The Self-Organizing Universe ~ Neil Theise

Do Quantum Phenomena Require Conscious Observers?

By Shawn Radcliffe

Quantum mechanics is known for its strangeness, from cats being dead and alive at the same time, to…

Infective Heredity: You Are Not Who You Think You Are

By Shawn Radcliffe

According to Charles Darwin, you are the product of your biological mother and father, just as they were the product of their biological mother and father, and so on back to the earliest days of humans and to all the species that came before.

The Neurobiology of Love

By Shawn Radcliffe

For anyone who has watched a friend fall in love, Nietzsche’s words from Thus Spoke Zarathustra might…

The Hardest Problem: Decoding the puzzle of human consciousness

By Susan Blackmore

Might we humans be the only species on this planet to be truly conscious?

Robert Lanza: Consciousness Is the Key to Understanding Reality

By Shawn Radcliffe

In order to understand the true nature of reality, science must first recognize the importance of consciousness, says Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem-cell biologist whose work has earned him high acclaim.

The Gentle Art of Blessing

By Pierre Pradervand

On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth;…

Raising a New Generation of Super-Children

By Peta Morton

In a leafy, seemingly conventional corner of suburban Essex in southeast England ordinary children are learning in the most extraordinary of ways.

A New Theory of Consciousness: The Mind Exists as a Field Connected to the Brain

By Tara MacIsaac

Between quantum physics and neuroscience, a theory emerges of a mental field we each have, existing in another dimension and behaving in some ways like a black hole.

The Science of Consciousness: Stuart Hameroff

Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…

The Polyvagal Theory and the Role of the Unconscious

By Shawn Radcliffe

The way you react to the world and to the people around you is driven much more than you realize by unconscious aspects of your brain and body.

Can You Boost Your Intelligence By Thinking Like an Algorithm?

By Shawn Radcliffe

Intelligence is big business. Browse any bookstore or smartphone app store and you’ll find hundreds…

Buddha's Message: Have Some fun! Bob Thurman

Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…

Inclusion of Consciousness May Solve 100-year-old Physics Problem

By Ben Werner

Quantum physics tells us that the state of a subatomic particle can only be known when the state of the particle is measured

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SAND16 - Is the World Fundamentally Information?

With Anthony Aguirre

Binaural Beats

By Alexandra Sheren

These days people have lost their connection with many powerful elements of energy and nature, sound being one of them—as a means of healing and brain entertainment.

Scientists Map the Wood Wide Web

By Shawn Radcliffe

Underneath the ground exists a vast “social network” that connects trees and other plants to each other.

The Secret Language of Trees

By Shawn Radcliffe

by Shawn Radcliffe If you look at a forest through a Darwinian lens, you’ll see individual trees battling…

Quantum Biology: Photosynthesis - An Interview with Chris Fields

By Science and Nonduality

Q:  How do quantum phenomena take part in photosynthesis and why is it important?

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SAND16 - Interlude

With JP Sears

Consciousness Expanded by Psilocybin

By Science and Nonduality

Psychedelic drugs alter consciousness in a profound and novel way that increases the breadth and fluency of cognition. However, until recently, scientists were unable to offer an explanation for how the brain was altered to account for these effects.

Your Reality Is Shaped By Your Subconscious

By Shawn Radcliffe

Even before the birth of modern neuroscience, Sigmund Freud theorized that what we call objective reality is actually shaped in part by our subconscious. And he was able to do this simply by observing the behavior of people from the outside.

A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul: Stephen Jenkinson

In a wide-ranging and moving talk, spiritual activist and author Stephen Jenkinson advocates for dying…

Nondual Evolution

By Jose Diez Faixat

During recent decades, the apparently solid view of the mechanistic and materialistic world has started to show alarming cracks.

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SAND18 US — Interlude with Maya Luna

With Maya Luna

Through the Lens of Perception

By Shawn Radcliffe

In recent years scientists have been exploring the effects that stress and emotions have on our cells — in particular, on our chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA.

Sex Chromosomes Aren’t the Whole Story

By Shawn Radcliffe

For almost 100 years, children have been taught in school that the anatomical sex of a baby is determined by the X and Y chromosomes, also known as the sex chromosomes — XY is male and XX is female.

