From a Beatle to a mystic seeker
With Gail Brenner
Finding presence in stillness, silence, and community.
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 Mirabai
Let your hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.
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 Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen
"This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief." –Mark Nepo
By Christina Feldman
The process of dependent origination is sometimes said to be the heart or the essence of all Buddhist teaching. What is described in the process is the way in which suffering can arise in our lives, and the way in which it can end.
With Peter Russell • Saturdays March 11–April 1, 2023 10–11:15am PST/PDT
A 4-part live webinar series
With Miriam Dror • Sundays April 16, 23, 30, & May 7, 2023 10–11:30am PDT
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
Rupert Spira in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
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 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 Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
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 Fritjof Capra
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With Paul Stamets
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
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 Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
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 A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Thomas Hübl
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 Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
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 Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
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 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 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 Bruce Damer
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Rupert Spira
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
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.
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
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?
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
With Mona Haydar
In this live SAND Conference talk Mona offers some beautiful sacred wisdom from her Islamic tradition with that special Science and Nonduality flavor weaving her talk through the ancient and the modern, the light and dark in this talk.
With Stephen Jenkinson
The meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture and more on Sounds of SAND Episode 2
With Ellen Emmet
Touching into listening, embodiment, the shadow, and devotion with teacher and author Ellen Emmet
With A.H. Almaas and Thomas Hübl
A dialog between two modern spiritual teachers on the nature and wonder of the heart
We look back at a selection of talks of Peter's from SAND conferences and host a discussion about his history with science and spirituality
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