Indigenous Solar Eclipse Stories From Across Turtle Island
From rodents of unusual size to flaming arrows, communities across North America share solar eclipse traditions
From the SAND Archives we present a conversation between SAND co-founder Maurizio Benazzo and biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake from SAND’s Wisdom in Times of Crisis Series (2020).
In this talk they discuss Merlin’s book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures.
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist, writer, and speaker with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.
Chasing Cicadas
Amid the cacophony of a cicada emergence, Anisa George reflects on her choice to leave the Bahá’í faith and its promise of a new civilization
The Possibilities of Regeneration
Origins of regenerative agriculture, offering a story that is both new and ancient in its roots
Ghost Pipe, Illness, and Mycoheterotrophy
No matter how sick I feel, I’m still afire with a need to do something for my living
Listening to Stones
Little Bear believes there is an unspoken language that makes it possible to bridge every worldview
Love as the Ground of Being
Iain McGilchrist and Rowan Williams discuss the limits of materialism.
#67 The Dreaming Path
A SAND Conversation with Aboriginal elders and authors
Your Stability, Patience, and Inclusiveness
In this series of tender meditations, Ten Love Letters to the Earth, Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh invites us to be truly present with the Earth, our Mot