John Sherman Podcast

Online Intensive - Meeting 2 - July 5, 2011

"We've tried everything we can try, except this. Sometimes, in the spiritual realm, we've even come very close to the actual act that I'm urging upon everybody I speak to, the act of looking at yourself. We've tried, we've come close, but we have done so wrapped in a container of spirituality and transcendence that makes it impossible for us to see just how simple it is, how easy it is, and how little is required to do it." John Sherman

Complete recording of Meeting 2 of a Five-Day Online Intensive with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 5, 2011.

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Length: 1h 48 min 
File size: 25.09 MB

Online Intensive - Meeting 1 - July 4, 2011

"The looking at yourself I speak of is not a spiritual teaching. It is an action that can be taken by any human being, which will cure the human being who takes it of the disease of distrust and antagonism toward their own life. Once you are cured from that disease, you can live life however you want to live life, you can pursue whatever you want to pursue. And you will do so with much more satisfaction and success than is possible now, when you're afflicted with this underlying difficulty that nothing else has managed to eliminate." John Sherman

Complete recording of Meeting 1 of a Five-Day Online Intensive with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 4, 2011.

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Length: 1h 32 min
File size: 22.09 MB

Open House Meeting - July 27, 2011

The one thing that distinguishes what I speak of from what everybody else is saying, past and present, as far as I can tell, is the use of the personal pronoum. It really is that simple. The search for spiritual solutions over the centuries has occurred within the context of a mind that is itself insane and premised on the idea that there is something wrong with the life and something has to be done about it. Because of that, the possibility of speaking about you and me becomes impossible within that context of consideration and discussion, so that nowhere -- not in religion, not in spiritual practice or philosophy -- do you find people talking about you as you. It's always you as the "I Am," or "Self," or "Awareness," or "Consciousness," a whole wide range of abstractions that seek to make you something other than this ever-present, ever-the-same sense of being the personal me. Now, if I tell you to look at you, there is only one thing that actually the word "you" is pointing to, and that's what you call "me."

Complete recording of an Online Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 27, 2011.

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Length: 60 min
File size: 14.4 MB

Open House Meeting - July 20, 2011

"Looking at yourself is not a goal in itself. We're not doing it to get better at it, or to be able to do it for longer periods of time, or even to have an experience of seeing what we're looking at. The point of the looking is to take it as medicine. The looking snuffs out the cause of the problem (which is the fear of life), and dissolves the problem itself (which is the wound of separation, the gap between you and your own life)." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Online Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 20, 2011. 

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Length: 59 min
File size: 14.18 MB

Open House Meeting - July 13, 2011

"The fear of death is a storyline created by the mind to make sense of the senseless separation between me and my life that is the default relationship with life for those of us who are afflicted by it. It's an explanation for the endless feeling of being at stake. The horror of having this distance between me and my life is not even conscious. We don't see it as an idea. We see it as the fact of the matter. But in the end, it goes and it never comes back." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Online Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on July 13, 2011.

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Length: 60 min
File size: 14.55 MB