Spiritual Traditions

1:35:00 – FREE

Do We Choose our Thoughts? SAND18 US

With Francis Lucille

Francis answers questions from the audience at SAND18US

Searching for the Friend

By Lalla

I wearied myself searching for the friend with efforts beyond my strength

59:00 – FREE

Our Minds are Filters - SAND19 US

With Rupert Spira

Rupert Spira has a conversation with the audience at SAND19 US

You Can't Do Meditation

By Eric Baret

Meditation is what you are when you stop pretending to be

36:00 – FREE

Heart to Heart - SAND19 US

With Pamela Wilson

Pamela Wilson has a conversation with the audience at SAND19 US

Love, Beyond Death

By Jerry Diamanti

When I look at someone I don’t see him alone

36:00 – FREE

What Gives Form to Consciousness - SAND19 US

With Orland Bishop

Orland Bishop has a conversation with a small group at SAND19 US.

Why is There a Fear of Death?

By J. Krishnamurti

When we cling to continuity, there is the fear of death.

56:00 – FREE

Where do Mathematics Live? - SAND19 US

With Francis Lucille

Francis Lucille's dialogue with the audience at SAND19 US

It's Always the First Time

By Eric Baret

Life is too intense to anticipate

How Art Thou Not Real?

By Dan McKenzie

Let me count the ways...

1:07:00 – FREE

It's Not Enough to Discover What You Are Not - SAND18 US

With Rupert Spira

Rupert Spira in conversation

Complaining is Polluting

By Eric Baret

All dictators are thinking people.

43:00 – FREE

Shekhinah is Back from Exile

With Mirabai Starr

The wisdom of the feminine in Judaism

26:00 – FREE

Extraordinary Dreams and the Non-dual Spaces of the Mind

With Fariba Bogzaran

Among different categories of dreams, there are extraordinary experiences that are life-changing.

42:00 – FREE

Why Gurus Fall from Grace - SAND19 US

With Craig Holliday

The Necessity of Shadow Work on the Path

Should We Be Planting Trees?

By Eric Baret

First priority is to stop being at war with yourself.

Waking up — A Beginner's Guide

By William Waters

Just an old man who has benefited from the teachings of many

53:00 – FREE

There is Nothing to Change

With Éric Baret

Eric discusses the current pandemic and our overreaction to it...

41:00 – FREE

Knowledge and Levels of Consciousness - SAND19 US

With Rick Archer

Knowledge is Different in Different Levels of Consciousness

What is Intensity?

By Eric Baret

Intensity is to be open to facts, without any comment

41:00 – FREE

That Which Cannot Be Divided - SAND19 US

With Dorothy Hunt

Love is the refusal to separate —Nisargadatta Maharaj

Listen to the Listening

By Eric Baret

It is very important not to focus on perception

25:00 – FREE

The Dance of Consciousness and World

With Shantena Augusto Sabbadini

Our primary evidence, our only certainty is consciousness.

21:00 – FREE

Entering the Gateless Gate

With Stephan Bodian

A Journey through the Stages of Spiritual Awakening

31:00 – FREE

What Is The Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelics?

With Tomás Páleníček

Is there still something we can learn from the traditional use of psychedelic medicines?

Yoga Does Not Lead to Shiva

By Eric Baret

Yoga does not bring understanding, but understanding may bring you to yoga.

20:00 – FREE

Who Am I? What Is My Real Nature?

With Billy Doyle

We are consciousness, and awareness, and yet we identify with an object in awareness

The Waters of Renewal

By Michael Meade

All meaningful change requires a genuine surrender.

1:06:00 – FREE

Ancient Traditions in Modern Times

With Parvathy Baul, André Riehl, and Mark Dyczkowski

An exploration of how the wisdom of the ancient traditions integrated in our contemporary lives.

27:00 – FREE

The Art of Loving-Part 2

With Annette Kaiser

Love is the highest and most precious "asset" of human existence.

There Is No Room for Decision

By Eric Baret

You live with your body now and you attend to your body needs in a functional way

15:00 – FREE

Stellar Wonder

Conceived, Produced and Directed by Donna Sherman

27:00 – FREE

Archetypes And Yogic Practices Of Human Being Cycles

With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda

The yogic sages anticipated quantum physics by noting that a subtle vibrational energy is the substratum of everything we know.

51:00 – FREE

Truth Seeking, Science and Pandemic

With Francis Lucille

Francis answers Jeanric's questions in this touching interview

42:00 – FREE

Facing Death, Breath by Breath

With David Cates

Facing Death is the basic spiritual initiation.

1:19:00 – FREE

The Roots of Hope Run Deep

With Cynthia Bourgeault

Timeless Wisdom to Guide a Perilous Passage

48:00 – FREE

The Soul of Transformation

With Michael Meade

Michael Meade speaks so beautifully about the role of "descent" in any spiritual journey.

55:00 – FREE

Awakening the Wisdom of the Inner Body

With Sally Kempton

You will learn a series of tantric practices

18:00 – FREE

Spontaneous Creativity

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...

