John Sherman Podcast

How To Look At Yourself

John Sherman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:48:33 PST

"I'm going to try and show you directly how to rid yourself of the incessant background murmur of anxiety that ruins life for most of us once and for all, and where to find the treasure of abiding satisfaction with life using a simple act of inward looking that is very easy to perform. I would be grateful if you would follow closely what I'm about to say, even if you have been with us for a long time, and even if you have direct personal experience of the effects of the looking. I would also be grateful if you would put aside anything else you are doing now other than following what I am saying here and trying to do what I am suggesting. It won't take long – 10 to 15 minutes at the most." John Sherman A message form John Sherman recorded on November 7, 2011. MP3...

A Worldwide Meeting - December 10, 2011

John Sherman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:03:03 PST

"All that needs to be done is to, right this moment, look with your mind's eye at the actual experience of what it feels like to be just you (what you call 'me'), and this one look will snuff out the fear of life. Its effects will begin to unravel, and the life will begin to heal, with nothing more needed to be done or undone." John Sherman Complete recording of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on December 10, 2011. MP3 File Length: 1 h 35 min File size: 45.24 MB All of our meetings and events are always free of charge. We also offer ebooks, mp3 downloads, video downloads and much more — always free of charge. The money needed to make all this available comes from spontaneous donations. If you can, please make a small donation so we can continue offering this...

Open House Meeting - December 21, 2011

John Sherman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:25:25 PST

"The experience of the body occurs in the mind and is mediated by the neural pathways in the brain. The course of recovery also occurs within the mind and it often affects the body. Many report intense bodily experiences in the context of the recovery from the fear of life. It is the psychological structures that determine how the recovery will be experienced by each individual. And it's all idiosyncratic and unpredictable." John Sherman Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on December 21, 2011. MP3 File Length: 1 h 8 min File size: 32.3 MB All of our meetings and events are always free of charge. We also offer ebooks, mp3 downloads, video downloads and much more — always free of charge. The money needed to make all this available comes from spontaneous donations. If you can, please make a small...

Open House Meeting - December 14, 2011

John Sherman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:25:52 PST

"The first attempt to look at yourself often results in what seems to be nothing at all. I think this is because looking inward is unnatural to the mind. The natural role of the mind is to watch out for danger and promise to me, none of which can be found inward. Only I am inward." John Sherman Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on December 14, 2011. Length: 56 min File size: 26.95 MB MP3 File All of our meetings and events are always free of charge. We also offer ebooks, mp3 downloads, video downloads and much more — always free of charge. The money needed to make all this available comes from spontaneous donations. If you can, please make a small donation so we can continue offering this material free of charge.

Open House Meeting - December 7, 2011

John Sherman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:26:28 PST

"Confusion often follows the first clear success in the attempt at getting a taste of what it feels like to be you. What happens in the aftermath of the act of looking is a chaotic restructuring of the entire psychology, a reconstruction the entire psychological apparatus of intuitions, understandings, insights, relationships, ideas of what's right and what's wrong, etc. All of that begins to disintegrate and there can be difficult times. This is what we have come to call the period of recovery. But this is not always the case with everybody. There is a wide range of recovery modes that people experience. In some cases, the recovery is very quick, and in other cases, it can be characterized by a huge melodrama." John Sherman Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on December 7, 2011. MP3 File Length: 1 h 5...

A Worldwide Meeting - November 5, 2011

John Sherman — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:29:06 PST

"The looking is medicine. The things that plague you, the things that make you think that there's something wrong with you or with your life, the ideas and thoughts about those things... little by little, they simply stop showing up. In the meantime, keep looking at yourself." John Sherman Complete recording of a Worldwide Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on November 5, 2011. MP3 File Length: 1 h 48 min File size: 51.06 MB

Open House Meeting - November 23, 2011

John Sherman — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:41:28 PST

"For the Buddhists, the primary goal of the practice of mindfulness meditation is to acquaint us with the insanity of our minds, with the 'monkey mind,' so that we get a feel for how crazy we are. But we already know how crazy we are, we've lived in that swamp for all of our lives. I encourage you to do mindfulness meditation so that you can acquaint yourself with the fact, which may not be so obvious, that you can by will and by choice focus your attention on some object of your choosing and move it from one object to the other. And to give you some practice with what focusing and moving attention feels like. You can use that same beam of attention, which is your mind's eye, to get a direct, immediate, unmediated, just a heartbeat of experience of what it feels like to be you, which...

Open House Meeting - November 2, 2011

John Sherman — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:33:30 PST

"Just look for a tenth of a second at what it feels like to be you (what you call 'me'). If you try it once, you will continue to do it. With time, you will find yourself sane, secure and profoundly satisfied with your life as a human being." John Sherman

Open House Meeting - October 19, 2011

John Sherman — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:57:16 PDT

"Just do this simple act. This one, simple act of trying to get a direct, immediate experience of what it feels like to be you. There's no need to believe in it, there's no need to understand the reason for it or the way it works or why it works. There's no need to abandon your existing understandings, there's no need to believe in anything, and no need to stop believing in anything. All that's needed is to take this simple, absolutely harmless act of inward looking. That looking does all the work -- and it always works. It just requires the doing of it, and everything turns out right." John Sherman Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on October 19, 2011. MP3 File Length: 1 h 1 min File size: 14.66 MB

Open House Meeting - October 12, 2011

John Sherman — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:58:37 PDT

"The fact is that the mass of human consciousness is afflicted with the fear of life, which itself is the driving force that is taking all of us over the cliff. It just seems such a shame to me that a creature of such promise should just pass away from a disease that is so easily curable. This is why we have begun this campaign to bring the looking to everybody in the human creature." John Sherman Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on October 12, 2011. MP3 File Length: 49 min File size: 11.17 MB