Zaya and Maurizio’s BATGAP Interview

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Our founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. share their touching personal stories as well as the history and future vision for SAND in this special Buddha at the Gaspump interview with our friend Rich Archer.

Zaya Benazzo is a filmmaker from Bulgaria with degrees in engineering, environmental science, and film. For many years, she worked as an environmental activist in Holland and Bulgaria, and later produced and directed several award-winning documentaries in Europe and the United States.

Maurizio Benazzo grew up in Italy, and in 1984 came to the United States on a ninety-eight-year-old sailing boat. He started working as an actor, model, and filmmaker, but his thirst for knowledge was only satisfied in 2001 upon encountering I Am That, the seminal work by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, while he was in India shooting the award-winning documentary Short Cut To Nirvana.

Maurizio and Zaya merged their lifelong passions for science and mysticism when they met in 2007, and their first project together was filming the documentary Rays of the Absolute on the life and teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. This project sparked their next level of creation and collaboration: Science and Nonduality (SAND)—a global community inspired by the timeless wisdom traditions, informed by modern science, and grounded in direct experience.

Life is a Gift

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Short excerpt from an interview Charles Eisenstein gave on the Know Thyself podcast

#59 Attuned

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Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo discuss Thomas’ new book Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma

Murmurations: Growing Through Grief

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At its core, grief is an acknowledgment of love

The Resonance of Grief

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Visual journey with narration from our recent conversation with Francis Weller by Yasen Stoev

Cold Solace

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When my mother died,one of her honey cakes remained in the freezer

How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain

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Most of us carry a mother's voice in the neural patterns of our brain

The Lost Art of Grief

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An examination of sorrow and grief in Terrence Malick’s ‘The New World’ based on Francis Weller’s The Wild Edge of Sorrow To connect with Francis Weller, we invite you to this upcoming Community Conversation:

A Child’s Song

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A touching fable on the power of song and community

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