SAND18 US — Clear Teachings from the Tibetan Tradition

11:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Powerful Mantras

With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda

How can Knowledge take us to Silence?

24:00 – FREE

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

With Robert Thurman

Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…

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.

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…

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.

43:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Obstacle to Our Evolution: A conversation

With Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Wild Mercy: The Wisdom of the Feminine

With Mirabai Starr

Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Can a Computer become Conscious?

With Federico Faggin

How can there be intelligence without consciousness?

43:00 – FREE

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

With Paul Stamets

Discover the world of magic mushrooms

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.

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.

2:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Wound of Love

With Maya Luna

Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma

25:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Inventing a Self

With Chris Fields

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

26:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Reclaiming Emotion

With Zhen Dao

In a passionate presentation in praise of emotion, Zhen Dao offers a reframe of the traditional dichotomy…

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

1:33:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Panel: Awakening to the Divine Feminine

With Mirabai Starr, Francis Bennett, Zhen 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

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.

1:32:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Appreciating the Human

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

There is no awakening without humans

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…

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.

27:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Foundation of World Peace

With Rupert Spira

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.

21:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Challenge of Transhumanism

With Kabir Helminski

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

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.

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Ecological Initiation

With Charles Eisenstein

Will we choose life, or continued death?

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.

18:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Spontaneous Creativity: Manifesting Your Positive Qualities

With Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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

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?

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…

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 — Healing Collective Trauma

With Thomas Hübl

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.

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?

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?

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

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

42:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Microdosing: A conversation with James Fadiman

With James Fadiman

James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US

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...

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.

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

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

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Exploring Consciousness: Dreaming And Awakening

With Stephen LaBerge

Overview of lucid dreaming

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

1:07:00 – 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...

30:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Geometry of Consciousness

With James Tagg

This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain

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...

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?

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?

31:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Trauma and the Unbound Body

With Judith Blackstone

Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process

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

Perception and the Mystery of the Unknown

If you are seeking true Reality, since Reality is All, it must be here, now.

1:32:00 – FREE

From Sex to Source

With Layla Martin and Aubrey Marcus

At the core of Layla’s teachings is the process of releasing judgment surrounding sex

The Center for Spiritual Imagination

By Kris Vieira

A cathedral community envisions vibrant spirituality for the 21st century

22:00 – FREE

Holding the Thread of Life - SAND19 US

With Michael Meade

The challenges we face and the changes underway signal a genuine transformation of the world

What is Tantra?

By Éric Baret

For me it is irrelevant, but let’s say for the Kashmirian tradition, as far as my teacher expressed…

50:00 – FREE

A Wildly Free Aliveness

With Mauro Bergonzi

It is the mind that turns now into past, present and future, and there is no way to leave the now.

Pilgrim

By David Whyte

‘Pilgrim’ might be the word that most accurately describes us

What is Truth?

By Éric Baret

Seeking is an expression of truth, it’s not a way. Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.

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

Alone to All One

The delicate dance between loneliness, solitude and communion

A Humbling Path

You will be humbled. Oh yes. Brought to your knees. Many, many times.

Aggression is a Reaction

By Eric Baret

The world is not aggressive

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

We are in the Death Phase Now: Do Not Run Away

By Jessica Hesser

Fear is raging, systems and structures are crumbling, much is being undone.

42:00 – FREE

Embodied Spiritual Love - SAND19 US

With A.H. Almaas

In most spiritual traditions, love is seen only as universal or cosmic love.

23:00 – FREE

All the Names are Names of God - SAND19 US

With Francis Lucille

Francis Lucille answers questions at SAND19 US.

There is No Doer

By Eric Baret

What do you mean when you say there's nothing to be done?

Emotion in Tantra

By Eric Baret

Emotions are at the core of tantric teachings

Sex, Zen, and Poetry:
The Life of Ikkyu Sojun

By Chris Kincaid

Ikkyu Sojun decided to be true to himself and that meant regular trips to brothels

The Practice of Gestation

By Beverly Lanzetta

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

The Living Edge of Surrender & Why You Don’t Need to Amputate your Ego to Find Enlightenment

By Lori Ann Lothian

Entering into that territory where the practices that have sustained us no longer can guide us in the terrain we are in.

51:00 – FREE

Meditation - SAND19 US

With Shakti Caterina Maggi

32:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Being Divine, Becoming Human

With Shakti Caterina Maggi

"It is not a person that is waking up, it is consciousness."

Tranquility

By J. Krishnamurti

It was a powerful motor and well tuned; it took the hills easily, without a stutter, and the pick-up was excellent.

The Four Essential Points of Letting Go in the Bardo

By Pema Khandro Rinpoche

It’s when we lose the illusion of control—when we’re most vulnerable and exposed—that we can discover the creative potential of our lives.

The Spiritual Teachings of COVID-19

By Stephan Bodian

Human life as we’ve known it has ground to a halt, and we’re faced with an unprecedented crisis—and an unprecedented opportunity.

The Mother Mantra, the Ancient Shamanic Yoga of Nonduality

By Selene Calloni Williams

Tradition and secret practices of mystical marriage and reawakening

The Impossible Predicament of Being Alive

By Robyn Lynn

The impossible predicament of being alive, the great wound that will not heal.