Spiritual Traditions

A Humbling Path

By Jeff Foster

You will be humbled. Oh yes. Brought to your knees. Many, many times.

Hope is an Escape

By Eric Baret

Hunter of Phoenix, no one can be. So take back your trap, for here, wind is all you’ll ever catch.

22:00 – FREE

The Awakening of the True Body

With Ellen Emmet

In this interview with Zaya Benazzo from SAND Italy, Ellen Emmet talks about the relationship between self-enquiry and the exploration of the body through tantra.

In the Presence of the One, We Are All Yellow-Faced

By Pouria Montazeri

Ever since the tender age, I’ve had this passionate love affair with the aspen trees

44:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Centrality of the Heart in Being Human

With John Prendergast

How being fully human requires both the awakening of the deep Heart that is shared by all beings as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.

The Impossible Predicament of Being Alive

By Robyn Lynn

The impossible predicament of being alive, the great wound that will not heal.

The Mother Mantra, the Ancient Shamanic Yoga of Nonduality

By Selene Calloni Williams

Tradition and secret practices of mystical marriage and reawakening

50:00 – FREE

A Wildly Free Aliveness

With Mauro Bergonzi

It is the mind that turns now into past, present and future, and there is no way to leave the now.

Embracing the Flame of Longing

By Mirabai Starr

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SAND18 US — Silence and Substratum

With Pamela Wilson

Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.

We Can Still Be Crazy

By Pema Chödrön

We may think meditation will improve us, but it’s really about accepting ourselves as we are right now.

Alone to All One

By Philip Marvin

The delicate dance between loneliness, solitude and communion

Parā

By Christian de Vietri

I praise the Supreme Goddess Parā, the Illuminative Insight Intelligence Force of Consciousness

Tandava the Cosmic Dance

By Daniel Odier

Tandava means totality. It means the path is absolutely non-dual, because we integrate everything and we don't refuse any aspect of the human being

On the Mystery of Being

By Science and Nonduality

Contemporary Insights on the Convergence of Science and Spirituality

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Make Your Life into a Prayer

With Parvathy Baul

It is said in Bengal that the Baul tradition originates from a time unknown, beyond what human history can trace

14:00 – FREE

Beyond the River of This World

With Parvathy Baul

Performing at the opening night of the 2019 SAND gathering in Italy, Parvathy Baul sings and dances

Cultivating Equanimity In Uncertain Times

By Miranda Macpherson

Once you begin to taste the freedom of your true nature and are no longer bound by your ego identifications, your way of being can become significantly more graceful.

1:24:00 – FREE

The Utter Simplicity of What Is - Part II

With Mauro Bergonzi

When even the sense of being collapses into the utter simplicity of what is.

20:00 – FREE

The Utter Simplicity of What Is - Part I

With Mauro Bergonzi

When even the sense of being collapses into the utter simplicity of what is.

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Goddess Worship Is The Path to Bliss

With Sally Kempton

Sally Kempton combines the wisdom of the tradition of Kashmir Shaiva Tantra with the practical understandings of contemporary psychology

Pause for a Moment

By Jeff Foster

Don’t try and be “spiritual.” Don’t seek any particular state or feeling.

What the World Really Needs

By Shakti Caterina Maggi

What seems to be your inner reality and what is apparently happening out there in the world is actually one thing.

Sex, Zen, and Poetry:
The Life of Ikkyu Sojun

By Chris Kincaid

Ikkyu Sojun decided to be true to himself and that meant regular trips to brothels

53:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Human as the Wormhole to the Mysteries of Existence

With A.H. Almaas

To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.

1:32:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Appreciating the Human

With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky

There is no awakening without humans

The Gospel of the Beloved Companion

By David Lorimer

This book is the first translation into English of what purports to be the complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

Mindful Thoughts for Stargazers

By Shawn Radcliffe

Astronomer and Ex-Zen Monk Mark Westmoquette's Book Review

21:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Is Nondual Awareness at War with our Humanity?

With Dorothy Hunt

Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”

The Gentle Art of Blessing

By Pierre Pradervand

Gentleness is a state of consciousness.

