Metamorphosis
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.
LANGUAGE: English
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DURATION: 34 minutes
EPISODE NOTES
Highlights:
"Now. Can you bear it? Can you bear yourself now? Can you stand it? Have a look. Can you stand now? It's the simplest thing in the world. And the most difficult – to be present now. The main thing that takes us away from the now is thought. If I weren't here addressing you, you'd start to think – you know that, don't you? – if you sit there for one minute, within ten seconds or more, you'll be thinking – that means you can't stand yourself – you can't stand to be now."
"Near all of those who come to me are ready for a metamorphosis – a fundamental radical change – like the caterpillar into the butterfly. For you are all butterflies and you all retrograded into this body from the butterfly stage back into the cocoon. And this body is a cocoon. And now it's time to come out. Time to metamorphose. To show your beautiful colors. Your sweet, sweet, natural self. Not to anyone else unless they see it – for the butterfly does not know its sweetness or its beauty – but for yourself, to feel the sweetness, the rhythm, the beauty, the untroubled-ness of yourself."
"When you're split tension results – and when tension comes, you start to think and you start to want and because you're split, you can't want one thing, can you? You want the kids and you want the pub. You want the beauty of the flower and at the same time, you want to think about your grandmother or your car or your problem – that is not natural, that is worldly. [...] The whole world is emotional. The whole world is lost. The whole world is unhappy."
"What happens the more you know, man and woman? You don't get anything for nothing. [...] What is your knowledge at the price of? The price is life. Every satellite the scientists send up take a bit more out of your life. Now, please look at this. Look at this man and woman. It is your earth. [...] The more knowledge that these scientists invent and find, the price for you is more distraction and less feeling of life. Every bit of information has to be paid for in the feeling of life, in the feeling of love within you."
"The question is, do you feel alive? Because let me tell you what life on earth feels like. [...] Life on earth, which I am, is sweet, it is beautiful, it is blissful as the feeling of myself, it never ends, I do not change tomorrow or tonight because I lost my motor car or I lost my wife or my lover or my son – that cannot change the life I am. Is this true of you? Well, it is true of you, for I am not special. Is it true of you? Is life singing in you every moment 'I am alive'? Because if it doesn't, you're dead. You're in various degrees of death – and I'm not talking about the death that comes when your physical body dies – I'm talking about living death."
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