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Is Reality Real? How Evolution Blinds us to the Truth About the World

By Donald Hoffman

We assume our senses see reality as it is—but that could be just an evolved illusion obscuring the true workings of quantum theory and consciousness

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

By Mark Wolynn

A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.

New Theory Says We Are All Multiple Personalities of a Cosmic Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

From the comfortable seat of our bodies (and built-in brains), it’s easy to think that consciousness…

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part III

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

Why adept meditators would be invaluable to studies

Consciousness Expanded by Psilocybin

By Science and Nonduality

Psychedelic drugs alter consciousness in a profound and novel way that increases the breadth and fluency of cognition. However, until recently, scientists were unable to offer an explanation for how the brain was altered to account for these effects.

Consciousness isn't a Mystery—Matter is.

By Galen Strawson

It is precisely science that makes the key point shine most brightly: the point that there is a fundamental respect in which ultimate intrinsic nature of the stuff of the universe is unknown to us — except insofar as it is consciousness.

Illusions and the Mind’s Reality

By Science and Nonduality

When it comes to the world around us, what we perceive is not always what is actually there.

Nondual Evolution

By Jose Diez Faixat

During recent decades, the apparently solid view of the mechanistic and materialistic world has started to show alarming cracks.

28:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Are We Just Another Primate?

With Robert Sapolsky

Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?

The Gentle Art of Blessing

By Pierre Pradervand

On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth;…

An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature

By Emerging Technology from the arXiv

Evidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology.

This Sacred Game Has Been Rigged Against Us

By Scott Kiloby

The word “spirituality” has caused a lot of suffering over the centuries. Moral self-righteousness is often tagging along side that word.

How Science and Nonduality Helped My Recovery from Brain Injury

By Tom Bunzel

Robert Lanza: Consciousness Is the Key to Understanding Reality

By Shawn Radcliffe

In order to understand the true nature of reality, science must first recognize the importance of consciousness, says Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem-cell biologist whose work has earned him high acclaim.

The Neurobiology of Love

By Shawn Radcliffe

For anyone who has watched a friend fall in love, Nietzsche’s words from Thus Spoke Zarathustra might…

1:34:00 – FREE

A Neurosurgeon Talks of Vulnerability

With Gabor Maté and James Doty

Gabor Maté interviews James Doty on his book: "Into the Magic Shop" a conversation on trauma, healing, magic, and compassion.

Math Has its Own Brain Region

By Josh Hrala

How did great mathematicians like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein make the leap from understanding basic mathematical concepts to answering fundamental questions about the Universe?

34:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Mushrooms, Mycelium & The Mycology of Consciousness - Part I

With Paul Stamets

An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness

Integrating the Shadow in Awakening

By Amoda Maa

The striving for spiritual attainment while excluding the personal dimension of life, is often a big error on the path of spiritual inquiry.

The Hardest Problem: Decoding the puzzle of human consciousness

By Susan Blackmore

Might we humans be the only species on this planet to be truly conscious?

Events In a Far Galaxy Modify Your DNA

By Stephen Battersby

Billions of years ago, an iron nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into space at close to the…

Multiple Realities Can Happily Co-Exist, Suggests Study

By Shawn Radcliffe

Two realities can exist at the same time, at least in the quantum world, suggests a new study.

We are not our brain: How to break the spell of the neurosciences

By Riccardo Manzotti

What are we? A soul? An immaterial mind? A flow of energy? Are we our bodies or neural patterns in our brains?

The Flow of Time in a Timeless Universe

By Shawn Radcliffe

If you were to stand outside the universe—outside both space and time—and look at your life, you would see your birth, your death and every moment in between laid out as distinct points.

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

By Kevin Hartnett

Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.

If music breathes new life into old blood...play on!

By John Stuart Reid

Testing a 2,500-year old hypothesis

The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you

By Steven Parton

Sometimes in life, all the experience and knowledge simmering around in that ol’ consciousness of ours...

Near-Death Experiences are Real: A Rebuttal

By Lynn K. Russell

Just as artists are driven to create, scientists need to prove that something is as it seems. Their mantra is, don’t tell me, show me through repeated tests that arrive at the same results every time.

47:00 – $0.99

SAND18 - Being Human in the Engine of Creation

With Bruce Damer

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part II

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

It would be useful to add adept perceivers to the studies.

How Can Wholeness Be In Crisis? Inquiring into the Human Predicament

By Terry Patten

The most radical understanding of reality points first to radical wholeness, to the prior unity of all opposites and conditional experiences.