5 Days, March 1997
11 recordings
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MEETING LENGTH: 30 HOURS AND 21 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1997
PLACE RECORDED: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
SESSIONS
The Ignorance of emotional and mental Pain
Length: 1 hours and 2 minutes
Barry Long explores the roots of emotional pain, emphasising the essential role of honesty and vigilance in love and relationship. He distinguishes true love from emotional attachment, teaching that freedom arises when we cease interpreting and start communicating openly.
Containing Emotion, Restoring Love: Unmasking the Self’s Disruption in Modern Life
Length: 1 hours and 17 minutes
Barry Long examines how unchecked emotion undermines love and honesty, highlighting the way personal responsibility and self-mastery open the door to true relationship and healing.
Personality: The acting and emotionalising Self
Length: 1 hours and 28 minutes
Barry Long explores the nature of true value, pointing out that lasting worth lies not in objectified things or excitement, but in the depth of being and genuine love.
Honesty first: Love without Compromise
Length: 1 hours and 20 minutes
Barry Long unveils the psychic reality of ‘the fiendess’—woman’s inherited rage at man’s loveless exploitation—emphasising the necessity for woman to contain and transmute this ancient hatred into love.
You are a Light: The Working of Karma & Consciousness
Length: 1 hours and 7 minutes
Barry Long urges each person to turn within, recognising themselves as the centre of their own universe, and to take responsibility for transforming the inherited ignorance of humanity. He explains karma as collective, not merely individual, and emphasises that one’s true task is to purify one’s inner light for the benefit of all mankind.
Becoming subtle: Physical Love as a Ladder to God
Length: 1 hours and 26 minutes
The talk guides listeners through the increasing subtlety required in true loving, urging a release of compromise and emotional habits to access deeper states of union and God-realisation.
Getting your Life right and stilling your System
Length: 1 hours and 5 minutes
Barry Long insists that getting your life right is foundational to spiritual development, urging participants to honestly address areas of emotional disturbance, especially in love and relationship.
Seeing the Whole: Overcoming the Tyrant Mind
Length: 1 hours and 25 minutes
Barry Long explores the symbolic nature of life, suggesting we recognise everyday experiences as messages from a deeper intelligence. He advocates viewing relationships and personal existence in the context of the ‘whole’ rather than through the critical intellect. The emphasis is on shedding the mind’s tendency to focus on the negative and returning to the immediacy of being.
Human & Terrestrial Intellect: The Idea behind the Form
Length: 1 hours and 24 minutes
Barry Long distinguishes the human and terrestrial intellects, urging listeners to seek the formless ideas behind material concepts for deeper intelligence and peace.
Woman tends to follow her Man: A Caution / Questions
Length: 58 minutes
Barry Long warns women that they tend to follow men, urging caution before forming relationships by observing a man’s habits and integrity, especially as man’s unreliability can impact a woman’s life.
Failure doesn’t matter: Taking one Thing with you to live
Length: 1 hours and 52 minutes
Barry Long emphasises moving beyond passive enjoyment of spiritual truth to active living of a single, uncompromised realisation found within.
