EPISODES

EP.142 Through the body to the truth

Subscriber-only episode • 22nd August 2025 • Season 16, Recording 2 of 3 • Murwillumbah Talks EP2

The theme is stark: 'You are not the body in truth, but the only way to the truth is through the body.' Intelligence enters the undifferentiated sensation of the whole body, the mind stops, and the realm of stillness is revealed.

EP.141 Breaking identification with the body

Subscriber-only episode • 15th August 2025 • Season 16, Recording 1 of 3 • Murwillumbah Talks EP1

The talk overturns the core delusion 'I am the body', shows how acknowledgement feeds either illusion or reality, and gives a practical entry through pure sensation to being, where intelligence—not mind—sees straight.

'The spiritual life is about realizing we are not the body, or I am not the body.'

'The only thing lovers have to say to each other is, 'I love you. You are beautiful.''

EP.140 Giving up the past

Subscriber-only episode • 8th August 2025 • Season 15, Recording 8 of 8 • Meditation Intensive, 1984, EP8

Barry calls a participant to leave the past, receive love, and be honest now; he contrasts healing passion with corrupting emotion, points to the state without opposites, and insists on living as cause rather than chasing effects.

'While we can be touched, we shall be touched. Life will find a way of making us emotional.'

'You should never be without energy. You should never be sick, you should never be tired, and you should never be out of the state of love and bliss.'

EP.139 Practical entry into presence

Subscriber-only episode • 1st August 2025 • Season 15, Recording 7 of 8 • Meditation Intensive, 1984, EP7

The work begins with the body—relaxing shoulders, upright frame, attention between the eyebrows, and a steady descent of ease into the solar plexus. The practice is continuous letting-go of tension without collapse.

'You are not the mind; you are something extraordinary that rises through the mind.'

'It is not love that breaks the heart; it is attachment.'

EP.138 Meditation Intensive, 1984, EP6

Subscriber-only episode • 25th July 2025 • Season 15, Recording 6 of 8 • Meditation Intensive, 1984, EP6

The exercises of this session are designed to help participants connect with their true energies and love, and to bring consciousness into their bodies.

'Don't run from the pain; sit and contain it until it becomes life.'

EP.137 Karma is Not Just Personal | Personal Purification and Collective Spiritual Renewal

Free episode • 21st July 2025

In this episode 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.

Barry talks about the inescapable inheritance of human karma, suggesting acceptance of life's burdens and the surrender of futile resistance. Barry Long guides listeners toward releasing selfishness, accepting their circumstances, and discovering freedom through consciousness.

EP.136 The creation of this reality

Subscriber-only episode • 18th July 2025 • Season 15, Recording 5 of 8 • Meditation Intensive, 1984, EP5

Existence only appears to be continuous; in reality it is recreated each instant. Love is continuous because it is ever new as the source of the creation. The world resists such truth, so one must stand alone and test everything in direct experience.

'If you go deep inside yourself to the deepest, you will have to stand absolutely alone and many times doubt your own sanity.'

''I'm going to be this loneliness…' 'I'm going to actually enter it…' and when you do that, it'll turn to something else.'

EP.135 Solar plexus, the sun in your body

Subscriber-only episode • 12th July 2025 • Season 15, Recording 4 of 8 • Meditation Intensive, 1984, EP4

Barry teaches a practical descent of attention from the head to the solar plexus, the body's living sun, where love and passion arise without emotion.

'Be still. Still. Don't try to work anything out. Let the power work it out.'

'Passion has no emotion in it.'

'Love is the protection against all things.'

'To be utterly vulnerable is to be utter healing.'

EP.134 The psychic flame and the end of tension

Subscriber-only episode • 5th July 2025 • Season 15, Recording 3 of 8 • Meditation Intensive, 1984, EP3

The teaching directs attention from the thinking mind to the living body, especially the solar plexus, where true presence and the pure intellect appear.

'Life has no yesterdays.'

EP.133 The cosmos in the body

Subscriber-only episode • 28th June 2025 • Season 15, Recording 2 of 8 • Meditation Intensive, 1984, EP2

Presence is the test of consciousness: be totally here, withdraw from the senses, and enter the universe within; dissolve the worldly emotion dividing earth (feeling) and heavens (intellect) so the whole of life becomes the meditation.

'Happiness is to be truly alone so that you can be with anything.'

'You cannot be spontaneous until you are easy and united inside.'

EP.132 Stillness is the way

Subscriber-only episode • 21st June 2025 • Season 15, Recording 1 of 8 • Meditation Intensive, 1984, EP1

Meditation begins where the mind ends; when attachments are dropped stillness of mind reveals love without an object.

'Meditation is stillness. Stillness is the way. There is no other way but stillness.'

EP.131 Purpose in love, partnership, and aloneness

Subscriber-only episode • 6th June 2025 • Season 14, Recording 5 of 5 • Gold Coast Talks, 1996, EP5

Barry exposes purposelessness in love, partnership, and aloneness, and insists that real purpose is stillness—being now—while love between man and woman becomes purification and depth without losing intelligent attention.

'There is nothing more boring, more confusing, in love, in partnership or in our ordinary life, than not having purpose.'

'God has no opposite.'

'Not to be affected by what people say or think about you, either good or bad.'

'You don't need anything between you and God.'

EP.130 Only the body is real now

Subscriber-only episode • 30th May 2025 • Season 14, Recording 4 of 5 • Gold Coast Talks, 1996, EP4

Only now is real, and only the body is now. Thought and emotion are interpretations that remove us from being; sensation is the body's truth. To live spiritually is to be the body here, without feeling or self-judgement.

'You have no right to be unhappy.'

'What you want, God will deliver.'

'Stop listening to what people are saying and taking it to yourself, allowing it to upset yourself.'

EP.129 Purpose has no object, only subject

Subscriber-only episode • 23rd May 2025 • Season 14, Recording 3 of 5 • Gold Coast Talks, 1996, EP3

Purpose is not an object to attain but the living subject giving up negativity now; goals take time, purpose takes no time.

'The purpose of my life is to rid myself of negativity.'

EP.128 Nothing arising: the rarest state on Earth

Subscriber-only episode • 16th May 2025 • Season 14, Recording 2 of 5 • Gold Coast Talks, 1996, EP2

Barry Long invites immediate entry into being—stillness without object—by dropping emotions so the mind can go quiet. From this ground, consciousness (within) and awareness (without) are one, and life can be lived factually rather than emotionally.

'The rarest state on Earth is to be.'

'There is no object to being; it is the stillness and the silence behind the activity of the body and the mind.'

'To mourn is human ignorance.'

'Feelings are the cause of everybody's unhappiness.'

'Don't judge the situation—be true to the situation.'

EP.127 Simplicity of God and the burden of self

Subscriber-only episode • 9th May 2025 • Season 14, Recording 1 of 5 • Gold Coast Talks, 1996, EP1

God is simple; the complication is emotion. Look down from union, not up through opinions. Love by giving up yourself, act when you can, and when you can't, surrender without anxious caring.

'All you've got to do is love. To love means to give. To love means in every situation, to give of myself.'

'Presence and karma is past, and it is presence that destroys the past.'

EP.126 I’m doing well: three little words

Subscriber-only episode • 2nd May 2025 • Season 13, Recording 4 of 4 • Gold Coast Talks, 1995, EP4

Barry introduces three liberating words—'I'm doing well'—as a present-moment antidote to the mind's negativity, then builds a practical way of life from being rather than thinking.

'Action purifies. Action alone is pure. Thought is devilish and impure.'

'All feelings are negative, because they're about your likes and dislikes – they're about yourself.'

'You are not human beings. You are beings.'

'It is a magnificently ordered universe. The trouble with the human mind is it is disordered.'

'Stop trying to improve yourself…

'If 'service' makes you unhappy, give it up.'

EP.125 Bringing Your Divine Partner into Existence: The Secret to Perfect Love

Free episode • 28th April 2025

In this episode, Barry describes the journey from attachment to detachment. He explains that while the beauty of existence — in flowers, the sea, and human love — is real and wondrous, it is attachment to form that causes suffering. Living the spiritual life leads to living the life divine — a state that occurs when one ceases to live from the self, and a greater intelligence begins to live through one. As this unfolds, true union — free of possession — becomes possible, and one draws to oneself one's perfect mate. Barry says – '...your whole life is about bringing her or him into existence. Not someone outside you. Not a dream. But the true woman, the true man, the divine principle behind the body. And no one else can do it for you. You must live, love, and surrender enough for your true mate to be made real in your life.'

Barry goes on to describe the nature of the self: a band within the psyche where emotions and attachments dwell. He says that human suffering arises from being possessed by negative emotions rooted in the psychic realm, accumulated over generations. By acknowledging the good in life, loving purely without attachment, and surrendering the selfish will, individuals gradually illuminate their perfect body — a deeper, divine something within the psyche. The true purpose of life, Barry says, is to light up this perfect body through love and detachment, by undergoing the circumstances of one's life rightly — by suffering rightly. In time, a moment comes when suffering is no longer needed, when the self falls away and the psyche stands purified — and what is is the life divine.

EP.124 Gold Coast Talks, 1995, EP3

Subscriber-only episode • 25th April 2025 • Season 13, Recording 3 of 4 • Gold Coast Talks, 1995, EP3

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.

