With Betsy Polatin
Experience your inherent support and understand why you lose it.
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
In episode 4 of our Podcast we explore the traditional Tibetan Buddhist beliefs of death and dying
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 Darren Incorvaia
The complex behaviors may have a shared evolutionary origin
By Dagmar Iris Holl
A red fox strides past the house of the man who waits for the fox
By Patricia June Vickers
“Through altered state of consciousness work, we’re able to retrieve the parts of ourselves that broke away from trauma.”
By John Favini
Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology
With Betsy Polatin • Saturdays October 1 & 8, 2022 10am–12pm PDT
A live online webinar series
With Bayo Akomolafe, Sophie Strand, Tyson Yunkaporta, and Vanessa Andreotti • October 19–22, 2022 8–10:30am PDT
The Wandering, Winding Way of the Woundor the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End
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 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 Paul Stamets
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 John Prendergast
Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.
With Thomas Hübl
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Bruce Damer
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
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 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 Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
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 Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Peter Russell
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
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 Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
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
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Rupert Spira
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
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 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 Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
Rupert Spira in conversation
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.
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
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 Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With Sia
By Mauro Manassi and David Whitney
So how does our brain create this illusion of stability?
By Paul Ratner
An exploration of a groundbreaking assertion of a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
By Vikram Zutshi
Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…
By Margaret Atwood
from 'Eating Fire'
By Olivia Goldhill
Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.
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 Alexander Beadle
New research with MDMA could lead to deeper therapeutic uses of the drug
By Matthew Rozsa
The idea that inanimate objects have consciousness gains steam in science communities
By Simon J Cropper, Duane W Hamacher, Daniel R Little, and Charles Kemp
While constellations and the stories attached to them have obvious artistic and spiritual significance, they also represent an elegant and effective solution to the problem of understanding complex physical environments.
By Ben Brubaker
Theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations
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 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.
With Fritzi Horstman, Gregory Nottage, Vandrick Towns, Zaya Benazzo, and Maurizio Benazzo
By Tam Hunter
A new theory of consciousness rooted in vibration
By Stephen Johnson
Which determines traits like sexual orientation, intelligence and behavior: genes or environment?
By Brad Stulberg
the challenge of choosing deep-focus work and connection over superficial distraction and stimulation
By Peter Dockrill
The initiation of Covid-19
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.
With Darcia Narvaez, Gordon Neufeld, Kate Silverton, Muffy Mendoza, and Gabor Maté
By Ben Turner
Famous Stephen Hawking Theory About Black Holes Confirmed
With Stephen Jenkinson
The meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture and more on Sounds of SAND Episode 2
By David Nield
By JP O'Malley
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness
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. "
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