Apr 30, 2023
With David Eagleman
How the perception of time and what is considered "now" unfolds in the brain
With Richard Rohr
East meets west with two talks on Mystic Christianity
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 Master Hongzhi
Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.
By Jadina Lilien and Tiokasin Ghosthorse
"Consciously apply mystery to everything." —Tiokasin Ghosthorse
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
With Miriam Dror • Sundays April 16, 23, 30, & May 7, 2023 10–11:30am PDT
A 4-part live webinar series
With Lyla June • Saturday, April 22, 2023 9–10:30am PDT
A live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
James Fadiman takes questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Caverly Morgan
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
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.
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
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 Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
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?
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
With Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
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
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With Thomas Hübl
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
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 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 Paul Stamets
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
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 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 Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
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.
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
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.”
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
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 Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira in conversation
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
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.
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 Ute Eberle
Cheese is not just a tasty snack — it’s an ecosystem. And the fungi and bacteria within that ecosystem play a big part in shaping the flavor and texture of the final product.
By Ben Turner
Famous Stephen Hawking Theory About Black Holes Confirmed
By Vikram Zutshi
Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…
By Elizabeth Ferdandez
Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.
By Shawn Radcliffe
For many people, psychedelic drugs are intimately connected to the 1960s American counterculture, with…
By Paul Ratner
An exploration of a groundbreaking assertion of a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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 Sophie Strand
An excerpt from the new book "The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine"
By Olivia Goldhill
Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.
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 JP O'Malley
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness
By Darren Incorvaia
The complex behaviors may have a shared evolutionary origin
By Peter Dockrill
By David Nield
By Brad Stulberg
the challenge of choosing deep-focus work and connection over superficial distraction and stimulation
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. "
By Tam Hunter
A new theory of consciousness rooted in vibration
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 Mauro Manassi and David Whitney
So how does our brain create this illusion of stability?
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