In this episode, we discuss the life and work of musician and Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan with composer/pianist and Inayat Khan scholar Michael Harrison. Hazrat Inayat Khan (Urdu: عنایت خان رحمت خان) (5 July 1882 – 5 February 1927) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the saraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West. At the urging of his students, and on the basis of his ancestral Sufi tradition and four-fold training and auth...
Jan 19, 2023•57 min
In this moving and powerful conversation with Pat McCabe hosted by SAND friend and presenter Lynn Murphy from SAND’s Wisdom in Times of Crisis series. At this time we are collective examining our human generated systems, worldview, purpose, or our paradigm. What if paradigm was a choice? Indigenous peoples the world over share the same planet, the same water, soil, sky, sun, moon, but how they place themselves relative to these elements is entirely different from how modern world interprets thei...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 5 min
An excerpt from the four day webinar The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound with Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie Strand exploring the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End. You can enroll in the Course here: https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/webinar/wandering-winding-way Also coming up a Community Gathering with Sophie Strand is happening next week at SAND. We Must Risk New Shapes with Sophie Strand Wednesday, December 28, 2022 10–11:30am ...
Dec 21, 2022•50 min
In this entertaining talk from SAND18, James Fadiman , "America's wisest and most respected authority on psychedelics and their use," describes the citizen science of his recent investigations into the effects of microdosing, and shares some fascinating stories from the hundreds he has gathered in his ongoing research. jamesfadiman.com Ayelet Waldman is the author of several novels, and A Really Good Day, a book that documents a month microdosing LSD as a radical solution to a life of suicidal d...
Dec 14, 2022•53 min
Science and Nonduality co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host this Community Gathering with Dënesųłiné indigenous rights activist and climate activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger. This talk touches into such topics as intergenerational trauma, decolonizing spirituality, climte crisis, ransom economy, and our collective joy and pain. Some links from the episode: Resmaa Menakem | Embodied Anti-Racist Education Native Land.ca Indigenous Climate Action Eriel Tchekwie Deranger is a Dënesųłiné mother ...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 2 min
In this conversation from the “Talks on Trauma” series Gabor investigates the paths of personal Trauma woven into the Buddhist and personal psychology fields for which Jack and Tara are so well known. Find out more about this series “Talks on Trauma” as part of the “All Access Pass” from the film The Wisdom of Trauma: https://thewisdomoftrauma.com/store/ Tara Brach is an American psychologist, author, and proponent of Buddhist meditation. She is a guiding teacher and founder of the Insight Medit...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota and has a long history with Indigenous activism and advocacy. Tiokasin is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of “First Voices Radio” (formerly “First Voices Indigenous Radio”) for the last 28 years in New York City and Seattle/Olympia, Washington. In 2016, he received a Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize from the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. Other recent recognitions inc...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 17 min
In episode #11 IONE is in conversation with Sounds of SAND Producer Michael Reiley McDermott IONE is a noted author, playwright/director and poet whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family Four Generations of American Women of Color , Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream!. Other works include; The Night Train to Aswan and Nile Night: Remembered Texts from the Deep and S pell Breaking; Remembered Ways of Being , and Anthology of Women’s Mysterie s. Links IONE - ionedr...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Join Lynn Murphy and Alnoor Ladha in conversation with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo about their new book, Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse , as they explore the history of wealth accumulation to the current logic of late-stage capitalism — and ultimately to the lived possibilities of other ways of knowing, sensing and being that can usher in life-centric models. This ontological shift into new possibilities is at the heart of their work. Creating new-ancient-emer...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 7 min
In this live SAND Conference talk she offers some beautiful sacred wisdom from her Islamic tradition with that special Science and Nonduality flavor weaving her talk through the ancient and the modern, the light and dark in this talk. In this talk she leads the live audience in some breathwork, chanting, and singing, so we invite you to tone along wherever you’re listening. She touches into: Heart consciousness Sacred Rhythmic Vibrations Resonance Becoming Beauty And experiencing the infinite An...
Nov 02, 2022•28 min
In this episode we look back on a decade of talks by Peter with a conversation hosted by Sounds of SAND producer Michael Reiley McDermott. We touch into such concepts as Peter's history and origins in meditation The Beatles and Love The Global Brain Letting go of Nothing Climate Collapse And what's next Peter Russell Originally studying mathematics and theoretical physics, became increasingly interested in the nature of consciousness, and in the late sixties traveled to India, to study meditatio...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr
In this talk from the Talks on Trauma series from the Wisdom of Trauma All Access Pass Course . Dr. Gabor Maté hosts this expert panel of Indigenous teachers. Intergenerational trauma: the impact of colonization and genocide Indigenous wisdom and the healing of trauma Resistance and healing With Jesse Thistle, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Ruby Gibson, Patricia Vickers & Gabor Maté Bios Patricia Vickers , Ph.D., is currently an independent consultant. She is deeply committed to founding mental health...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Today, we present wild and flowering conversation between two poets, writers, philosophers, and theobiologians Bayo Akomalofe and Sophie Strand . This conversation is from a 2022 SAND Community Gathering. To hear the full conversation with Q&A from the live webinar you can view it here . In Greek Mythology, the Titan Kronos eats an indigestible stone and vomits up the new Olympic pantheon of gods. In our current time, people planted in stratigraphic layers of shared trauma find themselves un...
Oct 12, 2022•57 min
From SAND 18 with Peter Levine, the father of trauma therapy work, and Thomas Huebl, a spiritual teacher known for his work integrating healing of collective trauma, discussing the relationship between healing trauma and spiritual growth. One theme that repeats throughout the discussion is that we are all connected through the traumatization of the world and that the healing of trauma is a way of returning to the wholeness and fullness of living. This talk was hosted by SAND co-founder Zaya Bena...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr
Today on the podcast a profound yet light and sometimes funny conversation with Tibetan meditation master and teacher Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche . This conversation is from SAND's Dying and Living online summit. In the conversation, Tenzin and SAND's founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo delve into such topics as Fear of Death in our Western Culture Death as a teacher of being in control The Bön and Vajrayana schools of Buddhism The concept of detachment and not-self The Bardo in death, but also...
Sep 28, 2022•59 min
In this magnificent talk from the SAND 2018 Radiant Intimacy gathering,Esther Perel offers fresh insights into Expectations Negotiations Intimacy Motherhood Turn-ons and turn-offs The coming and going of love and eroticism. She concludes with answers to a series of questions from the audience, which confirm her reputation as one of the most brilliant and original authorities in the natural history of relationships. So we hope you enjoy this foray into an important and ever-evolving topic we expl...
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Sounds of SAND presents an in-depth and provocative conversation from Science and Nonduality’s “Death and Dying” online summit. A long-time friend of SAND Stephen Jenkinson offers a frank dialog with SAND co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. This conversation took place during the first months of COVID which you’ll hear Stephen talk about as “the plague” they also touch upon: the meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture the idea of death as a god the differences between death cultu...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr
In a rare meeting of minds, Gabor Mate asks Adyashanti explore whether there is a predilection for spirituality and expand on passages from Adyashanti’s recent book My Secret Is Silence . Discussion topics in this episode: The influence of trauma on the spiritual path The need for specialists help Spiritual bypassing The power of silence The relationship between spiritual insight and emotional growth In a rare meeting of minds, Dr. Gabor Maté asks Adyashanti explore whether there is a predilecti...
Sep 06, 2022•1 hr 10 min
