Apr 30–May 2, 2021
May 24, 2020–May 31, 2021
Oct 21, 2020–Oct 25, 2021
Jun 6–11, 2021
With Deborah Johnson
Everyone wants to get to Heaven but no one wants to die.
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
She was a Sufi mystic who lived in the eighth century
By Rabia al Basri
In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel.
By Eric Baret
What is dark is the so-called spiritual quest.
By Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.
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
Nadeshwari invites the SAND 18 audience to hold the space as she describes and sings two Indian mantras, including Shiva's answer to Shakti's question from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, How can knowledge take us to silence?
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With Fritjof Capra
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
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 Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
With Peter Russell
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
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 James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions 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 Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
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 Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira in conversation
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Charles Eisenstein
Will we choose life, or continued death?
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 Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
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 Thomas Hübl
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
With Bruce Damer
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
With Zhenevere Sophia Dao
In a passionate presentation in praise of emotion, Zhen Dao offers a reframe of the traditional dichotomy…
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization 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.
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 Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
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 Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
With Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Paul Stamets
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute, we ignore the reality of the illusion.
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
With Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
By Lalla
I wearied myself searching for the friend with efforts beyond my strength
By Fred LaMotte
Dearest one, do not look for silence with the mind.
With Michael Meade
The challenges we face and the changes underway signal a genuine transformation of the world
By Bernardo Kastrup
The emptiness of existence finds its expression in the flitting present as the only manner of real existence.
With Craig Holliday
The Necessity of Shadow Work on the Path
By Judith Blackstone
The Healing Ground is the psychological aspect of the Realization Process.
With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Combining Jewish texts, neuroscience, and Jungian psychology
By Michael Meade
All meaningful change requires a genuine surrender.
By James Parker
I know, I know: It’s good for you.
First priority is to stop being at war with yourself.
By Stephen Mitchell (translator)
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born.
To watch a show with the Hridaya, the open mind, the open heart, can bring us closer to truth than yoga
With Neil Theise
Everything is not a thing
Michael Meade speaks so beautifully about the role of "descent" in any spiritual journey.
Separation and no separation are concepts in the mind
With Orland Bishop
Orland Bishop has a conversation with a small group at SAND19 US.
By Joan Tollifson
what happens after death is a flat earth question
Brain and body are two very sweet concepts
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