock band that was formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. After ...

Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. The band achieved wide popularity in the San Francisco Bay Area and, through their recordings, with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, ...

, The Loading Zone, and Steve Miller's Blues Band at local

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland, Cali ...

venues and

The Fillmore The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California. Built in 1912 and originally named the Majestic Hall, it became the Fillmore Auditorium in 1954. It is in Western Addition, on the edge of the Fillmore District and Upper Fil ...

San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

. In 1970, Monday was hired by John Fahey at

Takoma Records Takoma Records was a small but influential record label founded by guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s.Santa Monica Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...

, as their first full-time employee, becoming promotion director in 1972, and later general manager. working with guitar artists such as

Leo Kottke Leo Kottke (born September 11, 1945) is an American acoustic guitarist. He is known for a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and folk music, and for syncopated, polyphonic melodies. He has overcome a series of personal obstacles, i ...

, John Fahey,

, Rick Ruskin, and Peter Lang. Eventually, he became Takoma's Vice President and General Manager, and also provided art direction, engineering, and/or produced albums by such artists as

George Winston George Otis Winston III (February 11, 1949 – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist performing contemporary instrumental music. Best known for his solo piano recordings, Winston released his first album in 1972, and came to prominence with his ...

, Norman Blake,

Peter Rowan Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1942) is an American bluegrass musician and composer. He plays guitar, fiddle, dobro, banjo, bass, piano and mandolin. He has a wide vocal range and yodels. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall o ...

, Jim Kweskin,

Loudon Wainwright III Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor. He has released twenty-six studio albums, four live albums, and six compilations. Some of his best-known songs include "The Swimmin ...

, and

Joseph Byrd Joseph Hunter Byrd Jr. (born December 19, 1937) is an American composer, musician and academic. After first becoming known as an experimental composer in New York City and Los Angeles in the early and mid-1960s, he became the leader of The Uni ...

. In 1979, Fahey sold Takoma Records to a new company formed by music business attorney Bill Coben, veteran producer/manager Denny Bruce, and

Chrysalis Records Chrysalis Records () is a British independent record label that was founded in 1968. The name is both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders' names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis. It started as the Ell ...

. Monday continued with the new company as General Manager. During that time, Takoma signed and released albums by

Canned Heat Canned Heat is an American blues rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and ...

, and

T-Bone Burnett Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (born January 14, 1948) is an American record producer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band during the 1970s. Burnett has won several Grammy Awards for his work on film sou ...

. Monday also co-produced a live album, '' Gospel Nights'', by

Maria Muldaur Maria Muldaur (born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato; September 12, 1942) is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1973 hit song " Midnight at the Oasis" and h ...

. The concert was at McCabes Guitar Shop in Santa Monica and recorded at Takoma Studios, two doors down from McCabes. In 1982, Monday was appointed sales manager for Chrysalis Visual Programming Division, headquartered in Los Angeles. Eventually Monday was brought into

as its Director of Marketing, working with Blondie, Jethro Tull,

Huey Lewis Hugh Anthony Cregg III (born July 5, 1950), known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American actor and former singer-songwriter. Lewis sang lead and played harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, until being forced into retirement due ...

Pat Benatar Patricia Mae Giraldo (née Andrzejewski; formerly and still professionally Benatar ; born January 10, 1953) is an American singer and songwriter. In the United States, she has two multi-platinum albums, five platinum albums, and 15 US ''Billboa ...

Billy Idol William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Idol achieved fame in the 1970s on the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of Generation X ...

, and

Toni Basil Antonia Christina Basilotta (born September 22, 1943), better known by her stage name Toni Basil, is an American singer, choreographer, dancer, actress, and director. Her cover of the song " Mickey" topped the charts in the US, Canada and Austral ...

Silicon Valley

In 1984, Monday relocated to Silicon Valley and had a 2nd career as an executive in various software and high-tech companies. He also held senior management positions or consulted with major 3rd party video game publishers, such as

Epyx Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and video game publisher active in the late 1970s and 1980s. The company was founded in 1978 as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman, publishing a series of tactical combat games. The Epyx ...

