Social Sciences

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Gently Dusting Off The Mind

Gabor Mate describes his work as an archaeology of the mind, a gentle dusting off to discover the treasure within.

The Ego and the Universe

Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are

Can the Effects of Trauma Pass Down Generations?

New research shows that the physical effects of trauma can be passed down to children and even to grandchildren

Brain Biases Prevent Action on Climate Change … But Can Help, Too

Climate change is one of the biggest and toughest problems facing human society. Unless the rise in average global temperates is stopped soon

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SAND18 US — Spirituality, Archetypes, and Trauma

The treatment of trauma is fraught with many pitfalls and “tight corners.” Generally overlooked, however, is an innate relationship between trauma, archetypes and spirituality.

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SAND18 US — What is a Healthy Mind?

Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…

Near-Death Experiences are Real: A Rebuttal

Just as artists are driven to create, scientists need to prove that something is as it seems. Their mantra is, don’t tell me, show me through repeated tests that arrive at the same results every time.

On Spiritual Bypassing and Relationship

Spiritual bypassing is a term I coined to describe a process I saw happening in the Buddhist community I was in, and also in myself.

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Reclaiming Emotion

In a passionate presentation in praise of emotion, Zhen Dao offers a reframe of the traditional dichotomy…

Book Review: The Fellowship of the River, by Joseph Tafur

As far as I know, this is a first: a book about ayahuasca and plant medicine and shamanism...

The Neurobiology of Love

For anyone who has watched a friend fall in love, Nietzsche’s words from Thus Spoke Zarathustra might…

Everything is Self

Many great masters have said “Everything is Self,” and this phrase is repeated regularly during spiritual…

The Brain-Heart Connection: Emotions, Feelings and Health

The heart is essential to our life, pumping oxygenated blood throughout our body. But it’s also the…

David Bohm, Implicate Order and Holomovement

David Bohm was one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, and a fearless challenger of scientific orthodoxy.

New Theory Says We Are All Multiple Personalities of a Cosmic Consciousness

From the comfortable seat of our bodies (and built-in brains), it’s easy to think that consciousness…

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

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

The Paradox of Free Will

One of my earliest ventures into philosophy, back in high school, concerned the question of “free will versus determinism.”

Illusions and the Mind’s Reality

When it comes to the world around us, what we perceive is not always what is actually there.

Intimate Relationship as a Spiritual Crucible

Living with someone we love, with all the joys and challenges, is one of the best ways…

The Bread Crumb Trail of Inherited Family Trauma

Although we might believe that our suffering is a private affair, this haunting, background agony could…

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SAND18 US — Healing Collective Trauma

The Historic Einstein-Tagore Meeting: Is Truth Independent of us?

It was on the edge of Berlin on July 14, 1930, that science and spirituality came together in one of the most intellectually stimulating conversations in history

You Are Not Your Thoughts

In the quest for our true identity, what could be more authentic than our own thoughts?…

The Flow of Time in a Timeless Universe

If you were to stand outside the universe—outside both space and time—and look at your life, you would see your birth, your death and every moment in between laid out as distinct points.

Embracing Existential Loneliness and Waking Up To Non-dual Aloneness

At 3:03 a.m. on August 8, 1983, I was born into isolation—I spent the first two weeks of my life in an incubator,

The Holographic Future: From Science Fiction to Reality

Since childhood I have been fascinated by holograms. The reason was the science fiction movie Star Wars and in 1984 I watched it for the first time.

Falsifiability: How to Distinguish Between Science and Nonscience

In a world where scientific theories often sound bizarre and counter to everyday intuition, and where a wide variety of nonsense aspires to be recognized as “scientific,” it’s important to be able to separate science from non-science—

A New Theory of Consciousness: The Mind Exists as a Field Connected to the Brain

Between quantum physics and neuroscience, a theory emerges of a mental field we each have, existing in another dimension and behaving in some ways like a black hole.

Nondual Psychotherapy

Although I’ve been an ardent devotee of Ramana Maharshi since 1970, I’ve also worked as a state-licensed psychotherapist in California since 1978.

How Can Wholeness Be In Crisis? Inquiring into the Human Predicament

The most radical understanding of reality points first to radical wholeness, to the prior unity of all opposites and conditional experiences.

