Feelings emotions and sensation
'Feelings are not intelligent. They mislead the whole human race, which is why there's so little wisdom in the human race.'
'The sensation is what you've got. It's the only thing that's reliable. Your emotions and your thoughts are not reliable.'
'Any thought that I have I do not believe it. Any feeling that I have, I do not believe, unless it is a physical feeling.'
'All feelings are based on past, and all past has time in it. So the emotions and feelings can't be intelligent.'
'If you acknowledge that feeling, you'll get it again sometime. If you don't acknowledge it, it will gradually die, and then you come back to your pure sensation.'
SESSIONS
Questions - Emotions & Relationship
Length: 1 hours and 7 minutes
Feelings: Interpretations of the Present through the Past
Length: 54 minutes
Barry Long asserts that love is not a feeling, emphasising the falsehood of all feelings as interpretations rooted in past emotional experience. He challenges listeners to perceive reality directly, bypassing the habitual self and its reliance on emotion. By living in knowledge and immediate sensation, one can love truly, undistorted by the distortions of memory or fear.
Nothing: Getting the Idea
Length: 55 minutes
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.
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.
Now & The Projection of Ignorance
Length: 54 minutes
Living a non-personal Life
Length: 1 hours and 30 minutes
God being God – Intelligence reflecting inward
Length: 59 minutes
Self-Consciousness: The Spoiler
Length: 1 hours and 3 minutes
Wellbeing: The Immortal Life in you
Length: 57 minutes
Love is Not A Feeling
Length: 1 hours and 47 minutes
Barry Long illustrates the distinction between sensation and feeling, advancing the teaching that love is not a feeling but a pure, present sensation, and that the progression towards knowledge is an emancipation from emotional attachment.
Living True to the Situation
Length: 2 hours and 2 minutes
Barry Long urges listeners to be true to the situation, not to their changeable feelings, explaining that liberation arises from embracing present reality and letting go of emotional baggage.
Dismantling our self-made world (audio only)
Length: 1 hours and 58 minutes
Barry Long sheds light on the dynamics of sensation, feeling, and love, demonstrating how true understanding and right action arise from recognising one’s inner responses rather than external rules.
Body, Feelings & Intelligence
Length: 1 hours and 57 minutes
The great Tragedy of the religious Idea
Length: 2 hours and 1 minute
