Death
'Physical death is the death of the world. It is not an end. It is not the death of 'me...''
'In death there is no love. Love is only in existence. Love is only in existence, transforming myself from the emotional, psychological creature that I am into a loving being that I am. When my body dies, there is no love, just simple, pure beauty, where all is one, where nothing is left out, where nothing is separate, when nothing moves and everything scintillates in extraordinary beauty.'
'Physical death is the most wondrous miracle that cannot even be imagined, let alone described. But I've done my best.'
'But you must see it for yourself, because intelligence is what you see in your own experience, not what somebody tells you. It's no good me telling you about immortality, you have to realize. You must realize that everything dies in your own experience. You have to see it. You have to examine it, not run away from it, not pretend it doesn't exist like people do.'
'You have to be true to life and to death. For death is as much life as life death. There are two hemispheres. We live in one hemisphere of life or living. That's ours. That's all we have. And we have a terrible fear of something over here, this other hemisphere called death...'
'So easy is it to die, so very easy. Just as I go to sleep every night, except when I am dying, there is enormous hole in the web and the mind cannot re-knit it, because it is time for me to go through the hole in the mind's web...'
'When you're dying – really dying – I trust that you will give up. I trust that you will go through the hole in the web. I trust that you will slip through it easily by giving up, by not fighting, by not listening to the ignorant ones on the top next to the bed, saying you've got to fight.'
SESSIONS
Life and Death: The Purpose of Existence
Length: 1 hours and 19 minutes
David Bohm & Barry Long - Part 2
Length: 1 hours and 59 minutes
For the second time in December 1983, physicist David Bohm visits Barry Long again, with the aim of deepening his scientific inquiry into the nature of time. Bohm approaches the mystery of existence through science, while Barry speaks from the direct realisation of consciousness itself. What unfolds is an intimate, searching dialogue, in which Bohm’s precise questioning meets Barry’s uncompromising clarity about death, the present, and the truth of self-knowledge. It is a meeting between two exceptional intellects – one reaching through science toward the source, the other already speaking from it.
The Hole in the Web
Length: 1 hours
The mind is like a spider’s web, constantly repairing itself to avoid stillness. True reality is glimpsed through holes in that web, such as those opened by grief or loss. Barry urges stillness to meet life and death without fear or emotional reactivity. Living intelligently, without attachment or blame, aligns us with love and the divine essence within.
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Death
Length: 1 hours and 29 minutes
Reincarnation
Length: 1 hours and 4 minutes
The End of Resistance: Accepting Life’s Circumstances
Length: 53 minutes
Living Death: The End of the Self and the Birth of Consciousness
Length: 51 minutes
The Truth of Death
Length: 52 minutes
Barry Long explains physical death as the end of worldly existence and the dissolution of the ‘I’, while the essential ‘me’ – the divine, silent presence within – remains untouched.
The Truth of Death
Length: 52 minutes
Barry Long explains physical death as the end of worldly existence and the dissolution of the ‘I’, while the essential ‘me’ – the divine, silent presence within – remains untouched.
From Love to Beauty: Entering the Supreme Mystery through Death
Length: 1 hours and 18 minutes
Barry Long continues to reveal the mysteries of enlightenment of our inner light and mirror, explaining how realisation of God occurs in the mirror of inner space. The talk describes the levels of the psyche and the mystery of death, beauty and love.
