With Rupert Spira and Donald Hoffman
A video version of our popular Sounds of SAND Podcast episode
With Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
A deep discussion of how to weave animism back into our modern world
An award-winning documentary: As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty and patterns where others could not. But his path was not to be inside academia, or even inside society. 38 min
A selected set of talks from the Talks on Trauma series, parts 1 & 2
By Fay Aoyagi
In Japan, there is a long tradition of admiring a full moon
By Breanna Draxler
Like water itself, the protection of this vital resource takes many different forms.
By Francis Weller
Francis' Forword to "Choosing Earth: Humanity's Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization" by Duane Elgin
By Kate Fehlhaber
Most of us carry a mother's voice in the neural patterns of our brain.
With Mauro Zappaterra, MD PhD • Wednesdays, Oct. 18, 25, & Nov. 1, 2023 10–11:30am PDT
A 3-part live webinar series
With Uncle Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon • October 21, 2023 3–4:30pm PDT
A live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
With Tyson Yunkaporta
From a Community Conversation with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo
With Francis Weller
An examination of sorrow and grief
With Janna Levin
Ever wonder what would happen if we got sucked into a black hole? Turns out we could live in it — if it was big enough.
With Judith Blackstone
Discussing Judith's new book and her lifelong practice of awakening in and as our bodies.
With Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti and Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti
A segment from 'Hospicing Modernity'
With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo
Zaya and Maurizio sit down to talk about the next film
With Alixa Garcia and Java Rahm
Alixa Garcia, of the spoken word duo Climbing PoeTree, and Java Rahm, on the Kora, perform live for the Bioneers audience.
Can our deepest pain be a doorway to healing?
It starts with Being Human—and moves on from there
"No question is off limits, every question is worth asking."
Curiously, when science drills down into the core of even the most solid-looking object, separateness dissolves... Duration: 6 min
A musical celebration of the concept of Time, featuring Dean Radin, Robert Lanza, Maurizio Benazzo, Alan Watts, Michio Kaku and Brian Cox. 4 min
Nisargadatta did not leave an ashram; he did not leave any teachings or successors. This movie is an homage to him, a look at his unintended legacy by people that have been inspired by him more then words can express. 85 min
A short documentary capturing the intimacy, openness and deep wisdom of Rick Linchitz and his wife Rita as they go through the final weeks of a 14 year journey with lung cancer. Battling, surrendering, awakening, deep humility and pure love... 18 min
With Gurdjieff Ensemble
Gurdjieff Ensemble filmed at Karahunj prehistoric archeological site in Syunik province, in Armenia.
With Unmani
The "awakened state" represents fleeting moments of oneness, which when passed, lead individuals to contrast and chase them against their regular human experiences.
With Peter Russell
A humorous and facinating interview of Peter Rusell and his AI clone on his new book "Forgiving Humanity"
With Annie Norgarb
Wrinkles, lines, scars - there are many ways that time leaves its mark on our bodies.
With Gabor Maté
The role of music, psychedelics, and Ayahuasca ceremony in working with Trauma and addiction, recorded live in Berlin for the Wisdom of Trauma tour.
With Aaron Johnson
Why I Waited 12 Months for A Hug: a topic of deep human connection, using three principles that he has used to work with the Chronically UnderTouched black male body in America.
With Guth na nGael
Remembering the late great singer and activist with this interview and performance from Irish TV on her own interspiritual journey through music
With Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti
There is no genuine possibility of hope if we cannot face all aspects of reality and of humanity: the good, the bad, the broken, and the seriously messed up.
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.
With Sisyphus 55 and Gabor Maté
A short video from the animated philosophy channel, this video featuring Gabor Maté
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
This new NASA animation highlights the “super” in supermassive black holes. These monsters lurk in the centers of most big galaxies, including our own Milky Way, and contain between 100,000 and tens of billions of times more mass than our Sun.
