What are intermediate-mass black holes?

We've detected puny, stellar-mass black holes. And we've detected giant, supermassive black holes. But what about those in the middle?

The Tragedy of Science and a Way Out

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Can a Computer become Conscious?

How can there be intelligence without consciousness?

1:16:00 – FREE

Mathematics as a Unifying Field

In this inspiring talk, the mathematician Edward Frenkel speaks about the beauty and elegance of mathematics

Consciousness in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

The idea that the universe splits into multiple realities with every measurement has become an increasingly popular proposed solution to the mysteries of quantum mechanics.

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.

How Science and Nonduality Helped My Recovery from Brain Injury

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Being Human in the Engine of Creation

A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.

FREE

Synesthesia

Hearing Color, Seeing Sound. This Is Synesthesia

He Invented a Surgery and Cured Himself

This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years.

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Wild Mercy: The Wisdom of the Feminine

Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions

The Geography Of Sorrow

On Navigating Our Losses: Interview by Tim McKee

FREE

Understanding the Creative Portal

The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.

Embracing the Flame of Longing

36:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Silence and Substratum

Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.

We Can Still Be Crazy

We may think meditation will improve us, but it’s really about accepting ourselves as we are right now.

Alone to All One

The delicate dance between loneliness, solitude and communion

Parā

I praise the Supreme Goddess Parā, the Illuminative Insight Intelligence Force of Consciousness

Intimate Relationship as a Spiritual Crucible

Living with someone we love, with all the joys and challenges, is one of the best ways…

42:00 – FREE

The Birth of Relational Joy

We recreate the relationships that we learned

6:00 – FREE

The Esther Perel Love Lexicon

Esther Perel is a therapist who has changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom.

On Spiritual Bypassing and Relationship

Spiritual bypassing is a term I coined to describe a process I saw happening in the Buddhist community I was in, and also in myself.

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part III

The way isn’t forward, it’s awkward

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part II

How we see the problem is part of the problem

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part I

In this (very, very) long essay, Bayo Akomolafe investigates the work and contributions of “postactivism” in our unique times

Spiritual Traditions Fail the Global Crisis - Part II

Why Our Spiritual Traditions Have Failed to Respond to the Global Crises – And How We Can Change That Now

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

Often in our world of mass-produced goods and machine-like cities, we strive for perfection,

Illness as Companion

We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them.

Widening Circles

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

A Liturgy of Light

When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.