Eidos Interactive Eidos Interactive Limited (formerly Domark Limited) was a British video game publisher based in Wimbledon, London. Among its franchises were '' Championship Manager'', '' Deus Ex'', ''Hitman'', '' Thief'' and ''Tomb Raider''. Domark was founded ...

, and

Capcom is a Japanese video game company. It has created a number of critically acclaimed and List of best-selling video game franchises, multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being ''Resident Evil'', ''Monster ...

. He was also Vice President of

PlayNet PlayNET (or PlayNet) was an American online service for Commodore 64 personal computers that operated from 1984 to 1987. It was operated by the PlayNet, Inc of Troy, New York. History PlayNet was founded in 1983 by two former GE Global Researc ...

, working directly with

Atari Atari () is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by French holding company Atari SA (formerly Infogrames) and its focus is on "video games, consumer hardware, licensing and bl ...

founder

Nolan Bushnell Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre chain. He has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consu ...

. Monday's first role in the emerging video game business was with Romox, a company that has developed a kiosk-based video game distribution system. Originally, Monday was hired as Sales Director of Special Markets to provide distribution through the "Rack Jobbers" who got records into Sears, ToysRUs, KMart and other major retailers. Then he was promoted to VP Product Marketing, to help introduce their kiosk. A gamer could buy a blank video game cartridge and download a game from a vast library into the cartridge (for Atari 2600, Atari Computers, TI-99, Commodore, etc.) and play the game for a few weeks. If they got tired of the game, they could bring the cartridge back to the kiosk, erase it, and program a new game into it. The system answered the biggest problem plaguing the industry - the high cost of the cartridges. One of the game publishers who licensed their titles to Romox was

, headed by Michael Katz. After the cartridge-based video game industry collapsed (due to the overproduction of the Atari game ET, which failed upon release) Monday was originally hired by Epyx as a consultant overseeing IT, manufacturing, and customer service and eventually was promoted to Vice President of IT and Operations. In 1989. Monday left Epyx to establish MusicWriter Inc., with music research pioneer Larry Heller. During Monday's term as president, the Californian company developed the NoteStation, a point-of-sale

kiosk Historically, a kiosk () was a small garden pavilion open on some or all sides common in Iran, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and in the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century onward. Today, several examples of this type of kiosk still exist ...

for printing sheet music, in any key, for sale to customers in music stores. In addition to printing sheet music, the NoteStation was able to produce

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface (; MIDI) is an American-Japanese technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, ...

disks containing selected music. In 1994, NoteStation kiosks were in 175 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Monday was hired as Vice President of PlayNet, working directly with

founder

, to develop an online jukebox, that was connected to a vast library of songs licensed from the major record companies. In 1998, Monday was hired by

, a leading video game publisher, to design and implement an entire IT overhaul, including replacing an aging mainframe with a Windows based hardware and enterprise reporting and accounting software. After completing the project he was given the assignment to make their arcade division, Nickel City, profitable by shutting down the unprofitable stores, and beefing up the existing ones. Eventually, Monday oversaw selling the division piece by piece. He was then put in charge of all online business, including developing and implementing the company's first website.

Retirement

Monday retired and moved to the San Diego area in 2004 and launched two labels: mondayMEDIA and GemsTone; producing, directing, and distributing original and archival material. In 2006 Monday brought together many notable recording artists and produced '' The Revenge of Blind Joe Death: The John Fahey Tribute Album'', which was released on the

Takoma Records Takoma Records was a small but influential record label founded by guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s.Fantasy Records Fantasy Records is an American independent record label company founded by brothers Max and Sol Stanley Weiss in 1949. The early years of the company were dedicated to issuing recordings by jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, who was also one of its inves ...

