Sacred Activism

Sacred Activism, Sacred Water

By Breanna Draxler

Like water itself, the protection of this vital resource takes many different forms.

Choosing Earth

By Francis Weller

Francis' Forword to "Choosing Earth: Humanity's Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization" by Duane Elgin

1:00:00 – FREE

#51 After The Wisdom of Trauma

With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo

Zaya and Maurizio sit down to talk about the next film

Rekindling the Primeval

By Dr. Rodney King

The Sacred Call to Eco-Activism

Maui Wildfire Tragedy: Native Hawaiian-led Solutions

By NDN Collective

Kanaka (Native Hawaiian) community in Hawaii and Maui grapple with new wave of colonialism and outside interests on the heels of devastating wildfires resulting from poor land stewardship by U.S. government, extractivism, and tourism.

The fugitive is not an escape artist

By Bayo Akomolafe

The fugitive's work is not to get from point A to point B: it is to get from point A to point A.

1:26:00 – FREE

#43 I Am a Seed

With Bayo Akomolafe and Chief Oluwo Obafemi Fayemi

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

17:00 – FREE

The Value of Deep Listening

With Judy Atkinson

Judy Atkinson describes her approach to healing. It’s about listening. In order to heal, the stories behind the trauma must be heard.

1:30:00 – FREE

Staying Sane in the Next Five Years

With Charles Eisenstein

It's really hard to hold a story in opposition to the story that surrounds you, and we are immersed still in the story of separation

1:07:00 – FREE

#39 Tending Our Inner & Outer Landscapes

With Lyla June

Exploring ways in which indigenous food systems of the past and present teach us how to relate to our inner and outer world

Dadirri

By Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr

Inner Deep Listening and Quiet Still Awareness

10:00 – FREE

What is a Shamanic Diet?

With sherenproject

Shipibo Curandero Explains the Sacred Ancestral Practice

New book shows why Indigenous leadership must be at the heart of Canada’s just transition

By Nick Gottlieb

‘The End of This World’ reveals where the climate justice movement needs to go and how we get there

24:00 – FREE

The Resurgence of Indigenous Knowledge

With Lyla June

Indigenous sciences, embedded and discussed through indigenous languages, have suffered great destruction.

49:00 – FREE

#26 From Separation to Oneness, From Monocultures to Diversity

With Vandana Shiva

Dr. Shiva on quantum physicist, ecologist, and activism, climate collapse, the dangers of our lives being controlled by Silicon Valley, and the pandemic

18:00 – FREE

We are all connected with nature

With Nixiwaka Yawanawa

“Nature is the source of life.”

The 'Thousand Year Clean-Up' With Tyson Yunkaporta

By Tyson Yunkaporta and Rosie Spinks

We’ve been told such a horrendously wrong story about what our past is as human beings.

9:00 – FREE

We Must Risk New Shapes (Excerpt)

With Sophie Strand

Advances in evolutionary science have revealed that biological novelty is created by horizontal fusions between species and between bodies.

Black lives matter, But to whom? (Part I)

By Bayo Akomolafe

From "Democracy and Belonging Forum" – Why We Need a Politics of Exile in a Time of Troubling Stuckness

Love Letter to the Earth (Part Two)

By Thich Nhat Hanh

Celebrating the life and legacy of Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh one-year after he returned to mother earth.

1:05:00 – FREE

#17 Woman Stands Shining: Pat McCabe

With Pat McCabe

At this time we are collective examining our human generated systems, worldview, purpose, or our paradigm. What if paradigm was a choice?

9:00 – FREE

The Hunt

With Sanjay Rawal

Chef Nephi Craig of the White Mountain Apache Nation and master forager Twila Cassadore of the San Carlos Apache Nation—as they work with Indigenous foodways to promote processes of healing and recovery from historical trauma.

50:00 – FREE

#16 The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound

With Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe

exploring the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End

11:00 – FREE

Envisioning Regenerative Activism

With Laura van Winjgaarden

In this video made for the first "Gathering of the Tribes", Laura used Midjourney AI and Pixelmator to visualise key principles of activism, regeneration, and solarpunk ideologies

1:01:00 – FREE

#14 Healing Relationships in Community and in Ourselves

With Eriel Tchekwie Deranger

Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host this Community Gathering with Dënesųłiné indigenous rights activist and climate activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger.