Emotions Have No Owner

By Eric Baret

Brain and body are two very sweet concepts

18:00 – FREE

The Bottomless Ground Of Our Identity

With Mauro Bergonzi

Any idea about what we really are is false

The Healing Ground

By Judith Blackstone

The Healing Ground is the psychological aspect of the Realization Process.

Let's Talk About Death

By Pir Aga Mir

This is the time for gnosis. There is no guru and no disciple.

Nothing is Sacred

By Eric Baret

If you feel something is sacred, it means that it's easy for you to relate to.

18:00 – FREE

Being at its Best, Life Living itself - SAND19 US

With Pamela Wilson

The unshakable knowing that not everything is as it appears to be

22:00 – FREE

Inherent Compassion of a Self-Organizing Universe - SAND19 US

With Neil Theise

Everything is not a thing

The Inner Feeling of Beauty

By Eric Baret

It is your inner beauty which is revealed by the show.

COVID-19 and the Divine Feminine

By Zvi Ish-Shalom

In Kabbalah, the primary way that hidden truths are revealed is through disrobing

The Center for Spiritual Imagination

By Kris Vieira

A cathedral community envisions vibrant spirituality for the 21st century

23:00 – FREE

All the Names are Names of God - SAND19 US

With Francis Lucille

Francis Lucille answers questions at SAND19 US.

20:00 – FREE

Two Steps to the Not-Two - SAND19 US

With Swami Sarvapriyananda

Exploring, Understanding and Applying Advaita Vedanta

38:00 – FREE

Illuminating Our Interconnectedness - SAND19 US

With Thomas Hübl

While the personal level is an important foundation, the next level is to bring our practice to the interpersonal realm

34:00 – FREE

The Essence of Nonduality - SAND19 US

With Rupert Spira

Rupert explores the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions

18:00 – FREE

Transcendence Through Compassion - SAND19 US

With James Doty

The path to transcendence is through compassion and through compassion one is led to oneness

22:00 – FREE

Holding the Thread of Life - SAND19 US

With Michael Meade

The challenges we face and the changes underway signal a genuine transformation of the world

42:00 – FREE

Embodied Spiritual Love - SAND19 US

With A.H. Almaas

In most spiritual traditions, love is seen only as universal or cosmic love.

51:00 – FREE

Meditation - SAND19 US

With Shakti Caterina Maggi

Arthur Schopenhauer: The West’s Nondual Sage

By Bernardo Kastrup

The emptiness of existence finds its expression in the flitting present as the only manner of real existence.

If Your Dog Asks You What You Feel

By Eric Baret

Separation and no separation are concepts in the mind

19:00 – FREE

The Quest for Nondual Reality - SAND19 US

With Jean Houston

The complexity of the present time seems to demand a deepening of our nature if we are going to survive.

My Prayer for a Beautiful World in Distress

By Joan Tollifson

May we all have compassion for every one of us being exactly as we are in each moment

Let the Fear Expand

By Eric Baret

Practicing in the middle of a very charged emotional situation

The Flower of Silence is Your Body

By Fred LaMotte

Dearest one, do not look for silence with the mind.

Birth-Death: What is it?

By Joan Tollifson

what happens after death is a flat earth question

The Gifts of a Mythic Life

By Jean Houston

Life is allied with myth in order that we may advance along an evolutionary path

Aggression is a Reaction

By Eric Baret

The world is not aggressive

42:00 – FREE

Dancing and Nonduality

With Chiara Baldini

The Cult of Dyonisus & His Radically Ambiguous Followers

Pilgrim

By David Whyte

‘Pilgrim’ might be the word that most accurately describes us

A New Opening in the Heart

By Eric Baret

To watch a show with the Hridaya, the open mind, the open heart, can bring us closer to truth than yoga

29:00 – FREE

This Beautiful Drowning: Returning to the Ocean of Is-ness

With Pouria Montazeri

How can a fish become aware that it swims in that which it seeks?

Emotion in Tantra

By Eric Baret

Emotions are at the core of tantric teachings

30:00 – FREE

Science And Nonduality—Where Are We Now?

With Paul Bush

How close have the viewpoints become?

1:03:00 – FREE

The Expression of Spirituality in Relationship - SAND19 US

With A.H. Almaas and Swami Sarvapriyananda

What constitutes the essence of a true relationship?

28:00 – FREE

Illuminating Our Interconnectedness
SAND19 US

With Thomas Hübl

While the personal level is an important foundation, the next level is to bring our practice to the interpersonal realm

The Spiritual Teachings of COVID-19

By Stephan Bodian

Human life as we’ve known it has ground to a halt, and we’re faced with an unprecedented crisis—and an unprecedented opportunity.

Tantra and Yoga

By Eric Baret

What is Tantra? What is Yoga?

6:00 – FREE

Does Life Celebrate Itself?

With Éric Baret

Eric answers questions from the audience at his Amsterdam retreat

4:00 – FREE

The Journey

With Yi Le and Alan Watts

Just in the same way as you don't focus your attention

Tantra vs Vedanta

By Eric Baret

Could you explain the difference between Tantra, Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism?

