Happy are those who know

Greater Silence: As It Is

By Roberta Pyx Sutherland

Canadian artist focused on the relationships of cosmic patterning, divine intelligence, the environment and the interconnectivity of all life forms

Aware

By Denise Levertov

A poem about a moment of wonder observing vine leaves.

1:00:00 – FREE

#32 Breathing Bamboo

With Cornelius Boots

Zen flute, breath, consciousnes, and alchemy, with extended music pieces from Cornelius

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

These songs — the oldest musical expressions of the slave experience in this country — still have a lot to teach us about how we think about death and dignity.

Invocation

By Hazrat Inayat Khan

A prayer by the Sufi mystic and musician

6:00 – FREE

Experimental Native American Sound Artist

With PBS

First Native American composer to win Pulitzer Prize on his experimental process

Becoming Earth

By Beatrice Marovich

celebrating our earth bodies, through human composting

Don't Make Lists

By Dorothy Walters

Every day a new flower rises from your body's fresh soil...

28:00 – FREE

Zen and Nonduality

With Kazuaki Tanahashi

Zen Buddhism and its relation to Nonduality, the symbolism of the ensō (円相, "circular form") calligraphy, and the Heart Sutra

43:00 – FREE

Maha Kali Trio Live at Summer Mela 2020

With Maha Kali Trio

a blissful exploration of Indian classical music

Butterfly Against the Wind

By Jadina Lilien and Tiokasin Ghosthorse

"Consciously apply mystery to everything." —Tiokasin Ghosthorse

57:00 – FREE

#18 The Mysticism of Sound and Music

With Michael Harrison

exploring into the life and work of musician and Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan

2:00 – FREE

Afrofuturist Sun Ra

With DUST

We need Afrofuturism; not as a box to put people in, but as a lens with which to change the way we imagine and actualize an inclusive future. A future where Black people are in control of their own destinies.

Taste the Sky: Love Made Visible Through Art & Poetry

By Rashani Réa and Chelan Harkin

Mirabai

By Poet Seers

16th Century devotional poet who composed over 1,000 devotional bhajans expressing her love for Lord Krishna.

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

By John Lewis

The Ethiopian nun who was one of history’s most distinctive pianists

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.

I played day and night

By Kabir and Rabindranath Tagore

I played day and night with my comrades, and now I am greatly afraid...

Breaking the Drought

By Stephen Levine

Stephen Levine with a poem on forgiveness and a reevaluation of our so-called enemies.

14:00 – FREE

Spirituality & the Gods: Sinéad O'Connor

With Guth na nGael

Remembering the late great singer and activist with this interview and performance from Irish TV on her own interspiritual journey through music

22:00 – FREE

Wrought

With Aeon

Dazzling timelapse shows how microbes spoil our food – and sometimes enrich it.

Interbeing

By Thich Nhat Hanh

...as you continue to breathe, I continue to be in you...

3:00 – FREE

How to Be Alone

By Pádraig Ó Tuama, A Poetry Film by Leo G Franchi from OnBeing

Untitled

By Dagmar Iris Holl

A red fox strides past the house of the man who waits for the fox

Just as the Winged Energy of Delight

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Take your well-disciplined strengths and stretch them between two opposing poles. Because inside human beings is where God learns.

White-Eyes

By Mary Oliver

thicken, and begin to fall into the world below like stars, or the feathers of some unimaginable bird

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

For What Binds Us

By Jane Hirshfield

And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud;

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.

1979

By Wendell Berry

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

12:00 – FREE

George Harrison's Views of Vedanta

From a Beatle to a mystic seeker

Poems by Cold Mountain

By Red Pine

From Emergence Magazine: Set amid pine forests and mountain peaks, three ancient Chinese poems, sung and translated by Red Pine, meditate on the nature of Taoism and Zen Buddhism.

1:02:00 – FREE

#11 Quantum Listening

With IONE

Exploring the concepts of Listening in Dreams, Deep Listening, Black Quantum Futurism, and Quantum Listening

The Madonna Secret

By Sophie Stand

Mary Magdalene’s confessions reveal a sensual world of love and betrayal, magic and mystery, hidden within the Gospels

19:00 – FREE

Healing: A Ghost Story

With Sophie Strand

A new story from Sophie read at the Sophie Strand was a guest speaker at Bayo Akomolafe's webinar The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound webinar

6:00 – FREE

Wiyathul

With Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter Gurrumul's music video 'Wiyathul', taken from the album 'Gurrumul'.

1:34:00 – FREE

#20 Vibrating with Awe

With Laura Inserra

Exploring the deep sound medicine of Laura and the implications of living in a world of sound

What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Tina Turner

By Andrea Miller

The legendary singer discusses her Buddhist practice with Lion's Roar Magazine

Wei wu wei

By Stillness Speaks

A look at the life and work of the playwright and Taoist philosopher

Caged Bird

By Maya Angelou

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams... his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream... his wings are clipped and his feet are tied... so he opens his throat to sing.

Carrying the Songs

By Moya Cannon

"Those in power write the history, those who suffer write the songs" –Frank Harte