Love Language: The Inter-Spiritual Heart of the Mystics

By Mirabai Starr

For decades I was conditioned to believe that to engage a mature spiritual life I needed to “pick one tradition and go deep,”

The Practice of Gestation

By Beverly Lanzetta

The contemplative spirituality of via feminina begins with the practice of gestation.

Mental Inner Game: Mind—Opening Frames for Peace and Creativity

By Alexandra Sheren

“You can not open your heart, it is already open. It is the mind that is closed, and which must open to the heart.”

Consciousness is Intrinsic in the Universe

By Paul Mulliner

It’s easy, during our everyday life in the world, to forget how extravagantly remarkable a human being actually is.

Why Scurry About Looking for the Truth?

By Lao-Tsu

It vibrates in every thing and every not-thing, right off the tip of your nose.

10:00 – FREE

Mountain Monks

The Yamabushi in northern Japan practice a once forbidden ancient religion. While their tradition is at risk of disappearing, it offers a way for those seeking a different path in Japan‘s society.

18:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Spontaneous Creativity: Manifesting Your Positive Qualities

With Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...

32:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Being Divine, Becoming Human

With Shakti Caterina Maggi

"It is not a person that is waking up, it is consciousness."

The Living Edge of Surrender & Why You Don’t Need to Amputate your Ego to Find Enlightenment

By Lori Ann Lothian

Entering into that territory where the practices that have sustained us no longer can guide us in the terrain we are in.

35:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Clear Teachings from the Tibetan Tradition

With Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams

11:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Powerful Mantras

With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda

How can Knowledge take us to Silence?

51:00 – FREE

Growing Up Men

With Richard Rohr

From the dualistic thinking of the first half of life into the contemplative mind of the integrated self

27:00 – FREE

The Reality of Surrender

With Aisha Salem

Aisha Salem talks of being willing to let go of our limitations, of keeping ourselves small, and of living our individuality

Quantum Physics as a Spiritual Path

By Paul Levy

The universe is dreaming us up and we are all dreaming our lives into being.

35:00 – FREE

To Free the Body

With Ellen Emmet

Ellen Emmet explains her understanding of the role of the body in our exploration of truth...

5:00 – FREE

You're that!

With Alan Watts

In this universe there is one great energy and we have no name for it

3:00 – FREE

The Unknowable Reality of Things

With Rupert Spira

An immersive visual meditative journey with Rupert Spira

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

9:00 – FREE

You Cannot be Present

With Éric Baret

Eric Baret explains clearly that there is no need for the self to appropriate achievement

When Is Sex a Spiritual Practice?

By Deborah Anapol

Recognizing that our bodies and our sexuality are sacred is a good way to begin undoing the split between sex and spirit...

The Poor Joke

By Wei Wu Wei

Bondage is being dependent, tied up, limited. On, to, by, what?

In Everything...

By Joan Tollifson

The leaves of the cottonwood tree across the street...

1:29:00 – FREE

A Case for Wise Hope in Dark Times

With Joan Halifax

This excerpt from the The Strange and Necessary Case for Hope is rare medicine for our dark times.

Only One Question

By Eric Baret

All questions can be reduced to one question.

1:02:00 – FREE

Panel: Ethics and Spiritual Teaching

With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer

What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?

The Path of Reality

By Nathalie Delay

The path of reality is not a path, for it is an exploration of life in all that it is...

Nonduality and Mindfulness — Two Great Traditions that Go Great Together

By Michael Taft

In the context of American spiritual practice nondual traditions and mindfulness traditions appear to be in sharp contrast.

The Profound Activity of Questioning

By Eric Baret

Asking a question is being the most active you can be. It means being humble. Humility is the most active attitude.

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SAND18 US — Rest in Natural Great Peace

With Peter Russell

Peter Russell explains that most human beings—unlike animals—focus on the past and the future, which means they spend their time in a state of discontent.

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SAND18 US — The Mystery of Life

With Francis Lucille

Francis Lucille answers questions from the audience at SAND 18, bringing his intelligence and wit to a variety of topics

Waking from the Meme Dream

By Susan Blackmore

Wake up! Wake up! Errrr, ummmm, grrrrggr, Oh yes, I’m awake now. Wow, that was a weird dream.