3:00 – FREE

Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

With Éric Baret

Final teaching at Opening to the Unknown, Amsterdam 2018.

1:32:00 – FREE

From Sex to Source

With Layla Martin and Aubrey Marcus

At the core of Layla’s teachings is the process of releasing judgment surrounding sex

24:00 – FREE

All the Names are Names of God - SAND19 US

With Francis Lucille

Francis Lucille answers questions at SAND19 US.

39:00 – FREE

A Spiral of Inclusion

With Shakti Caterina Maggi

Zaya Benazzo interviews Shakti Caterina Maggi at SAND19 Italy

There is No Doer

By Eric Baret

What do you mean when you say there's nothing to be done?

7:00 – FREE

How to Choose Your Teaching

With Éric Baret

"There are so many teachings on the internet today – How am I to choose?"

Tranquility

By J. Krishnamurti

It was a powerful motor and well tuned; it took the hills easily, without a stutter, and the pick-up was excellent.

9:00 – FREE

Nothing to Achieve

With Éric Baret

Eric replies to questions at his Amsterdam retreat

1:20:00 – FREE

Psychedelic Science

With Sam Harris and Roland Griffith

Sam Harris speaks with Roland Griffiths about the current state of research on psychedelics.

29:00 – FREE

The Essence of Nonduality - SAND19 US

With Rupert Spira

Rupert explores the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions

36:00 – FREE

The Trika Shaivism of Kashmir

With Mark Dyczkowski and Zaya Benazzo

Zaya Benazzo interviews Mark Dyczkowski on the history of Tantra

20:00 – FREE

Deepening Our Feeling for "Us" - SAND19 US

With Lama Tsomo

Lama Tsomo teaches us the ancient Tibetan compassion practice of Tonglen, one of the Four Boundless Qualities

23:00 – FREE

From Quarks to Love in Ancient Hebrew Mysticism - SAND19 US

With Zvi Ish-Shalom

Discover the esoteric relationship between form and formlessness embedded within the Shema

20:00 – FREE

Holding the Thread of Life - SAND19 US

With Michael Meade

The challenges we face and the changes underway signal a genuine transformation of the world

Perception and the Mystery of the Unknown

If you are seeking true Reality, since Reality is All, it must be here, now.

31:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Trauma and the Unbound Body

With Judith Blackstone

Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process

Become the Possessor of Awareness

By Hafiz

You who are not yet aware, become the possessor of awareness.

40:00 – FREE

Embodied Spiritual Love - SAND19 US

With A.H. Almaas

In most spiritual traditions, love is seen only as universal or cosmic love.

Take Off Your Spiritual Mask

I am in love with this blessed mess of our humanity, more than ever.

33:00 – FREE

The Path of Feeling

With Turiya Hanover and Zaya Benazzo

SAND co-founder Zaya Benazzo interviews Turiya Hanover, co-founder of The Path of Love

Three Methods for Working with Chaos

By Pema Chödrön

Times of chaos and challenge can be the most spiritually powerful…

44:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - The Centrality of the Heart in Being Human

With John Prendergast

Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.

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…

1:02:00 – FREE

Redemptive Love - SAND19 US

With Adyashanti

While we have unlocked the potential of a single atom we have yet to unlock the full potential of wise, loving and compassionate action

Death: The End of Self-Improvement

By Joan Tollifson

This book celebrates the great stripping process of aging, dying and spiritual awakening.

20:00 – FREE

Two Steps to the Not-Two - SAND19 US

With Swami Sarvapriyananda

Exploring, Understanding and Applying Advaita Vedanta

The Path of Unbecoming

By Maya Luna

It's okay not to have New Year's resolutions

What is Truth?

By Éric Baret

Seeking is an expression of truth, it’s not a way. Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.

The Real Scandal of the Birth of God

By Kaitlyn Hardy Shetler

Sometimes I wonder if Mary breastfed Jesus. if she cried out when he bit her

36:00 – FREE

What is Tantra? What is Truth?

With Éric Baret

Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.

In Honor of Ram Dass
1931–2019

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.

23:00 – FREE

Becoming You: A Journey to the Void and Back

With Shakti Caterina Maggi

What does it mean to be yourself from a nondual perspective?

Earth as Goddess

By Thanissara

A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa

54:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Living Nonduality in a Dualistic World

With Chuck Hillig

Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity

The Four Essential Points of Letting Go in the Bardo

By Pema Khandro Rinpoche

It’s when we lose the illusion of control—when we’re most vulnerable and exposed—that we can discover the creative potential of our lives.

We are in the Death Phase Now: Do Not Run Away

By Jessica Hesser

Fear is raging, systems and structures are crumbling, much is being undone.

29:00 – FREE

Linking Diversity and Unity

With André Riehl

Is it possible to live a life of activity while holding the perception of unity and fulfillment?

33:00 – FREE

The Discovery of Shakti

With Mark Dyczkowski

Everything in the universe is shakti and spiritual life is the discovery of shakti.

A Humbling Path

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

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

36:00 – FREE

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

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

Contemporary Insights on the Convergence of Science and Spirituality

36:00 – FREE

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.

3:00 – FREE

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

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.