Jun 8–11, 2021
Apr 30, 2021–May 2, 2022
With Ellen Emmet
As individuals and as a culture, we have deeply disconnected from the realm of the body
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 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
By J. Krishnamurti
Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things
With Peter Russell • July 18, 25 & Aug 1, 8 2021 10–11:00am PDT
A 4-part Live Webinar Series
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 Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Unveil the obstacles that block creativity and host them in a way...
With Deborah Johnson
What if we put into every day practice the scientific truths that we know?
With A.H. Almaas
To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.
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.
Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...
With Deepak Chopra, Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic, Paul Mills, and Tiffany Barsotti
The source of capacity to optimize our experience...
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 Peter Russell
Peter Russell in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US.
With Pamela Wilson
Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.
With Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US
With Rupert Spira
With James Tagg
This talk explains current research into the structures within the brain
With Maya Luna
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
With James Fadiman
James Fadiman fieds questions at SAND18 US
With Isa Gucciardi
The mystery and power of the creative process can perhaps be best understood through the lens of the birthing process.
With Karen Johnson
What does it take to recognize our true human qualities and express them in the world?
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.
Rupert Spira in conversation
With Thomas Hübl
With Dorothy Hunt
Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”
With Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr in conversation with the audience at SAND18 US
With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel
An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel
With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky
There is no awakening without humans
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 Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…
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 Chuck Hillig
Can you live "IN" the Dream world with absolute integrity and authenticity
When we know ourselves as this whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human
With Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…
Cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system
With Robert Thurman
Bob Thurman delights the audience at SAND 2018 with his lighthearted approach to the wisdom and the…
With Bruce Damer
A four-billion-year-old cycling evolutionary engine of creation lifted us improbable and beautiful human beings into existence.
With Jean Houston
Philosopher, scholar and longtime observer of culture and behavior the world over, Jean Houston shares…
With Zhenevere Sophia Dao
In a passionate presentation in praise of emotion, Zhen Dao offers a reframe of the traditional dichotomy…
With Paul Stamets
An "immersion" lecture into the world of psylocibin, mycelium and evolution of consciousness
With Judith Blackstone
Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process
Dzogchen, the bardo, sleep and the yoga of dreams
With A.H. Almaas and Robert Thurman
How do the different spiritual traditions view being human?
21st-Century science is on the verge of recreating the processes that may have brought life into being
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.
Women mystics and wisdom beings across the spiritual traditions
With Federico Faggin
How can there be intelligence without consciousness?
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 Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
With Chris Fields
How the experienced self is put together out of memories and feelings.
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 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 Robert Sapolsky
Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
Discover the world of magic mushrooms
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 Stephen LaBerge
Overview of lucid dreaming
With Chetan Prakash
We explore the idea that perceptual experiences do not approximate properties of an “objective” world
Daniel Siegel answers questions from the audience at SAND18 US.
Will we choose life, or continued death?
How we can uncover the traumas embedded in our social body and work together to heal these wounds
With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer
What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?
With Kabir Helminski
Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI
When we cling to continuity, there is the fear of death.
By Eric Baret
Love, as it is usually understood, is an absence of friendship.
By William Waters
Just an old man who has benefited from the teachings of many
With Michael Meade
Michael Meade speaks so beautifully about the role of "descent" in any spiritual journey.
By Christian de Vietri
She is the primordial Word, the very essence of the highest reality,
By Fred Bahnson
Among the contemplatives
With Richard Rohr
The similarities, the differences, and the complementarities between the Eastern and Western understandings of transformation.
Yoga does not bring understanding, but understanding may bring you to yoga.
By Dan McKenzie
Let me count the ways...
By Matt Licata
There’s a fantasy that we’re supposed to know what to do with our lives.
With Annette Kaiser
Love is the highest and most precious "asset" of human existence.
All dictators are thinking people.
With Éric Baret
Eric discusses the current pandemic and our overreaction to it...
By NPR
A gunman barricaded himself inside a one-room Amish schoolhouse
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