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Sounds of SAND
Sounds of SAND invites listeners into a contemplative journey through the infinite cycles of existence - from its raw beauty to its deepest mysteries, from its intricate complexity to its profound wonder. Through intimate conversations, thought-provoking interviews, poetic readings, and carefully curated music, we weave together ancient wisdom with lived experience, creating a tapestry of sound that honors the great questions of being
Episodes
Sounds of SAND#74 Engaged and Aspirational Bodhicitta: Lama Tsomo
Lama Tsomo is a spiritual teacher, author, and co-founder of Namchak Foundation and Namchak Retreat Ranch, which preserves and shares Tibetan Buddhist practice…
Sounds of SAND#73 Bloodlines: Sulaiman Khatib, meital yaniv & Rae Abileah
From a SAND Community Gathering in January 2024. You can watch the full video of this Community Gathering here: scienceandnonduality.com/event/bloodlines/ As…
Sounds of SAND#72 Ancestral Song: Vuyi Qubeka
Vuyi Qubeka is a seer, artist, multidimensional storyteller, & a transformative healing practitioner whose work is anchored by the wisdoms of indigenous…
Sounds of SAND#71 Beyond Algorithms: Edward Frenkel
Join us for a conversation with Edward Frenkel, mathematician, Berkeley professor and author of the international bestseller Love and Math, as we explore the…
Sounds of SAND#70 Jungian Black Holes: Timothy Owen Desmond
Without form, without figure, without resemblance am I; Vitality of all senses, in everything I am; Neither attached, nor released am I; I am Consciousness, I…
Sounds of SAND#69 Rethinking Attachment Towards Relational Wholeness: Linda Thai
While Attachment Theory has offered many valuable insights, its foundations reflect certain limiting assumptions. Originally formulated based on white, Western…
Sounds of SAND#68 Listening Heart: Katie Gray
"If we knew how important it is to listen, to listen to our hearts, to listen to our loved ones, to birds, to animals… it’s the ability to listen that…
Sounds of SAND#67 The Dreaming Path: Uncle Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon
Join SAND co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo in conversation with Aboriginal elders and authors Uncle Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon for a colorful…
Sounds of SAND#66 Silent Light
Welcome to the Sounds of SAND podcast and our final episode of the year. Today we present an Anthology episode culling poetry, song, talks and conversations…
Sounds of SAND#65 Emptiness & Grief: Francis Weller
A live recording from a recent SAND Community Gathers (Sept. 2023) hosted by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo (co-founders of SAND). Along with their guest, Francis…
Sounds of SAND#64 AI & the Global Brain: Peter Russell
Peter Russell is on the faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a fellow of The World Business Academy and The Findhorn Foundation, and an Honorary Member…
Sounds of SAND#63 Ancestral Constellations: Efu Nyaki
SAND co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo join Euphrasia “Efu” Nyaki for a community conversation on holistic healing from trauma. Efu has developed a method…
Sounds of SAND#62 The Dreamer’s Dream – Éric Baret
Without either diploma or culture, Éric Baret has no special competence. Touched by the non-dual tradition through Jean Klein's teaching, he suggests that one…
Sounds of SAND#61 Roots Run Deep: Gabor Maté
No statement, no words can speak to the immense human suffering, the devastation and the horrendous humanitarian crisis intensifying in the Middle East. The…
Sounds of SAND#59 Attuned: Thomas Hübl
In this live SAND Community Gathering SAND co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo discuss Thomas’ new book Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our…
Sounds of SAND#57 The Alchemy of Love: Cynthia Bourgeault and A.H. Almaas
Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host this captivating conversation into divine and personal love with two modern-day mystics, held dear by SAND. Love, a powerful…
Sounds of SAND#56 Wounded Healers: Angel Acosta
Dr. Angel Acosta works to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice & mindfulness. He completed his Ed.D. in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at…
Sounds of SAND#55 Cerebrospinal Fluid: Mauro Zappaterra
Mauro Zappaterra obtained his MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School. He completed his PhD doing work with neuronal stem cells and the effects of the…
