SAND18 - Being Human in the Engine of Creation

Blessed are the (tiny) cheesemakers

By Ute Eberle

Cheese is not just a tasty snack — it’s an ecosystem. And the fungi and bacteria within that ecosystem play a big part in shaping the flavor and texture of the final product.

25:00 – FREE

Laozi and Quantum Physics

With Shantena Augusto Sabbadini

The connections between Quantum Physics, Daoism, and Nonduality in this interview with the Italian physicist

We Must Risk New Shapes

By Sophie Strand

I am a body plus. A body plus trauma, plus illness, plus pollen, plus spores, plus caretakers and friends and loved ones and wild kin.

Waking, Dreaming, Being

By Vikram Zutshi

Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…

Just How Far Can Psychedelics Push The Boundaries of How We Assign Consciousness?

By David Nield

Strange Illusion Shows The Human Brain Alters Time to Maintain Our Expectations

By Peter Dockrill

How to rebuild California forests, with climate in mind

By Ula Chrobak

While scientists can anticipate how climate change will affect larger regions, predicting the fate of a given 100-acre forest plot can be trickier.

Our Brains Keep Us 15 Seconds 'in The Past'

By Mauro Manassi and David Whitney

So how does our brain create this illusion of stability?

Science, Being, & Becoming: The Spiritual Lives of Scientists book Review

By Paul J. Mills

This groundbreaking book is an invitation to the public, to citizen scientists, and to professional scientists to reject the materialistic worldview of modern science

24:00 – FREE

What Do We Actually Know

With Bernardo Kastrup

A talk from SAND 15 exploring the brain, perception, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, panpsychism, and more.

16:00 – FREE

Relational Imaginaries, Kinship Highlights 7

With Stephen Jenkinson and Sophie Strand

Excerpts from Advaya: the role of mythology, stories, art, and poetry in cultivating kinship. How do stories create/relate to belonging?

How to Be Healthy in a Dopamine-Seeking Culture

By Brad Stulberg

the challenge of choosing deep-focus work and connection over superficial distraction and stimulation

The Moment

By Margaret Atwood

from 'Eating Fire'

21:00 – FREE

Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science

With Dr. Leroy Little Bear

Comparing the foundational base of Blackfoot knowledge to quantum physics to an attentive audience at The Banff Centre as part of the Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science: Contrasts and Similarities event.

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

By Mark Wolynn

A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.

Nature vs. Nurture

By Stephen Johnson

Which determines traits like sexual orientation, intelligence and behavior: genes or environment?

All is Vibration

By Tam Hunter

A new theory of consciousness rooted in vibration

Is Human Consciousness Creating Reality?

By Paul Ratner

An exploration of a groundbreaking assertion of a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

12:00 – FREE

A Look Back in Time

With Katie Mack

How NASA's Webb Telescope Gives Humanity a Revolutionary New View of Cosmos

50:00 – FREE

Dying to Live: Evolution Through Recycling

With Elisabet Sahtouris

Let’s start with Anaximander, who said everything forming in Nature incurs a debt which it must repay so that other things may form, which I see as the essence of evolution and a fascinating take on Dying to Live.

Feeling & Knowing

By JP O'Malley

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness

Cezanne, Shamans, and the Intelligence of Plants

By Betsey Crawford

"Vision is an art, and nature an old master painter teaching us how to see the underlying reality of things to be — before they actually are.
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43:00 – FREE

Evidence of the Afterlife

With Jeffrey Long

Dr. Long has investigated thousands of near-death experiences (NDEs) with the results of his research published in the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.

The Minotaur Dances the Masculine Back into the Milky Way

By Sophie Strand

An excerpt from the new book "The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine"

25:00 – FREE

The Mathematics of Consciousness

With Donald Hoffman

Donald Hoffman describes his mathematical theory that ties in with consciousness touching into neuroscience, computer science, perception, and how we construct reality.

1:01:00 – FREE

#23 The Songs of Gaia

With Monica Gagliano

Listening to/with/as the whole planet is listening and sining, a conversation with world renoun bioacoustic researcher

Quantum Prediction: Something is Created from Nothing

By Ethan Siegal

In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.

1:10:00 – FREE

The Science of Perception

With Chris Fields, Susana Martinez-Conde, and Donald Hoffman

Perception may be defined not only as how we experience the world through our senses, but also how we interpret those experiences to create meaning and provide a practically useful model of reality.

Black Holes

By Ben Turner

Famous Stephen Hawking Theory About Black Holes Confirmed

23:00 – FREE

Perceiving Perception

With Susana Martinez-Conde

Susana Martinez-Conde gives her understanding of perception, brains, reality, memory, experience, music, aesthetics, and language from her experience as Laboratory Director of SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Drumming woodpeckers use similar brain regions as songbirds

By Darren Incorvaia

The complex behaviors may have a shared evolutionary origin

Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement

By Elizabeth Ferdandez

Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.

1:11:00 – FREE

Humanual Support

With Betsy Polatin

Experience your inherent support and understand why you lose it.

Why people across the world see constellations, not just stars

By Simon J Cropper, Duane W Hamacher, Daniel R Little, and Charles Kemp

While constellations and the stories attached to them have obvious artistic and spiritual significance, they also represent an elegant and effective solution to the problem of understanding complex physical environments.

Ancient Green

By Robin Wall Kimmerer

Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses—ancient beings who transformed the world—teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.

Scientists Say Your “Mind” Isn’t Confined to Your Brain, or Even Your Body

By Olivia Goldhill

Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.