With Sophie Strand
Advances in evolutionary science have revealed that biological novelty is created by horizontal fusions between species and between bodies.
With A.H. Almaas and Thomas Hübl
A dialog between two modern spiritual teachers on the nature and wonder of the heart
An award-winning documentary: As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty and patterns where others could not. But his path was not to be inside academia, or even inside society. 38 min
A selected set of talks from the Talks on Trauma series, parts 1 & 2
By Bayo Akomolafe
From "Democracy and Belonging Forum" – Why We Need a Politics of Exile in a Time of Troubling Stuckness
By J. Krishnamurti
...As you walk back by the little farmhouses, the meadows, and the railway line, you will see that yesterday has come to an end: life begins where thought ends...
By Wolfgang Smith
The first step towards an ontological comprehension of physics consists in the rediscovery of what we term the corporeal domain, which is basically the perceptible, beginning with the visual.
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Celebrating the life and legacy of Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh one-year after he returned to mother earth.
With Sophie Strand • February 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2023 10–11:30am PST
A 4-Part, Live Webinar Series
With Deran Young • Tuesday, February 21, 2023 10–11:30am PST
A live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Paul Stamets
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Peter Russell
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira in conversation
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
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.
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Fritjof Capra
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
With Bruce Damer
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
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
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.
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
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.
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...
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.
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
With Thomas Hübl
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Caverly Morgan
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
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.
With Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
Will we choose life, or continued death?
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
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...
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
With John Prendergast
Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
By John Favini
Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology
By Olivia Goldhill
Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.
By Ben Brubaker
Theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations
By Matthew Rozsa
The idea that inanimate objects have consciousness gains steam in science communities
By Peter Dockrill
By Lisa Grossman
“Definitely these galaxies are a big deal, but it remains to be seen how exciting they will look in the context of a few months’ progress with JWST,” Carnall says. The best is yet to come.
By Mark Wolynn
A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.
By Ula Chrobak
While scientists can anticipate how climate change will affect larger regions, predicting the fate of a given 100-acre forest plot can be trickier.
By Ute Eberle
Cheese is not just a tasty snack — it’s an ecosystem. And the fungi and bacteria within that ecosystem play a big part in shaping the flavor and texture of the final product.
By Ben Turner
Famous Stephen Hawking Theory About Black Holes Confirmed
By Darren Incorvaia
The complex behaviors may have a shared evolutionary origin
By Tam Hunter
A new theory of consciousness rooted in vibration
By Alexander Beadle
New research with MDMA could lead to deeper therapeutic uses of the drug
By Ed Yong
Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.
By Betsey Crawford
"Vision is an art, and nature an old master painter teaching us how to see the underlying reality of things to be — before they actually are. "
By Stephen Johnson
Which determines traits like sexual orientation, intelligence and behavior: genes or environment?
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses—ancient beings who transformed the world—teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.
By Brad Stulberg
the challenge of choosing deep-focus work and connection over superficial distraction and stimulation
By Mauro Manassi and David Whitney
So how does our brain create this illusion of stability?
By JP O'Malley
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness
By Paul Ratner
An exploration of a groundbreaking assertion of a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
By Sophie Strand
An excerpt from the new book "The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine"
With Bayo Akomolafe, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, and Gabor Maté
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