SAND18 US — The Mystery of Life

The Mother Mantra, the Ancient Shamanic Yoga of Nonduality

By Selene Calloni Williams

Tradition and secret practices of mystical marriage and reawakening

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...

A Life of Zen: Ikkyū, the Crazy Cloud

By Surendra

Please, please don’t worry. How many times do I have to say it?

A Humbling Path

By Jeff Foster

You will be humbled. Oh yes. Brought to your knees. Many, many times.

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?

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...

The Pathless Path

By Stephen Bodian & Jean Klein

Stephen Bodian interviews Jean Klein

44:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Centrality of the Heart in Being Human

With John Prendergast

How being fully human requires both the awakening of the deep Heart that is shared by all beings as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.

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.

Parā

By Christian de Vietri

I praise the Supreme Goddess Parā, the Illuminative Insight Intelligence Force of Consciousness

Quantum Physics as a Spiritual Path

By Paul Levy

The universe is dreaming us up and we are all dreaming our lives into being.

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

By Maria Syldona

Kashmir Shaivism encompasses a vast territory of wisdom and knowledge about the universe and a human…

The Spirituality of Science

By Lynn K. Russell

Quantum particles, the foundation of the universe, are like naughty children playing catch me if you can with scientists in a game with no rules.

The Impossible Predicament of Being Alive

By Robyn Lynn

The impossible predicament of being alive, the great wound that will not heal.

Science Pointing to Nonduality

By Mark Gober

Most of my life was spent as a materialist. I regarded physical matter as the basis of reality. From matter emerged biological organisms such as humans, which developed brains, and out of the brain emerged consciousness.

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.

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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.

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.

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

What the World Really Needs

By Shakti Caterina Maggi

What seems to be your inner reality and what is apparently happening out there in the world is actually one thing.

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

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?

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.

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.

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 Pilgrimage of “Who Am I?”

A short conversation with Brazilian author Paolo Coelho

Love Language: The Inter-Spiritual Heart of the Mystics

By Mirabai Starr

For decades I was conditioned to believe that to engage a mature spiritual life I needed to “pick one tradition and go deep,”

Alone to All One

By Philip Marvin

The delicate dance between loneliness, solitude and communion

Spirituality and Heavy Metal? Oh Yes!

By Chris Grosso

Look deeper. Look deeper at your mala, your skateboard, your yoga mat. Look deeper at your records,…

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.

The Practice of Gestation

By Beverly Lanzetta

The contemplative spirituality of via feminina begins with the practice of gestation.

Sex, Zen, and Poetry:
The Life of Ikkyu Sojun

By Chris Kincaid

Ikkyu Sojun decided to be true to himself and that meant regular trips to brothels

Sadness Without an Object

By Eric Baret

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

How Does an Awakened Person Perceive the World?

By David Loy

Obviously, that’s an important question for nondualists including Advaitins and Buddhists.

The Path of Reality

By Nathalie Delay

The path of reality is not a path, for it is an exploration of life in all that it is...