Truth Is All That Matters

An Important Message from John and Carla Sherman

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Dear friends,

We believe that what we are about here is radically different from everything that has gone before. We believe, for example, that the sole cause of all pathological personality traits in human beings is the fear of life. We believe that fear of life comes upon us accidentally at or near our birth, and we believe that all hatred of self and others, all greed, all pathological aggression, all narcissistic preoccupation with self and lack of regard for others are the fruit of that fear.

We know that anyone who will try to do the simple movement of the mind's eye that we call 'looking at yourself' will see the sense of fearfulness and distrust that ruins the experience of life quietly dissolve. And when the fear is gone, it's gone for good and in its absence, a profound regeneration of the personal psychology begins that culminates in full reconciliation with our own lives. We go sane, and our ability to use the light of natural human intelligence begins to blossom and to bear new fruit. We fall naturally into love with our lives. It's that simple.

A Message from John Sherman

Our work, our purpose, and the goal of all our efforts is to make one simple insight into the root cause of all human misery and one simple act of inward looking universally available and accessible within the entire human community.

 

You may recall that at the end of December, we sent out an email asking for help in raising $9,000 to get through to the end of February. Well, we didn’t make it. The total in donations received since that email went out is now, in the last week of March, about $6,500. The bills needing to be paid are piling up and gathering interest (and with the IRS, penalties) as we go deeper in the hole with every passing day.

If you are interested in the details, I’ll be glad to give you all the information you could possibly want, but the bottom line is that there is not enough money coming in to keep our work alive for much longer. Truth is, we do not have even enough cash now to get through next week.

This work cannot continue if we don’t find stable, ongoing financial support quickly.

Please make a donation now and help us get through the next few weeks. And, if you can, start a monthly pledge in any amount to contribute to the development of a stable financial footing for our work.

Just One Look

A proposal from John Sherman

I have something to propose to you that I believe to be of great importance to the future of humanity and to the lives of each and every human being. But first I need to tell you the story of how it has happened that I should be here like this in the first place, speaking of such extreme matters and making this extraordinary proposal to you.

None of what follows is of any importance whatsoever to the power of the looking to bring satisfaction to your own life.

If you've seen enough already and just want to join us,  click here to go to the I'M IN form.

The Way Forward

Revised and updated on April 28, 2012.

We can see now the way forward to bring the miracle of inward looking to all of humanity. Our experience of our own lives has shown us directly what is possible for all human beings: an end to fearfulness and alienation from life that can easily be accomplished by anyone willing to try one simple act of inward looking. This is like nothing you have ever heard before; this is a revolution in the making for all of humanity.

New book by John Sherman

Look At Yourself, a new book by John Sherman is finally here as a free ebook download and in paperback.

Click here for more information.

Our Work

We have been in this work for ten years now, and over that time much has changed in the way in which I speak about what I see.  From the beginning, when we started, I could see very clearly what I wanted to say, but I had no vocabulary apart from ideas from philosophy and mystical spirituality to use in communicating this that I see so clearly, and this vocabulary turns out to be too limited for the task of speaking of so simple a thing — strangely enough, I think this may actually be because of its obsession with limitlessness.  But over time, much of the spiritual and metaphysical idiom has fallen away from me, and I have come to see that there is no better way to speak of these matters than in plain English (or plain whatever language is your own).  Because of this, much of what I said in the past now seems obsolete and inadequate to me as an expression of what I actually see and wish to convey.  We have made no effort to remove this outdated material from the web, because we think it might be useful for some to see the process of evolution that has gradually shaped the way we speak about our work.

Look At Yourself

I want to invite you to enter into an ongoing conversation with us about the human predicament, its cause and its cure.  By human predicament I mean the fact that a creature with such promise as humanity should, in such a short time, bring itself to the actual brink of extinction as a result of the efforts of each and every one of us to follow the fear of individual extinction into an endless project of survival at any cost, to protect ourself, to save ourself, from life itself.