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    <title>Truth Is All That Matters</title>
    
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    <updated>2012-10-24T10:10:08-07:00</updated>
    <subtitle>Many things interest me: music, astrophysics, human history, philosophy, psychology, spiritual aspiration and attainment, movies, TV, fiction of all sorts ... many things. But pertaining to the perplexing matter of the nearly universal human dissatisfaction with life, only two things hold my interest: the fear of life, and the simple act of inward looking that snuffs it out. </subtitle>
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        <title>An Important Message from John and Carla Sherman</title>
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        <published>2012-10-24T10:10:08-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-10-24T10:11:36-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>John Sherman</name>
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    <content type="html">"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."&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>A Message from John Sherman</title>
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        <published>2012-03-26T16:35:39-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-10-08T16:37:29-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>John Sherman</name>
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    <content type="html">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.
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        <title>Just One Look</title>
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        <published>2011-09-12T18:46:14-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-10-08T17:17:17-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>John Sherman</name>
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    <content type="html">An Experiment in The Power of Human Consciousness to Free Itself from the Fear of Life

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.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>The Way Forward</title>
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        <published>2011-06-05T19:28:11-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-10-08T17:30:09-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>John Sherman</name>
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    <content type="html">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. Our experience of life Our experience of our own lives is much different from what we find in any previous discussions of solutions for the dissatisfaction with life that seems to be the experience of almost all of humanity, and that may well be the root cause of all our self-destructive and reactive habits of behavior and relationship. The change that has actually come...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>New book by John Sherman</title>
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        <published>2010-04-14T08:22:44-07:00</published>
        <updated>2010-04-14T08:22:44-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>John Sherman</name>
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    <content type="html">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.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>Our Work</title>
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        <published>2009-06-20T19:11:25-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-10-08T19:09:35-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>John Sherman</name>
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    <content type="html">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...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>Look At Yourself</title>
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        <published>2009-05-17T10:23:50-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-10-08T19:10:53-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>John Sherman</name>
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    <content type="html">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. This conversation has actually been going on for quite a long time — for thousands of years in one form or another — and until now its product for the most part has been a wondrous collection of understandings, insights, trance states and practices that focus on efforts to purify in one way or another the states of mind and the...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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