SAND18 US — Clear Teachings from the Tibetan Tradition

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part II)

By Maria Syldona

An extraordinary and profound personal experience illustrates the tenet that the Model of Manifestation describes both the Universe – and a human being.

Is Your Shaman Sketchy? Sham Shamans

By Kristen Eykel

Shamanism is, by its very nature, a little on the dark side.

The Practice of Gestation

By Beverly Lanzetta

The contemplative spirituality of via feminina begins with the practice of gestation.

Why I Quit Ayahuasca Shamanism After 11 Years and 1,000 Ceremonies

By Tina “Kat” Courtney

I’m alive because of Ayahuasca. I am connected, soulful, expanded, and spilling over with self-love, mostly because of the blessing of attending around 1,000 sacred plant ceremonies.

Maha Ati

By H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions, and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into...

Lovemaking and Altered States of Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

People have tried many ways to alter their consciousness — meditation, psychedelic mushrooms, LSD, rituals…

The Dalai Lama and the Atlas of Emotions

By Georgi Johnson

Emotions are tricky entities. They confuse the mind and disturb perception, isolating an individual in a private sense of reality. So what to do with them?

Book Review: The Fellowship of the River, by Joseph Tafur

By Science and Nonduality

As far as I know, this is a first: a book about ayahuasca and plant medicine and shamanism...

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 and the Existence of Ether

By David Storoy

The existence of an ether – an all-pervading medium composed of a subtler kind of matter – has been taught by mystic philosophers throughout the ages.

The Spirituality of Science

By Lynn K. Russell

Quantum particles, the foundation of the universe, are like naughty children playing catch me if you can with scientists in a game with no rules.

Intimate Relationship as a Spiritual Crucible

By John Welwood

Living with someone we love, with all the joys and challenges, is one of the best ways…

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From Lust to Love: A Research Perspective: Justin Garcia

Speaking at the 2018 Radiant Intimacy gathering, Justin Garcia, evolutionary biologist at the Kinsey…

brain-heart

By David Storoy

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.

Sound and The Subtle

By Silvia Nakkach

Transforming Consciousness and Emotions through Mantra and Raga Yoga Western culture is notorious for…

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.

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.

The Path of no Path

By Peter Russell and Peter Russell

Spiritual teachers with non-dual leanings say that there is no path to enlightenment. There is nowhere to get to; you are already enlightened, you just do not know it.

5:00 – FREE

You're that!

With Alan Watts

In this universe there is one great energy and we have no name for it

Truth Will Set You Free: Time Does Not Exist

By Hans Meijer

When we ask ourselves why we think time exists, most of us would say: because we see everything changing, always.

Tandava the Cosmic Dance

By Daniel Odier

Tandava means totality. It means the path is absolutely non-dual, because we integrate everything and we don't refuse any aspect of the human being

This Sacred Game Has Been Rigged Against Us

By Scott Kiloby

The word “spirituality” has caused a lot of suffering over the centuries. Moral self-righteousness is often tagging along side that word.

And God Created Man In His Own Image

By Science and Nonduality and Nick Roach

by Nick Roach The title is from the Bible, Genesis 1:27. The passage goes on to say “...in the image…

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.

Let the Moon Be Free – Conversations on Kashmiri Tantra

By Eric Baret

Shaped and sustained by the nondual tradition of Kashmir Shivaism, Eric Baret’s words take us back to the simple observation of our felt sense of emotion and, ultimately, to pure listening.

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Christianity and Unknowing

With Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr, as a Catholic priest and Franciscan Friar, will offer a concise history of how Western Christianity once had, soon lost, tried to retrieve, and now is roundly rediscovering its own traditional understanding of unitive consciousness

51:00 – FREE

Growing Up Men

With Richard Rohr

From the dualistic thinking of the first half of life into the contemplative mind of the integrated self

Everything is Self

By Nick Roach

Many great masters have said “Everything is Self,” and this phrase is repeated regularly during spiritual…

The Pilgrimage of “Who Am I?”

A short conversation with Brazilian author Paolo Coelho

The Path of Reality

By Nathalie Delay

The path of reality is not a path, for it is an exploration of life in all that it is...

Waking from the Meme Dream

By Susan Blackmore

Wake up! Wake up! Errrr, ummmm, grrrrggr, Oh yes, I’m awake now. Wow, that was a weird dream.

The Poor Joke

By Wei Wu Wei

Bondage is being dependent, tied up, limited. On, to, by, what?

The Goddess of Never Not Broken

By Julie JC Peters

You know that feeling when you have just gone through a breakup, or lost your job, and everything is terrible and terrifying and you don’t know what to do...

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Yoga is a Celebration of Life

With Éric Baret

Eric Baret points out that there are no sculptures of yogic asanas in Indian temples before the modern era. He describes today’s yoga as a commercial project...

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.

The Sayings of Old Man Tcheng

By Science and Nonduality

French paraphrase of the original Buddhist text by J. Garillot (1974), translated by Else van den Muyzenberg.…

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part III)

By Maria Syldona

As the process of manifestation (involution of Ultimate Reality into becoming the physical Universe) begins, the tattvas (principles, states of consciousness) that logically appear first are those of what is called the Pure Creation and pure knowledge.