Jun 25, 2023
With PBS
First Native American composer to win Pulitzer Prize on his experimental process
With Orland Bishop
We live in a time characterized by convergences of many kinds, giving our civilization a threshold of significant climaxes and challenges.
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 Poet Seers
16th Century devotional poet who composed over 1,000 devotional bhajans expressing her love for Lord Krishna.
By Emanuele Coccia
We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis. The caterpillar and the butterfly share nothing in common, and yet they are one and the same life.
By Ethan Siegel
The very word "quantum" makes people's imaginations run wild. But chances are you've fallen for at least one of these myths.
By John Lewis
The Ethiopian nun who was one of history’s most distinctive pianists
With Atarangi Murupaenga • Saturdays, June 3&10, 2023, 12–2:30pm PDT
A 2-Part Live Webinar Series
With Bayo Akomolafe and Chief Oluwo Obafemi Fayemi • Wednesday, June 21, 2023 9–10:45am PDT
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 Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With Bruce Damer
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With Fritjof Capra
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
With Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
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 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 Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira in conversation
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 Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
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 Thomas Hübl
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
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...
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
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 Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Paul Stamets
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
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 A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
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 James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
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 Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
With John Prendergast
Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
By Elizabeth Ferdandez
Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.
With Merlin Sheldrake
In this talk Maurizio and Merlin discuss Merlin’s book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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 Darren Incorvaia
The complex behaviors may have a shared evolutionary origin
By Paul J. Mills
This groundbreaking book is an invitation to the public, to citizen scientists, and to professional scientists to reject the materialistic worldview of modern science
By Sophie Strand
I am a body plus. A body plus trauma, plus illness, plus pollen, plus spores, plus caretakers and friends and loved ones and wild kin.
With Neil Theise
“We are not walking though the world; we are interwoven with it. In everything we do we participate in complexity"
By Victor Tangermann
We can rewind to a previous scene or skip several scenes ahead
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave
By John Favini
Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology
With Shantena Augusto Sabbadini
The connections between Quantum Physics, Daoism, and Nonduality in this interview with the Italian physicist
By JP O'Malley
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness
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.
With Chris Fields, Susana Martinez-Conde, and Donald Hoffman
Perception may be defined not only as how we experience the world through our senses, but also how we interpret those experiences to create meaning and provide a practically useful model of reality.
With Monica Gagliano
Listening to/with/as the whole planet is listening and sining, a conversation with world renoun bioacoustic researcher
Even with its explanatory power, Big Bang theory takes its place in a long line of myths.
An excerpt from the new book "The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine"
With James Fadiman and Ayelet Waldman
explore psychedelics and their therapeutic uses in two entertaining and informative talks from SAND 18 and 19
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