1:07:00 – FREE

#12 Indigenous Languages and Encoded Quantum Physics

With Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Alnoor Ladha

An sprawling conversation in relation to deep time, land, and indigenous trauma and science

9:00 – FREE

Abalone Eyes

With Jazmin Garcia and Marcus Correa

“Butterfly brought color to the world. Frog teaches you that if you put others before yourself you will reap the rewards.”

9:00 – FREE

The Relative is the Absolute

With Caverly Morgan

When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.

1:07:00 – FREE

#10 Nonduality and Postcapitalism

With Lynn Murphy and Alnoor Ladha

Explore their new book Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse

1:07:00 – FREE

#7 Indigenous Resilience: Healing Trauma Through Tradition and Resistance

With Jesse Thistle, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Ruby Gibson, Patricia June Vickers, and Gabor Maté

Intergenerational trauma: the impact of colonization and genocide Indigenous wisdom and the healing of trauma Resistance and healing

56:00 – FREE

#6 New Gods at the End of the World

With Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie Strand

an organic and wild conversation between two poets, writers, philosophers and theobiologians

Singing to the Darkness

By Patricia June Vickers

“Through altered state of consciousness work, we’re able to retrieve the parts of ourselves that broke away from trauma.”

1:00 – FREE

Sufi Whirling in Palestine: Sur Baher Primary School

With Ashira Prem Rachana

SAND guest speaker with a taste of Sufi Whirling

Meditating the World through Compassion

By Shakti Caterina Maggi

Compassion is the ability, by Awareness, to recognize and acknowledge only itself everywhere.

22:00 – FREE

STUDIO 27 / Focused on the Soul – Interview

With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo

Zaya and Maurizio talk about their film projects and the need to spiritually connect people around the world on Prague TV

Inverting the Energy Paradigm

By Charles Eisenstein

peak oil, carbon footprint, renewables, hydro, nuclear, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

The Art of True Feminine Leadership

By Nina Lombardo

Our interconnectedness is undeniable. There is a singular pulse that weaves us all together. When we lose touch with that pulse, we suffer. ⁣

30:00 – FREE

Working with Collective Trauma

With Gabor Maté and Thomas Hübl

Gabor Maté prompts Thomas Hübl to talk about his understanding that trauma is not just an individual but a collective experience.

53:00 – FREE

The Deeper Story behind Crises

With Isira

Wisdom keeper and spiritual master Isira invites us to look into the causes behind the critical challenges we face

10:00 – FREE

Opening to Our Humanity and Resilence in a Time of Upheaval

With Thomas Hübl

two excerpts from the online SAND event with Thomas

5:00 – FREE

The DNA Journey

67 people from all over the world to take a DNA test. It turns out they have much more in common with other nationalities than they thought ...

Darkness Rising

By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

In a time of growing ecological and humanitarian crises, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee bears witness to the darkness of the dying myth we are stranded in.

Butterflies and the Human Psyche

By Michael Meade

the dark stages of dissolution that precede the transformation of butterflies

1:05:00 – FREE

Finding Life through Death

With Alua Arthur

How does one choose to walk closely to the dying every day?

War & Oneness

By Douglas Balmain

A Unified Perspective of the War in Ukraine

Love Letter to the Earth

By Thich Nhat Hanh

To celebrate Earth Day we would like to offer you the following mediation, which is a is a love letter to the Earth, written by Thay.

1:30:00 – FREE

Death to Life and Life to Death

With Charles Eisenstein

Life and death are not the opposites the modern mind has made them to be.

The Causes of War

By J. Krishnamurti

Transcript of a talk by Krishnamurti from 1984

The War Within The War

By Michael Meade

Living Myth Podcast #270 with Michael Meade

45:00 – FREE

The Ukraine Crisis: Activating Our Collective Immune System

With Thomas Hübl

An Open Online Event with Thomas Hübl

1:15:00 – FREE

Death is Always Unprecedented

With Bayo Akomolafe

Modern dreams of death and dying are deeply "humanistic", tethered to a vision of the self as independent and removed from "nature".

1:13:00 – FREE

Climate Crisis, Fragmentation and Collective Trauma

With Bayo Akomolafe, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, and Gabor Maté

50:00 – FREE

Finding an Ally in Death

With Joanna Macy

In our world right now there are economic and political and surveillance systems that need help in dying.