Emotions as Energy Flow and Information

There is such a deeply rooted belief that we must do something with intense surges of feeling and emotion as they wash through: understand them, determine their cause, link them to some life circumstance or person, transform them, transmute them...

The Dalai Lama and the Atlas of Emotions

Emotions are tricky entities. They confuse the mind and disturb perception, isolating an individual in a private sense of reality. So what to do with them?

Don't Follow your Feelings

I know what it’s like to live a life driven by emotion, and believe me, it won’t make you happy.

Emotions Shape Our Physical Reality

In recent years scientists have been exploring the effects that stress and emotions have on our cells — in particular, on our chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA.

The Greatest Contradiction of Common Sense

This essay is about a shocking contradiction in our common sense about the nature of reality; a contradiction that you are probably totally unaware of. Becoming aware of this contradiction has the potential to change your life.

Where Does Pain Exist in the Mind?

We live in a reality generated by our brain. From the euphoria of falling in love to the beauty of a newly blossomed flower, what we experience with our senses is a representation of the world, not the world itself.

Epigenetics: What Are We Really Handing Down to Our Children?

With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don’t deal with, pass on to my kids?

Homeostasis, Feelings, and the Rise of Culture

When people talk about the evolution and development of all that makes humans “unique,” one thing that often gets overlooked is our feelings.

An Examination of Ethics and Spiritual Teaching

It’s a safe bet that everyone reading this article has read accounts of spiritual teachers engaging in questionable behavior. Many of you may have been on the receiving end of such behavior.

Krishnamurti on Love

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. The seeking for security invites insecurity.

Infective Heredity: You Are Not Who You Think You Are

According to Charles Darwin, you are the product of your biological mother and father, just as they were the product of their biological mother and father, and so on back to the earliest days of humans and to all the species that came before.

The Myth of Good and Bad Emotions

One idea in the study of emotion and its impact on psychological health is overdue for retirement: that negative emotions (like sadness or fear) are inherently bad or maladaptive for our psychological well-being, and positive emotions (like happiness...

The Fiction of Being

Every life is a work of fiction. That’s what I tell my memoir students. People come to me wanting to tell their life story, the narrative that sums them up, the myth that captures their essence.

The Mirror of Relationship

The mystics of all traditions have taught us that love is not to be sought; love is what we are. Love is what is here in each and every moment.

The Many Ways We Deceive Ourselves

One of the central goals of yoga is seeing the world clearly. But when it comes to knowing ourselves, we often lack self-awareness about our real nature.

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There Is No Moon If We Close Our Eyes: Chris Fields and Riccardo Manzotti

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Its great that ACEs are high on the agenda for organizations that support adults, children & young people.

Nondual Logic

By Andrew Lohrey In first year philosophy I was never taught there was more than one kind of logic.…

Protesting From Inner Peace

"Deep acceptance of the way things are is the source of all creative change. The perfect paradox." Being…

Can Gut Bacteria Control Your Mood?

You are never truly alone. Everywhere you go, you carry trillions of microbes inside your gut. These…

If Thoughts and Feelings Could Speak

I remember the moment the teaching to “see” rather than ignore thoughts and feelings became real for…

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Technology in Dating and Sexuality: Justin Garcia

The final address at the 2018 Radiant Intimacy gathering, Justin Garcia discusses the changing role…

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From Lust to Love: A Research Perspective: Justin Garcia

Speaking at the 2018 Radiant Intimacy gathering, Justin Garcia, evolutionary biologist at the Kinsey…

Subjectivity of Perception: Using Illusions to Alter Pain

“There is no truth. There is only perception.” ~ Gustave Flaubert Many people with chronic pain have…

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Deleting the App, The New Ritual of Commitment: Esther Perel

Speaking at the 2018 Radiant Intimacy gathering, Esther Perel outlines the remarkable transformation…

A Higher Perspective on Climate Change

The answer to climate change is embedded in the problem, says spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl. But to…

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A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul: Stephen Jenkinson

In a wide-ranging and moving talk, spiritual activist and author Stephen Jenkinson advocates for dying…

Wishing well? The Practice: Bless.

