John Sherman Podcast

Open House Meeting - June 12, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:38:51 PDT

"In the beginning of the regeneration of the psychology, it's not uncommon to mistake effects for causes. The thought that 'I want to rest in the feeling of me' is an effect of the whole opening up of attention to a wider and more subtle range of experience. It does not cause anything." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - June 5, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:41:40 PDT

"Once you have made real contact with the sense of being you, your person-ness, the delusion that you can keep yourself apart from your life evaporates, and you find yourself directly experiencing the wildness of being human for the first time." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - May 15, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:01:37 PDT

"The cause of all our troubles are not the problems themselves (thoughts, pain, anger, etc.) These are all symptoms. The real cause of all of it is the fear of life." John Sherman

A Worldwide Meeting - May 12, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:24:29 PDT

"The looking is a simple act of the mind that consists in nothing more than trying to get the direct experience of the person-ness of you (of 'me' from your perspective). If you will try to do that, the underlying context of fearfulness that has spoiled your experience of your own life will disappear." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - May 8, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:25:29 PDT

"To look at yourself is to try to get a glimpse, a taste of what it feels like to be you. You may try to look and have no sense that you have succeeded. But in time, the context in which your entire life is experienced changes from one of fear to one of no fear." John Sherman

Public Meeting in Ojai, CA September 23, 2012

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:03:10 PDT

"Our entire relationship to life is mediated by the psychological structures of personality, which are themselves founded on the assumption that life is dangerous. All the solutions to the experience of anxiety, disaffection, distrust and alienation from life that we have come up with throughout the millennia are based on the same assumption that life is not to be trusted." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - April 17, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:24:17 PDT

"The underlying context of fear has caused some of us to search for bliss. We yearn to return to the deep slumber in the womb. We have perfected techniques whereby we can put ourselves to sleep in the name of waking up." John Sherman

Worldwide Online Meeting - April 14, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:30:53 PDT

We're very sorry, but we are not be able to post the recording of the Worldwide Meeting on April 14, 2013. The meeting was not recorded due to a software glitch. John & Carla Sherman

Open House Meeting - April 10, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:21:23 PDT

"Most often, our attention goes to what attracts it on its own, but sometimes we can put it where we want it to go, and this ability can be developed and strengthened with training and practice." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - April 3, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:24:57 PDT

"The fundamental result of the looking is the reintegration and reintroduction to the wildness and wonder of being alive as a human being." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - March 20, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:01:55 PDT

"The motivation here is not to find truth or to feel better. The intent is just to try and get a taste of yourself -- of the feeling of being me." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - March 13, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:37:34 PDT

"Looking at yourself does not change your life - your life remains as complicated and full of contradictions as always. What the looking does is clear away the fog of fearfulness that has spoiled your relationship with life and made it impossible for you to live your life with the intelligence and clarity of vision that is your actual nature." John Sherman

A Worldwide Meeting - March 10, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:20:06 PDT

"This act of the mind seems almost silly in its simplicity, but it is what we have been looking for forever. We call it "looking at yourself" and it consists only in trying to get a taste of what it feels like to be you -- what you would call me." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - March 6, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:59:57 PDT

"What we offer here is not a teaching or a dogma. It is an openhearted investigation into what it is to be human." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - February 20, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:30:42 PST

"What happens after the act of looking at yourself is performed is that the mechanisms that came into being to keep us isolated and apart from the experience of life itself begin to die out. This is because the act of looking eradicates the context that shaped them." John Sherman