'The Angelic Realm has no division in it, no individuals in it, only individual consciousness.'

'In the enlightened state, there is no feeling and no thought.'

'There is no truth in any tradition.'

'Do not believe any scientist.'

EP.123 Freeing the prisoners within

Subscriber-only episode • 18th April 2025 • Season 13, Recording 2 of 4 • Gold Coast Talks, 1995, EP2

The talk exposes past resentments as 'prisoners' that block a living psychic flow, contrasts mental entertainment with vital being, and teaches a return to me—the vertical place of nothing—through honesty, stillness, and giving up positions.

'You are, first and foremost, a psychic system.'

'The prisoners are the emotional resentments and anger and frustrations expressed against other people.'

'Love needs no thought. Love is polluted by thought.'

EP.121 Metamorphosis

Free episode • 14th April 2025

In this episode Barry talks about metamorphosis, comparing our current state to being trapped in a cocoon – Barry says that people who come to him are ready for a fundamental change to their true, beautiful, and natural selves, which they have retrograded from. The primary obstacle preventing this metamorphosis is constant thinking, which takes us away from the present moment and our ability to simply be now.

Humans were once natural and didn't think, existing like butterflies, rhythmic and unafraid of death, unlike modern humans who are trapped in their cocoons and dread death. Barry describes the cocoon as the overwhelming amount of worldly information which distracts us from our own being and prevents us from experiencing true life. This constant bombardment of information comes at the price of our feeling of life and leads to a state of living death.

Barry urges you, the listener, to recognise that you are life and to leave behind the cocoon by being in the present moment.

EP.122 Radio Oxford Interview

Free episode • 14th April 2025

Barry Long demonstrates his one pointed love of truth in this engaging interview with David Freeman from 1984.

EP.120 Gold Coast Talks, 1995, EP1

Subscriber-only episode • 11th April 2025 • Season 13, Recording 1 of 4 • Gold Coast Talks, 1995, EP1

Suffering is caused by thought and allegiance to feeling; events only require right action, which needs looking, not thinking.

'Do you want to suffer anymore?'

'Action requires looking and looking at the situation, and if I look at the situation without thinking, I will see the next probable move.'

'In the enlightened state, you have no choice.'

EP.119 What it is to be new

Free episode • 10th April 2025 • What it is to be new

In this talk, Barry Long speaks about what it really means to be present in our relationships—and why that presence is so often missing. At the heart of his message is the idea of 'being new': approaching each moment, each interaction, and especially each relationship, without dragging in the past. He challenges the familiar habits of replaying old conversations, clinging to memories, or avoiding the truth for the sake of comfort. Barry points out that real love can only thrive in the now, not in routines or emotional leftovers. Through honest and intelligent conversations in our relationships we can drop the habits, be real, and stay awake to each moment—because that's where love is found.

EP.118 Everything happens in the human brain

Subscriber-only episode • 4th April 2025 • Season 12, Recording 7 of 7 • Gold Coast Talks, 1994 Dec, EP7

The talk grounds everything in the human brain, redefines God as the brain's intelligence—so present it is 'nothing'—and directs the listener to a still inner 'me' beneath the agitated 'self'. Freedom begins by accepting life as it is, then acting from that stillness.

'Everything is happening in the human brain… even out here is still in the human brain.'

'Space is the movie screen of the human brain.'

'Accept life as it is now, and a dynamic occurs – the next step becomes clear.'

EP.117 Discovering Truth

Free episode • 4th April 2025 • Discovering Truth

At the heart of this talk is a simple truth—reality is not found in thought, worries, or external distractions, it is here, now, in the direct experience of being the body and the senses. The state is found through entering the sensation and in the acknowledgement of being this simple, beautiful body. By seeing this truth and taking responsibility for our own state of being we can begin to free ourselves from the conditioning of the mind that keeps us trapped in unhappiness.

EP.116 What is love?

Free episode • 2nd April 2025 • What is love?

In this episode, Barry Long looks into the essence of love between man and woman, stressing the need for honesty, and intelligent communication. He addresses common relationship challenges, like man's inability to listen and women's emotional reactions, urging partners to communicate intelligently and uncover the cause of any distance between them. Barry also explores in built differences between man and woman and reassures that true intimacy stems from love, not performance. With practical insights, he encourages letting go of demands and using honesty to build deeper, more harmonious relationships.

'For a woman to be a real woman that is not to demand, but at the same time to be straight, that requires power and lack of emotion. For all emotion is force, and demand contains force.'

'Man, because he has, since time began, regarded himself through his superior physical strength to be superior to woman, does not like to listen to woman who might challenge his cherished attitudes.'

'A woman cannot have a man who wants to be independent… That's not a partnership. That's a relationship in which we both agreed to appear to be together, but go our own ways.'

'If you don't put love first, then you will grow apart by living together, you'll have this dark area between you.'

EP.115 Lighting the potential: beauty, love, service

Subscriber-only episode • 28th March 2025 • Season 12, Recording 6 of 7 • Gold Coast Talks, 1994 Sept, EP6

Existence has circumstances that end, but purpose has no end. Life's events—beauty, service, love—ignite the inborn potential. The work is to turn intelligence inward, be still, and let thought fall away so presence can be realised.

'Love alone communicates; devices only accelerate entertainment.'

'Death is like deep dreamless sleep—no subject, no object — nothing to fear.'

EP.114 Stand where you are: your circumstances are your life

Subscriber-only episode • 21st March 2025 • Season 12, Recording 5 of 7 • Gold Coast Talks, 1994 May, EP5

Your circumstances are your life. Take every practical step you can, then pause. In the pause, rest—this is the inner seventh day. Thought is the only problem; stillness is the cure.

EP.113 Ego as armour: protecting the wrong thing

Subscriber-only episode • 14th March 2025 • Season 12, Recording 4 of 7 • Gold Coast Talks, 1994 Apr, EP4

The ego should guard the body; instead it guards pain. Intelligence can turn inward to 'me', where nothing arises and peace is known, and from that stillness life is lived rightly.

'Your fear is the bushel hiding your light; uncover the breast and be fearless.'

'I am the intelligence in matter—looking out of your eyes, the crow's eyes, the horse's eyes.'

'Be of good cheer. Everything passes.'

EP.112 Returning to innocence as the years deepen

Subscriber-only episode • 7th March 2025 • Season 12, Recording 3 of 7 • Gold Coast Talks, 1994 Mar, EP3

Age is for becoming simple again—empty of self, free of moods, able to say 'I love you,' and at rest in being nothing.

'Age is supposed to be the movement back into innocence.'

EP.111 You are a cell in the body of humanity

Subscriber-only episode • 28th February 2025 • Season 12, Recording 2 of 7 • Gold Coast Talks, 1994 Feb, EP2

Barry Long presents humanity as one great body in which each person is a cell becoming self-luminous through the surrender to intelligence and living in the senses without being driven by the self's knot of pain.

'...you are a cell in the body of humanity.'

'Every cell is absolutely essential to the body of humanity.'

EP.110 Woman must be loved, not sexed

Subscriber-only episode • 21st February 2025 • Season 12, Recording 1 of 7 • Gold Coast Talks, 1994 Jan, EP1

The talk puts God first, exposes sex without love as the only devil, and shows how entering the silent 'me' ends the thinker and restores love to its purpose between man and woman.

'I have said I am god realized, because I love God so much that there is no space between me and God.'

'You can only think about what you are separate from.'

'Love doesn't have to think about anything.'

'Do not fight pain… Be the pain as much as possible.'

'Man is made for woman and woman is made for man.'

EP.109 Effortless love

Subscriber-only episode • 14th February 2025 • Season 11, Recording 2 of 2 • Truth of Love Seminar EP4

The talk distinguishes love from sex: love is present, effortless, uninterruptible; sex is effort, excitement, blame, and end-seeking. The work is to live love now, clearing emotion and restoring true union.

EP.108 The field and the ground

Subscriber-only episode • 7th February 2025 • Season 11, Recording 1 of 2 • Truth of Love Seminar EP3

Barry distinguishes the field of perception from the ground of love, showing how understanding arises without memory and how thinking is powered by stored emotion.

EP.107 Love and Growing Old

Free episode • 21st January 2025

Aging often brings a heightened sense of perspective. Work and career pressures typically recede, children grow up and become independent, and many of the responsibilities that once seemed urgent begin to fall away. Yet, for some, there is also a sense of finality—an assumption that certain doors are closed for good. Barry Long, in his talk delivered in Bristol in August 1991, speaks to this.

EP.106 Beyond the ninety years: widening the lens of life

Subscriber-only episode • 10th January 2025 • Season 10, Recording 7 of 7 • Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP7

The talk contrasts mortal living with immortal being and invites a life of pauses, presence, and love without force.

'You cannot take the kingdom of heaven by force.'

EP.105 Love is not a feeling

Subscriber-only episode • 3rd January 2025 • Season 10, Recording 6 of 7 • Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP6

The teaching exposes feelings as negative, urges honest action to put life in order, and shifts feelings of love from emotion to sensation and knowledge.

'Action purifies, and as soon as you take the slightest action… it's like a breath of fresh air.'

'Every feeling you will ever have will be negative.'

'Don't fight when you're dying… let go.'

'What you acknowledge you get.'