Sounds of SAND#54 Nordic Animism: Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is a Historian of Religion, Ph.d from Uppsala University in Sweden. His research into Afro-diasporic strategies for maintaining animist…
Sounds of SAND#53 Lines in the Sand: Tyson Yunkaporta
Recorded live at a Science and Nonduality Community Conversation hosted by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo on July 12, 2023. Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts…
Sounds of SAND#52 Embodied Awakening: Judith Blackstone
Judith Blackstone, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and innovative teacher in contemporary spirituality. She developed the Realization Process®, an embodied…
Sounds of SAND#51 After The Wisdom of Trauma: Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo
Today on the podcast, we welcome two special guests, Science and Nonduality co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. Zaya and Maurizio are both filmmakers and…
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#50 Reflections: Sounds of SAND's First Year
We wanted to create this episode highlighting some shimmering jewels from the first 50 episodes of the podcast. We know that getting into a podcast can be…
Sounds of SAND#49 Resonance of Being: Mauro Bergonzi
Mauro Bergonzi taught ‘Indian Religion and Philosophy’ from 1985 to 2017 at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. About twenty years ago - after 25 years of…
Sounds of SAND#48 Ancestral Healing: Daniel Foor
Dr. Daniel Foor is a ritualist and educator focused on helping others to reclaim their innate capacity to relate with their ancestors and with the greater web…
Sounds of SAND#47 What Shines: Parvathy Baul
Parvathy Baul is a practitioner, performer and teacher of the Baul tradition from Bengal, India. She studied closely with two of the most respected Baul Gurus…
Sounds of SAND#46 Remembering to Remember: Marlon Barrios Solano
Marlon Barrios Solano is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary artist and researcher specializing in software engineering, generative AI, dance…
Sounds of SAND#45 We Must Risk New Shapes: Sophie Strand
Two recent appearances of Sophie Strand at SAND. One was her Community Conversation with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo the second a story she read called “Healing…
Sounds of SAND#44 Sacred Places: Martin Gray
Martin Gray is a seasoned explorer, photographer and travel writer renowned for his profound insights into pilgrimage to sacred sites around the world. He…
Sounds of SAND#43 I Am a Seed: Bayo Akomolafe and Chief Oluwo Obafemi Fayemi
The full title of today’s episode is: “They thought they buried me; They did not know I am a seed” In this community conversation from June 2023, SAND…
Sounds of SAND#42 The Great Liberation Through Hearing: Lama Lhanang Rinpoche and Mordy Levine
“The past is history. The future is mystery. The present moment is a gift” — Lama Lhanang Rinpoche Today’s guest are the authors of a new book out on Sounds…
Sounds of SAND#41 Black Therapists Rock: Deran Young
Hosted by SAND Co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo Deran Young is a licensed therapist specializing in racial trauma and legacy burdens. She is also a…
Sounds of SAND#40 Living the Mystery: Shakti Caterina Maggi
Spiritual guide and author, Shakti is known internationally as one of the most authentic and profound voices in contemporary spirituality. Presenting the…
Sounds of SAND#39 Tending Our Inner & Outer Landscapes: Lyla June
Lyla June in this illuminating community conversation with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo shares ways in which indigenous food systems of the past and present teach…
Sounds of SAND#38 Weaving the Eternal Golden Braid: Donald Hoffman & Rupert Spira
“For now, what is important is not finding the answer, but looking for it.” ― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Donald…
Sounds of SAND#37 Collective Consciousness: Orland Bishop
Orland Bishop is the founder and director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, where he has pioneered approaches to urban truces and mentoring…
Sounds of SAND#36 Holographic Being: Mukti
Mukti’s name originates in Sanskrit and is most often translated as “liberation,” a term used in Vedanta and Buddhism much the way the term “salvation” is used…
Sounds of SAND#35 Deep Medicine: Rupa Marya
Dr. Rupa Marya illuminates the hidden connections between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. What is…
Sounds of SAND#34 Converations on Complexity: Neil Theise