Far Right or Far Left, It’s Exactly the Same

By Eric Baret

I have this concern about what is happening in the world. If we take nonduality really seriously, it seems like we are not concerned about the exterior.

Let the Moon Be Free – Conversations on Kashmiri Tantra

By Eric Baret

Shaped and sustained by the nondual tradition of Kashmir Shivaism, Eric Baret’s words take us back to the simple observation of our felt sense of emotion and, ultimately, to pure listening.

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Emotional and Spiritual Maturity

With Gabor Maté and Adyashanti

In a rare meeting of minds, and a rare exploration of whether there is a predilection for spirituality, Gabor Mate asks Adyashanti to expand on passages from his recent book My Secret Is Silence.

The Pilgrimage of “Who Am I?”

A short conversation with Brazilian author Paolo Coelho

The Nature of Experience

By Rupert Spira

There is one fundamental presumption upon which our world culture is founded. This basic presumption states that experience is divided into two essential elements – a subject and an object – joined together by an act of knowing, feeling or perceiving.

33:00 – FREE

Christianity and Unknowing

With Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr, as a Catholic priest and Franciscan Friar, will offer a concise history of how Western Christianity once had, soon lost, tried to retrieve, and now is roundly rediscovering its own traditional understanding of unitive consciousness

56:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Healing Trauma and Spiritual Growth

With Peter Levine and Thomas Hübl

In this memorable conversation from SAND 18 Peter Levine, the father of trauma therapy work, and Thomas Huebl, a spiritual teacher known for his work integrating healing of collective trauma, discuss the relationship between healing trauma and...

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Exclusive interview with Dr. Alan Wallace

With Science and Nonduality

In this exclusive interview with Dr. Alan Wallace we discuss consciousness, mathematics, practicing deep sleep states and meditation as preparation for dying consciously.

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Yoga is a Celebration of Life

With Éric Baret

Eric Baret points out that there are no sculptures of yogic asanas in Indian temples before the modern era. He describes today’s yoga as a commercial project...

Spirituality and Heavy Metal? Oh Yes!

By Chris Grosso

Look deeper. Look deeper at your mala, your skateboard, your yoga mat. Look deeper at your records,…

This Sacred Game Has Been Rigged Against Us

By Scott Kiloby

The word “spirituality” has caused a lot of suffering over the centuries. Moral self-righteousness is often tagging along side that word.

Exhausting the Mind

By Jean Klein

Question: When we say that we must come to the end of the mind, that we must exhaust the mind, is it a necessary process, something which must happen, or is it possible to have an insight without the mind being exhausted?

The Foundation of World Peace

By Rupert Spira

I have to confess that I was a little taken aback at breakfast this morning when Ellen and I sat down, and Zaya and Maurizio came to sit down with us.

On Grace and Polemics

By Chris Castle

I am a seeker who feels he has arrived, in that, these days, I both intellectually and feeling-wise, experience a oneness that is a great joy and comfort - completely unknowing, absolutely wondrous, constantly available, not really what I expected

Is Your Shaman Sketchy? Sham Shamans

By Kristen Eykel

Shamanism is, by its very nature, a little on the dark side.

24:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Buddha's Message: Have Some fun!

With Robert Thurman

Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…

What is Truth?

By Éric Baret

Seeking is an expression of truth, it’s not a way. Abhinavagupta, in the Tantraloka, is very clear; all the yoga practices are an expression of truth. Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.

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

By Science and Nonduality

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

What is Tantra?

By Éric Baret

For me it is irrelevant, but let’s say for the Kashmirian tradition, as far as my teacher expressed…

27:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Foundation of World Peace

With Rupert Spira

Everything is Self

By Nick Roach

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

Truth Will Set You Free: Time Does Not Exist

By Hans Meijer

When we ask ourselves why we think time exists, most of us would say: because we see everything changing, always.

brain-heart

By David Storoy

According to Ervin Laszlo, the coherence of the atom and the galaxies is the same coherence that keeps living cells together, cooperating to form life.

Why Believe in Rebirth?