1:16:00 – FREE

Willingness in Times of Crisis

With Orland Bishop

An Exploration of our Higher Shared Purpose

7:00 – FREE

Silence is the Presence of Everything

With Gordon Hempton

Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist whose life work is preserving the world’s silent places

1:11:00 – FREE

Being Your Best Self

With Terry Real

Covid-19 is the first time in our lives that nature has turned against us on a planetary scale.

World vs Individuality

By Judith Butler

Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality

Reclaiming Her Sacred Wisdom

By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

She is the mystery of light being born into matter

1:20:00 – FREE

MWe (Me + We)

With Sará King and Daniel Siegel

Embrace a wider view of who we truly are

53:00 – FREE

The Changing Earth

With Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth

Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island

1:27:00 – FREE

The Indigenous Paradigm

With Pat McCabe

An Indigenous Context for Being a Human Being

53:00 – FREE

From Fear to Trust

With Sabine Lichtenfels

Sabine answers Zaya's burning questions at Wisdom in Times of Crisis

Review: Doing Good Better
by William MacAskill

By David Shariatmadari

If you read this book, you'll change the charities you donate to

5:00 – FREE

Youthfulness

With Bayo Akomolafe

Bayo talks about youthfulness at the I of the Storm event.

The Hidden World of Fungi

By Merlin Sheldrake

Fungi have long supported and enriched life on our planet. They must be protected as fiercely as animals and plants.

54:00 – FREE

Entangled Lives

With Merlin Sheldrake

Fungal networks, ecology, and us

1:00:00 – FREE

Where To Go?

With Bayo Akomolafe

Where to go when the highway no longer leads to interesting places?

Neoliberal Psychology

By Joel Millward-Hopkins

Why do we allow the logic of the market to occupy our minds?

1:11:00 – FREE

From Separation to Oneness

With Vandana Shiva

From monoculture to diversity

A Mystical Experience

Goodall’s mystical experience occurred in the forest of Gombe

The Death of the Climate Activist

By Bayo Akomolafe

the Anthropocene calls upon a radically new ontology

54:00 – FREE

The Rising Voice of the Feminine - SAND18 US

With Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US

God is a Mother

By Kaitlin Shetler

and with that sentence the world stops

12:00 – FREE

Humanity's phase shift

With Daniel Schmachtenberger

Daniel shares how we can avoid a civilization collapse.

1:00:00 – FREE

Where To Go When The Highway No Longer Leads To Interesting Places

With Bayo Akomolafe

This talk is about what Bayo calls "ontofugitivity": how things go astray

1:11:00 – FREE

From Separation to Oneness, from Monocultures to Diversity

With Vandana Shiva

My PhD thesis was on non separability and non locality in Quantum theory.

Masking the Mask

By Zvi Ish-Shalom

COVID-19 and the Narcissistic Plague of America

23:00 – FREE

The Exponential Explosion - SAND19 US

With Peter Russell

In the coming decades, the pace of life will be much faster than it is today

25:00 – FREE

The Trap of Being Right - SAND19 US

With Charles Eisenstein

There is a special area of the Matrix reserved for people who think they have exited the Matrix.

20:00 – FREE

Making Sanctuary: Is There a Solution for Climate Change? - SAND19 US

With Bayo Akomolafe

What if the ways we think about the climate crisis is the crisis?

30:00 – FREE

A Great Leap in Being - SAND19 US

With Brian Swimme

One of the fundamental spiritual, social, and ecological challenges of our time is learning how to live into what we know.

22:00 – FREE

Putting Relate Back into Relationship - SAND19 US

With Deborah Johnson

Oftentimes, the culprit of our inability to genuinely relate in our heart is our adherence to the dualistic paradigm of “otherness.”

37:00 – FREE

Sacred Activism for the Great Turning - SAND19 US

With Cynthia Jurs

What can we do to bring healing and protection to the Earth?

Suffocating Racism

By Kelly Wendorf

What would you do if you suddenly realized you were a racist?

30:00 – FREE

Intimations of Nature's Grace - SAND19 US

With Keith Salmon

Many embrace perspectives and belief systems that are in discord with Nature’s rhythms.

We Were Made for These Times

By Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered.

24:00 – FREE

The Science of Social Justice - SAND19 US

With Sará King

Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) is a radically interdisciplinary and groundbreaking field

24:00 – FREE

The Trap of Being Right - SAND19 US

With Charles Eisenstein

There is a special area of the Matrix reserved for people who think they have exited the Matrix.

