Apr 30–May 2, 2021
May 24, 2020–May 31, 2021
Oct 21, 2020–Oct 25, 2021
Jun 6–11, 2021
With Sally Kempton
A series of tantric practices
With Sam Harris and Iain McGilchrist
Sam Harris speaks with Iain McGilchrist about the differences between the right and left hemispheres.
It starts with Being Human—and moves on from there
A Sample for our Supporters
She was a Sufi mystic who lived in the eighth century
By Rabia al Basri
In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel.
By Eric Baret
What is dark is the so-called spiritual quest.
By Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.
With Richard Strozzi-Heckler • Sunday, May 23, 10–11:30am PDT
A Live Online Community Gathering 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 Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
With Bruce Damer
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
With Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
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 Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
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.
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 Caverly Morgan
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
With Paul Stamets
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
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 Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
With Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira in conversation
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 Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
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 Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
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 Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
With Thomas Hübl
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With John Prendergast
Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.
Will we choose life, or continued death?
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
With Zhenevere Sophia Dao
In a passionate presentation in praise of emotion, Zhen Dao offers a reframe of the traditional dichotomy…
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
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
By Michael Brooks
Jeremy England says spiritual ideas can inform our scientific quest for the origin of life.
By John Favini
Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology
With Tina Lindhard
Tina looks at the developing embryo through the eyes of Dr Jaap van der Wal
By Andrew Dansby
Book Review: The brain is the next frontier
By University of Surrey
Electromagnetic energy in the brain enables brain matter to create our consciousness
By Deb Dana
A Three-Part Exercise to Create Safety and Trust
With Joel Salinas
What science and my unusual brain are teaching us about the convergence of reality, love, and the senses
With Jack Allocca
What altered states of consciousness can tell us about consciousness itself
With David Eagleman
If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a fraction of the brain's function, what is all the rest doing?
Can we rejig our space-time interface?
By Jeremy England
The origin of life can’t be explained by first principles.
By Tristan Greene
The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
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