Arts

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.

I played day and night

By Kabir and Rabindranath Tagore

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

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.

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.

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.

1:34:00 – 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

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

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

Earth Verse

By Gary Snyder

Wide enough to keep you looking ... Open enough to keep you moving ...

6:00 – FREE

Wiyathul

With Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

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

White-Eyes

By Mary Oliver

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

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;

22:00 – FREE

Wrought

With Aeon

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

1979

By Wendell Berry

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

1:02:00 – FREE

#11 Quantum Listening

With IONE

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

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

Taste the Sky: Love Made Visible Through Art & Poetry

By Rashani Réa and Chelan Harkin

Aware

By Denise Levertov

A poem about a moment of wonder observing vine leaves.

3:00 – FREE

How to Be Alone

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

Don't Make Lists

By Dorothy Walters

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

Untitled

By Dagmar Iris Holl

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

1:00 – FREE

Sufi Whirling in Palestine: Sur Baher Primary School

With Ashira Prem Rachana

SAND guest speaker with a taste of Sufi Whirling

1:00:00 – FREE

#2 Wisdom in Death and Dying

With Stephen Jenkinson

The meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture and more on Sounds of SAND Episode 2

Kendrick Lamar: Artist as Cultural Shaman

By Rebel Wisdom, David Fuller, and James O' Connell

Waging Peace

By Sarah Klassan

4:00 – FREE

Head of the Lake

With Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

discovering the layers of life in and around a lake

All that is Joy

By Rabindranath Tagore

Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song

Attachment

By Vasant Lad

Attachment is the food of the mind.

4:00 – FREE

Yo-Yo Ma and Anna Clyne - In The Gale - The Birdsong Project

A duet of cello and birdsong

water talk

By Yoko Ono

you are water; I'm water...

The Bell and the Blackbird

By David Whyte

"Either way takes courage, either way wants you to be nothing but that self that is no self at all...”

6:00 – FREE

Mother I Sober

With Kendrick Lamar

a masterpiece album from Pulitzer Prize winning musician dealing with intergenerational trauma

The Holy Passage

By Tomaj Javidtash

It is that time again, to give the master a visit.

Shedding Suits

By Janet Howard

Spring stayed in hiding this year...

The Beauty We Love

By John O'Donohue

From "To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings"

How to Heal

By Jeff Foster

"Do not force the healing, my love. Healing is always unforced."

I Have Spent a Lot of Time...

By Ben Bushill

...A lovely poem about home

Byung-Chul Han: How Objects Lost their Magic

By Gesine Borcherdt

For the philosopher, our postfactual stimulus culture is one that edges out time-consuming values such as loyalty, ritual and commitment

5:00 – FREE

F Major

With Hania Rani

Piano solo recorded live in open Iceland landscape

Illuminations

By Frantisek Strouhal, Jakub Strouhal, and Chantal Robert

Art Embracing Awareness, Streams of Consciousness

7:00 – FREE

Naked

With Alexandra Sheren

The award-wining music short "Portraiture"

20:00 – FREE

Musical Performance

With Sea Stars

Give yourself permission to rest and receive lullabies for your heart.

41:00 – FREE

SAND Archives: Cosmology, Ecology, Poetry and Justice

With Drew Dellinger

22:00 – FREE

From Word to Silence

With Fred LaMotte

Let us explore poetry as guided meditation

53:00 – FREE

Seasons of Rumi

With Pouria Montazeri

Rumi was not unfamiliar to crisis.

11:00 – FREE

Ritual

With Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman

21:00 – FREE

The Church of the Ordinary

With Maya Luna

Poetry from the Deep Feminine

You, You Only, Exist

By Rainer Maria Rilke

We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that

God is in a Mood

By Adyashanti

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave.

Now is the Time

By Hafiz

Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred.

In My Soul

By Rabia al Basri

In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel.

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Quiet Friend Who Has Come So Far

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Let this darkness be a bell tower

The Joy of Sorrow

By Jeff Foster

It's simple. When you feel sad, just feel sad.

The Beauty we Love

By Howard Thurman

The true purpose of all spiritual disciplines is to clear away...

Research

By Cecilia Payne

O Universe, O Lover, I gave myself to thee

The Healing Time

By Pesha Gertler

Finally on my way to yes, I bump into all the places where I said no

13:00 – FREE

Winter Solstice Dreaming

With Estas Tonne

A winter solstice 2020 short stream for a Movement Medicine community

I No Longer Pray

By Chelan Harkin

Now I drink dark chocolate and let the moon sing to me.

39:00 – FREE

Vibrations

With Moving Sounds

Musica Sacra — this describes very well our intuitively played music

7:00 – FREE

Bridging the Worlds

with Estas Tonne and Dimitri Artemenko

Figuring Forward in an Uncertain Universe

By Maria Popova

Meanwhile, someplace in the world, somebody is making love and another a poem.

Dance

By Gabrielle Roth

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth

9:00 – FREE

A Hymn for Life

With Ben Bushill

The seed of life is within us all, our dance here is mundane, strange and wonderful.

Unbelief

By Andrew Colliver

Unbelief is good medicine.

