5 Day, Eindhoven 1996
9 recordings
MEETING LENGTH: 14 HOURS AND 42 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1996
PLACE RECORDED: EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
SESSIONS
When the World was very young
Length: 1 hours and 53 minutes
Barry Long opens by telling a living myth of a time when the world was young and human beings were still close to the invisible state within, able to move between form and formlessness with innocence.
The original state within the body
Length: 1 hours and 32 minutes
The way back to the original state is the dying to self, the dead past: giving up self-doubt, examining anger, ceasing inner conflict and learning to look intelligently instead of feeding emotional habits.
The love that draws you home to 'me'
Length: 1 hours and 50 minutes
Barry begins by redefining God as the nameless life rising within, known not by belief but by the irresistible love of it that has drawn people to truth all their lives.
Be true to the situation, not to the feelings
Length: 1 hours and 44 minutes
Barry states that nearly all human beings live according to feelings, and that this is the root of unhappiness, dishonesty and confusion in love and life. The remedy is to be true to the actual situation, not to the emotional reactions that arise from the past.
Questions about Feelings
Length: 1 hours and 55 minutes
With the help of audience questions, Barry traces how the self turns direct sensation into feeling, then into negativity, blame, and emotional suffering. Love itself is not a feeling to be constantly confirmed, but a subtler knowledge that remains when feeling fades.
Love Brings All to Life
Length: 1 hours and 48 minutes
Barry Long presents a mythic teaching in which woman is inwardly love but outwardly hardened by disappointment, and man’s true task is to love her, and free her and bring her to life. He speaks of our spiritual task, which is to free ourselves from lack of love, this is ‘the great art’ by which God consciousness is brought to earth through the love of man and woman.
Love & Releasing prisoners
Length: 1 hours and 44 minutes
A major movement of the talk is the call to forgive all at once by releasing one’s prisoners, rather than trying to forgive individual people one by one.
How to give up thinking and worry
Length: 1 hours and 28 minutes
Barry begins with the small falseness of saying “good morning” without meaning it and uses that to open a larger inquiry into worry, disturbance, and the practical way out of misery. Worry is described as intensified thought about the past, and the remedy begins in stopping needless thinking and getting one’s life right where it is emotionally disturbed.
