With Chris Fields
Chris Fields suggests we abandon both the question "why this universe?" and the entire subsequent story about emergence
With Sam Harris and Iain McGilchrist
Sam Harris speaks with Iain McGilchrist about the differences between the right and left hemispheres.
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 Hafiz
A timeless treasure of unconditional love
By Maria Popova
Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world…
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses—ancient beings who transformed the world—teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.
By Yoko Ono
you are water; I'm water...
With Gabor Maté and Betsy Polatin • Saturday July 30, 2022 10–11:30am PDT
A live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Fritjof Capra
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira in conversation
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With Thomas Hübl
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
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 A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
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 Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
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 James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
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 Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
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, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
With Peter Russell
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
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 A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
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
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 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.
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
With Paul Stamets
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Bruce Damer
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
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 Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
67 people from all over the world to take a DNA test. It turns out they have much more in common with other nationalities than they thought ...
With Terry Real
Covid-19 is the first time in our lives that nature has turned against us on a planetary scale.
With Gordon Hempton
Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist whose life work is preserving the world’s silent places
By Thich Nhat Hanh
To celebrate Earth Day we would like to offer you the following mediation, which is a is a love letter to the Earth, written by Thay.
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
In a time of growing ecological and humanitarian crises, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee bears witness to the darkness of the dying myth we are stranded in.
With Alua Arthur
How does one choose to walk closely to the dying every day?
By Michael Meade
Living Myth Podcast #270 with Michael Meade
With Joanna Macy
In our world right now there are economic and political and surveillance systems that need help in dying.
two excerpts from the online SAND event with Thomas
With Orland Bishop
An Exploration of our Higher Shared Purpose
the dark stages of dissolution that precede the transformation of butterflies
With Isira
Wisdom keeper and spiritual master Isira invites us to look into the causes behind the critical challenges we face
With Bayo Akomolafe, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, and Gabor Maté
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.
An Open Online Event with Thomas Hübl
With Bayo Akomolafe
Modern dreams of death and dying are deeply "humanistic", tethered to a vision of the self as independent and removed from "nature".
By J. Krishnamurti
Transcript of a talk by Krishnamurti from 1984
By Douglas Balmain
A Unified Perspective of the War in Ukraine
Life and death are not the opposites the modern mind has made them to be.
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