Biomimicry

In the quest for innovative and functional designs, many scientists are now turning to nature for inspiration.

Scientists Map the Wood Wide Web

By Shawn Radcliffe

Underneath the ground exists a vast “social network” that connects trees and other plants to each other.

17:00 – FREE

TEDx talk: Epigenetics

With Moshe Szyf

The study of epigenetics has changed how we look at the effect that our genetic inheritance has on our physical and mental health, as well as on that of our children and grandchildren.

Quantum Biology: Photosynthesis - An Interview with Chris Fields

By Science and Nonduality

Q:  How do quantum phenomena take part in photosynthesis and why is it important?

Can the Effects of Trauma Pass Down Generations?

By Shawn Radcliffe

New research shows that the physical effects of trauma can be passed down to children and even to grandchildren

Nondual Evolution

By Jose Diez Faixat

During recent decades, the apparently solid view of the mechanistic and materialistic world has started to show alarming cracks.

Trees have a Regular "Heartbeat"

By Shawn Radcliffe

New research now suggests that trees may have a “heartbeat” that pumps water from their roots.

Healing Your Belly Could Also Heal Your Brain

By Shawn Radcliffe

There are many things that affect our mental health, from work-related stress to past traumas to whether or not we meditate each day.

Human Potential Is Infinite: A.H. Almaas

At his SAND18 appearance A.H. Almaas talks about the importance and mystery of being human, and of the great opportunity and potential of human beings.

Action on the Bee Crisis: Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets, author, mycologist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, talks about the extraordinary role that fungi play in the health of people and planet

Events In a Far Galaxy Modify Your DNA

By Stephen Battersby

Billions of years ago, an iron nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into space at close to the…

What Can We Learn from Our Own Technology

By Tom Bunzel

Our own deeply held beliefs and definitions of technology are impeding us from evolving consciously…

It’s Time to Allow Vibration to Have its Way

By Greg Sipp

For well over a century, scientists have been wrestling with what quantum mechanics has been revealing to us about fundamental reality

The Hardest Problem: Decoding the puzzle of human consciousness

By Susan Blackmore

Might we humans be the only species on this planet to be truly conscious?

28:00:00 – FREE

Are We Just Another Primate?

With Robert Sapolsky

Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?

The World Beneath Your Feet Is Teeming With Life

By Shawn Radcliffe

Beneath your feet lies an enormous subterranean biosphere of bacteria and other forms of life, surviving…

Robert Lanza: Consciousness Is the Key to Understanding Reality

By Shawn Radcliffe

In order to understand the true nature of reality, science must first recognize the importance of consciousness, says Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem-cell biologist whose work has earned him high acclaim.

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

By Mark Wolynn

A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.

How Can Wholeness Be In Crisis? Inquiring into the Human Predicament

By Terry Patten

The most radical understanding of reality points first to radical wholeness, to the prior unity of all opposites and conditional experiences.

Consciousness Expanded by Psilocybin

By Science and Nonduality

Psychedelic drugs alter consciousness in a profound and novel way that increases the breadth and fluency of cognition. However, until recently, scientists were unable to offer an explanation for how the brain was altered to account for these effects.

Sex Chromosomes Aren’t the Whole Story

By Shawn Radcliffe

For almost 100 years, children have been taught in school that the anatomical sex of a baby is determined by the X and Y chromosomes, also known as the sex chromosomes — XY is male and XX is female.

Emotions Shape Our Physical Reality

By Shawn Radcliffe

In recent years scientists have been exploring the effects that stress and emotions have on our cells — in particular, on our chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA.

Where Does Pain Exist in the Mind?

By Shawn Radcliffe

We live in a reality generated by our brain. From the euphoria of falling in love to the beauty of a newly blossomed flower, what we experience with our senses is a representation of the world, not the world itself.