Sep 30–Oct 3, 2021
Apr 30, 2021–May 2, 2022
With Brenda Salgado
Brenda weaves traditional medicine, Buddhism, mindfulness, Toltec energy medicine and ancient calendar teachings to help others understand the times we are in as humanity.
With Sam Harris and Iain McGilchrist
Sam Harris speaks with Iain McGilchrist about the differences between the right and left hemispheres.
It starts with Being Human—and moves on from there
A Sample for our Supporters
By Science and Nonduality
Why are we here? Where did it all come from?
By Judith Butler
Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality
By Rainer Maria Rilke
We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that
By Aldous Huxley
Knowledge vs. Understanding and the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
James Fadiman takes questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira in conversation
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Paul Stamets
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
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 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 A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Thomas Hübl
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
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
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 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.
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
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 Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With Bruce Damer
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
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 Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
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 Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
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.
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
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.
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
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 Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
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 A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
By Università di Bologna
Does the human brain resemble the Universe?
The initiation of Covid-19
By Ephrat Livni
Philosophers and mystics have long contemplated the disconcerting notion that the fixed self is an illusion.
By Jeremy England
The origin of life can’t be explained by first principles.
By Andreas Kluth
A new type of experiment could get us closer to grasping human consciousness.
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