SAND18 US — Buddha's Message: Have Some fun!

43:00 – FREE

What Do I Know? - SAND18 US

With Peter Russell

Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.

43:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Obstacle to Our Evolution: A conversation

With Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.

21:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Challenge of Transhumanism

With Kabir Helminski

Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI

25:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Inventing a Self

With Chris Fields

How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.

7:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - The Paradox of Awakening

With David Ellzey

At the 2018 SAND Conference, David Ellzey physically and wordlessly tells the story that resolves the seeming paradox of being both human and transcendent.

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Being Human in the Engine of Creation

With Bruce Damer

A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.

34:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Being Human through the Engine of Creation

With Bruce Damer

21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being

28:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Are We Just Another Primate?

With Robert Sapolsky

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

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — You are the One you've Been Waiting for

With Jean Houston

Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…

45:00 – FREE

Conscious Agent Dynamics - SAND18 US

With Chetan Prakash

We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world

18:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Mystery of Free Will

With Donald Hoffman

Donald Hoffman reminds us that we can predict people's choices up to seven seconds before they are conscious of making that choice.

1:32:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Appreciating the Human

With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky

There is no awakening without humans

46:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Breaking the Cycle of Collective Trauma

With Thomas Hübl

How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds

43:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Spirituality, Archetypes, and Trauma

With Peter Levine

The “awe-full” qualities of horror and terror may share essential roots with those underlying transformative states such as flow, awe, presence, timelessness and ecstasy.

1:33:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Panel: Awakening to the Divine Feminine

With Mirabai Starr, Francis Bennett, ​​​​​​​Zhenevere Sophia Dao, Vera de Chalambert, and Nadeshwari Joythimayananda

As the outdated patriarchal structures rise up in backlash to their inevitable downfall, the need for a more sustainable world paradigm couldn’t be greater

48:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Soul Tech

With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel

An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel

21:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Is Nondual Awareness at War with our Humanity?

With Dorothy Hunt

Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Relative is the Absolute: Touching Race, Injustice, and Love

With Caverly Morgan

When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human

11:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Powerful Mantras

With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda

How can Knowledge take us to Silence?

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Healing Collective Trauma

With Thomas Hübl

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Can a Computer become Conscious?

With Federico Faggin

How can there be intelligence without consciousness?

27:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Foundation of World Peace

With Rupert Spira

38:00 – FREE

Interpersonal Neurobiology - SAND18 US

With Daniel Siegel

Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.

36:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Silence and Substratum

With Pamela Wilson

Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.

24:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Psychic Abilities and Awakening

With Jac O'Keeffe

This presentation will explore the nature of the psychic realm, where it fits into the spiritual spectrum, and how to avoid the common pitfalls and potential to get stuck there.

9:00 – FREE

The Relative is the Absolute

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.

35:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Clear Teachings from the Tibetan Tradition

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams

54:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Living Nonduality in a Dualistic World

With Chuck Hillig

Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity

1:02:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Ethics and Spiritual Teaching

With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer

What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Being Human is a Development, Not a Given

With Karen Johnson

What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?

42:00 – FREE

The World is a Network - SAND18 US

With Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US

42:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Microdosing: A conversation with James Fadiman

With James Fadiman

James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US

44:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - The Centrality of the Heart in Being Human

With John Prendergast

Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.

56:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Healing Trauma and Spiritual Growth

With Peter Levine and Thomas Hübl

In this memorable conversation from SAND 18 Peter Levine, the father of trauma therapy work, and Thomas Huebl, a spiritual teacher known for his work integrating healing of collective trauma, discuss the relationship between healing trauma and...

17:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Mind, Matter, and Life

With Fritjof Capra

Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system

34:00 – FREE

Understanding the Creative Portal

With Isa Gucciardi

The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.

26:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — What is a Healthy Mind?

With Daniel Siegel

Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…

18:00 – FREE

Spontaneous Creativity

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...

18:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Spontaneous Creativity: Manifesting Your Positive Qualities

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Ecological Initiation

With Charles Eisenstein

Will we choose life, or continued death?

34:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Mushrooms, Mycelium & The Mycology of Consciousness - Part I

With Paul Stamets

An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness

54:00 – FREE

The Rising Voice of the Feminine - SAND18 US

With Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US

31:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Trauma and the Unbound Body

With Judith Blackstone

Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process

53:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Human as the Wormhole to the Mysteries of Existence

With A.H. Almaas

To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.

24:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Science of Consciousness

With Stuart Hameroff

Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The White Lions: Substantiating the Science and Sacred Science

With Jason Turner and Linda Tucker

In the midst of a global lion crisis that treats Africa’s most sacred animals as a killing commodity...

1:34:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Human Being in Spiritual Traditions

With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman

How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?

FREE

SAND18 US — Rest in Natural Great Peace

With Peter Russell

Peter Russell explains that most human beings—unlike animals—focus on the past and the future, which means they spend their time in a state of discontent.

1:07:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Enhancing Human Wellbeing through Nondual Awareness

With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti

The source of capacity to optimize our experience...

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Exploring Consciousness: Dreaming And Awakening

With Stephen LaBerge

Overview of lucid dreaming

43:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Mushrooms, Mycelium & The Mycology of Consciousness - Part II

With Paul Stamets

Discover the world of magic mushrooms

30:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Geometry of Consciousness

With James Tagg

This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain

2:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Wound of Love

With Maya Luna

Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma

1:07:00 – FREE

It's Not Enough to Discover What You Are Not - SAND18 US

With Rupert Spira

Rupert Spira in conversation

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Our Greater Yet to Be

With Deborah Johnson

What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Wild Mercy: The Wisdom of the Feminine

With Mirabai Starr

Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions

Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

A poem on the impact of resurrection.

Electrical Engineering and the Meaning of Life

By Richard Turilli

The measure of resistance in electrical engineering is called the Ohm. Although this Ohm has no known relation to the common Eastern chants with the same sound, it was no doubt a coincidence

Compulsion to Closure

By Joan Tollifson

This compulsion to arrive at the Final Truth is, of course, foiled again and again by life itself.

A Teaching Story about Gratitude

By Robert Frager

from The Wisdom of Islam: An Introduction to the Living Experience of Islamic Belief and Practice

My Prayer for a Beautiful World in Distress

By Joan Tollifson

May we all have compassion for every one of us being exactly as we are in each moment

Samhain

By History.com

Samhain is a pagan religious festival originating from an ancient Celtic spiritual tradition. In modern times, Samhain is usually celebrated from October 31 to November 1 to welcome in the harvest and usher in “the dark half of the year.”

A Conversation with Nothing

By Jessica Summers

Nothing would do what is required in each moment without a point of view of how others see it. Greatness is a judgement from the outside or, if it is from the inside, then it is a judgement that you are less-than.