About John Sherman

John Sherman was born in Camden, New Jersey. Like everyone, John spent most of his life unconsciously searching for the one perfect path out of the wilderness of human life; the one perfect idea, the one perfect thing to think, to understand, to want, to have, to believe, to become that would bring him salvation and satisfaction. The course of John's search was extreme compared to most, but the result was the same: nothing worked; nothing ever does.

Late in 1969, when he was 27 years old, John discovered the idea of Social Justice, and set out to become the perfect Communist revolutionary. In 1975, he joined with a small group of anarcho-communist radicals, and embarked upon a series of bank robberies, property bombings, gunfights with the police, two escapes from federal prisons and two years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List; all done in the name of supporting the struggles of the American worker for justice.

In January of 1976, John was shot and captured during a bank robbery; in March, during a trip to the hospital, he escaped.

In March of 1978, after two years on the run, robbing banks and organiing property bombings, John was captured by the FBI. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

In March of 1979, he escaped again from the federal prison where he was serving his sentence. He was put on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on April 24, 1979.

On December 17, 1981, after two years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, he was captured for the last time and returned to prison.

In June of 1994, in the fifteenth year of his imprisonment, John had an overwhelming experience of awakening that took him completely by surprise. He spent more than a year and a half in the fully open awareness of spiritual awakening, which then collapsed, leaving him bereft.

John spent the rest of his time in prison trying to find something that he could do that would bring him back to the state of indifference and apathy that he had enjoyed prior to that experience. This effort unexpectedly brought him to true freedom by means of an extremely simple act of attention.

Three and a half years later, in April of 1998, he was released on parole. Upon his release, he moved to Boulder, Colorado.