. Participating artists included,

, Michael Gulezian, Alex de Grassi,

Country Joe McDonald Joseph Allen "Country Joe" McDonald (born January 1, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and musician who was the lead vocalist of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish.Richard Brenneman"Country Joe McDonald Revives Anti ...

, Peter Lang,

Stefan Grossman Stefan Grossman (born April 16, 1945) is an American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and singer, music producer and educator, and co-founder of Kicking Mule records. He is known for his instructional videos and Vestapol line of videos and DVDs. ...

, Rick Ruskin, and Canned Fish (a one-time collaboration between

members

Adolfo de la Parra Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra (born 8 February 1946) is a Mexican musician, best known as the drummer for the American blues rock band Canned Heat. Early life and career Parra was born in Mexico City and played in bands such as Los Sinners and Los ...

("Fito") and

Larry Taylor Samuel Lawrence Taylor (June 26, 1942 – August 19, 2019) was an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of the blues rock band Canned Heat. Before joining Canned Heat, he had been a session musician, session bassist for T ...

, and

member Barry "The Fish" Melton). In 2008 Monday was asked by Bill Coben and Denny Bruce, founders of

, to join as President and run the label. The company has titles by

and

In 2012 mondayMEDIA released the feature-length documentary '' Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Radio'', that documented about the history and effects of media consolidation on democracy in the United States. Filmed over several years, interviews included,

Bill Moyers Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers; June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. Under the Johnson administration he served from 1965 to 1967 as the eleventh White House Press Secretary. He was a director of the Council ...

Robert Reich Robert Bernard Reich (; born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and he served as United States Secretary of Labor, Se ...

Van Jones Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American political analyst, media personality, lawyer, author, and civil rights advocate. He is a three-time ''New York Times'' bestselling author, a CNN host and contributor, and an Emm ...

Phil Donahue Phillip John Donahue (December 21, 1935 – August 18, 2024) was an American media personality, writer, film producer, and the creator and host of '' The Phil Donahue Show''. The television program, later known simply as ''Donahue'', was the fir ...

, radio talkshow host

Ed Schultz Edward Andrew Schultz (January 27, 1954 – July 5, 2018) was an American television and radio host, Pundit, political commentator, news anchor and sports broadcaster. He was the host of ''The Ed Show'', a weekday news talk program on MSN ...

Cenk Uygur Cenk Kadir Uygur ( ; ; born March 21, 1970) is a Turkish-American political commentator, media host, and attorney. He is the co-creator of ''The Young Turks'', a progressive and left-wing populist sociopolitical news and commentary program. I ...

Amy Goodman Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Her investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement, Morocco's occupatio ...

Thom Hartmann Thomas Carl Hartmann (born May 7, 1951) is an American radio personality, author, businessman, and progressivism, progressive pundit, political commentator. Hartmann has been hosting a nationally syndicated radio show, ''The Thom Hartmann Progr ...

, radio talkshow host Stacy Taylor, John Nichols,

Richard Wolffe Richard L. Wolffe (born 17 September 1968) is a British and American journalist, MSNBC commentator, and author of the Barack Obama books ''Renegade: The Making of a President'' (Crown, June 2009) and ''Revival: The Struggle for Survival Insid ...

Randi Rhodes Randi Joyce Robertson (née Bueten; born January 28, 1958), better known by her Stage name#Reasons for use, air name Randi Rhodes, is an American progressivism, progressive political commentator, activist and talk radio host. ''The Randi Rhode ...

, Congressman

Bob Filner Robert Earl Filner (September 4, 1942 – April 20, 2025) was an American politician who was the 35th mayor of San Diego from December 2012 through August 2013, when he resigned amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment. He later pleaded g ...

, Jon Adelstein, Robert McChesney,

Bob Edgar Robert William Edgar (May 29, 1943 – April 23, 2013) was an American politician, administrator, and religious leader. A native of the Philadelphia area, he began his career as a Methodist pastor and chaplain. He served as a Democratic member o ...

