9:00 – FREE

A 9-minute journey inside a black hole

With Janna Levin

Ever wonder what would happen if we got sucked into a black hole? Turns out we could live in it — if it was big enough.

A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics

By Kevin Hartnett

So-called “higher symmetries” are illuminating everything from particle decays to the behavior of complex quantum systems.

Eastern philosophy says there is no “self.” Science agrees

By Chris Niebauer

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”

Freewill and the Laws of Nature

By Brandon Gage

Is free will 'compatible with what we know about the laws of nature'? This physicist says no

1:00 – FREE

Supermassive Black Holes

This new NASA animation highlights the “super” in supermassive black holes. These monsters lurk in the centers of most big galaxies, including our own Milky Way, and contain between 100,000 and tens of billions of times more mass than our Sun.

How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain

By Kate Fehlhaber

Most of us carry a mother's voice in the neural patterns of our brain.

Notes on Complexity: Neil Theise

By Maria Popova

A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

Spider Dreams

By Betsy Mason

Jumping spiders have REM-like twitches when they sleep, suggesting dreams may be much more widespread in the animal kingdom than previously realized

Space-time Churns Like a Choppy Sea

By Joel Achenbach and Victoria Jaggard

In a major discovery, the very fabric of the cosmos is constantly being roiled and rumpled all around us

Earth’s Wild Music: Kathleen Dean Moore

By SAND

Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

47:00 – FREE

#53 Lines in the Sand

With Tyson Yunkaporta

From a Community Conversation with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo

Animist Cosmovision

By Bayo Akomolafe

"The crises streaming through the post-Hiroshima world of ticking clocks, purring machines, and universal declarations are transversal guests..."

16:00 – FREE

Walking a Tightrope of Honesty Amidst Systemic Collapse

With Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti and Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti

A segment from 'Hospicing Modernity'

8:00 – FREE

Peter Russell interviews his AI clone

With Peter Russell

A humorous and facinating interview of Peter Rusell and his AI clone on his new book "Forgiving Humanity"

8:00 – FREE

Music and Psychedelics in Healing Trauma

With Gabor Maté

The role of music, psychedelics, and Ayahuasca ceremony in working with Trauma and addiction, recorded live in Berlin for the Wisdom of Trauma tour.

59:00 – FREE

#54 Nordic Animism

With Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen

A deep discussion of how to weave animism back into our modern world

1:35:00 – FREE

The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

With Rupert Spira and Donald Hoffman

A video version of our popular Sounds of SAND Podcast episode

Honoring Indigenous Spirituality

By NPR

An interview between Patty Krawec and NPR's Rachel Martin

A Letter from Adya

By Adyashanti

"..in that space, there is no coming or going, there is only eternal meeting..."

48:00 – FREE

#52 Embodied Awakening

With Judith Blackstone

Discussing Judith's new book and her lifelong practice of awakening in and as our bodies.

A Child's Song

By Michael Reiley

A touching fable on the power of song and community

1:13:00 – FREE

#48 Ancestral Healing

With Daniel Foor

Peeling back the layers of Animism, ancestery, and healing with the world leading expert on Ancestor work

8:00 – FREE

The beauty of LIVING

With Annie Norgarb

Wrinkles, lines, scars - there are many ways that time leaves its mark on our bodies.

14:00 – FREE

Chronically Under Touched

With Aaron Johnson

Why I Waited 12 Months for A Hug: a topic of deep human connection, using three principles that he has used to work with the Chronically UnderTouched black male body in America.

Motherhood of the Divine

By Dorothy Hunt

She is you; She is me. She is unceasingly pregnant with the Divine in each of us.

Sacred Activism, Sacred Water

By Breanna Draxler

Like water itself, the protection of this vital resource takes many different forms.

Choosing Earth

By Francis Weller

Francis' Forword to "Choosing Earth: Humanity's Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization" by Duane Elgin

1:00:00 – FREE

#51 After The Wisdom of Trauma

With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo

Zaya and Maurizio sit down to talk about the next film

Rekindling the Primeval

By Dr. Rodney King

The Sacred Call to Eco-Activism

Maui Wildfire Tragedy: Native Hawaiian-led Solutions

By NDN Collective

Kanaka (Native Hawaiian) community in Hawaii and Maui grapple with new wave of colonialism and outside interests on the heels of devastating wildfires resulting from poor land stewardship by U.S. government, extractivism, and tourism.

Moon in the Haiku Tradition

By Fay Aoyagi

In Japan, there is a long tradition of admiring a full moon

Invocation

By Hazrat Inayat Khan

A prayer by the Sufi mystic and musician

Odilon Redon's The Art of Silence

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

A 1911 painting conveying how silence is a portal to the mysterious.

11:00 – FREE

Bioneers Performance

With Alixa Garcia and Java Rahm

Alixa Garcia, of the spoken word duo Climbing PoeTree, and Java Rahm, on the Kora, perform live for the Bioneers audience.

50:00 – FREE

#50 Reflections: Sounds of SAND's First Year

With Science and Nonduality

highlighting some shimmering jewels from the first 50 episodes of the podcast's 1-year anniversary