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What Occupation Does to the Soul: Samah Jabr, Gabor Matรฉ, Jennifer Mullan, Facilitated by Jess Ghannam
Global Reverberations of Palestinian Historical Trauma: A SAND Community Gathering with Dr. Samah Jabr, Dr. Gabor Matรฉ & Dr. Jennifer Mullan, facilitated by Dr. Jess Ghannam
Join us for a conversation marking the...
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Animism, Activism & Ancestry: Daniel Foor
Daniel Foor returns to Sounds of SAND for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from his own winding spiritual path to the urgent question of why so many spiritual teachers stay silent in the face of injustice. A...
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Tending the Whole: Nkem Ndefo & Staci K. Haines, Facilitated by Rae Abileah
There is a โfalse wallโ often placed between contemplative life and political actionโa story implying that inner peace and outer justice are separate vocations. This imaginary divide exhausts us. In a world facing...
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Sacred Remembering in Times of War: Dr. Jaiya John (Mshkiki Odeh Inini, Medicine Heart Man)
Recorded live at a SAND Community Gathering (April 2026)
Hard times are here, we hunger for voices that can see beyond the fear, beyond the noise, beyond the technologies consuming our attention. We need poets and...
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Awakening in Times of Collapse: Stephan Bodian
Stephan offers webinars, retreats, videos, books, and spiritual counseling that make profound spiritual teachings and practices accessible to a global audience. He studied and practiced for many years with great...
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Mysticism of Sound & Music: Michael Harrison (Encore)
We are resharing this episode in memory of Michael Harrison, who passed away on April 17, 2026. He was 67.
In this episode, we discuss the life and work of musician and Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan with...
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The Great AI Unraveling, Part 2: Tiokasin Ghosthorse & Pooja Prema
This is the second gathering in SAND's ongoing series on AI and the human spirit โ and it takes a deliberately different rhythm. Rather than asking "is AI safe?" or "will it take our jobs?", Tiokasin Ghosthorse and...
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The Indigenous Paradigm: Pat McCabe & Lynn Murphy
Originally recorded at Science and Nonduality, 2021
Pat McCabe, also known as Woman Stands Shining, is a Dinรฉ elder, ceremonial prayer leader, and international speaker adopted into the Lakota spiritual way of life....
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What Empire Cannot Erase: Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa, Omid Safi & Mays Imad
Persian Poetry, Radical Love, and the Soul of IranโThe path to God goes through that most difficult of beings, the human being.โ
โ Omid SafiRecorded live at a SAND Community Gathering (April 2026). Watch the full...
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The Great AI Unraveling: Tristan Harris
Recorded live atย SAND Community Gathering (April 2026). Watch the full conversion on the SAND Website.
SAND has launched a special series on Artificial Intelligence.
To premiere this series, we spoke with tech...
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Mongolian Dharma Poetry: Simon Wickhamsmith
Simon Wickhamsmith is a Buddhist monk turned scholar, computer musician, and one of the only translators of Mongolian literature into English. He teaches in the Writing Program at Rutgers University and has been...
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Ancient Minoan Wisdom: Chiara Baldini
Researcher, author, and PhD candidate Chiara Baldini has spent two decades tracing the roots of ecstatic culture in Europe โ from the rituals of Dionysus all the way back to Bronze Age Crete and the ancient Minoans, a...
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