EP.104 Breaking Free From the Cycle of Suffering

Free episode • 31st December 2024 • Beyond the Human Condition: The Sacrifice of Self

In this talk Barry explores the profound question of why humans suffer, delving into the intricacies of human emotions and the illusions that perpetuate suffering. He challenges narratives that trap individuals in cycles of pain and suffering, pointing to the deep-seated human propensity for attachment – our tendency to cling to what causes us pain. Barry says that by moving beyond emotional suffering and embracing the stillness of being individuals can uncover a life of profound liberation and peace – this is the sacrifice of the self – and the next step in our evolution.

'Are you ready and prepared to give up your old attachment to your feelings, which have never served you at all?'

'I ask you not to torture someone else, but to bite the bullet and give up being emotional because you have the insight to look into your life and see what is making me emotional.'

'What is making me emotional? Where am I unhappy with an event or a person? It's simple, isn't it?'

EP.103 The human condition exposed: anger, guilt, resentment, and self-judgement

Subscriber-only episode • 27th December 2024 • Season 10, Recording 5 of 7 • Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP5

Stop fighting life. Accept what is, refuse speculation, and let intelligence show the next right step.

'Define the self: myself is the accumulation of all the unhappy emotions that I have had since I was born.'

'Worry—thinking about something—gives it life.'

'Partnership is for enjoying being together, not for arguing.'

'Enlightenment is to be so ordinary that you're extraordinary.'

EP.102 Looking, not thinking

Subscriber-only episode • 20th December 2024 • Season 10, Recording 4 of 7 • Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP4

The talk distinguishes the quiet 'me' from the agitated 'self,' teaches pausing, looking, and letting 'now' present the action, and grounds intelligence in the body doing one thing at a time.

'If you don't know what to do, do nothing.'

'Thinking never solves anything.'

'Go for the biggest Yes.'

'There are no guarantees in this life.'

EP.101 Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP3

Subscriber-only episode • 13th December 2024 • Season 10, Recording 3 of 7 • Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP3

The meeting contrasts the original divine creation with the building of man's world. Man's world accelerates corruption and pain, but the sustaining divine power remains untouched and ever present holding it all together.

'God made the earth, man made the world.'

EP.100 Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP2

Subscriber-only episode • 6th December 2024 • Season 10, Recording 2 of 7 • Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP2

Barry distinguishes me—the silent, living being—from myself—the bundle of emotions and past—showing how loyalty to emotion blocks the way into me. Practising brief descents into stillness restores rightness and intelligence that can love without belief or excitement.

'Love is not an emotion. Love is a state.'

'What I acknowledge I get… anything I don't acknowledge will leave me or die from want of acknowledgement.'

'Give up wanting; then things come to you.'

'God out of existence… comes into existence and bifurcates as man and woman.'

'Action is purification; thinking puts it off.'

EP.99 Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP1

Subscriber-only episode • 29th November 2024 • Season 10, Recording 1 of 7 • Talks at Koningshof, 1997, EP1

Barry anchors truth in lived experience, exposes materialism's hold, and invites a direct descent from emotional self to the still 'me,' where being replaces reaction and love sheds attachment.

'As you dissolve this emotional self… you start to discover a new authority arising in its place.'

'To be able to change your life, you have to first of all accept it as it is.'

EP.97 Love between man and woman

Free episode • 12th November 2024 • Love between man and woman

This talk explores the difference between human love and the eternal love of God. Quoting of his song Bhagavati, he illustrates the essence of true love: free from each other yet deeply connected by the love of God. Barry emphasizes that in sex, the imagination only fuels psychic possession and warns of the psychic realm's influence on human experience, explaining how emotional love is warm, while true love is detached, clear, and free. Through the stillness of consciousness man and woman can experience love not as an emotion but as a profound state of being—cold, unwavering, and beyond manipulation.

'Love never, ever broke anyone's heart. You wouldn't gather that from any of the movies or any of the stories of love. Love never broke anyone's heart. It is attachment emotion that breaks the heart.'

EP.91 Transforming Sex into Love

Free episode • 12th November 2024

Barry explores one of the most unique aspects of his teaching—the distinction between sex and love. He reveals how this revolutionary change can make your most intimate relationship an ever deepening expression of love. Barry explains how transforming the selfish drive of sex into love is essential for spiritual development, leading to a deeper union between man and woman. With practical wisdom and spiritual depth, this down-to-earth talk outlines the steps that ultimately lead to the mystical union of man and woman.

'All love, fundamentally, is the love of that, the love of God, the love of it that is behind everything.'

'When you love somebody, you can only love anything to the degree that you have a knowledge of this original love within you, the love of being one and not being many.'

'There's no such thing as friendship between men and women. It's only that you means that you're both afraid.'

EP.98 Love is not a condition (short)

Free episode • 12th November 2024 • Love is not a condition (short)

What if everything you've been taught about love is wrong? In this short talk, Barry Long challenges the common belief that love and joy are emotions, revealing instead that they are inner states of being—always present, unconditional, and free from attachment. In a world that confuses love with emotional attachment, this talk invites you to see beyond conditioning and experience love and joy as they truly are.

EP.93 What You Acknowledge You Get

Free episode • 12th November 2024 • What You Acknowledge You Get

Barry highlights the power of acknowledgment—what you acknowledge, you get. He explores how the mind's fixation on negativity fuels unhappiness and how shifting our focus to the present and appreciating life's simple goodness can transform our circumstances. Barry explains the importance of seeing facts rather than being caught in emotions, the role of meditation in ending worry, and the necessity of clearing psychological blockages to restore life's natural flow. With deep insight, he offers a practical approach to living with clarity, presence, and gratitude.

'Once in a relationship, you stop acknowledging each other, death–living death–sets in.'

'When you acknowledge the good in your life… then that goodness somehow or other… returns to you.'

EP.96 Love, life, and intelligence

Free episode • 12th November 2024 • Love, life, and intelligence

Barry talks about the two key areas of his teaching - Love and Meditation. Condensing the essence of his teaching on these subjects he outlines a profound summary on love between man and woman. Moving into the area of meditation he reviews the four stages of practice, and guides the listener into their sensation, and then beyond with insights into the symbolic power of the sun, the earth, and the importance of remembering the original state of life.

'Your experience is not to show you what you enjoy. Your experience is to show you what you don't enjoy, so that you become wise.'

'Love is always a healing thing. Otherwise, it's not love. Love is not an argument. Love has never argued yet and never will.'

'You cannot accuse or blame anyone for any part of your life. The first thing to be responsible is not to blame or accuse any other.'

'It is unholy to harbour resentment against any other human being in your life, no matter what… you are flogging yourself, not the other.'

EP.95 The Female in Woman

Free episode • 12th November 2024 • The Female in Woman

Barry explores the deep spiritual essence of the female and the impact that modern conditioning has on woman. He distinguishes between the pure female essence and the emotional, assertive woman shaped by experience, emphasizing that true fulfillment comes from reconnecting with the natural female purity. Barry offers practical guidance on cultivating love and harmony in relationships, advising woman to prioritize truth over emotional attachments. He also critiques certain spiritual teachers and communities and leads a meditation to help listeners quiet the mind and reconnect with the pure sensation of being.

'Unless woman starts to be what she is, man can't be what he is, and that's been the difficulty.'

'To be spiritual is to be unburdened. To be spiritual is to be joyous, not just because your personality is being putting on an act, but because it's rising from in you.'

'The world made by man and woman is choking the living life out of this planet as fast as it can, choking the living life out of… everything that is natural.'

EP.92 Dissolving Emotion and Living in the Present

Free episode • 12th November 2024 • Dissolving Emotion and Living in the Present

Barry reveals a powerful principle for dissolving emotion—without searching the past for its cause. He then guides listeners on a inner journey into the stillness and silence of 'Me'—the one place within that is free from emotion. Through this deep inner descent, he points to the limitless depths of silence and the ultimate realization of God within.

'All emotion is past.'

'The present is never emotional. I am never emotional in the present.'

'Thought will never, ever lead you to the truth.'

'You will never be free while you live to take or to get.'

EP.90 Emotions

Free episode • 12th November 2024

Barry takes a profound look at the human condition, revealing its cause and cure in a clear and powerful way. He explains how our emotions are tied to past personalities—versions of ourselves formed in earlier experiences—resurfacing in the present and distorting our perception. Barry provides deep insights into how emotion fuels itself and how we can break free from these patterns to live with greater clarity and presence. Tune in for a compelling exploration of human nature and the path to spiritual freedom.

EP.94 Karma, Consequence, and Freedom

Free episode • 12th November 2024 • Karma, Consequence, and Freedom

Barry looks into the connection between karma, consequence, and spiritual freedom. He explains that karma is not just a mystical idea but the ongoing accumulation of past actions and their inevitable effects. Challenging conventional religious teachings, Barry emphasizes that true liberation comes from breaking free of emotional attachments like anger and resentment—patterns that keep us trapped in suffering. He guides listeners toward a state of 'innocence,' a space of detachment that protects against the world's tensions. The episode also includes a meditation, helping listeners connect with pure intelligence and the stillness of being.

EP.89 Gold Coast Talks, 1993 Dec

Subscriber-only episode • 8th November 2024 • Season 9, Recording 6 of 6 • Gold Coast Talks, 1993 Dec

The talk distinguishes the untroubled 'me' from the restless 'self' and trains attention to look into the inner black—nothing that never moves—so intelligence becomes one-pointed and free of commentary.

