Justin has lived a bold and varied life on the way to becoming an American spiritual master. As a young man in New York, his interests included boxing, poker playing, and breezing thoroughbreds. He has owned and run restaurants, done financial consulting, built houses, raised children, and traveled much of the world.
He has been dedicated to the study of human behavior for over 40 years. He investigates life in our fast-paced, technology-filled culture with subtlety, humor, and perspective, passing on his discoveries and assisting students in removing the obstacles to their natural state—a prerequisite to meditation on the Light and Sound that maintain all life.
Justin strives to preserve an element that he considers precious – maintaining opportunities for developing an actual teacher/student relationship.
He is currently living in the Sierra foothills of Northern California where he lives together and works with several dozen seekers of truth. Students in this dynamic community engage in and learn from all aspects of life—gardening, playing rock and roll, doing service projects, etc.
Justin is also the founder of the Center for Cultural & Naturalist Studies (ccns-inc.org), a California non-profit organization that offers disaster relief in the U.S. and works with underprivileged families worldwide.
He is available to anyone who seeks his guidance and has never asked to be compensated for his help, either monetarily or otherwise.
“Could someone who miraculously found themselves on top of Everest show you how to climb to the top? Of course not. They wouldn’t even know how they got there. I have climbed through all the problems, plans, and relationships that you face and have made it through to freedom, and if you have the intention, I can teach you how to do the same.” – J Jaye Gold
Justin’s recently published hardcover book:
The Currency of Moments
Exploring Life’s Anomalies Through Images and Ideas
The Currency of Moments is a coffee-table quality hardcover book comprised of 80 color photographs with a sentence or two of J Jaye Gold’s wisdom overlaid on each photo that pairs the spirit of the insightful words to the depicted scenes. On 80 additional facing pages, Gold gives a description and an explanation of the conditions under which the photos were taken and further analysis of his quote. The photos were all taken by Gold or his friends during social work or adventure trips during the past thirty-five years–from the tip of South America to the Arctic Circle, and from Cambodia to California traveling both east and west. It is said that one picture is worth a thousand words. This book is an exploration of one of the most intimate relationships available to humans—that of ideas and images. Books of this quality are normally sold at $30 or more, but this one is being priced at $10. having been subsidized by the author in his desire to have it be accessible to everyone. Available on Amazon here.
NEW BOOK of COLLECTED PUBLIC TALKS RELEASED MARCH 2023:
In The Company of Servants & Heroes: Collected public talks plus Q&A of J Jaye Gold (Justin), a once-in-a-generation master of our inner and outer life. He has spoken at public meetings for thirty-five years, from the University of Oregon to Stevens Park in Santa Barbara, California, to a clinic for Burmese refugees in Thailand, to the tiled courtyard of a Marrakesh riad; he offers stories, analogies, questions, jokes, and a wealth of original perspectives. Frequently beginning with the overlooked subtleties of ordinary life, he follows the thread back to the source at the center of things while ultimately addressing the crux of our human dilemma: What is in the way of our innate goodness and how can we remove the obstacles that obscure it in order to rediscover the ultimate – the secret hidden beneath the breath. Preview on Amazon here!
Most recent interview May 2024:
