SAND18 US — The Wound of Love

FREE

SAND18 US — Rest in Natural Great Peace

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.

18:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Spontaneous Creativity: Manifesting Your Positive Qualities

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Our Greater Yet to Be

With Deborah Johnson

What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Can a Computer become Conscious?

With Federico Faggin

How can there be intelligence without consciousness?

11:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Powerful Mantras

With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda

How can Knowledge take us to Silence?

26:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — What is a Healthy Mind?

With Daniel Siegel

Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…

38:00 – FREE

Interpersonal Neurobiology - SAND18 US

With Daniel Siegel

Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.

53:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Human as the Wormhole to the Mysteries of Existence

With A.H. Almaas

To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.

43:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Obstacle to Our Evolution: A conversation

With Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Ecological Initiation

With Charles Eisenstein

Will we choose life, or continued death?

21:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Challenge of Transhumanism

With Kabir Helminski

Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI

48:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Soul Tech

With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel

An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel

27:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Foundation of World Peace

With Rupert Spira

25:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Inventing a Self

With Chris Fields

How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Relative is the Absolute: Touching Race, Injustice, and Love

With Caverly Morgan

When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human

46:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Breaking the Cycle of Collective Trauma

With Thomas Hübl

How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds

43:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Mushrooms, Mycelium & The Mycology of Consciousness - Part II

With Paul Stamets

Discover the world of magic mushrooms

43:00 – FREE

What Do I Know? - SAND18 US

With Peter Russell

Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.

34:00 – FREE

Understanding the Creative Portal

With Isa Gucciardi

The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.

18:00 – FREE

Spontaneous Creativity

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...

28:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Are We Just Another Primate?

With Robert Sapolsky

Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?

1:07:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Enhancing Human Wellbeing through Nondual Awareness

With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti

The source of capacity to optimize our experience...

42:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Microdosing: A conversation with James Fadiman

With James Fadiman

James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The White Lions: Substantiating the Science and Sacred Science

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...

1:34:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Human Being in Spiritual Traditions

With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman

How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?

30:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Geometry of Consciousness

With James Tagg

This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Wild Mercy: The Wisdom of the Feminine

With Mirabai Starr

Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions

35:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Clear Teachings from the Tibetan Tradition

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams

9:00 – FREE

The Relative is the Absolute

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.

1:33:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Panel: Awakening to the Divine Feminine

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

34:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Being Human through the Engine of Creation

With Bruce Damer

21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being

34:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Mushrooms, Mycelium & The Mycology of Consciousness - Part I

With Paul Stamets

An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness

36:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Silence and Substratum

With Pamela Wilson

Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.

43:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Spirituality, Archetypes, and Trauma

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.

54:00 – FREE

The Rising Voice of the Feminine - SAND18 US

With Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US

1:07:00 – FREE

It's Not Enough to Discover What You Are Not - SAND18 US

With Rupert Spira

Rupert Spira in conversation

18:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Mystery of Free Will

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.

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Healing Collective Trauma

With Thomas Hübl

45:00 – FREE

Conscious Agent Dynamics - SAND18 US

With Chetan Prakash

We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world

24:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Buddha's Message: Have Some fun!

With Robert Thurman

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

1:32:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Appreciating the Human

With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky

There is no awakening without humans

44:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - The Centrality of the Heart in Being Human

With John Prendergast

Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.

31:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Trauma and the Unbound Body

With Judith Blackstone

Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process

24:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Science of Consciousness

With Stuart Hameroff

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

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Being Human is a Development, Not a Given

With Karen Johnson

What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?

1:02:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Ethics and Spiritual Teaching

With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer

What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?

42:00 – FREE

The World is a Network - SAND18 US

With Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US

56:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Healing Trauma and Spiritual Growth

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...

7:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - The Paradox of Awakening

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.

17:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Mind, Matter, and Life

With Fritjof Capra

Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Being Human in the Engine of Creation

With Bruce Damer

A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — You are the One you've Been Waiting for

With Jean Houston

Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…

54:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Living Nonduality in a Dualistic World

With Chuck Hillig

Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity

22:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Exploring Consciousness: Dreaming And Awakening

With Stephen LaBerge

Overview of lucid dreaming

21:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Is Nondual Awareness at War with our Humanity?

With Dorothy Hunt

Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”

24:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Psychic Abilities and Awakening

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.

1:34:00 – FREE

#20 Vibrating with Awe

With Laura Inserra

Exploring the deep sound medicine of Laura and the implications of living in a world of sound

White-Eyes

By Mary Oliver

thicken, and begin to fall into the world below like stars, or the feathers of some unimaginable bird

Mirabai

By Poet Seers

16th Century devotional poet who composed over 1,000 devotional bhajans expressing her love for Lord Krishna.

Untitled

By Dagmar Iris Holl

A red fox strides past the house of the man who waits for the fox

Just as the Winged Energy of Delight

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Take your well-disciplined strengths and stretch them between two opposing poles. Because inside human beings is where God learns.

Kendrick Lamar: Artist as Cultural Shaman

By Rebel Wisdom, David Fuller, and James O' Connell

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

By John Lewis

The Ethiopian nun who was one of history’s most distinctive pianists

Earth Verse

By Gary Snyder

Wide enough to keep you looking ... Open enough to keep you moving ...

The Bell and the Blackbird

By David Whyte

"Either way takes courage, either way wants you to be nothing but that self that is no self at all...”

Feast of Losses

By Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen

"This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief." –Mark Nepo

I played day and night

By Kabir and Rabindranath Tagore

I played day and night with my comrades, and now I am greatly afraid...

A Cure for Sadness

By Mirabai

Let your hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.

Taste the Sky: Love Made Visible Through Art & Poetry

By Rashani Réa and Chelan Harkin

Carrying the Songs

By Moya Cannon

"Those in power write the history, those who suffer write the songs" –Frank Harte

water talk

By Yoko Ono

you are water; I'm water...

Butterfly Against the Wind

By Jadina Lilien and Tiokasin Ghosthorse

"Consciously apply mystery to everything." —Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Wei wu wei

By Stillness Speaks

A look at the life and work of the playwright and Taoist philosopher

1:00:00 – FREE

#32 Breathing Bamboo

With Cornelius Boots

Zen flute, breath, consciousnes, and alchemy, with extended music pieces from Cornelius

1:00:00 – FREE

#2 Wisdom in Death and Dying

With Stephen Jenkinson

The meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture and more on Sounds of SAND Episode 2

Can We Use Quantum Computers to Make Music?

By Philip Ball

A review and deep dive into the future of music composition from a Quantum Music conference at the Goethe-Institut

Don't Make Lists

By Dorothy Walters

Every day a new flower rises from your body's fresh soil...

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

Haikai No Renga (Linked Verses)

By Basho

exploring the life and work of 17th-century Japanese haiku master

Caged Bird

By Maya Angelou

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams... his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream... his wings are clipped and his feet are tied... so he opens his throat to sing.

1979

By Wendell Berry

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

6:00 – FREE

Wiyathul

With Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter Gurrumul's music video 'Wiyathul', taken from the album 'Gurrumul'.

For What Binds Us

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;