With Mauro Zappaterra, MD PhD
Investigate the cerebrospinal fluid and integrate new research to evolve the hypothesis of The Cerebrospinal fluid and I Am
With Tyson Yunkaporta, Bayo Akomolafe, and Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti
A section from the The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound Course on the modern paths of healing ancient trauma
With Esther Perel and Yuval Noah Harari
How do we move beyond interpersonal and societal polariziation
With PBS
First Native American composer to win Pulitzer Prize on his experimental process
With Chief Oluwo Obafemi Fayemi
towards the understanding of the intricate layers of African spirituality and the profound insights it offers into the human condition in living and dying and beyond
A decade on since Rick's passing, we present this short film by Zaya, Maurizio and Caroline Harrison
With sherenproject
Shipibo Curandero Explains the Sacred Ancestral Practice
"I can't prescribe, nor should anyone prescribe for anyone else what their authenticity should look like, but for most people, it's going to be shining in a number of different dimensions." —Dr. Gabor Maté
With Maha Kali Trio
a blissful exploration of Indian classical music
With J. Krishnamurti
"The moment you ask how, you are introducing a system"
With Neil Theise
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave
With Lyla June
Indigenous sciences, embedded and discussed through indigenous languages, have suffered great destruction.
With Gabor Maté and Betsy Polatin
Announcing a 4-day Online Retreat
A clip from the Reclaiming Authenticity video series with Dr. Maté
With David Eagleman
How the perception of time and what is considered "now" unfolds in the brain
With Jewel and Gabor Maté
From the Wisdom of Trauma 'Talks on Trauma' Series – All Access Pass
From a Beatle to a mystic seeker
With Gabor Maté, Ashley Judd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mona Haydar, and Elisa Hallerman
What Does Freedom Mean to You...
With Gabor Maté, Jack Kornfield, and Tara Brach
From the Wisdom of Trauma All Access Pass
With Bayo Akomolafe
exploring the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End
With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone and Gabor Maté
In this beautiful conversation, two impassioned trauma specialists and authors, Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone and Dr. Gabor Maté, shared personal experiences and professional challenges working with the burgeoning field of trauma healing across generations.
With Mirabai Starr
"A new world will be born in blood and pain, just as we are." —Joanna Macy
With DUST
We need Afrofuturism; not as a box to put people in, but as a lens with which to change the way we imagine and actualize an inclusive future. A future where Black people are in control of their own destinies.
With Nixiwaka Yawanawa
“Nature is the source of life.”
“letting in” and “letting be” leads to a much easier approach than the conventional trying to let go we usually default to
With Maya Angelou
Words, images, and messages from the life and work of Maya Angelou from Hope Dealer
With Sophie Strand
Advances in evolutionary science have revealed that biological novelty is created by horizontal fusions between species and between bodies.
With Dr. Leroy Little Bear
Comparing the foundational base of Blackfoot knowledge to quantum physics to an attentive audience at The Banff Centre as part of the Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science: Contrasts and Similarities event.
A new story from Sophie read at the Sophie Strand was a guest speaker at Bayo Akomolafe's webinar The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound webinar
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.
With Donald Hoffman
Donald Hoffman describes his mathematical theory that ties in with consciousness touching into neuroscience, computer science, perception, and how we construct reality.
With Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter Gurrumul's music video 'Wiyathul', taken from the album 'Gurrumul'.
With Gary Weber
has thinking in the modern-day human outlived its purpose?
With A.H. Almaas
A.H. Almaas discusses neuroscience and the self, continuity of consciousness, the construction of the self, self-identity, and the suffering that can arise.
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
With Susana Martinez-Conde
Susana Martinez-Conde gives her understanding of perception, brains, reality, memory, experience, music, aesthetics, and language from her experience as Laboratory Director of SUNY Downstate Medical Center
With Bernardo Kastrup
A talk from SAND 15 exploring the brain, perception, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, panpsychism, and more.
