Sep 30–Oct 3, 2021
Apr 30, 2021–May 2, 2022
With Fritzi Horstman, Gregory Nottage, Vandrick Towns, Zaya Benazzo, and Maurizio Benazzo
With Sam Harris and Iain McGilchrist
Sam Harris speaks with Iain McGilchrist about the differences between the right and left hemispheres.
It starts with Being Human—and moves on from there
A Sample for our Supporters
By Science and Nonduality
Why are we here? Where did it all come from?
By Judith Butler
Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality
By Rainer Maria Rilke
We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that
By Aldous Huxley
Knowledge vs. Understanding and the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness
With A.H. Almaas and Thomas Hübl • Thurs. January 27, 2022 10–11:30am PST
A Live Online Community Conversation Facilitated by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
With Darcia Narvaez, Gordon Neufeld, Kate Silverton, Muffy Mendoza, and Gabor Maté
With Jesse Thistle, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Ruby Gibson, Patricia June Vickers, and Gabor Maté
With Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté
With Jewel
With Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and Gabor Maté
With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, Sharon Salzberg, Henry Shukman, and Gabor Maté
With Bayo Akomolafe, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, and Gabor Maté
With Stephen W. Porges and Gabor Maté
"No question is off limits, every question is worth asking."
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
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 Gina Perez-Baron, Pat McCabe, and Daniel RYNO Herrera
With V (formerly Eve Ensler)
With Sia
With Thomas Hübl and Gabor Maté
With Peter Levine and Gabor Maté
With Resmaa Menakem and Gabor Maté
With Esther Perel and Gabor Maté
With Katie Mack
Modern cosmology — the study of the nature and evolution of the cosmos itself — has allowed physicists to explain the history of the Universe from the first tiny fraction of a second until today. But what’s next?
With Elisabet Sahtouris
Let’s start with Anaximander, who said everything forming in Nature incurs a debt which it must repay so that other things may form, which I see as the essence of evolution and a fascinating take on Dying to Live.
With Joan Tollifson
Instead of denying aging, avoiding death, or fantasizing about some after-life for “me”, Joan points to fully embracing the total disintegration and loss of control that growing old and dying—and living and loving and being awake—actually entails.
With Peter Russell
We are living through the most exciting and most challenging times in human history, if not the history of planet.
With Alua Arthur
How does one choose to walk closely to the dying every day?
With Jeffrey Long
Dr. Long has investigated thousands of near-death experiences (NDEs) with the results of his research published in the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.
With Rupert Spira
In his meetings Rupert explores the perennial non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions.
With Lama Rod Owens
Lama Rod Owens holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation.
With Brenda Salgado
Brenda weaves traditional medicine, Buddhism, mindfulness, Toltec energy medicine and ancient calendar teachings to help others understand the times we are in as humanity.
With Charles Eisenstein
Life and death are not the opposites the modern mind has made them to be.
With Jerrigrace Lyons
Imagine the opportunity to transform your own view of death, diminish your fears and re-frame your relationship to living and dying.
With Chris Fields
All of our ancestors and most of our relatives are immortal. We aren't. How come?
With Unmani
Heart-break is painful. There is no way around that. The loss of a loved one is devastating. It breaks you down. It tears you apart. The life that you thought you were living is no more. The person you thought you were, has died with your loved one.
With Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez
In the Sufi tradition, there is a saying, “Die before death.” For Sufis, this is an exhortation to befriend death and the process of letting go as a daily spiritual practice.
With Frank Ostaseski
Caring for people who are dying can be an intense, intimate, and deeply alive experience. It often challenges our most basic beliefs.
With Bayo Akomolafe
Modern dreams of death and dying are deeply "humanistic", tethered to a vision of the self as independent and removed from "nature".
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Our ability to meet each moment in life with awareness benefits us immensely at the time of death.
With Stephen Jenkinson
Learning the skills of dying occurs in the course of living deeply and well.
With Joanna Macy
In our world right now there are economic and political and surveillance systems that need help in dying.
With Deepak Chopra
Deepak shares his reflections on Death and shows us how coming to terms with our own beliefs about it can liberate us.
With Ellen Emmet
As individuals and as a culture, we have deeply disconnected from the realm of the body
With Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
We live in a culture caught in the illusion of time
With Sea Stars
Give yourself permission to rest and receive lullabies for your heart.
With Sean Carroll
The mysterious world of quantum mechanics has mystified scientists for decades
With Richard Rohr
The similarities, the differences, and the complementarities between the Eastern and Western understandings of transformation.
With Drew Dellinger
With Patricia June Vickers
An overview of oppression as the environment for intergenerational trauma
With Ariel Giarretto
How do we settle in such unsettling times?
With Fred LaMotte
Let us explore poetry as guided meditation
With Sam Harris and Rupert Spira
A debate: does epistemological primacy equate to ontological primacy?
With Susan Campbell
We live in an avoidant culture.
With Rick Archer
Why does our current era make some spiritual teachers and students susceptible to misinformation and cult-like thinking?
With Pouria Montazeri
Rumi was not unfamiliar to crisis.
With Sally Kempton
A series of tantric practices
With Deborah Johnson
Everyone wants to get to Heaven but no one wants to die.