'One-pointed… unwavering… nothing arising… – that is the state of liberation.'

'Action alone purifies—nothing else.'

'Love is a giving.'

'The pain of trying to get rid of pain makes more pain.'

EP.88 Giving Life what Life wants

Subscriber-only episode • 1st November 2024 • Season 9, Recording 5 of 6 • Gold Coast Talks, 1993 July

Barry Long on giving life what life wants — not through religion or belief, but through stillness, honesty, and the end of wanting. A practical talk on freedom, love, and living without unhappiness.

'Each of you is a porthole, a window into the miracle and the magic of the human psyche.'

EP.87 The ego as God’s burglar alarm

Subscriber-only episode • 25th October 2024 • Season 9, Recording 4 of 6 • Gold Coast Talks, 1993 June

The talk leads from facing 'myself' to entering the still, black nothing called being, where consciousness is prior to awareness and love is fulfilled rather than experienced.

EP.86 Gold Coast Talks, 1993 Apr

Subscriber-only episode • 18th October 2024 • Season 9, Recording 3 of 6 • Gold Coast Talks, 1993 Apr

Barry Long leads a practical crossing 'through the mirror' into the intimate 'me', then shows how hell arises as restless, stored emotion; how 'What about me?' signals descent; and how clean action, responsibility in love, and true mastery restore peace.

'Nothing arising is peace.'

'The next time you have the feeling 'What about me?' – you're about to descend into the underworld.'

'What I acknowledge I become.'

'Mastery is not control. The Master does not control—he masters by love.'

'Action stops the demons; thinking feeds them.'

EP.85 All emotion is past, the present is clear

Subscriber-only episode • 11th October 2024 • Season 9, Recording 2 of 6 • Gold Coast Talks, 1993 Mar

EP.84 Gold Coast Talks, 1993 Jan

Subscriber-only episode • 4th October 2024 • Season 9, Recording 1 of 6 • Gold Coast Talks, 1993 Jan

Barry Long overturns the mind's habit of problem-hunting, asking for acknowledgement of the good and action for the situation rather than self consideration.

'Always acknowledge the good first.'

'You will always suffer when you think about yourself.'

'The universal truth is– to love is to give.'

EP.83 July 1999, EP12 - Partnership Without Conflict

Subscriber-only episode • 30th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 12 of 12 • July 1999, EP12 - Partnership Without Conflict

Barry dismantles the habit of 'discussing the relationship,' calling it the end of love, and asks partners to give up positions, defences, and debates and simply love one another.

'Any discussion is the end of love.'

'You can't discuss love. You just love.'

'A woman loves to be loved.'

'There is no righteous resentment.'

EP.82 July 1999, EP11 - The Mad Scientist

Subscriber-only episode • 26th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 11 of 12 • July 1999, EP11 - The Mad Scientist

The spirit recreates everything now, and only one change is possible—your self—through surrender of self and belief in civilisation's promises.

'The world is an imposition on the glorious, beautiful earth…'

'You can't change anything… except one thing. You can change yourself.'

'The pure psyche… consists of the appreciation of the beauty of the earth.'

'I suggest that you make the experiment your own consciousness… study the subject, which is you.'

EP.81 July 1999, EP10 - Feelings and Knowledge

Subscriber-only episode • 24th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 10 of 12 • July 1999, EP10 - Feelings and Knowledge

Feelings are unreliable because they are moved by information; knowledge is steady because it is a state, finer than feelings. The work is to take the film out of the camera and see through the lens only.

'Love is not a feeling.'

'Power is not force.'

EP.80 The distractions of the internet | The Endangered Earth

Subscriber-only episode • 21st September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 9 of 12 • July 1999, EP9

The internet is an outsized copy of human memory that entertains, addicts, and distracts from real knowledge.

'No woman will deceive a man who truly loves her… it only means that you, for one, did not love enough.'

'A violent man or a violent woman is a sexual man or woman… the frustration of not being able to love is what causes the violence.'

'The mad scientists are determined to make us leave these beautiful bodies… abandoning the earth.'

EP.79 Taking Charge of Your Life

Subscriber-only episode • 18th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 8 of 12 • July 1999, EP8

The talk goes into examining the human addiction to emotional highs and the inevitable lows that follow, showing how imagined love and feeling-based living create dependence, fear, and depression. It points back to the unmoved intelligence that is not excited or depressed by anything.

'For every up, there's a down, and everyone's struggling to get ups all the time.'

EP.78 The Human Condition (is one of suffering and attachment to suffering)

Free episode • 17th September 2024

In this episode, Barry describes the human condition as one of suffering or attachment to suffering. He says, 'I define the self—my self—as the accumulation of all the unhappy emotions I have experienced since birth. Each emotion, from infancy through childhood, and especially the disastrous sexual experiences, disappointments, bitterness, and heartbreak—all of it gathers in the subconscious as emotion.'

Barry continues, 'The better things get, the more the self will try to destroy it—your own self, not someone else's—because it's made of pain. Whenever there is harmony or sweetness in a relationship or within your own body, the self emerges. Once the self, which is pain, enters a painless situation, that situation inevitably becomes painful.' This, he says, is our fundamental human condition.

'If I get angry, I have unhappiness in me… Can I get rid of this anger forever? Yes, of course—if I take responsibility for it.'

'Worrying—thinking about something—gives it life.'

'Partnership is for enjoying being together, not for arguing.'

EP.77 True To the Situation, Not Emotion

Subscriber-only episode • 16th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 7 of 12 • July 1999, EP7

The meeting works through real-life situations to show how suffering ends when you are true to the situation rather than to emotion.

'What you acknowledge you get. If you acknowledge death, you get death. If you acknowledge life, you get life.'

'You are responsible for your life.'

'Your body is a space suit made for you the intelligence that you are.'

'The past does not exist except in the emotions of man and woman.'

EP.76 Beyond All Traditions

Subscriber-only episode • 14th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 6 of 12 • July 1999, EP6

A living master transmits what no doctrine can; acknowledge only the good, give up feelings for knowledge, and let self surrender to the immanent God that is renewing everything now.

'You must only acknowledge the good, and then the other disappears.'

'Feelings of love are false and psychic.'

'Prayer should be gratitude for what I have, not an asking, not a trying to get, but a giving in good times like now.'

'There is no bad in my life. There's none.'

EP.75 The Grand Secret

Subscriber-only episode • 12th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 5 of 12 • July 1999, EP5

Death is a mystery; life is the test of what one truly values. What is good, right and true must make one's living life better now. The way is to relinquish negative emotions and self-addiction so the pure psyche shines through.

'That has to be the test of anything. Does it contribute to the harmony in my life, to the rightness in my life?'

'Great suffering… will bring us to a point where we give up thinking and we give up feelings.'

'What happens when you deny yourself or sacrifice yourself—a hole appears in the web… and in there is the pure psyche.'

'When you get angry, you create a bridge… and the humanity's anger flows into you.'

EP.74 The Great Romance of Life and God

Subscriber-only episode • 10th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 4 of 12 • July 1999, EP4

Romance is reality when negativity ends now; acknowledge the good, return to the body, and let Consciousness transform the experiment of life.

'Everything turns out all right in the end, and that's how it is in your life, my life, and everybody's life in the end, but the end can be now.'

'Acknowledge what everyone in your life has done for you, not what people have done to you.'

'Life delivers the goods for a while, then snatches them back, until you come to your senses.'

EP.73 The speed of now: A Journey Through the Psyche

Subscriber-only episode • 7th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 3 of 12 • July 1999, EP3

The three worlds—physical, psyche, spirit—coexist in the body, but only spirit and body truly meet when the psyche's self-made circuit is transcended.

'There is an uncrossable line between each world to demonstrate the physical cannot enter the psychic.'

'All your yearning, all your longing, all your wanting, is going to stay in the psyche forever and ever.'

'If I realize the spirit, my life starts to improve.'

'Love unites.'

EP.72 The divine necessity of the body and the clear psyche

Subscriber-only episode • 4th September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 2 of 12 • July 1999, EP2

The psyche spins in circles, returning us to the same problems. Freedom begins by refusing interpretation and returning to the physical body—seeing and hearing without adding feelings or thought. The body is made new each moment by Spirit; this immediacy is the beginning.

'Only acknowledgement keeps something alive in our lives.'

EP.71 Three worlds, one being: physical, psychic, spiritual

Subscriber-only episode • 1st September 2024 • Season 8, Recording 1 of 12 • July 1999, EP1

The talk opens by placing value on being with realised consciousness—Darshan—above words, then maps three worlds: physical, psychic, and spiritual. The spirit renews the body each instant, while the psyche spirals in repetition and cannot cross to spirit. Only self-sacrifice removes impediments.

'In these five days, I'm going to take you into the state of being as far as I can do that, and as far as that is allowed by the will of God, the will of the spirit.'

'The physical world is a divine necessity.'

'You can only go to the spirit by self sacrifice.'

'It is an utterly self-destructive process to find the spirit.'

EP.70 How to work miracles

Subscriber-only episode • 30th August 2024 • Season 7, Recording 12 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, December

Working miracles is to feel what is truly wanted without name or image and remain present with it; the feeling itself aligns with the inevitable will and draws right life to you.

'All you got to do is know what you want, and you hold to it, not mentally or emotionally, which is normal wanting, but by presence in yourself.'