, Mike Aguirre,

Marjorie Cohn Marjorie Cohn (born November 1, 1948) is an American legal scholar working as a professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. She is also a former president of the National Lawyers Guild.

, Michael Krasny, and author

Eric Klinenberg Eric M. Klinenberg (born 1970) is an American sociologist and a scholar of urban studies, culture, and media. He is currently Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York Univer ...

. It is produced by Jennifer Douglas and Jon Monday, and directed by Monday for distribution by mondayMEDIA. It was released on DVD in April 2012.

Work with Huston Smith

Monday's work with

yielded 2 DVDs, '' The Roots of Fundamentalism'', in 2006 with

Phil Cousineau Philip Robert Cousineau (born 1952) is an American author, lecturer, independent scholar, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. He lives in San Francisco, California. Early life and education Phil Cousineau was born on 26 November 1952 in ...

interviewing Huston about the genesis of modern Christian Fundamentalism, which came into existence around 1900 in reaction to modern scholarship into the origin of the biblical scriptures, which raised questions about who really wrote them and when they were written. The 2nd DVD was from 2012, ''The Arc of Life: Huston Smith on Life, Death & Beyond'', was Huston being interviewed by noted American gerontologist and psychologist, Ken Dychtwald. In 2015, Monday released a biographical documentary video about Smith's association with Vedanta and how it impacted his life and career. In tribute to Huston Smith, Monday received donations to research and restore the original 16mm films of

's TV series from the 1950s that ran on

National Educational Television National Educational Television (NET) was an American non-commercial educational, educational terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It op ...

(NET), the precursor of

PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educat ...

. Most of the episodes of '' The Religions of Man'', were located in the archive of the Washington University in St. Louis. A few missing episodes were found in the

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...

. Most of the episodes of Smith's second NET series, ''Search for America'', were also found and digitized. Permission for public viewing was granted by all the original stakeholders: KETC, Washington University, NET (via

WNET WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as Thirteen (stylized as THIRTEEN), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the Educ ...

the successor), and the Smith family. The archive includes both NET television series: ''Religions of Man'' and ''Search for America''

Political activism

Jon Monday enlisted in the army in March 1965. After completing his basic training and courses in advanced electronics, he volunteered to become a paratrooper and was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division.Interview with Monday in Daily Kos
/ref> As the Vietnam war escalated, Monday turned his attention to becoming a

Conscientious Objector A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion. The term has also been extended to objecting to working for the military–indu ...

, feeling that the war did not reflect the high ideals of America and America's democracy. He refused to participate in the war and eventually he was given a court martial, at which he pointed out that the

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of Nazi war criminals, had established the right and duty of soldiers to object to wars they felt to be illegal and immoral. Monday spent a year in jail and was given a Bad Conduct Discharge. In 1975 Monday was given a full pardon by President Ford, his discharge was changed to a Clemency Discharge, and was awarded a Certificate of Completion by the Selective Service, showing he had fulfilled his duty to his country. After the start of the Iraq War, Monday joined Veterans For Peace and became active in the San Diego Chapter, giving talks to local colleges, organizing

Arlington West Arlington West is a series of projects in coastal California intended to draw public attention to, and to open a discourse on the subject of both military and civilian deaths during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, invasion and Timeline of the Iraq Wa ...

memorials,Listing on FDC Website
/ref> and speaking at anti-war rallies. In 2004 Monday also became involved with the Fallbrook Democratic Club, becoming a board member and in 2008 was its President. In 2011 he was reelected to the FDC's board as Vice President for the 2012 term].

Credits

*1973 -

, ''Piano Solos'', LP - Takoma Records, Art Director *1974 - John Fahey, '' Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)'', CD - Takoma Records, Art Director *1975 -

, ''Yankee Transcendoodle'', LP - Takoma Records, Co-producer *1975 -

, ''A Christmas Yet to Come'', LP - Takoma Records, Co-producer *1976 - The American Music Consort, ''Sentimental Songs of the Mid-19th Century'', LP

Takoma Records Takoma Records was a small but influential record label founded by guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s.Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include '' Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical ...