The Flow of Time in a Timeless Universe

By Shawn Radcliffe

If you were to stand outside the universe—outside both space and time—and look at your life, you would see your birth, your death and every moment in between laid out as distinct points.

The Heritability Challenge to Evolution and Materialism

By Ted Christopher

An Opening for Religious Perspectives With enormous certainty science has presented its material-only…

The Hydra: What the Brainless Can Teach Us About the Brain

By Shawn Radcliffe

Stefan Siebert and Charles David Scientists have long described brains as being made up of neurons that…

The Neurobiology of Love

By Shawn Radcliffe

For anyone who has watched a friend fall in love, Nietzsche’s words from Thus Spoke Zarathustra might…

Knowing the Unseen Cosmic Organism

By Paul Mulliner

image: paul mulliner 10_6_18 In recent years, many attempts have been made to explain how the large…

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.

Oxytocin Enhances Spirituality: The Biology of Awe

By Science and Nonduality

Oxytocin has been dubbed the “love hormone” for its role promoting social bonding, altruism and more.…

Consciousness isn't a Mystery—Matter is.

By Galen Strawson

It is precisely science that makes the key point shine most brightly: the point that there is a fundamental respect in which ultimate intrinsic nature of the stuff of the universe is unknown to us — except insofar as it is consciousness.

Where Does Pain Exist in the Mind?

By Shawn Radcliffe

We live in a reality generated by our brain. From the euphoria of falling in love to the beauty of a newly blossomed flower, what we experience with our senses is a representation of the world, not the world itself.

Trees have a Regular "Heartbeat"

By Shawn Radcliffe

New research now suggests that trees may have a “heartbeat” that pumps water from their roots.

Can the Effects of Trauma Pass Down Generations?

By Shawn Radcliffe

New research shows that the physical effects of trauma can be passed down to children and even to grandchildren

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

By Mark Wolynn

A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.

In the Realm of the Boundless, What is Compassion? Neil Theise

In a talk that ranges from evolutionary biology to modern physics, and draws from Eastern and Western…

What Can We Learn from Our Own Technology

By Tom Bunzel

Our own deeply held beliefs and definitions of technology are impeding us from evolving consciously…

The Mind of Plants: Thinking the Unthinkable

By Monica Gagliano

Across all species, individuals thrive in complex ecological systems, which they rarely have complete knowledge of.

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SAND18 - The Ecological Initiation

With Charles Eisenstein

Math Has its Own Brain Region

By Josh Hrala

How did great mathematicians like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein make the leap from understanding basic mathematical concepts to answering fundamental questions about the Universe?

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SAND18 - The Mystery of Meaningful Action: An Equation for Synchronicity

With Sky Nelson-Isaacs

Through the Lens of Perception

By Shawn Radcliffe

In recent years scientists have been exploring the effects that stress and emotions have on our cells — in particular, on our chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA.

Illusions and the Mind’s Reality

By Science and Nonduality

When it comes to the world around us, what we perceive is not always what is actually there.

The Two Selves Within Us

By Science and Nonduality and Rajeev Kurupati

By Rajeev Kurupati The 13th century Persian mystic, Rumi, expresses a distinction between the two selves…

Deleting the App, The New Ritual of Commitment: Esther Perel

Speaking at the 2018 Radiant Intimacy gathering, Esther Perel outlines the remarkable transformation…

Can Gut Bacteria Control Your Mood?

By Shawn Radcliffe

You are never truly alone. Everywhere you go, you carry trillions of microbes inside your gut. These…

Epigenetics: What Are We Really Handing Down to Our Children?

By Science and Nonduality

With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don’t deal with, pass on to my kids?

How the Brain Continually Changes and Reorganizes Itself

By Gary Weber

Brain map Until the 1970s, it was strongly believed in the emerging neuroscientific community that there…

Homeostasis, Feelings, and the Rise of Culture

By Shawn Radcliffe

When people talk about the evolution and development of all that makes humans “unique,” one thing that often gets overlooked is our feelings.