“We are not walking through the world; we are interwoven with it. In everything we do, we participate in complexity." –Neil Theise Neil Theise is a professor…
Sounds of SAND#33 Intimacy with the Sacred: Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions…
Sounds of SAND#32 Breathing Bamboo: Cornelius Boots
Cornelius Boots is a woodwinding pioneer, composer and root philosopher. He is a nanotheist and elemental-nature lover. After a 30-year career of high-caliber…
Sounds of SAND#31 Our Mycelium Selves: Merlin Sheldrake
From the SAND Archives we present a conversation between SAND co-founder Maurizio Benazzo and biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake from SAND’s Wisdom in Times…
Sounds of SAND#30 Here. Now. Being.: Joan Tollifson
Joan Tollifson is a writer and lifelong explorer of what is. Her background includes Buddhism, Advaita, nontraditional meditative inquiry, radical nonduality…
Sounds of SAND#29: Rumi & the Mysterion: Kabir Helminski
Kabir Helminski is co-director, with his wife, Camille Helminski, of the Threshold Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge and…
Sounds of SAND#28 Christianity and Unknowing: Richard Rohr
From the SAND Archives we present two talks from Christian Mystic, Richard Rohr from two SAND Conferences recorded before live audiences. The two talks are…
Sounds of SAND#27 Embracing the Present: Gail Brenner
By training, Gail Brenner is a licensed Ph.D. psychologist and trauma specialist with almost 30 years of experience offering individual sessions and group…
Sounds of SAND#26 From Separation to Oneness, From Monocultures to Diversity: Vandana Shiva
After a PhD thesis on non separability and non locality in Quantum theory, Dr Vandana Shiva studied non separation between forests, soil and water, the Green…
Sounds of SAND#25 Walks with Death: Ash Canty
Ash Canty (they/he) is a Death Walker & Psychic Medium. Their ancestors are Indigenous peoples of West Africa, Cherokee, Iroquois, Blackfeet and Northern…
Sounds of SAND#24 Somatic Abolitionism: Resmaa Menakem & Gabor Maté
This conversation is from the Wisdom of Trauma Talks on Trauma Series (2021). Somatic Abolitionism is living, embodied anti-racist practice and cultural…
Sounds of SAND#23 The Songs of Gaia: Monica Gagliano
Monica Gagliano is a research associate professor in evolutionary ecology and former fellow of the Australian Research Council. She is currently based at…
Sounds of SAND#22 Embodying the Unknown: Ellen Emmet
“…In our daily lives, the body is seldom tasted as it is. We rarely listen to its language or allow it to simply unfold and blossom in its natural original…
Sounds of SAND#21 A Hunger for Wholeness: Iya Affo
This is a recording from the 2022 Community Conversation between with guest Iya Affo and SAND co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. Very few people are aware…
Sounds of SAND#20 Vibrating with Awe: Laura Inserra
"The essence of the Universe is vibration, quenchless energy in motion, e-motion. My work is about experiencing the Source and its manifestation through sound…
Sounds of SAND#19 The Wonder of the Heart: A.H. Almaas & Thomas Hübl
“The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.” — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj A deep and insightful dialog between A.H. Almaas, founder of the Diamond…
Sounds of SAND#18 The Mysticism of Sound and Music: Michael Harrison
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…
Sounds of SAND#17 Woman Stands Shining: Pat McCabe
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…
Sounds of SAND#16 The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound: Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe
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…
Sounds of SAND#15 The Healing Potential of Microdosing: James Fadiman & Ayelet Waldman
In this entertaining talk from SAND18, James Fadiman, "America's wisest and most respected authority on psychedelics and their use," describes the citizen…
Sounds of SAND#14 Healing Relationships in Community and in Ourselves: Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
Science and Nonduality co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host this Community Gathering with Dënesųłiné indigenous rights activist and climate activist…
Sounds of SAND#13 Finding Wholeness Through Our Broken Places: Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield & Dr. Gabor Maté
In this conversation from the “Talks on Trauma” series Gabor investigates the paths of personal Trauma woven into the Buddhist and personal psychology fields…