Apr 30–May 2, 2021
May 24, 2020–May 31, 2021
Oct 21, 2020–Oct 25, 2021
Jun 6–11, 2021
With Sally Kempton
A series of tantric practices
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
She was a Sufi mystic who lived in the eighth century
By Rabia al Basri
In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel.
By Eric Baret
What is dark is the so-called spiritual quest.
By Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.
With Richard Strozzi-Heckler • Sunday, May 23, 10–11:30am PDT
A Live Online Community Gathering Facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
Geshe Tenzin leads the audience on a meditation experience to unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way that they dissolve and make space for a space of love and clarity.
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 Bruce Damer
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
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 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 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 Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With Zhenevere Sophia Dao
In a passionate presentation in praise of emotion, Zhen Dao offers a reframe of the traditional dichotomy…
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions 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 Rupert Spira
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
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
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
With Thomas Hübl
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
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 Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Paul Stamets
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
With Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
Rupert Spira in conversation
Will we choose life, or continued death?
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
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 Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
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 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.
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
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
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
While the personal level is an important foundation, the next level is to bring our practice to the interpersonal realm
With Craig Holliday
The Necessity of Shadow Work on the Path
By Mariette Raina
Lalla, Lal Ded in Hindi, Lal Arifa for Muslims, or Lalleshwari in Sanskrit...
By Christian de Vietri
She is the primordial Word, the very essence of the highest reality,
By William Waters
Just an old man who has benefited from the teachings of many
Practicing in the middle of a very charged emotional situation
Love, as it is usually understood, is an absence of friendship.
By Pir Aga Mir
This is the time for gnosis. There is no guru and no disciple.
Yoga does not bring understanding, but understanding may bring you to yoga.
All dictators are thinking people.
By Fred Bahnson
Among the contemplatives
By NPR
A gunman barricaded himself inside a one-room Amish schoolhouse
The world is not aggressive
With Billy Doyle
We are consciousness, and awareness, and yet we identify with an object in awareness
By David Whyte
‘Pilgrim’ might be the word that most accurately describes us
With Neil Theise
Everything is not a thing
By Kris Vieira
A cathedral community envisions vibrant spirituality for the 21st century
By Zvi Ish-Shalom
In Kabbalah, the primary way that hidden truths are revealed is through disrobing
By Amoda Maa
An excerpt from her latest book
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