SAND18 US — The Mystery of Life

1:18:00 – $0.99

SAND18 - Conversation

With Paul Stamets

Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept

By Michael Taft

Many traditions and mystics talk about nondualism. But what is nondualism, and how have people—from different religions in different parts of the word—described this concept over time?

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From Lust to Love: A Research Perspective: Justin Garcia

Speaking at the 2018 Radiant Intimacy gathering, Justin Garcia, evolutionary biologist at the Kinsey…

Sadness Without an Object

By Eric Baret

Sadness is one of the deepest emotions and it must be kept without an object.

What is Tantra?

By Éric Baret

For me it is irrelevant, but let’s say for the Kashmirian tradition, as far as my teacher expressed…

The Living Edge of Surrender & Why You Don’t Need to Amputate your Ego to Find Enlightenment

By Lori Ann Lothian

Entering into that territory where the practices that have sustained us no longer can guide us in the terrain we are in.

The Dalai Lama and the Atlas of Emotions

By Georgi Johnson

Emotions are tricky entities. They confuse the mind and disturb perception, isolating an individual in a private sense of reality. So what to do with them?

The Foundation of World Peace

By Rupert Spira

I have to confess that I was a little taken aback at breakfast this morning when Ellen and I sat down, and Zaya and Maurizio came to sit down with us.

27:00 – FREE

The Reality of Surrender

With Aisha Salem

Aisha Salem talks of being willing to let go of our limitations, of keeping ourselves small, and of living our individuality

20:00 – $0.99

SAND18 - Mind, Matter, and Life: A Unified Systemic View

With Fritjof Capra

Sojourns in the Parallel World

By Denise Levertov

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations...

The Foundation of World Peace

By Rupert Spira

I have to confess that I was a little taken aback at breakfast this morning when Ellen and I sat down, and Zaya and Maurizio came to sit down with us.

The Path of no Path

By Peter Russell and Peter Russell

Spiritual teachers with non-dual leanings say that there is no path to enlightenment. There is nowhere to get to; you are already enlightened, you just do not know it.

Is Your Shaman Sketchy? Sham Shamans

By Kristen Eykel

Shamanism is, by its very nature, a little on the dark side.

The Goddess of Never Not Broken

By Julie JC Peters

You know that feeling when you have just gone through a breakup, or lost your job, and everything is terrible and terrifying and you don’t know what to do...

Why I Quit Ayahuasca Shamanism After 11 Years and 1,000 Ceremonies

By Tina “Kat” Courtney

I’m alive because of Ayahuasca. I am connected, soulful, expanded, and spilling over with self-love, mostly because of the blessing of attending around 1,000 sacred plant ceremonies.

Everything is Self

By Nick Roach

Many great masters have said “Everything is Self,” and this phrase is repeated regularly during spiritual…

The Yoga of Saundarya: Touching Reality Through the Experience of Beauty

By Gioia Lussana

The aesthetic experience (rasa), which the Kashmiri masters describe as a real training for the yogic…

The Ego Cannot Love

By Eric Baret

Love, we can’t talk about because it is what is. It isn’t an objective experience, it’s what is here at every moment, except when I pretend to love or when I want to be loved.

Maha Ati

By H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions, and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into...

Truth Will Set You Free: Time Does Not Exist

By Hans Meijer

When we ask ourselves why we think time exists, most of us would say: because we see everything changing, always.

The Sayings of Old Man Tcheng

By Science and Nonduality

French paraphrase of the original Buddhist text by J. Garillot (1974), translated by Else van den Muyzenberg.…

brain-heart

By David Storoy

According to Ervin Laszlo, the coherence of the atom and the galaxies is the same coherence that keeps living cells together, cooperating to form life.

Tantra and the West

By Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Tantra in the Western imagination stands for exotic and orgasmic rituals coming from India and Tibet that blend sex and meditation.