, ''Selections from the Upanishads'', CD - GemsTone, Co-producer *1976 - Norman Blake, '' Live at McCabes'', CD - Takoma Records, Art Director *1977 - Larry McNeely, ''Larry McNeely with Jack Skinner and Geoff Levin'', LP

Takoma Records Takoma Records was a small but influential record label founded by guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s.Peter Rowan Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1942) is an American bluegrass musician and composer. He plays guitar, fiddle, dobro, banjo, bass, piano and mandolin. He has a wide vocal range and yodels. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall o ...

, ''

'', CD

Flying Fish Records Flying Fish Records was a record label founded in Chicago in 1974 that specialized in folk, blues, and country music. In the 1990s the label was sold to Rounder Records. Bruce Kaplan, the label's founder, was a native of Chicago and the son of ...

, Engineer *1979 -

, ''A Live One'', CD -

Rounder Records Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts, by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by A ...

, Engineer *1979 - Jim Kweskin, ''Side by Side'', CD - Mountain Railroad Records, Engineer *1980 -

, ''Gospel Nights'', CD - Takoma Records, Co-producer *2004 -

, ''Lecture on Girish Ghosh'', CD - GemsTone, Producer *2005 -

and

, '' The Roots of Fundamentalism'', DVD - GemsTone, Producer/Director *2005 - Samoan Cultural Preservation Project, ''The Music of Samoa'', CD - GemsTone, Co-Producer/Engineer *2006 -

Esalen Institute The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American Retreat (spiritual), retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanism, humanistic alternative education. The institute played a ke ...

, ''Envisioning the Future: From Spirit to Social Action'', DVD - with Ken Dychtwald, Joanne Shenandoah, Doug George-Kanentiio,

, and

, Producer/Director *2006 -

, ''Evil Empire: A Talk by Chalmers Johnson'', DVD - mondayMEDIA, Producer/Director *2006 - Various Artists, '' The Revenge of Blind Joe Death: The John Fahey Tribute Album'', CD - Takoma/Fantasy, Producer *2007 -

, ''A Time for Solutions'', DVD - with Ken Dychtwald,

John Cleese John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and Television presenter, presenter. Emerging from the Footlights, Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinbur ...

Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra (; ; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-American author, New Age, new age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthi ...

, Mollie Katzen, Michael Murphy,

Jay Alexander Jay Alexander is an American Magic (illusion), magician and comedian known as a corporate and society entertainer. Early life and education Alexander was born in Houston, Texas. At the age of fourteen, he was the youngest recipient of the Soc ...

, and Kathy Smith, Producer/Director *2008 -

, '' There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here'', DVD - mondayMEDIA, Producer *2008 -

, '' The Last Straw'', DVD - mondayMEDIA, Producer/Director *2008 -

, ''The Way Forward'', DVD - with Ken Dychtwald,

Amory Lovins Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has written on energy policy and related areas for four decades, and served on the US Nation ...

Sam Keen Samuel McMurray Keen (November 23, 1931 – March 19, 2025) was an American author, academic and philosopher who is best known for his exploration of questions regarding love, life, wonder, religion, and being a male in contemporary society. B ...

, Chungliang Al Huang,

Anna Halprin Anna Halprin (born Hannah Dorothy Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 24, 2021) was an American choreographer and dancer. She helped redefine dance in postwar America and pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to her ...

, Michael Murphy, Joseph Montville, Patricia de Jong, and Anisa Mehdt, Producer/Director *2009 -

, ''Vision & Visionaries: The Alchemy of Transformation'', DVD - with Ken Dychtwald,

Bob Herbert Robert Herbert (born March 7, 1945) is an American journalist and former op-ed columnist for ''The New York Times''. His column was syndicated to other newspapers around the country. Herbert frequently writes on poverty, the Iraq War, racism a ...

Isabel Allende Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as '' The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...

