If I had my way, and if I knew a way to do so, I would take a scrub brush and hot soapy water and scrub away from our minds every vestige of the "spiritual," every bit of gunk caught in the cracks that is "spiritual." We are enthralled by the magnificent and beautiful spiritual utterances that we have uttered over the ages. We are hypnotized by them, and in love with them, and we think they mean something apart from what they describe, which is just this: just us, just life. They are simply our attempts to say something true and real about life, about consciousness, about what we are all absolutely intimate with already.

We know that the attempt to try to say something true about it must fail, but somehow we have lost our way. We have fallen in love with these expressions, concepts and ideas, these non-dual sermons about the oneness of all being, about infinite consciousness, love without condition and grace, as if they were something apart from these lives, just as they are. As if they were something separate from us that we need to strive for and attain.

Complete live recording of A Meeting with John Sherman in Santa Monica, California on September 16, 2007.

Length: 1 h 28 min. File Size: 21 MB





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