Jim Sherblom

Are you a transcendentalist? How does an American transcendentalist live in the 21st century? Over a six-decade journey I matured from a naïve small-town Baptist youth to a spiritual mystic living transcendentally in Concord, Massachusetts. Now as a Concord transcendentalist author I offer books, retreats and workshops that help others to find their unique Way.

You were born to be a humble and joyful child of GodPart memoir, part philosophical history, and part manual for living, Spiritual Audacity will guide you from black and white to color, from formless to form, from dark to light, and from curious to enlightened.

I learned to say YES when spiritual adventure is offered.
As a venture capitalist and early investor in biomedicine, I sought to bring positive change to the world. But at the height of my career, I felt an inner calling to become a student of divine mystery. My second memoir, Spiritual Pilgrim describes that pilgrimage of spirit.

Anticipating Mysteries

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Anticipating Mysteries Rev. Dr. Jim Sherblom December 9, 2018 Good stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. They often begin by setting a context, tell what happened, and end by explaining what it means. However, what actually happened was probably chaotic, disjointed, and with many mixed meanings and messages; which is somewhat unfulfilling in the telling. An oft told story is polished over the years and decades of retelling, becoming far more interesting and meaningful in the process, even while departing further and further from what actually happened. For such stories we need not ask, is this how it actually happened, it’s not, but rather, ask what does it mean, is it in some sense true? It often is deeply true and can be life giving. Christianity began as mystery cult passing down oral traditions about Jesus and his teachings. Decades later, Christians wrote down gospels, not as history or biography, but rather to help initiates find salvation. This morning I’d like to take you on a magical mystery tour of the...

Transcendental etude

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Yesterday was a blustery day. I was driving in Concord on Thoreau street, approaching its intersection with Walden street, with a big yellow leafed maple tree in full bloom right before me. It was glorious in the afternoon sun and its leaves were ripe to fall. Just as I stopped at the stop sign, a sudden gust of wind sent its leaves flying, and a crosswind sent them scattering through the air like a large flock of yellow starlings, seemingly swooping and soaring on the afternoon crosswinds. I went on to Walden Pond for my transcendental afternoon walk, but nothing I experienced that afternoon was more transcendental then that now semi-naked tree having flung its leaves to the winds. Autumn has truly arrived in Concord.

SPIRITUAL PILGRIM’S PROGRESS

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SPIRITUAL PILGRIM: Awakening Journeys of a Twenty-First Century Transcendentalist continues to climb in its amazon ratings as the first two five star customer reviews of my book have been posted. Thank you all who have bought my book, and if you liked it, please add a customer review on amazon!

Please Review Spiritual Pilgrim

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The book launch of SPIRITUAL PILGRIM: Awakening Journeys of a Twenty-First Century Transcendentalist has been wonderful, with this new book joining my first book SPIRITUAL AUDACITY on amazon’s top ten percent best selling books on their website. But it is hindered by having no positive reviews yet. Can you please help by going on amazon and reviewing my book? Thanks a million! Jim https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Pilgrim-Awakening-Twenty-First-Transcendentalist/dp/1634891406/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536850640&sr=1-3&keywords=jim+sherblom&dpID=51%252BPdV0vvdL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

Author Talk this Wednesday

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Please come join my author event this Wednesday Rev. Dr. Jim Sherblom, author of SPIRITUAL PILGRIM: Awakening Journeys of a Twenty-First Century Transcendentalist Wednesday, October 17 at 7 pm Main Library, 129 Main Street Jim’s spiritual memoir tells stories of his mystic travels on spiritual pilgrimages with Sufi’s, Taoists, shamans, Buddhists, Christians and Transcendentalists. “Equal parts memoir and guidebook, Spiritual Pilgrim entrances with stories that reveal Jim’s unabashedly open heart and deep well of knowledge.” Doug Stone and Sheila Heen, co-authors of New York Times bestselling book Difficult Conversations Rev. Dr. Jim Sherblom is a transcendentalist author, scholar, mystic, theologian, entrepreneur, and investor. He holds a BA in history from Yale, an MBA from Harvard, and Masters in Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Andover Newton Theological School. He lives a transcendentalist existence with his wife Loretta in Concord, MA where you will often find him ambling trails once loved by Emerson, Alcott, Hawthorne, Fuller and Thoreau. Come hear of one man’s universal spiritual journey. Register on the library’s online calendar of events...