21:00 – FREE

I Give you my Word
SAND19 US

With Orland Bishop

We live in a time characterized by convergences of many kinds

20:00 – FREE

Radical Love & the Cosmic Mirror
SAND19 US

With Teresa Mateus

Grounding in the Act of Seeing Sacred Difference

Extinction and the Revolution of Love

By Charles Eisenstein

Contrary to its self-conception, Extinction Rebellion is not actually about climate change.

The Coronation

By Charles Eisenstein

Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together?

A Trail on the Ground

By Francis Weller

Uncertainty has come into our homes and found its way into each of our lives.

22:00 – FREE

A Fierce and Tender Wisdom - SAND19 US

With Mirabai Starr

The feminine is rising, carrying cups of mercy and spreading flames of truth-telling

22:00 – FREE

The Exponential Explosion - SAND19 US

With Peter Russell

In the coming decades, the pace of life will be much faster than it is today

21:00 – FREE

The Universe in Ecstatic Motion - SAND19 US

With Mona Haydar

How do we unlearn and de-program our toxic and limiting beliefs?

No Time To Lose

By Joanna Macy

We’re in collapse now, but it doesn’t have to be a total collapse.

What If There Were No Future?

By Peter Russell

Some Overlooked Consequences of Accelerating Change

43:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Obstacle to Our Evolution: A conversation

With Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.

29:00 – FREE

A Great Leap in Being - SAND19 US

With Brian Swimme

One of the fundamental spiritual, social, and ecological challenges of our time is learning how to live into what we know.

Rumi Was Once a Twelve-Year-Old Refugee

By Pouria Montazeri

Little do Rumi Western admirers know, he was once a twelve-year-old refugee when his family emigrated from Balkh (modern day Afghanistan).

1:11:00 – FREE

Social Justice: Are We One? SAND19 US

With Sará King, Caverly Morgan, Orland Bishop, and Konda Mason

The panelists invite SAND community members to explore privilege and consequences of racial and ontological identities.

The World is our Field of Practice

By On Being

Krista Tippett and Rev. angel Kyodo williams touch upon some of the richest themes of the zeitgeist

1:38:00 – FREE

The Climate Crisis: Grief for Planet Earth - SAND19 US

With Charles Eisenstein, Bayo Akomolafe, and Cynthia Jurs

Zaya Bennazzo asks panelists to share their insights about the climate crisis

43:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Mushrooms, Mycelium & The Mycology of Consciousness - Part II

With Paul Stamets

Discover the world of magic mushrooms

19:00 – FREE

Making Sanctuary: Is There a Solution for Climate Change? - SAND19 US

With Bayo Akomolafe

What if the ways we think about the climate crisis is the crisis?

To Walk in Beauty

By Keith Salmon

Living in harmony with the rhythms and interrelationships of the Natural World is essential

Politics, Activism and Awakening

By Joan Tollifson

Politics is usually a hot-button subject, one that can trigger bitter arguments, end marriages,

A Net of Gems

By Keith Salmon

We are born with a yearning to find our place

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part III

By Bayo Akomolafe

The way isn’t forward, it’s awkward

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part II

By Bayo Akomolafe

How we see the problem is part of the problem

Spiritual Traditions Fail the Global Crisis - Part II

By Kavita Byrd

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

Spiritual Traditions Fail the Global Crises - Part I

By Kavita Byrd

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

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part I

By Bayo Akomolafe

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

4:00 – FREE

Albatross (trailer)

A movie by chris jordan photographic arts

53:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Opening the Masculine Heart

With Charles Eisenstein, William Keepin, Kent Welsh, and Jeannie Zandi

A groundbreaking and moving discussion between leaders in the world of masculinity and gender relations

A Legacy for Dark Times: Becoming a Balm for All Wounds

By Vera de Chalambert

Some of the greatest nondual insights about the human condition were offered to our world in no ancient scroll

Mystical Experience: The True Language Of Religion And Of Feminism?

By Matthew Fox

In feminist theology therefore, the issue is not about exchanging pronouns but about another way of thinking of transcendence.

Every Act a Ceremony

By Charles Eisenstein

Every word a prayer. Every walk a pilgrimage. Every place a shrine.

22:00 – $0.99

SAND18 US — Action on the Bee Crisis

With Paul Stamets

We Need Courage, Not Hope, To Face Climate Change

By Kate Marvel

In the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right in the end.