'That's how you bring peace and fulfillment and rightness, right people, right surroundings, right house, right place, right being to you.'

'In the monastery of the world, you don't blame anyone ever again.'

EP.69 Divining the gold within: gratitude as the way

Subscriber-only episode • 23rd August 2024 • Season 7, Recording 11 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, November

The talk begins outdoors among birds and nature, and moves straight to clarity: the world without rises from the reality within. Divining is reclaimed from prediction and made practical—feel gratitude now, and you divine the gold of divine love.

'Nothing can happen to you externally that is not determined by the state or condition within you.'

'You can either quit a situation or you can surrender… you can do change until it's time.'

EP.68 From secret to sacred: keeping the line clear

Subscriber-only episode • 17th August 2024 • Season 7, Recording 10 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, October

The talk opens in living nature and moves straight to freedom: accept yourself without action or reaction, and the energy for real change appears. From there, it exposes everyday lying, clarifies the sacred versus the merely secret, and sets a radical order for relationship and service. It closes by confronting the false gods of food and money, and by urging surrender beyond competition into simple doing of one's best.

'Freedom begins by facing up and accepting yourself as you are, where you are, now.'

'There must be no action and no reaction, just the seeing of the fact.'

'Every association that you are involved in is sacred.'

EP.67 Ready to say goodbye, ready to die

Subscriber-only episode • 12th August 2024 • Season 7, Recording 9 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, September

The talk asks whether one is ready to say goodbye—which means ready to die—and shows that maturity is a life and love fully acknowledged, with nothing left unsaid to partner, child, parent, or the earth.

'Liberation is not having to say goodbye, because I've said it all by my presence.'

'You don't have to love them if you don't, you just know that everyone has done their best.'

EP.66 Master of the West

Free episode • 9th August 2024

In this talk, Barry Long gets real about what it means to be truly present in your life. He invites us to stop living in our heads, cut through the noise of this information-overloaded culture, and reconnect with something simple but powerful — our actual, felt experience of being alive. At the heart of the message is a call to ground ourselves in the vital body — that deeper sense of being that doesn't rely on memory, thinking, or emotional drama. He challenges the Western obsession with competition, therapy, and intellectual understanding, and instead speaks to the real joy and clarity that comes from feeling the truth for yourself, in your body, right now. If you're tired of chasing happiness and ready to feel alive again, this one's for you.

EP.65 The teacher and the master: need versus presence

Subscriber-only episode • 6th August 2024 • Season 7, Recording 8 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, August

The teacher serves need; the master is presence. Emotion must be faced; love knows where to be—physically with the master who mirrors the inner truth.

'When you are with the Master, you have no more questions; miraculously, they fall away.'

'There is no spiritual path when you are the master of yourself…'

EP.64 Acknowledgement, not thanks, makes love grow

Subscriber-only episode • 1st August 2024 • Season 7, Recording 7 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, July

The talk distinguishes shallow thanks from living acknowledgement, which ripens into gratitude—the true prayer that gives of itself and returns as more love in children, partners, and daily work.

'If you are unhappy in your life, it's because you are not being acknowledged.'

'God needs acknowledgement. Nature needs acknowledgement. Everything needs acknowledgement, just as you and I do.'

'It is life's pleasure that you enjoy yourself.'

'God does not understand you. God knows you.'

EP.63 Quantity and quality: the two sciences of life

Subscriber-only episode • 28th July 2024 • Season 7, Recording 6 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, June

The talk contrasts present, quantitative science with a new science of consciousness that honours the quality of life—love and truth—now.

'Present science is concerned with quantity. The new science… is concerned with the quality of life.'

'Do what you do, pay the price, but enjoy what you're doing—or why the hell are you doing it?'

'You don't need the 10 Commandments if you can hear the truth.'

'Life is not fragile. Life is beautiful.'

EP.62 The master who comes from inner space

Subscriber-only episode • 26th July 2024 • Season 7, Recording 5 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, May

The talk keeps the listener in the present while recounting the past arrival of a living master, unveiling the inner universe, the priority of feeling over knowledge, and the practical triad of possibility–opportunity–actuality that ends confusion and exposes the subtle craving for what we already have.

'You want what you have now… That is your attachment.'

'Computers will never, ever have the transcendental knowledge, because a computer cannot feel.'

'You have to go through feeling… to reach the point of the divine knowledge.'

EP.61 No soul, no self, only I now

Subscriber-only episode • 24th July 2024 • Season 7, Recording 4 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, April

The talk dismantles 'soul' and 'self' as structures of unhappiness and separation, revealing only I—being—now. Duality collapses, and with it the need for hope.

EP.60 Sea against land: truth erodes resistance

Subscriber-only episode • 22nd July 2024 • Season 7, Recording 3 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, March

The talk opens on Tamborine Mountain with birds and lilies, then turns to a living metaphor: the sea as truth, the land as resistance. Truth constantly presses; suffering is standing against it. The answer is to be the matter you are and apply the truth of now, without study or intermediaries.

'You cannot study the truth.'

'The truth is all consuming.'

'God will not be particularized. Life will not be particularized.'

'Either God does everything or God does nothing.'

EP.59 Guardian of the threshold: your life as it is

Subscriber-only episode • 20th July 2024 • Season 7, Recording 2 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, February

'Guardian of the threshold' means your life as it is, demanding direct confrontation with recurring problems. The guardian is the entirety of your past manifesting now.

'There is no spiritual path.'

'The only spiritual practice is being now.'

'The brain can never find the truth.'

'You will never reach God in the future.'

'The guardian of the threshold represents the sum total of your entire existence.'

'Either quit all unhappiness in your life or surrender to it.'

'No saviour is going to come and save you.'

EP.58 The electromagnetic net over the earth

Subscriber-only episode • 17th July 2024 • Season 7, Recording 1 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1988, January

Set on a mountainside, the talk confronts recent killings to expose the root: violence begins in the head when sensation rises uncontained; the work is to drop it to the stomach and live now.

'Looking forward is a drug, an addiction...'

'The common mind is in the marketplace, utterly identified with the currency of money.'

'This is an electromagnetic net… now being thrown over everyone on Earth.'

EP.57 Appalling shadow and the pall of life

Subscriber-only episode • 15th July 2024 • Season 6, Recording 12 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, December

A discourse on the appalling shadow shows how negativity and excitement collude, and how equilibrium and joy erase the manipulation within.

'How dare you fill your heart with sorrow?'

'When you find something of value, even one thing – it is something that no one can ever take from you.'

'Laziness is the same as hurrying.'

'No surgical operation or accident can prevent the full psycho spiritual functioning of your body.'

EP.56 Smash the dams of self

Subscriber-only episode • 13th July 2024 • Season 6, Recording 11 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, November

A personal disclosure becomes a mirror: use the disturbance to look within, then follow a teaching on dying versus not dying, the unhappy human animal, fulfilment through doing, and the Earth Spirit as love in every sense; end by smashing inner dams and setting all in its place.

'The most dangerous animal amongst all animals is man… He's the only unhappy animal.'

'The secret of fulfilment is doing what you want, not getting what you want.'

'Up-going must turn to down-going. Depression follows excitement.'

'You have constructed little dams in your psyche… the dam is the self… when the damming of life is released, the river of life flows free, splashing and roaring…'

EP.55 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, October

Subscriber-only episode • 9th July 2024 • Season 6, Recording 10 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, October

The 'awful truth' arrives as the moment when hope dies and everything seems lost; beneath it is life. Meeting this intensity demands responsibility: either we do it, or it is done to us.

'Wrong pleasure… reduces the speed or sensitivity of the consciousness.'

'Lust is in the head.'

'All sex shops begin in the head, not in this beautiful body.'

'The purpose of man and woman is to provide each other with the highest speed of consciousness in the flesh.'

EP.54 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, September

Subscriber-only episode • 5th July 2024 • Season 6, Recording 9 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, September

Love is present, not remembered; loving a memory creates all hurt. The senses and music can soothe, but only being love ends division.

'Wisdom is knowing what you know.'

'Music is a substitute for love.'

'Double standards are when you say you believe in something but you do something else.'

'All mental and emotional suffering without exception, comes from my being willful.'

EP.53 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, August

Subscriber-only episode • 28th June 2024 • Season 6, Recording 8 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, August

In the night when worry rises, enter the body and shine awareness as the sun of 'I' until peace comes.

'Love is simple. Truth is straight.'

EP.52 Can you handle the truth?

Free episode • 28th June 2024

Barry Long invites the audience to take a real look at life — not with theories or beliefs, but with their own experience. The most recurring message throughout is simple but powerful: truth isn't something to be found in books, opinions, or even spiritual teachings — it has to be felt and lived, right now, in the present moment.

He challenges our usual habits of chasing answers, worrying about the future, or getting stuck in emotional reactions. Instead, he points us back to the quiet goodness already inside us — that deep-down sense of peace we often overlook. This talk is a wake-up call to stop looking outside for solutions and start taking responsibility for our inner life, separating real love from emotional pain, and reconnecting with the body, the senses and the truth that's already here.

From a talk in June 1987.

EP.51 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, July

Subscriber-only episode • 21st June 2024 • Season 6, Recording 7 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, July

Barry directs attention to the starry heavens—the 'Most High'—as the living sign of God, then brings the listener inward to the 'sense of sense' in the solar plexus where life is truly registered.