With Aeon
Dazzling timelapse shows how microbes spoil our food – and sometimes enrich it.
With Ken Wilber
Exploring lines, levels, and stages of Spiritual Development and Integral Theory.
With Kazuaki Tanahashi
Zen Buddhism and its relation to Nonduality, the symbolism of the ensō (円相, "circular form") calligraphy, and the Heart Sutra
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.”
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.
With Sally Kempton
Sally Kempton speaks of her history, Tantra practice, and goddess worship in an interview with Science and Nonduality.
With Dorothy Hunt
There is a dimension of our Being that is never in crisis
By Pádraig Ó Tuama, A Poetry Film by Leo G Franchi from OnBeing
With Stephen LaBerge
Stephen LaBerge discusses lucid dreaming techniques, Nisargadatta Maharaj, consciousness, and awareness.
With Charles Eisenstein and Aubrey Marcus
An animated short based on a story from Charles Eisenstein’s book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”
With Dean Radin, Neil Theise, Julia Mossbridge, John Hagelin, and Rudolph Tanzi
Exploring Non-local Consciousness with Dean Radin (Senior Scientist at IONS), Neil Theise (Professor…
With Stephen Jenkinson and Sophie Strand
Excerpts from Advaya: the role of mythology, stories, art, and poetry in cultivating kinship. How do stories create/relate to belonging?
With Amoda Maa
In this talk with meditation, Amoda Maa offers essential teachings of openness as the doorway to living from the ground of love and presence.
With Sri Vijay Kapoor
A philosphical exploration of not-twones that permeates all of our experience
"Watch with an open mind, see what resonates and leave the rest"
With Loibon Ol Doinyo Laetoli le Baaba
Kali Baaba offers a deep discourse on the profundity of our shared and universal sense of 'I am'
With Betsy Polatin
Experience your inherent support and understand why you lose it.
With Shantena Augusto Sabbadini
The connections between Quantum Physics, Daoism, and Nonduality in this interview with the Italian physicist
With Gabor Maté and Tim Ferriss
Promoting his new book 'The Myth of Normal' on the Tim Ferris Show
Hassan was shot and paralyzed in his Al Dheisheh Refugee camp, located just outside the city of Bethlehem. Now you can help him walk again!
With Deepak Chopra and Rupert Spira
exploring the classic idealism vs materialism divide
With Ashira Prem Rachana
SAND guest speaker with a taste of Sufi Whirling
Zaya and Maurizio talk about their film projects and the need to spiritually connect people around the world on Prague TV
With Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox continues his reflections on the ritual of grief and healing by Rabbi Arthur Waskow of The Shalom Center.
With Chris Fields, Susana Martinez-Conde, and Donald Hoffman
Perception may be defined not only as how we experience the world through our senses, but also how we interpret those experiences to create meaning and provide a practically useful model of reality.
With Master Mingtong Gu
When we bring the mind back to the body, we are able come back to the home within and to live the miracle of life.
With Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
discovering the layers of life in and around a lake
Dr. Gabor Maté presents the idea that it is this level of suffering that will lead to the clarity of truth and realignment with our highest selves
Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari' is an experimental short film featuring over 260 strange and spectacular images, generated by 13 different A.I. algorithms.
With Tony Parsons
Tony Parsons in conversation with Zaya Benazzo from SAND 2013 Conference
A duet of cello and birdsong
With Marlies Cocheret
Exploring the Feminine side of spirituality, leads her listeners in discussion
With Katie Mack
How NASA's Webb Telescope Gives Humanity a Revolutionary New View of Cosmos
Visual illusions are those perceptual experiences that do not match the physical reality.
Dance through life’s turbulences with the knowledge you are never alone ... from NOWNESS
With Chris Fields
Chris Fields suggests we abandon both the question "why this universe?" and the entire subsequent story about emergence
"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant" (John Donne)
In times of crisis, we're desperate to find peace. We search for equanimity as if it's a state that can be found. The more desperate we feel, the more effort we put into our search.