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A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul: Stephen Jenkinson

In a wide-ranging and moving talk, spiritual activist and author Stephen Jenkinson advocates for dying…

Lovemaking and Altered States of Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

People have tried many ways to alter their consciousness — meditation, psychedelic mushrooms, LSD, rituals…

Consciousness

By Mauro Bergonzi

The primacy of consciousness

Book Review: The Fellowship of the River, by Joseph Tafur

By Science and Nonduality

As far as I know, this is a first: a book about ayahuasca and plant medicine and shamanism...

When Is Sex a Spiritual Practice?

By Deborah Anapol

Recognizing that our bodies and our sexuality are sacred is a good way to begin undoing the split between sex and spirit...

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part III)

By Maria Syldona

As the process of manifestation (involution of Ultimate Reality into becoming the physical Universe) begins, the tattvas (principles, states of consciousness) that logically appear first are those of what is called the Pure Creation and pure knowledge.

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SAND18 US — Rest in Natural Great Peace

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.

Let the Moon Be Free – Conversations on Kashmiri Tantra

By Eric Baret

Shaped and sustained by the nondual tradition of Kashmir Shivaism, Eric Baret’s words take us back to the simple observation of our felt sense of emotion and, ultimately, to pure listening.

27:00 – FREE

The Reality of Surrender

With Aisha Salem

Aisha Salem talks of being willing to let go of our limitations, of keeping ourselves small, and of living our individuality

Waking from the Meme Dream

By Susan Blackmore

Wake up! Wake up! Errrr, ummmm, grrrrggr, Oh yes, I’m awake now. Wow, that was a weird dream.

On Grace and Polemics

By Chris Castle

I am a seeker who feels he has arrived, in that, these days, I both intellectually and feeling-wise, experience a oneness that is a great joy and comfort - completely unknowing, absolutely wondrous, constantly available, not really what I expected

The Nature of Experience

By Rupert Spira

There is one fundamental presumption upon which our world culture is founded. This basic presumption states that experience is divided into two essential elements – a subject and an object – joined together by an act of knowing, feeling or perceiving.

If Everything is Consciousness, is Everything Conscious?

By Rick Archer

At this year's conference I'll be moderating a discussion between Bernardo Kastrup and physicist Christopher…

33:00 – FREE

Christianity and Unknowing

With Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr, as a Catholic priest and Franciscan Friar, will offer a concise history of how Western Christianity once had, soon lost, tried to retrieve, and now is roundly rediscovering its own traditional understanding of unitive consciousness

We Can Still Be Crazy

By Pema Chödrön

We may think meditation will improve us, but it’s really about accepting ourselves as we are right now.

Tandava the Cosmic Dance

By Daniel Odier

Tandava means totality. It means the path is absolutely non-dual, because we integrate everything and we don't refuse any aspect of the human being

If Thoughts and Feelings Could Speak

By Dhyana Stanley

I remember the moment the teaching to “see” rather than ignore thoughts and feelings became real for…

Sound and The Subtle

By Silvia Nakkach

Transforming Consciousness and Emotions through Mantra and Raga Yoga Western culture is notorious for…

Exhausting the Mind

By Jean Klein

Question: When we say that we must come to the end of the mind, that we must exhaust the mind, is it a necessary process, something which must happen, or is it possible to have an insight without the mind being exhausted?

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SAND18 US — Soul Tech

With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel

An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel

53:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Human as the Wormhole to the Mysteries of Existence

With A. H. Almaas

To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.

5:00 – FREE

You're that!

With Alan Watts

In this universe there is one great energy and we have no name for it

21:00 – $0.99

SAND18 - Deconstructing the Worship of the Mind

With Jenny Simon

Nonduality and Mindfulness — Two Great Traditions that Go Great Together

By Michael Taft

In the context of American spiritual practice nondual traditions and mindfulness traditions appear to be in sharp contrast.

21:00 – $0.99

SAND18 - Artificial Emotional Intelligence

With Sean Webb