'When you hear a bird sing… the response which is the feeling, comes from the solar plexus region.'

'Courage is to do what you do and not do what you don't do.'

'Only action is real. If you can't take action… there's no problem, because you can't take action.'

'You don't get rid of the ego… Get rid of the dissatisfaction, and you'll never be bothered by the ego again.'

'To be alone is to be able to live on the top of the highest summit… in my solitariness, but not in isolation.'

EP.50 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, June

Subscriber-only episode • 17th June 2024 • Season 6, Recording 6 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, June

Culture trains children to mirror our dramas. Barry invites parents and partners to stop modelling unhappiness and to demonstrate equilibrium instead. A parable of a freezing polar bear exposes how we're taught to accept unhappiness as 'normal'. Barry shows how to rise from the rigid set of 'human being' into the class of being by saying yes to what is and dropping attachment to what was.

'We program our children that it's okay to be unhappy by our conduct.'

'I am not going to be any longer a human being. I'm going to give up my humanness. I become, instead of a human being, I become being.'

'What is is best.'

'Stress arises from attachment.'

EP.49 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, May

Subscriber-only episode • 13th June 2024 • Season 6, Recording 5 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, May

The talk begins by ending the fiction of two wills. Willfulness is a belief that creates two wills where there is one; unity is found by refusing to divide and by being oneself now.

'Arrogance is to believe that someone apart from God or the integrity of life does anything.'

'The people of the East … are one with God the good.'

'The West entertains itself, and every night the people cry alone.'

EP.48 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, April

Subscriber-only episode • 10th June 2024 • Season 6, Recording 4 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, April

Feeling—now—is the only reliable mirror. Either you are enshrouded in the deathly heaviness of problems or enrobed in the lightness of life. Thinking cannot tell you; sensation does.

'Are you shrouded in problems, dark, with your self made burdens? Or are you robed in life, light, easiness in your natural state?'

'You are your own torturer.'

'Life now is love now.'

'Do your best or don't do it at all.'

EP.47 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, March

Subscriber-only episode • 8th June 2024 • Season 6, Recording 3 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, March

The talk opens with language—how English, made materialistic, lost the sacred second person. 'Thee and thou' once named love; their absence mirrors our estrangement. Restoring the second person restores the sacred between us.

'You say you want the truth, but when it comes down to it, you don't want it.'

'By doing or surrendering, you eliminate that disgruntled, discontented, worrying, hiding spurious thing called self.'

'In the truth, you cannot take two steps at once.'

'The spirit doesn't repeat itself.'

'Experience is always in the past.'

'Everyone that takes cocaine is looking for love, looking for the experience of love.'

EP.46 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, February

Subscriber-only episode • 6th June 2024 • Season 6, Recording 2 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, February

Living is meeting what comes now; 'trying' is the restless attempt to meet life in advance. When upset, one is tired of trying, not living. Release attachment, face the facts here, and the strain dissolves.

'There is no hurt between two people. The only hurt is in the body that holds on to it.'

'You must die to your hurt.'

'Man is God's gift to woman.'

'Can you handle making love?'

EP.45 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, January

Subscriber-only episode • 4th June 2024 • Season 6, Recording 1 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1989, January

The session begins by entering the whole sensation of the body—the living truth—and remaining undivided while negative feelings rise like jets in a fountain. Hold to the whole and the brain cannot fragment you into problems.

'Only doing is real.'

'Once I realise the mind, the brain is then a perfect instrument, a beautiful thing.'

'While you have fear, you cannot find the truth, and the truth will make you fearful, test you all the time, all the way.'

'Every woman is giving birth to her own unhappiness.'

EP.44 Taking charge of your own life OR Being responsible for your own life

Free episode • 3rd June 2024 • Taking charge of your own life OR Being responsible for your own life

The talk goes into examining the human addiction to emotional highs and the inevitable lows that follow, showing how imagined love and feeling-based living create dependence, fear, and depression. It points back to the unmoved intelligence that is not excited or depressed by anything.

EP.43 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, December

Subscriber-only episode • 30th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 12 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, December

A farewell from Tamborine Mountain: listen for the new, put the head back on the body, be thee, burn the dead emotions, and love by telling everything so that liftoff to uninterrupted cosmic consciousness is lived here and now.

'To listen, you must be still, and give up looking to hear for what you already know; listening is listening for the new...'

'To love is to be able to tell your partner, anything, everything that you are doing and thinking...'

'I will not make a problem of my life or my love.'

EP.42 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, November

Subscriber-only episode • 27th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 11 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, November

Barry announces the photonic age as a revelation of cosmic consciousness moving faster than light, with UFOs appearing only when they slow into existence; current science and its structures cannot hold this.

'The photonic age is associated with my revelation of cosmic consciousness.'

'UFOs exceed the speed of light, but when they appear, they reduce their speed into the speed of light.'

'The photonic age has no room for present scientific thought.'

'Sex is the world's chief depressant, then alcohol, then recreational drugs.'

EP.41 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, October

Subscriber-only episode • 25th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 10 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, October

Enter the body by feeling me, start with the good or with sensation, and only then acknowledge disturbance.

'You are born with well being in your body.'

EP.40 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, September

Subscriber-only episode • 23rd May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 9 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, September

Humanity has abandoned being for minding, going outward towards it's demise; in epochal time the race readies to leave the planet while the spiritual way home is into the energetic Earth behind the sensory creation.

'The earth you see today is only 50% of what it was...'

'Mars is only good for the mind.'

'Outer space is the mirror of man's abstracted mind...'

'Cosmic Consciousness is to see life as it is now, and in that to know immediately what is to be.'

'What you don't acknowledge or appreciate every day, every moment – you will lose.'

EP.39 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, August

Subscriber-only episode • 18th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 8 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, August

The talk opens with physical refraction to show how consciousness is altered by existence into appearing as physical form, then turns to non-attachment in action and omission, the refusal to judge situations, and the stillness needed for the divine life and beyond.

'Nothing is as it seems.'

'Be still.'

'Do not be misled by mediums.'

'All mediums bend the truth,'

'I must not be attached to what I do. I must also not be attached to what I don't do.'

'Cosmic Consciousness is now a realizable possibility for a number of people on Earth.'

'Love is letting go.'

EP.38 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, July

Subscriber-only episode • 16th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 7 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, July

The talk traces a journey from feeling to knowing, sets experience above theory, honours woman as living art, distinguishes purusha from 'Self', and brings bliss down to the body's stillness after love, where power is made by containment and deep dreamless sleep becomes conscious.

'Ascending from feeling into knowing is an essential stage of the divine life.'

'In the knowing of love, there is no doubt or fear.'

'Woman is the art of art.'

'The quintessence of life is deep, dreamless sleep… the power to remain in the equivalent of deep, dreamless sleep while awake.'

EP.37 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, June

Subscriber-only episode • 13th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 6 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, June

A man in London writes of handling love's pressure by being practical, not reactive. From there comes a working mantra—'Don't judge the situation'—and a tour of where power leaks and how to stop it: fasting, silence, saying only what's necessary, and ending decisions.

'Talking when you don't have to is a waste of power.'

'To know what you're doing is the end of decision-making, and when you no longer feel obliged to make decisions, you're choiceless, conscious, and that's power.'

EP.36 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, May

Subscriber-only episode • 11th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 5 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, May

The way is practical: keep pleasure in the body, refuse mental excitement, and act only as the situation requires.

'Every problem is due to people rationalising the situation first, instead of addressing it logically.'

'To be logical, you have to take action—right action—and sometimes right action is no action.'

EP.35 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, April

Subscriber-only episode • 9th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 4 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, April

The talk moves from nature's wonder to civilisation's compromise, from success and suffering to the reclamation of love through the six senses, grounded in the body's present good.

'Success is an intellectual dream, a bit of brain weed.'

'Woman embodies the idea of love.'

'That's right suffering: to be with it where you are, knowing there's nowhere else to be or go.'

EP.34 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, March

Subscriber-only episode • 7th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 3 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, March

From a high apartment over the Pacific, the teaching moves from garden to ocean, from local to global, and from position to place. The ocean sounds the unconscious; safety is found in place, not in positions that must be defended.

'Woman will always love if she is loved.'

'When man leaves woman and does not love her, she gets independent… she puts out a little nettle or a little spike.'

'We're all farmers. What are you farming… and what do they get from you? Love or pain.'

'Nothing dies… anything that you've ever loved… lives on in you.'

EP.33 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, February

Subscriber-only episode • 5th May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 2 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, February

The decade turns: a teacher of love speaks plainly to the Western mind, separating love from money, satisfaction from fulfilment, suiting from fitting, and the concept of spirit from 'me'.

'Money is the currency of the world… Love is the currency of fulfilment.'

'Pretty is fleeting… Beautiful is enduring.'

'Give up surrendering. Just be life as it is.'

'Satisfaction is what we settle for. Fulfilment is what we truly desire.'

EP.32 Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, January

Subscriber-only episode • 3rd May 2024 • Season 5, Recording 1 of 12 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain, 1990, January

Woman waits as the earth; man must be man enough to love her. Cats and dogs symbolise impersonal and personal love; God is intimate goodness known now, not believed. Priestly fear and lust-as-thinking confuse children. Die to unhappiness; go through clouds and emotion to the Most High.

'Woman is waiting… Woman is the earth waiting for me, man, to be man enough to love her.'

