With Chris Fields
Chris Fields suggests we abandon both the question "why this universe?" and the entire subsequent story about emergence
With Sam Harris and Iain McGilchrist
Sam Harris speaks with Iain McGilchrist about the differences between the right and left hemispheres.
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 Hafiz
A timeless treasure of unconditional love
By Maria Popova
Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world…
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 Yoko Ono
you are water; I'm water...
With Gabor Maté and Betsy Polatin • Saturday July 30, 2022 10–11:30am 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 Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Thomas Hübl
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
With Bruce Damer
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
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 Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With Rupert Spira
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
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 Paul Stamets
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
With Peter Russell
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
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 Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
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 Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
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 Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
Rupert Spira in conversation
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 Fritjof Capra
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
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.
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
With John Prendergast
Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
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 Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
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 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 A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Elisabet Sahtouris
Let’s start with Anaximander, who said everything forming in Nature incurs a debt which it must repay so that other things may form, which I see as the essence of evolution and a fascinating take on Dying to Live.
By Peter Dockrill
By Matthew Rozsa
The idea that inanimate objects have consciousness gains steam in science communities
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 Mauro Manassi and David Whitney
So how does our brain create this illusion of stability?
All of our ancestors and most of our relatives are immortal. We aren't. How come?
By David Nield
With Jeffrey Long
Dr. Long has investigated thousands of near-death experiences (NDEs) with the results of his research published in the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.
With V (formerly Eve Ensler)
By Ben Brubaker
Theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations
By JP O'Malley
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness
By Ben Turner
Famous Stephen Hawking Theory About Black Holes Confirmed
By Brad Stulberg
the challenge of choosing deep-focus work and connection over superficial distraction and stimulation
By Stephen Johnson
Which determines traits like sexual orientation, intelligence and behavior: genes or environment?
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.
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