Why? Lately, I've been wondering what would be on my personal list of top five practices (all tied for…

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The Global Coherence Initiative: Rollin McCraty

Rollin McCraty summarizes recent research and findings of his work as Research Director of the HeartMath…

Emotional Sentience: Katherine Peil

Katherine Peil reveals some of the fascinating discoveries of her lengthy inquiry into the nature of…

Heart Transplant

“The Caterpillar is the first character who really makes an effort to guide Alice on her journey. Since…

Is Social Media Addiction Real?

The internet has given us many amazing things — easy access to vast amounts of information, the ability…

Political Roots and Genetic Evidence for the Indian Caste System

Photo by Zaya In this extract from his book svābhāvikasūtra: The Roots of the Bhagavadgītā, Gerard Kuiken…

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The Medicine of Poetry and Music: Kim Rosen

Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem, reminds us that the rhythms and sounds of the spoken word can…

Grand Narratives: Unplugging from the Big Story

Our personal stories tend to become entangled with the grand narratives that shape and crystallize our…

Are Emotions Hard-Wired or Constructed?

There’s a scene in the movie Star Trek III where Spock, a logical and rational Vulcan, is relearning…

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Sacred Space And Conscious Community: Kabir Helminski

Kabir Helminski asks, What is our moral obligation if we recognize that all is one? - and describes…

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All Science Is Intuitive: Chris Fields

Chris Fields brings the worlds of science and art together through the surprising thing they share and…

The Feeling of Safety in Relationship

A Primer on Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, By Ron Manley, Ph.D. Although his first book on Polyvagal Theory…

Balancing the Material and Transcendent in Our Lives

Science enables us to study the world with precision and order, breaking it down into its component…

Expecting It All: An Honest Look at Modern Love

An interviewed with Esther Perel by Kate Green Tripp, Managing Editor for 1440 Multiversity. 1440: You…

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Our Intuitive Capacity for Spiritual Wisdom: Helen Palmer

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Sacred Activism: The SAND17 Panel Discussion

Vera de Chalambert chairs a panel with four sacred activists: Caverly Morgan, Charles Eisenstein, Rev.…

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Can Teens Help Us Collectively Awaken? Caverly Morgan

Caverly Morgan is the founder and guiding teacher of Peace in Schools and Presence Collective. Peace…

Shame—Dissolving This Driving Force Behind Addiction Through Mindfulness

Scott Kiloby begins a 4-part Webinar Series on Sunday March 11. Here’s a short article to introduce…

A Better Answer to Chronic Stress

By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD   If an epidemic is defined as a disease that affects…

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God Is A Fact About Ourselves: Nancy Abrams

Philosopher Nancy Abrams presents a radical rethinking of God for the global scientific community, ideas…

Of Phantom Limbs and Mental Maps

by V. S. Ramachandran How Ramachandran Fooled the Brain into Easing Pain Ninety percent of amputees…

Escaping the Observer Trap

Are you feeling stuck in your practice? Did meditation lead to big, positive life changes early on,…

Meditation, Cosmology and Human Society

by Amrit Srecko Sorli As meditators we have experience of timelessness. At the beginning, timelessness…

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Family Illness is a Myth, Mario Martinez

Mario Martinez proposes that longevity is learned, and we have the capacity to change how our genes…

A Tale of Cells and Cities: Our Human Evolutionary Agenda

By Elisabet Sahtouris Dedicated to the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative. Looking…

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Beyond the Obsession with Numbers, Charles Eisenstein

Has the time come to move beyond our obsession with measurement? Charles Eisenstein, author of several…

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Die Wise: Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen Jenkinson's book Die Wise is for everyone who is not going to pull off eternity after all. It…

A Call for Ethics in Nonduality Teachings 

by Scott Kiloby Is it ok for a teacher to yell or curse at a student to free him from his own ego? What…

The Idealist Symbolism of the Christmas Archetype

As we experience the afterglow of Christmas — the date that symbolically commemorates the birth of the…

Follow Your Emotion

By Eric Baret Translated from the French by Mary Mann from his book, De l’Abandon. Fear, rage, love,…

The Danger Of Inadvertently Praising Zygomatic Arches

by Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave I don't think that there is Free…