EP.31 Fundamental Teaching Part 4

Subscriber-only episode • 26th April 2024 • Season 4, Recording 4 of 4 • Fundamental Teaching Part 4

In this culminating session of The Fundamental Teaching, Barry Long brings his message into sharp, transformative focus. With honesty, depth, and unflinching clarity, he speaks to the divine principles of man and woman—not as ideas, but as living realities within each of us. Barry dismantles the illusions of emotional love and sexual excitement, urging a return to real love: a love rooted in presence, honesty, and responsibility. He challenges both men and women to rediscover their true nature—man as the bearer of conscious love, woman as the embodiment of love itself—and to confront the emotional pain inherited from the past. This episode is a call to rise above cultural conditioning, to stop negotiating love, and to begin living it. If you're ready to take love beyond fantasy, beyond attachment, and into truth, this session offers the way.

'Existence consists of force. There is no power in existence.'

EP.30 To be the truth is to be free of unhappiness

Free episode • 20th April 2024 • To be the truth is to be free of unhappiness

Talking in Colorado, USA in August 1994 Barry Long—declaring himself the Master of the West—gets to the heart of something we all crave but rarely achieve: lasting freedom from unhappiness. Speaking directly to the Western condition, he doesn't sugarcoat the emotional chaos and inner conflict many of us live with. Instead, he offers a bold and honest path to realising truth, grounded not in mystical ideals or spiritual traditions, but in honesty, self-awareness, and the courage to face life head-on.

At the core of his message is the idea that truth is freedom from unhappiness, and that this freedom begins with radical honesty—especially in our closest relationships. Barry urges us to stop avoiding, stop justifying, and start seeing with intelligence and clarity. Whether he's talking about the body's memory, the illusion of reincarnation, or the silence found in deep dreamless sleep, his focus never strays far from one essential point: if we want to be truly free, we must be honest, present, and willing to confront ourselves.

'Pain is a circle; real life is a spiral.'

'What I acknowledge I get.'

'Surrender or quit. Don't oppose or complain.'

'Do not love through the child. Love one another.'

'You cannot take responsibility for another when they don't want the truth.'

EP.29 Fundamental Teaching Part 3

Subscriber-only episode • 19th April 2024 • Season 4, Recording 3 of 4 • Fundamental Teaching Part 3

In this deeply engaging session, Barry Long brings the spiritual journey right down to earth. With practical wisdom and piercing clarity, he guides participants to confront the real issues of everyday life—relationships, emotional pain, dissatisfaction at work, and restlessness of the mind. Barry doesn't offer escape or abstract philosophy; instead, he encourages us to take full responsibility for our lives and our love, moment to moment. Through direct dialogue with the audience, he reminds us that the deepest truth is not out there—it's in 'me'. If you've ever wondered what it really means to live the truth of love, this session is a powerful step toward realizing and embodying it in your daily life. Grounded, bold, and refreshingly honest—this is Barry Long at his transformative best.

'Pain is a circle; real life is a spiral.'

'What I acknowledge I get.'

'Surrender or quit. Don't oppose or complain.'

'Do not love through the child. Love one another.'

'You cannot take responsibility for another when they don't want the truth.'

EP.28 Speaking of love

Free episode • 13th April 2024 • Speaking of love

In this episode, Barry Long explores the true nature of love, its divine origin, and its presence within every individual. He emphasizes self-knowledge—especially for women—as the key to transforming love and harmonising relationships. Ultimately, he presents woman as the hope for restoring love's purity and guiding humanity to true love, beyond emotional attachment.

EP.27 Fundamental Teaching Part 2

Subscriber-only episode • 12th April 2024 • Season 4, Recording 2 of 4 • Fundamental Teaching Part 2

Barry Long opens up the core of human suffering and transformation. With clarity, honesty, and compassion, he explores the fundamental cause of pain—our disconnection from love—and challenges us to realign our lives with truth and presence. Through deeply personal examples and audience interactions, Barry reveals how our external lives mirror our inner world and why facing the truth of our circumstances is essential for real freedom. This talk isn't about concepts or beliefs—it's a direct transmission of lived experience, a call to courage, and a practical guide to getting your life right, both inside and out. If you're ready to move beyond emotional pain and into the stillness of real love, this episode is for you.

'The external world is a mirror of what I am inside.'

'In this teaching you don't have to go into the past; the past is represented in the circumstances of my life now.'

'The cause of all pain is lack of love, nothing else.'

'You are not communicating with your father or mother because you haven't anything intelligent to talk about...'

EP.26 Fundamental Teaching Part 1

Subscriber-only episode • 5th April 2024 • Season 4, Recording 1 of 4 • Fundamental Teaching Part 1

In this first episode Barry Long introduces three fundamental principles: there is only one 'I,' one 'me,' and one life in the universe, all residing within the individual. The talk highlights the importance of living what one knows to be true, addressing emotional pain, and achieving harmony through the realization of being. Practical exercises involve breathing, focusing on inner clarity and feeling, and exploring the depths of one's inner space to find peace and well-being. Barry stresses the need for a shift from superficial consciousness to a deeper, more profound understanding of life. The seminar, titled 'The Truth of Life & Love,' was later made into a tape titled the Fundamental Teaching.

'First of all, this is a practical teaching. It deals with the kitchen sink, the bedroom, the office—utterly practical.'

'Every hurt that I have had since I was a child gathers into a great ball of pain inside of me.'

'My pain pollutes the earth; mood and argument poison the child...'

EP.25 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP8

Subscriber-only episode • 29th March 2024 • Season 3, Recording 8 of 8 • 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP8

The final session of the meeting centers on the complexities of love and relationships, emphasizing the struggle of the self amidst the equilibrium of being. In answering questions from the audience Barry explains that love disturbs the self, which craves peace but is uncomfortable with it for long. The questions delve into the fear of losing freedom and the desire to hide from love. The role of sexuality and the challenge of balancing love and excitement are also discussed. The session concludes with participants reflecting on their insights and the impact of the teachings on their lives.

'Let everything go.'

'The self feels very threatened by love.'

'Watch the very first thought that comes into your head when you feel wrong.'

'You got to give your life to something.'

'Love without purpose, is death and unhappiness for everybody.'

EP.24 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP7

Subscriber-only episode • 22nd March 2024 • Season 3, Recording 7 of 8 • 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP7

In this talk, Barry Long exposes the illusions we live by—assumptions, media stories, and personal projections—and calls us back to the only reality: what is here, now. He shows how true intelligence lies in unknowing, not in thinking, and how this opens the way to love, stillness, and God.

Speaking directly to men and women, he uncovers the patterns that undermine relationships—criticism, emotionality, sexual possession—and points instead to willingness, humility, and honesty as the foundation of real love. Along the way he explains the difference between truth and fact, continuity and the continuum, and how to bring spiritual presence into everyday life.

This is a powerful session on living without illusion, entering the state of unknowing, and discovering the love and truth that end suffering.

'Everything precisely as it is, is God's will.'

EP.23 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP6

Subscriber-only episode • 18th March 2024 • Season 3, Recording 6 of 8 • 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP6

The discussion centers on the concept and reality of time. Barry emphasizes the importance of facing life as it is, without escaping through fantasies or materialistic pursuits. The conversation touches on the impact of the mainstream media, which often focuses on negative events, and the role of intelligence in perceiving the timeless. He also addresses the audience members personal issues.

'Faster time means nothing to speak of—the faster the time is, you can't notice it.'

'People remember the bad, not the good.'

'Don't make decisions. Give them up as much as possible.'

EP.22 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP5

Subscriber-only episode • 14th March 2024 • Season 3, Recording 5 of 8 • 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP5

The session touches on the reality of astrology, intelligence, and the interconnectedness of the vital cells of humanity. Barry Long emphasizes that true love requires the surrender of personal concerns and emotion. The talk touches on the impact of past traumas, the importance of honest communication in relationships, and the need to resolve personal conflicts to achieve inner peace. It also addresses maintaining authenticity in creative work, balancing life's demands, and the role of a guru in offering clarity. Overall, the session encourages self-knowledge, responsibility, and surrender to a higher intelligence for lasting fulfillment.

'Love is what's looking out of your eyes. Love is intelligence.'

'Love is not personal, it is not for you to hang on to.'

EP.21 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP4

Subscriber-only episode • 10th March 2024 • Season 3, Recording 4 of 8 • 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP4

In this deeply introspective session, Barry Long explores the nature of consciousness, self and true freedom. He challenges conventional spiritual teachings, asserting that love and truth arise from honesty and surrender—not from dependence on external masters or belief systems. The talk revolves around dismantling the illusion of the personal self, which is built on memory, pain, and emotional conditioning. Barry delves into reincarnation, cellular memory, and the vital body as vessels of consciousness that record and reflect human experience. The session emphasizes love, service, and the courage to let go of personal identity in order to realize a deeper intelligence—the 'master consciousness'—that transcends form and continues beyond death. At its heart, this talk encourages direct, experiential knowing as the key to spiritual awakening.

EP.20 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP3

Subscriber-only episode • 7th March 2024 • Season 3, Recording 3 of 8 • 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP3

In this third session, Barry Long guides participants into a deeper inquiry into the nature of existence, love, and consciousness. The talk challenges the mind's reliance on external validation and intellectual concepts, urging a return to inner realization and direct experience. Through explorations of death, time, and a prediction of the eventual rise of fleshly robots as a reflection of our spiritual disconnection, Barry encourages a return to the state of being that can be known through stillness and presence.

