With Sophie Strand
Advances in evolutionary science have revealed that biological novelty is created by horizontal fusions between species and between bodies.
With A.H. Almaas and Thomas Hübl
A dialog between two modern spiritual teachers on the nature and wonder of the heart
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 Bayo Akomolafe
From "Democracy and Belonging Forum" – Why We Need a Politics of Exile in a Time of Troubling Stuckness
By J. Krishnamurti
...As you walk back by the little farmhouses, the meadows, and the railway line, you will see that yesterday has come to an end: life begins where thought ends...
By Wolfgang Smith
The first step towards an ontological comprehension of physics consists in the rediscovery of what we term the corporeal domain, which is basically the perceptible, beginning with the visual.
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Celebrating the life and legacy of Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh one-year after he returned to mother earth.
With Sophie Strand • February 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2023 10–11:30am PST
A 4-Part, Live Webinar Series
With Deran Young • Tuesday, February 21, 2023 10–11:30am PST
A live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
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 Michael Harrison
exploring into the life and work of musician and Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan
With Adyashanti
“We have a real problem getting along with each other; sometimes we have even a bigger problem getting along with ourselves. That’s where some of the most vicious wars are fought – within our own psychology.”
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 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.
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 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.
Diaries are a forum in which we can raise and then galvanise ourselves into answering the large questions which lie behind the stewardship of our lives: What do I really want? Should I leave? What do I feel for them? From The School of Life.
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
With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo
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
With Gabor Maté
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 Peter Russell
We are living through the most exciting and most challenging times in human history, if not the history of planet.
67 people from all over the world to take a DNA test. It turns out they have much more in common with other nationalities than they thought ...
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 Zubin Damania
Why can't we explain how matter generates consciousness?
With Alua Arthur
How does one choose to walk closely to the dying every day?
Aware follows six brilliant researchers who approach our greatest mysteries from radically different viewpoints.
With Charles Eisenstein
Life and death are not the opposites the modern mind has made them to be.
What does Entanglement actually mean?
An excerpt from a recent conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté.
In his meetings Rupert explores the perennial non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions.
With Thich Nhat Hanh
Biographical documentary of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh narrated by Peter Coyote
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 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 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 Frank Ostaseski
Caring for people who are dying can be an intense, intimate, and deeply alive experience. It often challenges our most basic beliefs.
An Open Online Event with Thomas Hübl
All of our ancestors and most of our relatives are immortal. We aren't. How come?
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 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 Hania Rani
Piano solo recorded live in open Iceland landscape
With Stephen Jenkinson
Learning the skills of dying occurs in the course of living deeply and well.
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 Bayo Akomolafe, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, and Gabor Maté
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Our ability to meet each moment in life with awareness benefits us immensely at the time of death.
The late Zen Master shares how to look deeply into the true nature of everything
With Stephen W. Porges and Gabor Maté
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 Alexandra Sheren
The award-wining music short "Portraiture"
With Ellen Emmet
As individuals and as a culture, we have deeply disconnected from the realm of the body
With Fritzi Horstman, Gregory Nottage, Vandrick Towns, Zaya Benazzo, and Maurizio Benazzo
With Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
We live in a culture caught in the illusion of time
With Darcia Narvaez, Gordon Neufeld, Kate Silverton, Muffy Mendoza, and Gabor Maté
With Sea Stars
Give yourself permission to rest and receive lullabies for your heart.
With Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté
With Sean Carroll
The mysterious world of quantum mechanics has mystified scientists for decades
With Jesse Thistle, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Ruby Gibson, Patricia June Vickers, and Gabor Maté
With Richard Rohr
The similarities, the differences, and the complementarities between the Eastern and Western understandings of transformation.
With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, Sharon Salzberg, Henry Shukman, and Gabor Maté
With Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe
exploring the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End
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
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.
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
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.
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
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?
With Shakti Caterina Maggi
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 Daniel Siegel
With Rollin McCraty
With Paul Stamets
With Mirabai Starr
With Bruce Damer
With Fritjof Capra
With James Fadiman
With Ajaya Sommers
With Vivienne Verdon-Roe
With Nandi Hetenyi
With Isa Gucciardi
With Gail Brenner
With Samantha Sweetwater
With Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman
With Wendie Colter
With Kent Welsh
With Rick Archer
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
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
An exclusive collection of interviews
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