Story Structure, Logic, and the Meaning of Life

By PJ Reece If you’re lucky at some point in your life you’ll come to a complete dead-end. I confess,…

The Holographic Principle and the Shadows That Bind

In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” prisoners are chained inside a cave, able to look at only shadows cast on the wall by puppeteers standing in front of a fire behind them. For these prisoners, the shadows—not the real objects that cast those shadows—

The Physical Side of Trauma

Trauma is more than just a cognitive experience. It resides in the body, mind, heart and brain. Which…

A Dark Night of the Soul and the Discovery of Meaning

By Thomas Moore Anyone may go through a period of sadness or challenge that is so deep-seated and tenacious…

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Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart, Deborah Rozman

Recent discoveries have found the heart possesses its own intrinsic nervous system of sensory neurons…

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Can We Strip Culture and History from Thought? Robert Burton

Robert Burton is a physician, novelist, nonfiction author and columnist. His books include three critically…

Simone Weil: A Life On Fire

No one is going to raise their eyebrows if this is the first time you’ve heard of Simone Weil. Her heyday…

A Brazilian Shaman Reveals the Dark Side of "Positive Thinking"

By Rudá Iandé Have you ever been told you just need to “think positive” and your problems will go away?…

Thomas Hübl’s The Pocket Project: Facilitating the Integration of Collective Trauma

As a tree grows, it may encounter a line of barbed wire, and so it grows around the wire, incorporating…

Loving Your Darkest Emotions

“I love the dark hours of my being,” wrote poet Rainer Maria Rilke in his Book of Hours:…

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A Passion to Heal

Julie Brown Yau, who uses somatic depth psychology to work with trauma, talks about her practice and…

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You Don't Have To Go There By Yourself

Julie Yau, who uses somatic depth psychology to work with trauma, describes her work and the joy of…

Negative Emotions are Important for Well-Being

Feeling sad, mad, critical or otherwise awful? Surprise: negative emotions are essential for mental…

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Ego and Defensiveness in Communication: Sharon Strand Ellison

Sharon Strand Ellison, the author of Taking the War Out of Our Words, is a pioneer in the field of eliminating…

How to Cure Our Collective Split Personality

Painting of Van Gogh By Deepak Chopra, MD and Anoop Kumar, MD One of the main reasons a sane person…

The Mysteries of Intimacy

by Matt Licata What is the best way to prepare for a healthy, deeply satisfying intimate relationship?…

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Simply the Meaning of Life, Ullise di Corpo

Ullise di Corpo, author of many books, including The Theorem of Love, combines psychological insights…

A Critique of Ray Kurzweil's Predictions

Ray Kurzweil recently announced his year-by-year predictions of the future. Here are just a few samples…

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Does Nondual Recognition End Trauma? Scott Kiloby

Scott Kiloby, founder of the first mindfulness-based center for addiction recovery in the United States,…

Transforming Fear Into Your Ally

by Matt Licata Rather than going to war with fear – and deeming it a mistake or problem that you must…

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Can a Nondual Understanding Heal? Scott Kiloby

Scott Kiloby, founder of the first mindfulness-based center for addiction recovery in the United States,…

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Bringing Nonduality to Addiction, Scott Kiloby

Scott Kiloby, founder of the first mindfulness-based center for addiction recovery in the United States,…

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All Seeking Can Be Addictive: Scott Kiloby

Scott Kiloby, founder of the first mindfulness-based center for addiction recovery in the United States,…

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Spiritual Seeking and Addiction: Scott Kiloby

Scott Kiloby, founder of the first mindfulness-based center for addiction recovery in the United States,…

All Memory Is an Ilusion

Who you are is shaped by your interactions with the world—the foods you eat, the trips you take, the…

Unchopping a Tree: Thoughts the morning after the US pulls out of the Paris agreement

by Tony Kendrew There are two treasures an arm’s reach from my desk. One is a small quilted panel stitched…

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Larry Dossey: Q & A

Larry Dossey answers questions about his research into spiritual survival beyond bodily death, and the…

Paradise for the Insane

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. ― Rainer Maria Rilke Blessed are the…

Occupy Spirituality: Prayer And Protest In The Age Of Trump

by Adam Bucko and Mathew Fox The following is an interview with the authors of Occupy Spirituality:…