'To be human is to be emotional. To be human is to be a sorry, sad condition of being.'

'When you stop winning, you stop losing. When you stop living, you stop dying.'

'To be able to be awake in the dream. That's called enlightenment, or awakening, to be here and yet not to be here.'

EP.19 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP2

Subscriber-only episode • 4th March 2024 • Season 3, Recording 2 of 8 • 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP2

This episode explores the nature of being and consciousness, contrasting human self-awareness with instinctive animal behavior. Barry notes that while humans are creative, this often leads to dissatisfaction through comparison and future-focused thinking. The key to reducing suffering, he says, is presence—accepting life as it is rather than dwelling on emotional pain. He criticizes society's obsession with material success and urges a return to a more embodied, instinctive way of living. Barry also emphasizes acting with intelligence and truth in relationships and daily life, suggesting the need for intelligent conversations and actions to resolve emotional issues and maintain love in relationships.

EP.18 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP1

Subscriber-only episode • 1st March 2024 • Season 3, Recording 1 of 8 • 5 Day Meeting, Colorado, 1994, EP1

In this first session of the August 12, 1994 meeting in Winter Park, Colorado, Barry Long focuses on the spiritual journey of going deeper into one's body to transcend sensory perception. He emphasizes the intelligence within the body, contrasting it with the restless, sensory-driven mind. Meditation techniques of conscious breathing and focusing on bodily sensations are practiced to return the awareness to the present. The talk explores the distinction between the deeper 'me' in the body and the personal self, stressing the need to reduce the self to experience true love and well-being. Barry encourages being true to the situation rather than reacting based on personal feelings. He also distinguishes between internal power and external force, advising focus on the solar plexus for a deeper connection to the state of being. The session ends with a reminder to practice these principles daily.

EP.17 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - December

Subscriber-only episode • 23rd February 2024 • Season 2, Recording 8 of 8 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - December

Nature is consonant with truth. Truth is above love, and only comes into existence through love; when love becomes personal attachment it degrades into emotion and suffering. The master disturbs because truth destroys attachment.

'The truth is disturbing. Nothing is as disturbing as the reality of the truth, for it destroys all that we have attached ourselves to.'

'Love is the medium of truth.'

EP.16 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - November

Subscriber-only episode • 16th February 2024 • Season 2, Recording 7 of 8 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - November

The end is coming—of your world or the world—because concept and corruption cannot last, while reality does not change.

'Only what is real lasts.'

'The end of the world or your world, whichever comes first, it doesn't matter.'

EP.15 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - October

Subscriber-only episode • 9th February 2024 • Season 2, Recording 6 of 8 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - October

Be one: reserve your body for truth alone.

'Everything passes, but I the perceiver, the being – I do not pass.'

'The world is not going to change. Nothing is going to change. It's just getting worse and worse and worse, because that's the way man is...'

EP.14 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - September

Subscriber-only episode • 2nd February 2024 • Season 2, Recording 5 of 8 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - September

Psychic thrills excite; spirit ends unhappiness. Dying each moment is practical: forget the last instant and let intellect reflect truth without image.

'The world and its people, as you see them, are never going to be any different.'

'Only I, the individual, can change here and now and be different, and that does not depend on any event or idea external to myself.'

EP.13 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - August

Subscriber-only episode • 26th January 2024 • Season 2, Recording 4 of 8 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - August

The talk distinguishes presence—the psychic emanation that others feel—from being—the still unity within—and shows how to align both with physical action here and now.

'What you give out comes back to you.'

EP.12 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - March

Subscriber-only episode • 19th January 2024 • Season 2, Recording 3 of 8 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - March

The new life on Earth is life now. It cannot be understood, only heard and known. Being where you are ends the tyranny of past and future, dissolves decisions, and exposes worry as imagination.

EP.11 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - February

Subscriber-only episode • 12th January 2024 • Season 2, Recording 2 of 8 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - February

Love is space and presence—without opposite and without pain. Suffering in 'love' arises from attachment, which holds to objects, memories, and expectations. Separate love from attachment and you will stand in the fine reality that lets all things pass through.

'Love is the state without an opposite.'

'Love has never caused anyone any pain. It's not because of love, it's because of our attachment to love or the object of our love.'

'Do you suffer in your love life? Then you are attached.'

'Love does not offer resistance.'

'Love is now.'

'Whatever you think about you are attached to.'

'Finally, you must be able to stand and let the whole of existence sweep through you.'

EP.10 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - January

Subscriber-only episode • 5th January 2024 • Season 2, Recording 1 of 8 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1987 - January

The human brain seeks understanding, yet understanding belongs to the world and leads only to more questions. Truth, love, God and life cannot be understood; they must be be. Relationships afflict until the impulse to understand is surrendered.

'You cannot understand your life. You cannot understand your relationships. You cannot understand love. You cannot understand God.'

'Give up trying to understand.'

'Every relationship is passing. It cannot last.'

EP.9 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - December

Subscriber-only episode • 21st December 2023 • Season 1, Recording 9 of 9 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - December

Meditation has a place as a beginning, but the living truth is the immediate state of being—the pause beyond doing, the timeless cessation within which life happens. When ready, give up the method and be now.

EP.8 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - November

Subscriber-only episode • 20th December 2023 • Season 1, Recording 8 of 9 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - November

A woman's out-of-body experience open a teaching on entering the body, the identity of inner and outer space, and the calm alertness of conscious presence.

'Inner space is the same as outer space. It is only the mind that tries to make a difference.'

'When it is time to die, you just die, beautifully.'

'The present is infinitely stronger than the past.'

EP.7 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - October

Subscriber-only episode • 19th December 2023 • Season 1, Recording 7 of 9 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - October

Barry contrasts a man's imposed amnesia with the conscious self-forgetfulness of the spiritual life, insisting that responsibility for the moment turns hell into Eden.

'I am responsible for life on Earth at this moment, and everything that happens to me is my responsibility.'

EP.6 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - September

Subscriber-only episode • 18th December 2023 • Season 1, Recording 6 of 9 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - September

The talk exposes fear as the motor of impatience, ambition, mood, excitement, and achievement, and redirects love from the world to life through immediate being. The final authority is I that perceives; attending there ends fear, ends need, and reveals love as being.

'What you love, you serve; what you serve, you love.'

'Every time you think, you serve the world, for you can only think about the world—and what you think about you give your time to.'

'Does God exist? No. God does not exist… God is behind existence, and all existence flows from that nothing.'

'Do not be impatient as you wait for the spirit to change your life.'

EP.5 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - August

Subscriber-only episode • 17th December 2023 • Season 1, Recording 5 of 9 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - August

The talk distinguishes divine negation from the world's opposites and directs attention 'south of South,' where the need to exist falls away.

'Divine life… is complete and utter negation.'

'When you are depressed… it is the negation of that depression that is the spiritual way.'

'Eventually there are no more voices—only the instantaneousness of your own being.'

EP.4 Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - July

Subscriber-only episode • 16th December 2023 • Season 1, Recording 4 of 9 • Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - July

From a mountain veranda, Barry describes rising above 'Mount Misery' through surrender, distinguishing truth, facts, and emotional distortion while grounding perception in the beautiful earth.

'There are three ways of perceiving: the truth behind existence, the fact before you, and the emotion that perceives as things are not.'

'As man left the natural world, truth became superstition.'

'All love songs are based on sentiment, not love—sentiment being attachment to the past.'

'You have to actually make your world real as your environment. You have to make your own paradise.'

EP.3 Listening as spirit: the way of negation | Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - June

Subscriber-only episode • 15th December 2023 • Season 1, Recording 3 of 9 • Listening as spirit: the way of negation | Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - June

Spirit is pure receptivity—listening, poise, and humility—rather than the world's positivity of expression, projection, and achievement. In this stillness unhappiness ends now, not by managing time but by ceasing to produce it.

'Please understand that in the spirit, there is only listening.'

'The spirit is a state of receptivity.'

'There is nothing for you to be depressed about.'

EP.2 The Master | Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - May

Subscriber-only episode • 14th December 2023 • Season 1, Recording 2 of 9 • The Master | Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - May

Barry Long insists on staying with the presence and reality of I, where there is nothing to work out, and on recognising the Master—the one power that stops thinking—as the very I within the listener.

'The Master is the only power on earth that can stop you thinking, without loss of your individuality or consciousness.'

'What you are doing on the spiritual path is dissolving yourself as time.'

'A polite person is a violent person… whenever you pretend to be what you are not, you are gathering violence.'

EP.1 The I that is the beginning and the end | Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - March

Subscriber-only episode • 13th December 2023 • Season 1, Recording 1 of 9 • The I that is the beginning and the end | Talks from Tamborine Mountain 1986 - March

The talk opens by establishing 'I' as the ultimate truth—once attributed to prophets and god-like figures—now available as direct inner responsibility, not an external deity. The message: cease blaming conditions; be I, and the delight of life is realised.

'There is only one I in the universe, and that is the I that is in the body that is listening to this message.'

'The object of living is to find the purpose of life.'

'The purpose of life is to be the delight of life.'

'When you don't know what to do, do nothing.'

'Stop the turmoil within, not without.'