By Dr. Jeffery D. Long

In a now famous conversation between Carl Sagan and the Dalai Lama, Sagan, a scientist and renowned…

Sadness Without an Object

By Eric Baret

Sadness is one of the deepest emotions and it must be kept without an object.

Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept

By Michael Taft

Many traditions and mystics talk about nondualism. But what is nondualism, and how have people—from different religions in different parts of the word—described this concept over time?

If Everything is Consciousness, is Everything Conscious?

By Rick Archer

At this year's conference I'll be moderating a discussion between Bernardo Kastrup and physicist Christopher…

You Must Die to Live

By Science and Nonduality

Awakening is not a walk in the park. It is a ride through hell.

The Divine Mother Durga

By Laura Amazzone and M.A.

Durga is a Goddess of Strength and Justice who brings compassion, peace, calm and order to the chaos, destruction and conflict in any situation.

Why I Quit Ayahuasca Shamanism After 11 Years and 1,000 Ceremonies

By Tina “Kat” Courtney

I’m alive because of Ayahuasca. I am connected, soulful, expanded, and spilling over with self-love, mostly because of the blessing of attending around 1,000 sacred plant ceremonies.

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part III)

By Maria Syldona

As the process of manifestation (involution of Ultimate Reality into becoming the physical Universe) begins, the tattvas (principles, states of consciousness) that logically appear first are those of what is called the Pure Creation and pure knowledge.

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part II)

By Maria Syldona

An extraordinary and profound personal experience illustrates the tenet that the Model of Manifestation describes both the Universe – and a human being.

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part I)

By Maria Syldona

Kashmir Shaivism encompasses a vast territory of wisdom and knowledge about the universe and a human…

Tantra and the West

By Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Tantra in the Western imagination stands for exotic and orgasmic rituals coming from India and Tibet that blend sex and meditation.

The Ego Cannot Love

By Eric Baret

Love, we can’t talk about because it is what is. It isn’t an objective experience, it’s what is here at every moment, except when I pretend to love or when I want to be loved.

Science Pointing to Nonduality

By Mark Gober

Most of my life was spent as a materialist. I regarded physical matter as the basis of reality. From matter emerged biological organisms such as humans, which developed brains, and out of the brain emerged consciousness.

How Does an Awakened Person Perceive the World?

By David Loy

Obviously, that’s an important question for nondualists including Advaitins and Buddhists.

Science and the Existence of Ether

By David Storoy

The existence of an ether – an all-pervading medium composed of a subtler kind of matter – has been taught by mystic philosophers throughout the ages.

Lovemaking and Altered States of Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

People have tried many ways to alter their consciousness — meditation, psychedelic mushrooms, LSD, rituals…

The Spirituality of Science

By Lynn K. Russell

Quantum particles, the foundation of the universe, are like naughty children playing catch me if you can with scientists in a game with no rules.

The Dalai Lama and the Atlas of Emotions

By Georgi Johnson

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?

The Myth of Enlightenment

By Jinen Jason Shulman

There is a pervasive myth about enlightenment which, although repeated by many spiritual teachers, has its origins in a view of spirituality that arises from the misconceptions of the unhealed ego.

Maha Ati

By H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions, and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into...

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When Shakti Meets Shiva

With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda

Nadeshwari Joythimayananda describes the image and the symbolism and the energy of the goddess Tripura Sundari

The Pathless Path

By Stephen Bodian & Jean Klein

Stephen Bodian interviews Jean Klein

The Tantric Gift of Math’s Mystery

By Jeanric Meller

Is math an invention of the human brain? Or does math exist in some abstract world, with humans merely discovering its truths? The debate has been raging since the time of the ancient Greeks.

A Life of Zen: Ikkyū, the Crazy Cloud

By Surendra

Please, please don’t worry. How many times do I have to say it?

The Path of no Path

By Peter Russell and Peter Russell

Spiritual teachers with non-dual leanings say that there is no path to enlightenment. There is nowhere to get to; you are already enlightened, you just do not know it.

The Buddha Awakening, Integral Expanding and a Second Axial Age for Humanity

By Duane Elgin

This article explores untapped potentials for Integral Theory that can emerge from recognizing the original nature of the Buddha’s awakening.

