Sep 30–Oct 3, 2021
Apr 30, 2021–May 2, 2022
With Brenda Salgado
Brenda weaves traditional medicine, Buddhism, mindfulness, Toltec energy medicine and ancient calendar teachings to help others understand the times we are in as humanity.
With Sam Harris and Iain McGilchrist
Sam Harris speaks with Iain McGilchrist about the differences between the right and left hemispheres.
It starts with Being Human—and moves on from there
A Sample for our Supporters
By Science and Nonduality
Why are we here? Where did it all come from?
By Judith Butler
Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality
By Rainer Maria Rilke
We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that
By Aldous Huxley
Knowledge vs. Understanding and the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With Caverly Morgan
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
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As the outdated patriarchal structures rise up in backlash to their inevitable downfall, the need for a more sustainable world paradigm couldn’t be greater
With Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira in conversation
With Bruce Damer
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Paul Stamets
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
With Peter Russell
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
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 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 Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
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
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
With Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
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.
Will we choose life, or continued death?
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
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
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
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.
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Thomas Hübl
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 Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
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 Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
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 Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
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 James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
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 Tim Ferriss
Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
She is the mystery of light being born into matter
By Bayo Akomolafe
the Anthropocene calls upon a radically new ontology
With Sabine Lichtenfels
Sabine answers Zaya's burning questions at Wisdom in Times of Crisis
With Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth
Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island
With Terry Real
Covid-19 is the first time in our lives that nature has turned against us on a planetary scale.
With Bayo Akomolafe
Bayo talks about youthfulness at the I of the Storm event.
With Pat McCabe
An Indigenous Context for Being a Human Being
Life and death are not the opposites the modern mind has made them to be.
With Merlin Sheldrake
Fungal networks, ecology, and us
By Joel Millward-Hopkins
Why do we allow the logic of the market to occupy our minds?
With Joanna Macy
In our world right now there are economic and political and surveillance systems that need help in dying.
Modern dreams of death and dying are deeply "humanistic", tethered to a vision of the self as independent and removed from "nature".
Goodall’s mystical experience occurred in the forest of Gombe
By Merlin Sheldrake
Fungi have long supported and enriched life on our planet. They must be protected as fiercely as animals and plants.
With Gordon Hempton
Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist whose life work is preserving the world’s silent places
With Vandana Shiva
From monoculture to diversity
Where to go when the highway no longer leads to interesting places?
By David Shariatmadari
If you read this book, you'll change the charities you donate to
With Orland Bishop
An Exploration of our Higher Shared Purpose
With Sará King and Daniel Siegel
Embrace a wider view of who we truly are
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