Reconstitution of cells, not reincarnation
Recording 16 of 48
Intelligence disperses and reforms; no person returns
The talk opens the “angelic realm” as a present inner state of absence—no persons, no thought—contrasting it with the public’s addiction to feelings and the media’s spectacle of self.
LENGTH: 2 HOURS AND 47 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1995
PLACE RECORDED: BOND UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Angelic realm, State and condition, Living without feelings, Feelings emotions and sensation, Death of loved one, Recurrence and reincarnation, The mechanism of repetition and reincarnation, Personal and impersonal, Dissolution of personal identity, Raising children, The process of realisation, Blurring of Man and Woman, Homosexuality, Science, Rational and logical, Freedom, Being in a wheelchair, Accepting and surrender, Stopping smoking, Divine love, Longing, Putting God or truth first, Love of partner over children
SUMMARY
The core diagnosis is stark: feelings are the cause of unhappiness because they interpret events and generate thought. Barry separates universal sensation (hunger, pain, thirst) from personal feeling (interpretation, fear, pity), urging direct living and immediate action instead of commentary. Acceptance of life as it is—including death—ends the sub-culture of emotions and restores clarity.
He introduces 'reconstitution of cells' to replace reincarnation: at death, vital cells disperse and reform under intelligence; no person returns. This impersonal vision reframes destiny, parenting, and personal burdens as cellular work in the great body of mankind. Logic (love, truth, the observer) must come before rationality (measurement, theory), otherwise existence becomes a farce at the moment of loss.
Practice is simple and radical: 'go into me'—the inner stillness beneath sensation—often and without drama. Here there is no time or thought; action then proceeds cleanly in the world of awareness.
15 - Open the bamboo cage: freeing the prisoners within
