John Sherman Podcast

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

Open House Meeting - February 13, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:18:17 PST

"When you try to get a glimpse of the person-ness of you, of the sense of being you, for reasons that we don't quite understand yet, that act destroys the underlying context that says that there's something wrong here that you should be afraid of." John Sherman -- Open House Meeting - February 13, 2013

A Worldwide Meeting - February 10, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:46:49 PST

"What we're about here is not solitary personal liberation. Our work together here is about the eradication of a kind of autoimmune disease that has spoiled our experience of life from the beginning and takes the form of an underlying sense that life is to be feared." John Sherman -- Worldwide Meeting on February 10, 2013.

Open House Meeting - February 6, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:17:10 PST

"The act of looking itself, and what happens as a result, is actually very simple. What happens is that when you have the conscious experience of what it feels like to be you, the fact of your absolute invulnerability, the fact that you are unharmed by anything that happens to you, becomes immediately apparent and that recognition destroys the context that causes all the problem. Then, all that remains is the unfolding of the regeneration of the person's previous ways of relating with life into more mature, saner ways." John Sherman - Open House Meeting on February 6, 2013

Open House Meeting - January 23, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:54:16 PST

"What we have discovered here is not the property or the unique insight of one special person. I stumbled upon this act that we have come to call the looking more than 17 years ago, but it took me ten years or so even to begin to understand what had happened to me. That understanding, and its growing clarity, is the product of our conversations together over all that time." John Sherman - Open House on January 23, 2013.

A Worldwide Meeting - January 20, 2013

johnsherman@justonelook.org (John Sherman) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:11:45 PST

"What I have to offer is the practical understanding that if you will look at yourself, your relationship with your life will be healed and you'll have the experience of natural life as a human being." John Sherman