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Return to Pure Listening: a video with Eric Baret

You Only See Mirrors

By Science and Nonduality

Excerpt from Let the Moon Be Free, by Eric Baret What disturbs you in the presence of someone else is…

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Daoist Wisdom For Our Times, a video with Shantena Sabbadini

And God Created Man In His Own Image

By Science and Nonduality and Nick Roach

by Nick Roach The title is from the Bible, Genesis 1:27. The passage goes on to say “...in the image…

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The Future of Love: Esther Perel

In straight talk from the 2018 Radiant Intimacy gathering, Esther Perel offers fresh insights into expectations,…

Sound and The Subtle

By Silvia Nakkach

Transforming Consciousness and Emotions through Mantra and Raga Yoga Western culture is notorious for…

The Sayings of Old Man Tcheng

By Science and Nonduality

French paraphrase of the original Buddhist text by J. Garillot (1974), translated by Else van den Muyzenberg.…

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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…

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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…

Message from Hopi Elders

By Science and Nonduality

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people…

The Yoga of Saundarya: Touching Reality Through the Experience of Beauty

By Gioia Lussana

The aesthetic experience (rasa), which the Kashmiri masters describe as a real training for the yogic…

Consciousness

By Mauro Bergonzi

The primacy of consciousness

Exclusive interview with Dr. Allan Wallace

By Science and Nonduality

In this exclusive interview with Dr. Allan Wallace we discuss consciousness, mathematics, practicing…

The Qualitative Science of the Heart

By Kabir Helminski

There's something beautiful about being together with a group of people whose main interest is understanding…

The True Nature of Experience

By Rupert Spira

image: Joel Santos Our Essential Nature of Being, Knowing and Happiness Let us start with our self.…

Heart Transplant

By Sunil Mehrotra

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

Political Roots and Genetic Evidence for the Indian Caste System

By Gerard D.C. Kuiken

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

Wholeness and the End of Suffering

By Todd Lorentz

“Life is suffering" ... so declared the Buddha more than 2500 year ago. No truer than this is what we…

Love is a Practice

By Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine

Love is an energy, a Shakti, that calls us to unify ourselves internally, merge body and soul, and form…

In the Morning I Remember

By Alain Joly

Here is a beautiful prayer composed by Adi Shankara around the 8th century. These three verses, meant…

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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…

Centuries of Meditations

By Thomas Traherne

Here are six extracts from Centuries of Meditations - a brief introduction to the 17th century divine…

You Perform Miracles Every Moment—If You Didn’t You’d Cease to Exist

By Joseph Selbie

One of the timeless claims of religions is that many saints, sages, and saviors can, seemingly, defy…

Nondual Christianity – Seriously?

By Science and Nonduality

By Cynthia Bourgeault In fall 2009, I was on a homebound flight from San Francisco that happened also…

Expecting It All: An Honest Look at Modern Love

By Science and Nonduality

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

Buddha’s Brain: The New Neuroscience and the Path of Awakening

By Science and Nonduality

By Rick Hanson and Rick Mendius In a way, the methodologies of Buddhist thought and science are essentially…

Fakhruddin ‘Araqi: Divine Flashes

By Science and Nonduality

Resa Abbasi, A Sleeping Woman. by Philip Brown SUFISM IS A wisdom teaching grounded in Primordial Reality.…

Science’s Big Problem, Reincarnation’s Big Potential, and Buddhists’ Profound Embarrassment

By Science and Nonduality

By Ted Christopher The author writes that his article is intended to make some overdue points, the most…

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

By Science and Nonduality

Native of eternity. At home in infinity. Breathing immortality. Let these words sing in every cell.…

Continuous Awakening

By Dorothy Hunt

Continuous Awakening by Dorothy Hunt Continuous awakening belongs to only THIS! that is already continuously…

Life as it is... - short film tribute to Rick Linchitz

By Science and Nonduality

A short documentary capturing the intimacy, openness and deep wisdom of Rick Linchitz and his wife Rita…

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Universe, Zeroverse, Buddhaverse: Robert Thurman

In his unique and masterly way Robert Thurman shares and reinterprets for our time Shakyamuni Buddha's…

Escaping the Observer Trap

By Michael Taft

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