With Laura van Winjgaarden
In this video made for the first "Gathering of the Tribes", Laura used Midjourney AI and Pixelmator to visualise key principles of activism, regeneration, and solarpunk ideologies
With Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host this Community Gathering with Dënesųłiné indigenous rights activist and climate activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger.
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 Joan Tollifson
May we all have compassion for every one of us being exactly as we are in each moment
By Jane Hirshfield
And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud;
By Richard Turilli
The measure of resistance in electrical engineering is called the Ohm. Although this Ohm has no known relation to the common Eastern chants with the same sound, it was no doubt a coincidence
By Sophie Strand
An excerpt from the new book "The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine"
With Gabor Maté • Saturday, December 17, 2022 10–11:30m PST
A live online community conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
With Sophie Strand • Wednesday, December 28, 2022 10–11:30am PST
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 Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
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 Bruce Damer
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
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 Rupert Spira
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
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 Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Thomas Hübl
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
With Fritjof Capra
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
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 Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
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...
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 Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience 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...
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
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 Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
With Paul Stamets
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
With Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
Rupert Spira in conversation
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
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
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
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 Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
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.
By Shakti Caterina Maggi
Compassion is the ability, by Awareness, to recognize and acknowledge only itself everywhere.
With Alua Arthur
How does one choose to walk closely to the dying every day?
With Jazmin Garcia and Marcus Correa
“Butterfly brought color to the world. Frog teaches you that if you put others before yourself you will reap the rewards.”
With Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie Strand
an organic and wild conversation between two poets, writers, philosophers and theobiologians
With Joanna Macy
In our world right now there are economic and political and surveillance systems that need help in dying.
By Nina Lombardo
Our interconnectedness is undeniable. There is a singular pulse that weaves us all together. When we lose touch with that pulse, we suffer.
By Patricia June Vickers
“Through altered state of consciousness work, we’re able to retrieve the parts of ourselves that broke away from trauma.”
Life and death are not the opposites the modern mind has made them to be.
With Bayo Akomolafe, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, and Gabor Maté
With Isira
Wisdom keeper and spiritual master Isira invites us to look into the causes behind the critical challenges we face
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 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.
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 Michael Meade
the dark stages of dissolution that precede the transformation of butterflies
With Ashira Prem Rachana
SAND guest speaker with a taste of Sufi Whirling
With Jesse Thistle, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Ruby Gibson, Patricia June Vickers, and Gabor Maté
Intergenerational trauma: the impact of colonization and genocide Indigenous wisdom and the healing of trauma Resistance and healing
With Gordon Hempton
Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist whose life work is preserving the world’s silent places
Living Myth Podcast #270 with Michael Meade
An Open Online Event with Thomas Hübl
With Terry Real
Covid-19 is the first time in our lives that nature has turned against us on a planetary scale.
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.
With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo
Zaya and Maurizio talk about their film projects and the need to spiritually connect people around the world on Prague TV
By Charles Eisenstein
peak oil, carbon footprint, renewables, hydro, nuclear, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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 ...
two excerpts from the online SAND event with Thomas
By Douglas Balmain
A Unified Perspective of the War in Ukraine
With Orland Bishop
An Exploration of our Higher Shared Purpose
By J. Krishnamurti
Transcript of a talk by Krishnamurti from 1984
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