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#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 of the previous generation, Sri Sanatan Das Thakur Baul...
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#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 improvisation, and mindfulness. His diverse work, ranging from...
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#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: A Ghost Story” with Bayo Akomolafe.
Sophie’s course The...
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#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 created the World Pilgrimage Guide website in 1996, which has...
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#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 co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host Bayo Akomolafe and...
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#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 True, The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Beginners: A Guide to...
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#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 Co-Author of the New York Times Best Seller, You Are Your Best...
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#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 message of Advaita and non-dual Tantra within a contemporary...
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#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 us how to relate to our inner and outer world. These...
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#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 Hoffman is a cognitive scientist and author of more than 100...
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#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 at-risk youth that combine new ideas with traditional...
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#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 in Christianity. Mukti has been the Associate Teacher of...
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