3:00 – FREE

The Unknowable Reality of Things

With Rupert Spira

An immersive visual meditative journey with Rupert Spira

Nonduality and Mindfulness — Two Great Traditions that Go Great Together

By Michael Taft

In the context of American spiritual practice nondual traditions and mindfulness traditions appear to be in sharp contrast.

Far Right or Far Left, It’s Exactly the Same

By Eric Baret

I have this concern about what is happening in the world. If we take nonduality really seriously, it seems like we are not concerned about the exterior.

The Pilgrimage of “Who Am I?”

A short conversation with Brazilian author Paolo Coelho

Realizing the Transpersonal Self

By Paul Mulliner

If we take a focus of attention inward regularly, we can realize intuitively that our conscious awareness, rather than being separate from the world as it seems to be, exists as a field of consciousness everywhere in all space.

Effortless Being

By Peter Russell

Behind all our endeavors lies the desire to feel good—to be happy, feel content, relaxed, and at ease. No one wants to be in pain or to suffer unnecessarily.

The Nature of Experience

By Rupert Spira

There is one fundamental presumption upon which our world culture is founded. This basic presumption states that experience is divided into two essential elements – a subject and an object – joined together by an act of knowing, feeling or perceiving.

Exhausting the Mind

By Jean Klein

Question: When we say that we must come to the end of the mind, that we must exhaust the mind, is it a necessary process, something which must happen, or is it possible to have an insight without the mind being exhausted?

The Foundation of World Peace

By Rupert Spira

I have to confess that I was a little taken aback at breakfast this morning when Ellen and I sat down, and Zaya and Maurizio came to sit down with us.

27:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Foundation of World Peace

With Rupert Spira

Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept

By Michael Taft

Many traditions and mystics talk about nondualism. But what is nondualism, and how have people—from different religions in different parts of the word—described this concept over time?

If Everything is Consciousness, is Everything Conscious?

By Rick Archer

At this year's conference I'll be moderating a discussion between Bernardo Kastrup and physicist Christopher…

Tantra and the West

By Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Tantra in the Western imagination stands for exotic and orgasmic rituals coming from India and Tibet that blend sex and meditation.

Science Pointing to Nonduality

By Mark Gober

Most of my life was spent as a materialist. I regarded physical matter as the basis of reality. From matter emerged biological organisms such as humans, which developed brains, and out of the brain emerged consciousness.

How Does an Awakened Person Perceive the World?

By David Loy

Obviously, that’s an important question for nondualists including Advaitins and Buddhists.