Being Human Podcast

"Having looked at yourself, the best thing to do is to begin to strengthen your capacity to decide consciously where you put your attention." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on June 18, 2014.

Length: 31 min

File size: 7.41 MB

"Those who have stumbled upon freedom during spiritual activity often assume that it was their spiritual work that freed them, and have no reason to suggest otherwise to those who come to them for help. I say this not to denigrate them or their efforts, but merely to call attention to the possibility that even the greatest among them can suffer from confusion and an inability to see and communicate the actual cause of their awakening, which results in their passing that confusion on to those who come to them for help." John Sherman.

Complete recording of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on June 14, 2014.

Length: 1 h 7 min

File size: 16.1 MB

"The effort to direct attention to the faint sense of "me", without regard to its philosophical incongruity and whether you think you succeeded at doing it or not, immediately destroys the context in which the mind was formed. The success is instantaneous. What follows is a period of recovery, in which the diseased psychological structures are replaced by saner ones. That process is pretty much automatic." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on June 4, 2014.

Length: 39 min

File size: 9.35 MB

"There is a certain confusion that sometimes arises from the underlying assumption that what we're doing here has something to do with the spiritual/metaphysical project. What we do here is not spiritual. The spiritual project is ill-suited to put an end to human misery, and not the best framework to deal with a problem that is really mundane and not metaphysical at all. What we offer here is a brand new paradigm from which to understand and heal the human mind." John Sherman

Complete recording of an Open House Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on May 21, 2014.

Length: 47 min

File size: 11.31 MB

"The looking destroys the sense of separation between me and my life and restores the natural state of intimacy with life that the fear of life had destroyed." John Sherman

Complete recording of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on May 17, 2014.

Length: 1 h 16 min

File size: 18.12 MB

"The main purpose of moving attention away from a thought that it's being called to and focusing it on the sensation of breathing is not to reveal the irrelevance of the thought. It's actually to strengthen your ability to control where you put your attention." John Sherman

"The main purpose of moving attention away from a thought that it's being called to and focusing it on the sensation of breathing is not to reveal the irrelevance of the thought. It's actually to strengthen your ability to control where you put your attention." John Sherman

"The main purpose of moving attention away from a thought that it's being called to and focusing it on the sensation of breathing is not to reveal the irrelevance of the thought. It's actually to strengthen your ability to control where you put your attention." John Sherman

"Our job is NOT to bring you new, fresh understanding about reality, to awaken you to the wonder of being, or to give you the experience of peace. It's NOT our job to teach you about the nature of being. Our sole job is to show you how easy it is to cure the disease that is at the root of all your misery and discontent with life." John Sherman

Complete recording of a Worldwide Online Meeting with John Sherman broadcast live from Ojai, California on April 26, 2014.

Length: 1h 12 min

File size: 34.67 MB

"No understanding of the root cause of human dissatisfaction with life will eliminate it. Only the direct contact of your attention with the reality of you will do. Once that happens, a process of regeneration of the mind begins." John Sherman

Complete recording of a Meeting in Ojai, California with John Sherman on April 12, 2014.

Length: 1h 39 min

File size: 23.83 MB