With Sophie Strand
Advances in evolutionary science have revealed that biological novelty is created by horizontal fusions between species and between bodies.
With Laura Inserra
Exploring the deep sound medicine of Laura and the implications of living in a world of sound
An award-winning documentary: As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty and patterns where others could not. But his path was not to be inside academia, or even inside society. 38 min
A selected set of talks from the Talks on Trauma series, parts 1 & 2
By Joan Tollifson
Waking Up to the Wonder of Here and Now...
By Bayo Akomolafe
From "Democracy and Belonging Forum" – Why We Need a Politics of Exile in a Time of Troubling Stuckness
By J. Krishnamurti
...As you walk back by the little farmhouses, the meadows, and the railway line, you will see that yesterday has come to an end: life begins where thought ends...
By Wolfgang Smith
The first step towards an ontological comprehension of physics consists in the rediscovery of what we term the corporeal domain, which is basically the perceptible, beginning with the visual.
With Sophie Strand • February 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2023 10–11:30am PST
A 4-Part, Live Webinar Series
With Deran Young • Tuesday, February 21, 2023 10–11:30am PST
A live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
All of our ancestors and most of our relatives are immortal. We aren't. How come?
With Bayo Akomolafe
Modern dreams of death and dying are deeply "humanistic", tethered to a vision of the self as independent and removed from "nature".
With Jeffrey Long
Dr. Long has investigated thousands of near-death experiences (NDEs) with the results of his research published in the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.
With Stephen Jenkinson
Learning the skills of dying occurs in the course of living deeply and well.
With Joan Tollifson
Instead of denying aging, avoiding death, or fantasizing about some after-life for “me”, Joan points to fully embracing the total disintegration and loss of control that growing old and dying—and living and loving and being awake—actually entails.
With Unmani
Heart-break is painful. There is no way around that. The loss of a loved one is devastating. It breaks you down. It tears you apart. The life that you thought you were living is no more. The person you thought you were, has died with your loved one.
With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Our ability to meet each moment in life with awareness benefits us immensely at the time of death.
With Deepak Chopra
Deepak shares his reflections on Death and shows us how coming to terms with our own beliefs about it can liberate us.
With Jerrigrace Lyons
Imagine the opportunity to transform your own view of death, diminish your fears and re-frame your relationship to living and dying.
With Joanna Macy
In our world right now there are economic and political and surveillance systems that need help in dying.
With Peter Russell
We are living through the most exciting and most challenging times in human history, if not the history of planet.
With Alua Arthur
How does one choose to walk closely to the dying every day?
With Elisabet Sahtouris
Let’s start with Anaximander, who said everything forming in Nature incurs a debt which it must repay so that other things may form, which I see as the essence of evolution and a fascinating take on Dying to Live.
With Katie Mack
Modern cosmology — the study of the nature and evolution of the cosmos itself — has allowed physicists to explain the history of the Universe from the first tiny fraction of a second until today. But what’s next?
With Lama Rod Owens
Lama Rod Owens holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation.
With Charles Eisenstein
Life and death are not the opposites the modern mind has made them to be.
With Frank Ostaseski
Caring for people who are dying can be an intense, intimate, and deeply alive experience. It often challenges our most basic beliefs.
With Brenda Salgado
Brenda weaves traditional medicine, Buddhism, mindfulness, Toltec energy medicine and ancient calendar teachings to help others understand the times we are in as humanity.
With Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez
In the Sufi tradition, there is a saying, “Die before death.” For Sufis, this is an exhortation to befriend death and the process of letting go as a daily spiritual practice.
With Rupert Spira
In his meetings Rupert explores the perennial non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions.
By John Favini
Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology
By Brad Stulberg
the challenge of choosing deep-focus work and connection over superficial distraction and stimulation
By Ben Brubaker
Theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations
By Darren Incorvaia
The complex behaviors may have a shared evolutionary origin
By Margaret Atwood
from 'Eating Fire'
By Ethan Siegal
In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.
By Paul Ratner
An exploration of a groundbreaking assertion of a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
With James Fadiman and Ayelet Waldman
explore psychedelics and their therapeutic uses in two entertaining and informative talks from SAND 18 and 19
By Sophie Strand
An excerpt from the new book "The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine"
By Matthew Rozsa
The idea that inanimate objects have consciousness gains steam in science communities
The meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture and more on Sounds of SAND Episode 2
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses—ancient beings who transformed the world—teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.
By Betsey Crawford
"Vision is an art, and nature an old master painter teaching us how to see the underlying reality of things to be — before they actually are. "
I am a body plus. A body plus trauma, plus illness, plus pollen, plus spores, plus caretakers and friends and loved ones and wild kin.
By Peter Dockrill
By Vikram Zutshi
Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…
By Olivia Goldhill
Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.
By Ed Yong
Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.
By Ute Eberle
Cheese is not just a tasty snack — it’s an ecosystem. And the fungi and bacteria within that ecosystem play a big part in shaping the flavor and texture of the final product.
By Ula Chrobak
While scientists can anticipate how climate change will affect larger regions, predicting the fate of a given 100-acre forest plot can be trickier.
By David Nield
Even with its explanatory power, Big Bang theory takes its place in a long line of myths.
By Alexander Beadle
New research with MDMA could lead to deeper therapeutic uses of the drug
By Mark Wolynn
A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.
By Lisa Grossman
“Definitely these galaxies are a big deal, but it remains to be seen how exciting they will look in the context of a few months’ progress with JWST,” Carnall says. The best is yet to come.
By JP O'Malley
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness
By Mauro Manassi and David Whitney
So how does our brain create this illusion of stability?
By Tam Hunter
A new theory of consciousness rooted in vibration
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