, Michael Krasny, Nina Simons, Kenny Ausubel, Akuyoe Graham, Greg Hodge, and Michael Murphy, Producer/Director *2010 -

, '' One Tough Mother'', DVD - mondayMEDIA, Co-producer/Director *2010 -

, ''Living a Purposeful Life'', DVD - with Ken Dychtwald,

Eric Schlosser Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and food writer. He is known for his books '' Fast Food Nation'' (2001), '' Reefer Madness'' (2003), and '' Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and ...

, Chungliang Al Huang, David Darling,

Richard Tarnas Richard Theodore Tarnas is a cultural historian and astrologer known for his books '' The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View'' and '' Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View''. Tarnas ...

Jeffery Kripal Jeffrey John Kripal (born 1962) is an American college professor. He is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas. While chairman of the Religion Department at Rice, he helped found their ...

, and Michael Murphy, Producer/Director *2011 -

, '' The Best of the Fabulous Thunderbirds: Early Birds Special'', CD -

, Co-producer *2011 –

, ''Connections: The Elixer of Life'', DVD – with Ken Dychtwald, Michael Murphy, Gordon Wheeler, Tricia McEntee, Sam Yau, Michael Krasney, Dani Shapiro, Akuyoe Graham,

, and Maddy Dychtwald, Producer/Director *2012 -

, '' The Arc of Life: Huston Smith on Life, Death & Beyond'' with Ken Dychtwald, DVD - mondayMEDIA - Director and Producer *2012 - '' Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio'', DVD - with

David Shuster David Martin Shuster (born July 22, 1967) is an American television journalist. Shuster previously served as principal anchor and managing editor for i24 News (American TV channel), i24 News, previously working as an anchor for MSNBC and worked ...

, Stacy Taylor, John Nichols,

, Congressman

, Jon Adelstein, Robert McChesney,

, Mike Aguirre,

, Michael Krasny, J.W. August, Andrew Donohue, Marti Emerald, and

- mondayMEDIA - Co-producer and Director, *2012 - ''Esalen’s 50th Anniversary Benefit Weekend'', DVD - with

Marianne Williamson Marianne Deborah Williamson (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, speaker, and political activist. She began her professional career as a spiritual leader of the Church of Today, a Unity Church in Warren, Michigan. Williamson has written s ...

Byron Katie Byron Kathleen Mitchell, better known as Byron Katie (born December 6, 1942), is an American speaker and author who teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work of Byron Katie" or simply as "The Work". She is the founder of Byron Katie Int ...

, Michael Murphy,

, Al Huang,

Joan Baez Joan Chandos Baez (, ; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing mo ...

, and Ken Dychtwald.

Published articles

*''Elizabeth Cotton: Folk Guitar Legend'', Guitar Player, March 1975 *''A Personal Lesson About the End of Time'', The Vedanta Kesari, India, December 1993 *''A Personal Lesson About the End of Time'', Vedanta for East and West, UK, January / February 1994 *''For the Historic Record'', American Vedantist, US Vol. 3, no. 3, Fall 1997. *''I Saw Swamiji on TV Last Night'', American Vedantist, US, Summer 1998 *''The Limitations of Mental Models'' Vedanta, UK, November / December 2002 *''The Limitations of Mental Models'' The Vedanta Kesari, India, April 2003 *''The Gospel of Chomsky'', Vedanta, UK, January / February 2005 *''Broken Pot'', a Haiku Poem, American Vedantist, US, October 2013 *''J.D. Salinger & Vedanta'', American Vedantist, US, January 2014 - co-written with Anna Monday *''Christopher Isherwood and Vedanta'', American Vedantist, US, Winter 2014/2015 - co-written with Anna Monday *''The History and Impact of the Swami Prabhavananda – Christopher Isherwood Bhagavad Gita Translation'', American Vedantist, US, Spring 2018 American Vedantist, US, 2018

References

External links

* List of Music Production Credits in All Music Guide* Jon Monday Biography on All Music Guidebr>Interview with Jon Monday in Blues GR
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