With Anil Seth
How does our biology give rise to the experience of consciousness?
With Rupert Spira
All experience is now. Try to step out of now into a past or future. Where do we or could we go?
A Thought Experiment That Changes How You Think About Yourself
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.
With Kendrick Lamar
a masterpiece album from Pulitzer Prize winning musician dealing with intergenerational trauma
With Isira
Wisdom keeper and spiritual master Isira invites us to look into the causes behind the critical challenges we face
With Ben Bushill
A masterpiece written and read by Ben Bushill with music by Ellen Molnia and Thomas Falk.
With Thomas Hübl
two excerpts from the online SAND event with Thomas
With Science and Nonduality
highlighting some shimmering jewels from the first 50 episodes of the podcast's 1-year anniversary
With Mauro Bergonzi
An in-depth conversation at the heart of Nonduality with a disciple of Nisargadatta Maharaj
With Daniel Foor
Peeling back the layers of Animism, ancestery, and healing with the world leading expert on Ancestor work
With Parvathy Baul
A conversation with singing and muscial performances from the legendary Baul teacher and musician
With Marlon Barrios Solano
An enlightening conversation with the creative mind behind Sati-AI, a unique blend of technology and ancient wisdom
We spent the hour with Sophie as she shared numerous writings and musing on being good soil
With Martin Gray
A conversation with photographer and explorer of sacred sites for the past 40 years.
With Bayo Akomolafe and Chief Oluwo Obafemi Fayemi
“They thought they buried me; They did not know I am a seed”
With Lama Lhanang Rinpoche and Mordy Levine
Exploring the cultural and spiritual practices of death and dying with the authors of a new book 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Beginners'
With Deran Young
Zaya and Maurizio connect with therapist Deran Young on her story and the layers of racialized trauma
With Shakti Caterina Maggi
An hour long conversation with mystical nondual teacher at the nexus of compassion and the infinite
Exploring ways in which indigenous food systems of the past and present teach us how to relate to our inner and outer world
With Donald Hoffman and Rupert Spira
Exploring the frontiers of what is consciousness from the language and direct experience of science and spirituality
With Orland Bishop
We live in a time characterized by convergences of many kinds, giving our civilization a threshold of significant climaxes and challenges.
With Mukti
Exploring the Interplay of Consciousness and Energy
With Dr. Rupa Marya
What is deep medicine? How can re-establishing our relationships with the Earth and one another help us to heal?
“We are not walking though the world; we are interwoven with it. In everything we do we participate in complexity"
A wide ranging discussion with interdependent spiritual mystic master
With Cornelius Boots
Zen flute, breath, consciousnes, and alchemy, with extended music pieces from Cornelius
With Merlin Sheldrake
In this talk Maurizio and Merlin discuss Merlin’s book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
With Joan Tollifson
A conversation with Joan on the simplicity and depth of awareness of being
With Kabir Helminski
A conversation on Rumi, Sufism, and the deep mysteries of being
With Richard Rohr
East meets west with two talks on Mystic Christianity
With Gail Brenner
Finding presence in stillness, silence, and community.
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
With Ash Canty
end of life care, hospice, death parties, spirit mediumship, and more on this episode of the podcast
With Resmaa Menakem and Gabor Maté
embodying anti-racist practice and cultural building a way of being in the world
With Monica Gagliano
Listening to/with/as the whole planet is listening and sining, a conversation with world renoun bioacoustic researcher
With Ellen Emmet
Touching into listening, embodiment, the shadow, and devotion with teacher and author Ellen Emmet
With Iya Affo
Historical trauma is trauma so deeply rooted in the subconscious we may not even know it is there.
With Laura Inserra
Exploring the deep sound medicine of Laura and the implications of living in a world of sound
With A.H. Almaas and Thomas Hübl
A dialog between two modern spiritual teachers on the nature and wonder of the heart
With Michael Harrison
exploring into the life and work of musician and Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan
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?
With Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe
With James Fadiman and Ayelet Waldman
explore psychedelics and their therapeutic uses in two entertaining and informative talks from SAND 18 and 19
With Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host this Community Gathering with Dënesųłiné indigenous rights activist and climate activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger.
With Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and Gabor Maté
In this conversation from the “Talks on Trauma” series Gabor investigates the paths of personal Trauma woven into the Buddhist and personal psychology fields for which Jack and Tara are so well known.
With Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Alnoor Ladha
An sprawling conversation in relation to deep time, land, and indigenous trauma and science
With IONE
Exploring the concepts of Listening in Dreams, Deep Listening, Black Quantum Futurism, and Quantum Listening
With Lynn Murphy and Alnoor Ladha
Explore their new book Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse
With Mona Haydar
In this live SAND Conference talk Mona offers some beautiful sacred wisdom from her Islamic tradition with that special Science and Nonduality flavor weaving her talk through the ancient and the modern, the light and dark in this talk.
We look back at a selection of talks of Peter's from SAND conferences and host a discussion about his history with science and spirituality
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
With Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie Strand
an organic and wild conversation between two poets, writers, philosophers and theobiologians
With Thomas Hübl, Peter Levine, and Zaya Benazzo
We are all connected through the traumatization of the world and that the healing of trauma is a way of returning to the wholeness and fullness of living.
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In episode 4 of our Podcast we explore the traditional Tibetan Buddhist beliefs of death and dying
With Esther Perel
In Episode 3 of our podcast explore the frontiers of relationships and love with Esther Perel
With Stephen Jenkinson
The meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture and more on Sounds of SAND Episode 2
With Gabor Maté and Adyashanti
The first episode in our brand new podcast series!
With Mark Gober
Consciousness, rather than matter, is the basis of all reality.
In the coming decades, the pace of life will be much faster than it is today
With Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille answers questions at SAND19 US.
There is a special area of the Matrix reserved for people who think they have exited the Matrix.
What if the ways we think about the climate crisis is the crisis?
With Brian Swimme
One of the fundamental spiritual, social, and ecological challenges of our time is learning how to live into what we know.
If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a fraction of the brain's function, what is all the rest doing?
With Russ Hudson
The journey into authentic nondual experience usually entails an ongoing experience of paradox
With Julie Brown Yau
There is a profound and painful sense of disconnection in humanity.
With Swami Sarvapriyananda
Exploring, Understanding and Applying Advaita Vedanta
While the personal level is an important foundation, the next level is to bring our practice to the interpersonal realm
With Deborah Johnson
Oftentimes, the culprit of our inability to genuinely relate in our heart is our adherence to the dualistic paradigm of “otherness.”
With Joel Salinas
What science and my unusual brain are teaching us about the convergence of reality, love, and the senses
With James Doty
The path to transcendence is through compassion and through compassion one is led to oneness
Rupert explores the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions
We are aware of thinking and acting, and we typically think this is what neurons and brains are for.
With Michael Meade
The challenges we face and the changes underway signal a genuine transformation of the world
In most spiritual traditions, love is seen only as universal or cosmic love.
Can we rejig our space-time interface?
Lee Smolin on the Jim Rutt show.
From the dualistic thinking of the first half of life into the contemplative mind of the integrated self
With Alan Watts
In this universe there is one great energy and we have no name for it
With Robert Augustus Masters
A podcast interview
With Zhenevere Sophia Dao
With Peter Levine
With Silvia Nakkach
With Robert Sapolsky
With Jean Houston
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
With Robert Thurman
With Karen Johnson
With Deepak Chopra
With Daniel Siegel
With Rollin McCraty
With Paul Stamets
A selected set of talks from the event
A collection of talks given at SAND19 US, specially for our supporters
A collection of talks presented at the annual SAND conference in San Jose, CA
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