Thealagie

By Shekhinah Mountainwater

In the beginning is Goddess

Creation and Destruction

By Monica Timbal

An excerpt, and an exclusive gift to our community

Cannot Be Tought

For silence is not God, nor speaking

When Death Comes

By Mary Oliver

Senseless Perfection

By Maya Luna

For the Uses of Man

By John Muir

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable...

In the Realm of the Passing Away

By Stephen Livine

All that exists does not for long.

Subtle Sacraments

By Paul Swanson

Where do you see a window you can open for a subtle sacrament to slip into your day?

The Age of Authenticity

By Maya Luna

We see the game. The jig is up.

18:00 – FREE

Poetry - SAND19 US

With Maya Luna

Every human being has a cross to bear.

Waiting for Santa

By Scott Kiloby

Many on the spiritual path rightfully long for a sudden point in time when a shift happens

Sweet Darkness

By David Whyte

When your eyes are tired, the world is tired also

9:00 – FREE

The Art of Making the Invisible Visible
- SAND19 US

With David Ellzey

to fashion universes out of emptiness

Advice to Myself

By Louise Erdrich

Leave the Dishes

Everything is Ecstasy

By Jack Kerouac

We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds.

1:00 – FREE

A COVID-19 Admonition

With Science and Nonduality

The CDC recommendations, in a language we can all understand

The Return of the Black Madonna

By Matthew Fox

A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the Twenty-First Century

This is Not a Poem

By Fred LaMotte

Just a murmur whose poor thoughts won't reach the edge of the page.

"Pandemic" a poem

By Lynn Ungar

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath—the most sacred of times?

6:00 – FREE

Chimes - SAND19 US

With Sea Stars

Sea Stars is the musical collaboration of Kurt Baumann and Katie Gray.

The Poetry of the World

By Shawn Radcliffe

“Some of his poems are as if he’s consoling God for what’s happened to his creation”

Medicine of the Real

By Chameli Ardagh

What a kindness she showers upon me, not letting me skip any steps, or leave not even one stone unturned.

2:00 – FREE

The Laughing Heart: Charles Bukowski

Your life is your life, don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

Taste Your Life Now

By Ellen Emmet

There is a kind of thinking which keeps life separate from herself

Come Solstice Come

By Rainer Maria Rilke

All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed,

When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple

By Thomas Merton

With no more Fathers to imitate, Poverty is a success

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

By Shawn Radcliffe

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

Illness as Companion

By John O'Donohue

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

Widening Circles

By Rainer Maria Rilke

A Liturgy of Light

By John O'Donohue

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

Sometimes a Wild God

By Tom Hirons

Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

2:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Wound of Love

With Maya Luna

Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma

One Must Dance Naked

By Fred LaMotte

You wear your silence as a black silk gown, woven infinitesimal, every thread a letter of your lover's name.

7:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - The Paradox of Awakening

With David Ellzey

At the 2018 SAND Conference, David Ellzey physically and wordlessly tells the story that resolves the seeming paradox of being both human and transcendent.

Sojourns in the Parallel World

By Denise Levertov

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations...

The Wound of Love

By Maya Luna

Today I gave up on healing my trauma

The Tao of Jazz

By Peter Jezard

Music is created from energetic patterns of tonal and rhythmic interval. It is the ratio of these intervals…

FREE

Introduction to Māori Self-Healing

They thought they buried me; They did not know I am a seed

Holotropic States of Consciousness: Technologies of the Sacred

Raven Chacon

Mirabai

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

Can We Use Quantum Computers to Make Music?

Wei wu wei

Maha Kali Trio Live at Summer Mela 2020

#32 Breathing Bamboo

Haikai No Renga (Linked Verses)

Just as the Winged Energy of Delight

Carrying the Songs

Never Broken (Excerpt)

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

Butterfly Against the Wind

George Harrison's Views of Vedanta

A Cure for Sadness

Feast of Losses

Afrofuturist Sun Ra

I played day and night

Caged Bird

Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance

Poems by Cold Mountain

#20 Vibrating with Awe

Healing: A Ghost Story

#18 The Mysticism of Sound and Music

Earth Verse

Wiyathul

White-Eyes

For What Binds Us

Wrought

1979

#11 Quantum Listening

Zen and Nonduality

Taste the Sky: Love Made Visible Through Art & Poetry

Aware

How to Be Alone

Don't Make Lists

Untitled

Sufi Whirling in Palestine: Sur Baher Primary School

#2 Wisdom in Death and Dying

Kendrick Lamar: Artist as Cultural Shaman

Waging Peace

Head of the Lake

All that is Joy

Attachment

Yo-Yo Ma and Anna Clyne - In The Gale - The Birdsong Project

water talk

The Bell and the Blackbird

Mother I Sober

The Holy Passage

Shedding Suits

The Beauty We Love

How to Heal

I Have Spent a Lot of Time...

Byung-Chul Han: How Objects Lost their Magic

F Major

Illuminations

Naked

Musical Performance

SAND Archives: Cosmology, Ecology, Poetry and Justice

From Word to Silence

Seasons of Rumi

Ritual

The Church of the Ordinary

You, You Only, Exist

God is in a Mood

Now is the Time

In My Soul

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

Quiet Friend Who Has Come So Far

The Joy of Sorrow

The Beauty we Love

Research

The Healing Time

Winter Solstice Dreaming

I No Longer Pray

Vibrations

The Art of Making the Invisible Visible
- SAND19 US