Jun 25, 2023
With PBS
First Native American composer to win Pulitzer Prize on his experimental process
With Orland Bishop
We live in a time characterized by convergences of many kinds, giving our civilization a threshold of significant climaxes and challenges.
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 Poet Seers
16th Century devotional poet who composed over 1,000 devotional bhajans expressing her love for Lord Krishna.
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.
By Ethan Siegel
The very word "quantum" makes people's imaginations run wild. But chances are you've fallen for at least one of these myths.
By John Lewis
The Ethiopian nun who was one of history’s most distinctive pianists
With Atarangi Murupaenga • Saturdays, June 3&10, 2023, 12–2:30pm PDT
A 2-Part Live Webinar Series
With Bayo Akomolafe and Chief Oluwo Obafemi Fayemi • Wednesday, June 21, 2023 9–10:45am PDT
A live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Fritjof Capra
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Bruce Damer
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
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 Thomas Hübl
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
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 Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Peter Russell
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
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 Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
With Paul Stamets
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
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 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 A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
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 Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With Rupert Spira
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
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 Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
Rupert Spira in conversation
With Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
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.
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions 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 Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
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.
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
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 Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Nixiwaka Yawanawa
“Nature is the source of life.”
With sherenproject
Shipibo Curandero Explains the Sacred Ancestral Practice
By Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr
Inner Deep Listening and Quiet Still Awareness
With Gabor Maté and Thomas Hübl
Gabor Maté prompts Thomas Hübl to talk about his understanding that trauma is not just an individual but a collective experience.
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
By Shakti Caterina Maggi
Compassion is the ability, by Awareness, to recognize and acknowledge only itself everywhere.
By Charles Eisenstein
peak oil, carbon footprint, renewables, hydro, nuclear, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
With Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie Strand
an organic and wild conversation between two poets, writers, philosophers and theobiologians
By Nick Gottlieb
‘The End of This World’ reveals where the climate justice movement needs to go and how we get there
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Celebrating the life and legacy of Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh one-year after he returned to mother earth.
With Lynn Murphy and Alnoor Ladha
Explore their new book Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse
By Bayo Akomolafe
From "Democracy and Belonging Forum" – Why We Need a Politics of Exile in a Time of Troubling Stuckness
By Nina Lombardo
Our interconnectedness is undeniable. There is a singular pulse that weaves us all together. When we lose touch with that pulse, we suffer.
With Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host this Community Gathering with Dënesųłiné indigenous rights activist and climate activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger.
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
With Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe
exploring the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End
By Tyson Yunkaporta and Rosie Spinks
We’ve been told such a horrendously wrong story about what our past is as human beings.
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?
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 Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Alnoor Ladha
An sprawling conversation in relation to deep time, land, and indigenous trauma and science
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