With Francis Weller
An examination of sorrow and grief
With Tyson Yunkaporta
From a Community Conversation with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo
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 Francis Weller
Francis' Forword to "Choosing Earth: Humanity's Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization" by Duane Elgin
By Kate Fehlhaber
Most of us carry a mother's voice in the neural patterns of our brain.
By Hazrat Inayat Khan
A prayer by the Sufi mystic and musician
By Bayo Akomolafe
"The crises streaming through the post-Hiroshima world of ticking clocks, purring machines, and universal declarations are transversal guests..."
With Uncle Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon • October 21, 2023 3–4:30pm PDT
A live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
With Sophie Strand • October 29, 2023 10–11:30am PDT
The Intelligence of the Interstitial: Extended Embodiment and the Ecological Self
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
James Fadiman takes questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Rupert Spira
With Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
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…
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
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 Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
With Paul Stamets
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
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 Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Peter Russell
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Caverly Morgan
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
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 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 Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
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 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 Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
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 Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Bruce Damer
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
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 Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
With Thomas Hübl
With Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
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 John Prendergast
Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
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 A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
Will we choose life, or continued death?
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
By Sophie Strand
Queer Ecology seeks to disrupt heteronormative projections onto nature... It is ubiquitous from flowers to insects to fungi.
By Joel Achenbach and Victoria Jaggard
In a major discovery, the very fabric of the cosmos is constantly being roiled and rumpled all around us
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.
With Monica Gagliano
Listening to/with/as the whole planet is listening and sining, a conversation with world renoun bioacoustic researcher
By SAND
Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
By Maria Popova
A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
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 Ethan Siegal
In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.
With James Fadiman and Ayelet Waldman
explore psychedelics and their therapeutic uses in two entertaining and informative talks from SAND 18 and 19
By Sandra Procópio da Silva
We are going through a pandemic ... I have witnessed another epidemic unfolding before my eyes: the overwhelming increase in cancer cases.
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
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