With Orland Bishop
An Exploration of our Higher Shared Purpose
With Gordon Hempton
Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist whose life work is preserving the world’s silent places
With Scott Kiloby and Rick Archer
Scott discusses how to see the covid crisis from a trauma perspective
With Julie Brown Yau
How to find a sense of coherency, peace and a deepened sense of spirituality.
With Yuval Noah Harari
Historian Yuval Noah Harari has taken the world on a tour through the span of humanity
With Stanislav Grof
A conversation with Stanislav Grof, interviewed by Brigitte Grof.
With Gail Brenner
Many struggle with grief, sadness, fear, and frustration that have their roots earlier on in our lives
With Betsy Polatin
Experience your inherent support and understand why you lose it.
With Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman
With Maya Luna
Poetry from the Deep Feminine
Meet these 10 amazing women who changed our understanding of the cosmos
With Terry Real
Covid-19 is the first time in our lives that nature has turned against us on a planetary scale.
With John Prendergast
We will explore the multidimensional nature of the ground, the importance of accessing Presence as a profound resource,
With A.H. Almaas
A conversation with A.H. Almaas, hosted by Maurizio & Zaya Benazzo.
A place where things get strange
With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Combining Jewish texts, neuroscience, and Jungian psychology
With Master Mingtong Gu
Open your Heart, release stress, improve your resilience...
With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo
A Dialogue with Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo
With Chris Fields and Davor Džalto
What happens when we drop our pretense of specialness
The initiation of Covid-19
With Klaus Rahikainen
Do you live in fear, or in the miracle of life?
With Shakti Caterina Maggi
Fear can be a powerful door to unlock previously unreachable energy still stored in our false images
With Sará King and Daniel Siegel
Embrace a wider view of who we truly are
Bayo tells a story and tries to characterize the essence of the Feminine at the "I of the Storm" event.
A conversation with Rupert Spira, contemplating the Nature of Experience.
by Anjula Ram. One woman's journey of seeking freedom and happiness.
Deepak brings multifaceted perspectives and reflections to the current situation.
With Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth
Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island
With Pat McCabe
An Indigenous Context for Being a Human Being
With Francis Weller
Grief and loss touch us all, arriving at our door in many ways.
Do the past, present, and future exist all at once?
With Estas Tonne
A winter solstice 2020 short stream for a Movement Medicine community
With Peter Levine
The somatic connection
With Sabine Lichtenfels
Sabine answers Zaya's burning questions at Wisdom in Times of Crisis
With Gabor Maté
A conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté, hosted by Maurizio & Zaya Benazzo.
Bayo talks about youthfulness at the I of the Storm event.
Now, more than ever, our spiritual practice becomes essential.
With Merlin Sheldrake
Fungal networks, ecology, and us
With Moving Sounds
Musica Sacra — this describes very well our intuitively played music
Where to go when the highway no longer leads to interesting places?
with Estas Tonne and Dimitri Artemenko
With Francis Lucille
Francis answers Jeanric's questions in this touching interview
With Éric Baret
Eric discusses the current pandemic and many other themes at Wisdom in Times of Crisis
With Michael Meade
Michael Meade speaks so beautifully about the role of "descent" in any spiritual journey.
With Cynthia Bourgeault
Timeless Wisdom to Guide a Perilous Passage
With Vandana Shiva
From monoculture to diversity
With David Cates
When we avoid rooting in our dying bodies, spirituality grows spindly and bears no real fruit.
With Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
Francis answers questions from the audience at SAND18US
With Tim Ferriss
Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America
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
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.
With David Eagleman
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
There is a profound and painful sense of disconnection in humanity.
With Swami Sarvapriyananda
Exploring, Understanding and Applying Advaita Vedanta
With Thomas Hübl
While the personal level is an important foundation, the next level is to bring our practice to the interpersonal realm
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.
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.
With Donald Hoffman
Can we rejig our space-time interface?
With Sam Harris and Roland Griffith
Sam Harris speaks with Roland Griffiths about the current state of research on psychedelics.
With Sam Harris, Annaka Harris, and Donald Hoffman
Sam and Annaka Harris speak with Donald Hoffman about his book The Case Against Reality.
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 Silvia Nakkach
With Robert Sapolsky
With Jean Houston
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
With Stephen LaBerge
With Robert Thurman
With Karen Johnson
With Daniel Siegel
With Rollin McCraty
With Paul Stamets
With Mirabai Starr
With Bruce Damer
With James Fadiman
With Caverly Morgan
With Ajaya Sommers
With Vivienne Verdon-Roe
With Nandi Hetenyi
With Isa Gucciardi
With Samantha Sweetwater
With Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman
With Wendie Colter
With Kent Welsh
With Lynn Marie Lumiere
With Craig Holliday
With Eric Lyleson
With Penny Fenner
With Marjorie Woollacott
With Joseph Tafur
With Mary McGovern
With John Astin
With A.H. Almaas, Robert Thurman, and Maurizio Benazzo
With Martin Ball
With Sky Nelson-Isaacs
With Will Pye
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
With Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche
With Katherine Bailes
With Ryan Bush
With Chetan Prakash
With Terry Patten
With Kiran Trace
With David Buckland
With Syamala Hari
With Robert Dittler
With Nick Day
With Frank Heile
With Coleman Dobson
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
An exclusive collection of interviews
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