Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math

By Natalie Wolchover

Three physicists wanted to calculate how neutrinos change. They ended up discovering an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.

Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World

By Philip Ball

Recent experiments have put relatively large objects into quantum states, illuminating the processes by which the ordinary world emerges out of the quantum one.

Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch

By Philip Ball

The Born rule, which connects the math of quantum theory to the outcomes of experiments, has been derived from simpler physical principles.

David Bohm, Implicate Order and Holomovement

By David Storoy

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

What are intermediate-mass black holes?

By Jake Parks

We've detected puny, stellar-mass black holes. And we've detected giant, supermassive black holes. But what about those in the middle?

An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature

By Emerging Technology from the arXiv

Evidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology.

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

By Kevin Hartnett

Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.

How Science and Nonduality Helped My Recovery from Brain Injury

By Tom Bunzel

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Being Human in the Engine of Creation

With Bruce Damer

A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.

46:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Breaking the Cycle of Collective Trauma

With Thomas Hübl

How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Wild Mercy: The Wisdom of the Feminine

With Mirabai Starr

Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions

The Geography Of Sorrow

By Francis Weller

On Navigating Our Losses: Interview by Tim McKee

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 kiss we have always wanted

By Ajaya Sommers

The revelation of Being Here while residing in a human body is infinite.

38:00 – FREE

Technology in Dating and Sexuality

With Justin Garcia

Justin Garcia discusses the changing role of technology in human sexuality and intimacy

The Goddess of Never Not Broken

By Julie JC Peters

You know that feeling when you have just gone through a breakup, or lost your job, and everything is terrible and terrifying and you don’t know what to do...

Intimate Relationship as a Spiritual Crucible

By John Welwood

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

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The Birth of Relational Joy

With Terry Real

We recreate the relationships that we learned

19:00 – FREE

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

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

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