What Does Being Transgender, Intersexed, Lesbian or Gay Have To Do With Spirituality Anyway?

by Francis Bennet In so many ways, I believe we must find a way to come to balance and integration in…

Kosmic Citizenship Part 1 | Drawing on Wider Truths in an Age of Post-Truth

By Kavita Byrd When the new post-Trump altered reality hit in November, it left me, like many others,…

When the Heart Does Not Resist

by Fred LaMotte In the current political crisis, we hear a call for conscious people to participate…

Breath Helps You Remember and Identify Dangers

Yogis and meditators know that there is great power in the breath. But this potential is not limited…

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Being A Self: A Perfectly Ordinary, Utterly Extraordinary Experience, Chris Fields

Being a self - being one's own self, in particular - is the most familiar of all experiences. Indeed…

The Sacred Ordinary

Where is our inner knowing leading us?  It seems to me that it is leading us home – to right here –…

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How Generational and Early Life Trauma Shape Our Lives

With Scott Kiloby, Richard Miller, Mark Wolynn and Ajaya Sommers; facilitated by Julie Yau. Along with…

Five Spiritual Life-Hacks for an Awakening Soul

We live in exceptional times of spiritual bounty. Without taking any spiritual vows or undergoing a…

It’s Ok to Allow Yourself to Fall Apart

How To Break And Put Yourself Back Together by Matt Licata It’s okay to be sad, and to allow your heart…

Why Are We So Attached To Our Things?

Feelings, thoughts and actions race before the watcher in endless succession, leaving traces in the…

The Path Is Everywhere

by Matt Licata Even though you sense an unknown world of aliveness around you, it is not possible to…

Perhaps our Fears are not Ours?

Photo by Olivier Mercier Certain fears arising in response to the environment may be passed from generation…

Indra's Net

"Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung…

From Survival to Grace: Using Archetypes in Your Personal Evolution

Millions of people have adopted some plan for personal growth, depending on the goals they set for themselves.…

How to Be Timeless Right This Moment ~ Deepak Chopra

For most people, the two words "timeless" and "eternal" seem roughly the same. They spell the end of…

Words Of Wisdom From Adyashanti About These Troubled Times

This election certainly has stirred up a lot of emotion in people. Mostly fear and anger, as far as…

Are we Ready for the Illusion of Free Will?

"Free will" continues to be a hot topic in questions and comments with many, many folk. "Free will"…

Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

You are the infinite potentiality, the inexhaustible possibility. Because you are, all can be. The universe…

The Leading Edge of The Unknown in the Human Being ~ Ken Wilber

An exclusive 90 min talk by Ken Wilber made especially for SAND 16 TRANSCRIPT Hello, my friends, this…

To Anyone Who Thinks They’re Falling Behind In Life

By Jamie Varon You don’t need more motivation. You don’t need to be inspired to action. You don’t need…

Buddha on the Möbius Strip ~ Rohit Gupta

The design for a new Buddhist temple in Tiachang, China, is based on the Möbius Strip Surfing between…

Now and the Physics of Time ~ Richard A. Muller

Time is elusive and enigmatic. The moment now is ephemeral. Quandaries and confusion about time date…

Holding Space

image by upliftconnect.com When we “hold space” for another person, we open our heart and offer them…

Intelligence Beyond Thought ~ J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm

By Shawn Radcliffe and Jeanric Meller In 1980 Indian spiritual philosopher J. Krishnamurti met with…

Nāgārjuna and the Greek Philosophers

If you study philosophy from different parts of the world for any length of time, you will eventually…

Meditation, Hypnosis, and Free Will

Image from Pindyurin Vasily In a new twist on the classic “free will” experiment, meditators, average…

Dark Side of the Moon - Spiritual Teaching & Identity

A popular misconception around spiritual teachers is that their work is complete: they are free, happy…

Nonlocality Gets a Boost - David Bohm Revisited

The Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics asks us to believe that particle don't have locations until…

Waking, Dreaming, Being

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

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A Conscious Cosmos by Peter Russell: Video

We all know that we are aware. We couldn't have an experience without being aware. But, despite appearances,…