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 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..."
By NPR
An interview between Patty Krawec and NPR's Rachel Martin
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 Gabor Maté and Betsy Polatin • Nov. 30–Dec. 3, 2023 9am–12pm PST
A 4-day Online Retreat
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
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 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 A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
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 A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With Fritjof Capra
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
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As the outdated patriarchal structures rise up in backlash to their inevitable downfall, the need for a more sustainable world paradigm couldn’t be greater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 Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Paul Stamets
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Rupert Spira
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
With Bruce Damer
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
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.
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Thomas Hübl
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
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 Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
With Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
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.
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
With John Prendergast
Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.
Rupert Spira in conversation
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 Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
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 Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
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.
By Patricia June Vickers
“Through altered state of consciousness work, we’re able to retrieve the parts of ourselves that broke away from trauma.”
With Lyla June
Indigenous sciences, embedded and discussed through indigenous languages, have suffered great destruction.
With Pat McCabe
At this time we are collective examining our human generated systems, worldview, purpose, or our paradigm. What if paradigm was a choice?
Exploring ways in which indigenous food systems of the past and present teach us how to relate to our inner and outer world
With Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie Strand
an organic and wild conversation between two poets, writers, philosophers and theobiologians
With Lynn Murphy and Alnoor Ladha
Explore their new book Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse
With Vandana Shiva
Dr. Shiva on quantum physicist, ecologist, and activism, climate collapse, the dangers of our lives being controlled by Silicon Valley, and the pandemic
From "Democracy and Belonging Forum" – Why We Need a Politics of Exile in a Time of Troubling Stuckness
The fugitive's work is not to get from point A to point B: it is to get from point A to point A.
With Bayo Akomolafe and Chief Oluwo Obafemi Fayemi
“They thought they buried me; They did not know I am a seed”
With Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host this Community Gathering with Dënesųłiné indigenous rights activist and climate activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger.
By Tyson Yunkaporta and Rosie Spinks
We’ve been told such a horrendously wrong story about what our past is as human beings.
By Dr. Rodney King
The Sacred Call to Eco-Activism
By Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr
Inner Deep Listening and Quiet Still Awareness
With Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Alnoor Ladha
An sprawling conversation in relation to deep time, land, and indigenous trauma and science
By Nick Gottlieb
‘The End of This World’ reveals where the climate justice movement needs to go and how we get there
By NDN Collective
Kanaka (Native Hawaiian) community in Hawaii and Maui grapple with new wave of colonialism and outside interests on the heels of devastating wildfires resulting from poor land stewardship by U.S. government, extractivism, and tourism.
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Celebrating the life and legacy of Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh one-year after he returned to mother earth.
With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo
Zaya and Maurizio sit down to talk about the next film
With Jesse Thistle, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Ruby Gibson, Patricia June Vickers, and Gabor Maté
Intergenerational trauma: the impact of colonization and genocide Indigenous wisdom and the healing of trauma Resistance and healing
With Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe
exploring the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End
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