Apr 30, 2021–May 2, 2022
May 24, 2020–May 31, 2021
Oct 21, 2020–Oct 25, 2021
With Fred LaMotte
Let us explore poetry as guided meditation
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 Thomas Nail
Consciousness may be an emergent property from a bunch of background chatter.
By Lao Tzu
By Matt Licata
There’s a fantasy that we’re supposed to know what to do with our lives.
By Laura Johnson
In these times of layered and intersecting personal and collective traumas...
With Richard Strozzi-Heckler • Sunday, May 23, 10–11:30am PDT
A Live Online Community Gathering 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 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 Caverly Morgan
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Thomas Hübl
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With Zhenevere Sophia Dao
In a passionate presentation in praise of emotion, Zhen Dao offers a reframe of the traditional dichotomy…
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
With Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
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 Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
With Rupert Spira
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 Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
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 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 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.
Will we choose life, or continued death?
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
With Bruce Damer
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
With Mirabai Starr
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
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 Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
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 Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
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 Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
How can Knowledge take us to Silence?
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
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 Paul Stamets
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
Rupert Spira in conversation
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Sará King
Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) is a radically interdisciplinary and groundbreaking field
Oftentimes, the culprit of our inability to genuinely relate in our heart is our adherence to the dualistic paradigm of “otherness.”
With Vandana Shiva
My PhD thesis was on non separability and non locality in Quantum theory.
With Tim Ferriss
Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America
With Orland Bishop
An Exploration of our Higher Shared Purpose
With Pat McCabe
An Indigenous Context for Being a Human Being
By Merlin Sheldrake
Fungi have long supported and enriched life on our planet. They must be protected as fiercely as animals and plants.
By Bayo Akomolafe
the Anthropocene calls upon a radically new ontology
With Bayo Akomolafe
What if the ways we think about the climate crisis is the crisis?
By Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered.
Where to go when the highway no longer leads to interesting places?
With Cynthia Jurs
What can we do to bring healing and protection to the Earth?
There is a special area of the Matrix reserved for people who think they have exited the Matrix.
With Gordon Hempton
Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist whose life work is preserving the world’s silent places
With Merlin Sheldrake
Fungal networks, ecology, and us
By Zvi Ish-Shalom
COVID-19 and the Narcissistic Plague of America
With Daniel Schmachtenberger
Daniel shares how we can avoid a civilization collapse.
In the coming decades, the pace of life will be much faster than it is today
Bayo talks about youthfulness at the I of the Storm event.
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
She is the mystery of light being born into matter
With Brian Swimme
One of the fundamental spiritual, social, and ecological challenges of our time is learning how to live into what we know.
With Keith Salmon
Many embrace perspectives and belief systems that are in discord with Nature’s rhythms.
With Sabine Lichtenfels
Sabine answers Zaya's burning questions at Wisdom in Times of Crisis
From monoculture to diversity
Goodall’s mystical experience occurred in the forest of Gombe
This talk is about what Bayo calls "ontofugitivity": how things go astray
With Sará King and Daniel Siegel
Embrace a wider view of who we truly are
By Kaitlin Shetler
and with that sentence the world stops
With Terry Real
Covid-19 is the first time in our lives that nature has turned against us on a planetary scale.
By Kelly Wendorf
What would you do if you suddenly realized you were a racist?
By David Shariatmadari
If you read this book, you'll change the charities you donate to
By Joel Millward-Hopkins
Why do we allow the logic of the market to occupy our minds?
With Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth
Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island
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