John Sherman Texts

What mental health professionals are saying about the act of looking at yourself

2013-06-01T17:16:22-07:00

Download 3 new free ebooks written by psychologists who have experience with the looking and are suggesting it to patients. The Radical Act of Inward Looking by Paul Freedman M.S.W., R.S.W. Jonathan Goldberg M.S.W., R.S.W. and Jaak Reichmann M.D., FRCP(C) Anxiety and Depression: A Different Look by Dr. David Parrish Looking at Myself by David Parrish Ebooks by John Sherman More free downloads

Online Intensive with John Sherman - Meeting 1 - July 2, 2012

2012-12-07T18:10:24-08:00

"There was an interesting posting on the forum the other day, in which there was one statement that caught my attention. Something to the effect that the looking is an answer to a question that very few people are asking. Actually, that's not true. The looking answers a question that everybody is asking. The question is not, How do I get enlightened? How do I rid myself of the fear of life? How do I rid myself of ignorance? How do I rid myself of the sense that there's something wrong here that I have to do something about? Those questions are all second-order questions. The real question that everybody asks is, Why?" // Five-Day Online Intensive with John Sherman, Meeting 1, July 2, 2012.

Online Open House with John Sherman on July 25, 2012

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"Patience is not the same as passivity. You don't need to be at the mercy of the states of doubt and confusion that show up in the recovery period." John Sherman // Transcription of the complete recording of an Online Open House with John Sherman on July 25, 2012.

Public Meeting with John Sherman on July 15, 2012 in Ojai, California

2012-10-07T18:44:21-07:00

"Can you free yourself enough to experience the reality of life? I'm here to tell you that you can, and it is much easier than you might believe it to be. It's actually the simplest thing you can possibly imagine." John Sherman // Transcription of a Public Meeting with John Sherman on July 15, 2012 in Ojai, California.

How to rid yourself once and for all of the fear of life that spoils life and find satisfaction using a simple act of inward looking.

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How to rid yourself once and for all of the fear of life that spoils life and find satisfaction using a simple act of inward looking.

Meeting with John Sherman in Berkeley, California - May 13, 2011

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Download PDF I see some people here that I’m familiar with and other people not so much, so I might as well start at the beginning. About seventeen years ago, I set foot for the first time on the path of spiritual aspiration, in an attempt to resolve and get rid of the incessant sense of misery in being a human being in this life. I had tried a lot of other things up until that time, and none of them had worked, so I set foot on the path of spiritual aspiration. I began with the Buddhists, for a very brief time, and learned a lot. Then, I fell in with the Advaita Vedanta crowd, and almost immediately was rewarded with something that seemed to me to be exactly what was spoken of in all the talk of sudden awakening, self-realization, and things of that nature. As I look...