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Thank you for visiting the River Ganga Foundation website. Your privacy is very important to us, and the information you provide is safeguarded and protected to the best of our abilities. Our fundamental policy regarding your privacy is that we will never sell, rent, or give away any information you provide about yourself for any reason Security We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online and over the telephone or through written communication. The Information We Collect At www.riverganga.org or by direct call to the River Ganga Foundation, you can order products, send us email, register to participate in our events, make donations and request to be added to our mailing list. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. From time to time we may add other services to this site, and may request certain other information to support these services. How We Use the Information You Give Us We use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, and to respond to your inquiries about our offerings. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you of upcoming programs, to send you our email newsletters, or to contact you about your account with us. If you send a letter or poetry to John, we may publish your letter or poetry anonymously with John's permission. We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, and to determine what services and products may be of interest to the sangha. All staff and supervised volunteers who have access to any personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice. Finally, we will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses. How You Can Access or Correct Information For instructions on how you can access the personally identifiable information that this site has collected about you online, or how to correct factual errors in such information, or to request that such information be deleted from our databases, you may send an e-mail or letter to the following e-mail or street address. For verification purposes please include your first name, last name and e-mail address. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections. E-mail: info@riverganga.org How to Contact Us If you have any questions or concerns about the River Ganga Foundation online policy for this site or its implementation you may contact us at webdevelopment@riverganga.org. |
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| A Meeting with John Sherman in Ojai, CA |
| Saturday, October 11, at 2:15 pm PT Sacred Space Studio 410-A Bryant Circle Ojai, CA 93023 |
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| Mindfulness Meditation |
| John found this simple meditation to be helpful. |
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| Meetings with John are always free of charge. All are welcome. Spontaneous donations for the support of our work are welcome and gratefully accepted. |
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| Featured Letter of the Month |
| We receive many, many beautiful and useful letters. Every month we try to feature one here that seems especially valuable and instructive for one reason or another. |
| Une rencontre avec Ramana Maharshi |
| La nouvelle version du livre Meeting Ramana Maharshi, Conversations with John Sherman, révisée en 2008, vous est présentée maintenant en traduction française. |
| Cliquez ici pour commander votre livre électronique gratuit. |
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| Worldwide Meeting - October 4, 2008 The only thing that is certain is you, but nothing can be said that is at all helpful in describing you or explaining you, or even pointing to you. You are here. The only certainty there is, is that of your presence. I am not speaking of the sense of self, although the focusing of attention on the sense of self, or the I am, or beingness, or by whatever name it may be called, will in fact result in the vanishing of the sensational experience that is the sense of self. In the moment of its vanishing, what remains is you. That's the incredible value and utility of Ramana's suggestion that we look at ego and grab it by the throat. In so doing, that experience vanishes and what remains is you. You, face to face with you. |
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| John Sherman videos on Public Access TV |
| John's videos are broadcast on Public Access TV regularly in Santa Monica, California. |
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| John Sherman YouTube videos on TiVo |
| You can watch videos of Meetings with John Sherman on TiVo. |
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| Interview with John Sherman, hosted by Richard Miller. Taped in Oak Park, Illinois, on June 21 & 25, 2007.
All four 1-hour episodes are now available on our website in a simpler format, with only the actual conversation between Richard and John. |
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| Subscription Program |
| Live recordings of recent meetings with John are now available through subscription. When you sign up for a subscription, you will have recordings of John's most recent meetings on CD delivered to you monthly, at a discount price. |
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| Our work is to teach the method of the vichara (self-inquiry) to all who will receive it. The only problem anywhere to be found is the false belief that you are at the mercy of your life, and the only solution is the truth, which is everywhere and always present and self-evident. Ridding oneself of the false is as easy as repeatedly tasting the truth of being here, unmovingly, unchangingly here. This repeated looking directly at oneself is the infallible method of the vichara. Although our meetings are free of charge, they are certainly not free of cost. The money needed for this work must come entirely from the generosity and compassion of those who, like us, have seen for themselves the immense worth of spreading this good news to all humanity. Please help provide financial support for the work of making this method more widely available in the world by making a donation or a monthly pledge in any amount now. All donations to the River Ganga Foundation are fully tax-deductible. |
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| A simple forum that allows continuing online satsang with John Sherman. |
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| We need volunteer help in many areas. If you have any talent, skill or calling you'd like to give to this work, please contact us. You can call us at (805) 646-0994 or email us: volunteers@riverganga.org |
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| RiverGanga Foundation PO Box 1566 Ojai, California 93024-1566 Phone: (805) 646-0994 Email: info@riverganga.org The RiverGanga Foundation is a public non-profit organization recognized by the IRS. All donations are tax-deductible according to IRS regulations. |
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