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
With Sam Harris and Iain McGilchrist
Sam Harris speaks with Iain McGilchrist about the differences between the right and left hemispheres.
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 Iya Affo
As Indigenous people, we have always had tools to manage our dysregulation.
According to Ervin Laszlo, the coherence of the atom and the galaxies is the same coherence that keeps living cells together, cooperating to form life.
By Vasant Lad
Attachment is the food of the mind.
By Pema Chödrön
Renunciation is realizing that our nostalgia for wanting to stay in a protected, limited, petty world is insane
With Iya Affo • Saturday, August 13, 2022 10–11:30am PDT
A Hunger for Wholeness: Finding the Depths of our ResilienceA Live Online Community Conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
With Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie Strand • Wednesday, September 7, 2022 8:30–10am PDT
New Gods at the End of the World: Disabled ecologies, healing, and a mythopoesis of worlds-to-comeA live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
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
With Susana Martinez-Conde
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
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
"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant" (John Donne)
With Caverly Morgan
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 Dorothy Hunt
There is a dimension of our Being that is never in crisis
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 Drew Dellinger
With Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and Gabor Maté
With Patricia June Vickers
An overview of oppression as the environment for intergenerational trauma
With Jewel
With Ariel Giarretto
How do we settle in such unsettling times?
With Fred LaMotte
Let us explore poetry as guided meditation
With V (formerly Eve Ensler)
With Sam Harris and Rupert Spira
A debate: does epistemological primacy equate to ontological primacy?
With Sia
With Susan Campbell
We live in an avoidant culture.
With Gina Perez-Baron, Pat McCabe, and Daniel RYNO Herrera
With Pouria Montazeri
Rumi was not unfamiliar to crisis.
With Rick Archer
Why does our current era make some spiritual teachers and students susceptible to misinformation and cult-like thinking?
With Peter Levine and Gabor Maté
With Sally Kempton
A series of tantric practices
With Esther Perel and Gabor Maté
With Deborah Johnson
Everyone wants to get to Heaven but no one wants to die.
With Resmaa Menakem and Gabor Maté
With Orland Bishop
An Exploration of our Higher Shared Purpose
With Thomas Hübl and Gabor Maté
With Gordon Hempton
Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist whose life work is preserving the world’s silent places
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 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 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 Stanislav Grof
A conversation with Stanislav Grof, interviewed by Brigitte Grof.
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 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 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
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
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
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.
With Donald Hoffman
Can we rejig our space-time interface?
With Shakti Caterina Maggi
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 Peter Levine
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 Fritjof Capra
With James Fadiman
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 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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