My Life of Love and Truth

Barry Long

Description

This posthumous autobiography tells the story of Barry Long's life from his early years in Australia to a career as a successful newspaper editor and then how successive spiritual crises and realizations made him into a spiritual master who changed the lives of thousands of people around the world. It is a candid and sometimes painfully honest account of transformation by love and the transcendental. Liberation or spiritual freedom is not gained by trying to be like everyone else. Liberation is to have the will, the power, the simplicity to be what you are from moment to moment, without pretence and without considering what you or others think you should be or should not be. Naked of being anything, you must stand, and stand alone.

Sujets

• Spirit
• Body
• Mind

Informations

• Publié par: Barry Long Books
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781899324378
• Langue: English

Extrait

BARRY LONG, born an ordinary man, raised in country towns in New South Wales and without much education, became an inspiration to thousands of men and women and recognised around the world as one of the foremost spiritual masters of the 20 th century.
Coming from no religious tradition or school, he had no credentials to offer – other than the truth he spoke. Yet what he said had the power to change lives. How does such power and authority arise? The clues are in this spiritual autobiography, describing a life lived in the fullness of the spirit; a life of love and truth.
This is his own extraordinary story, told in detail for the first time and now published posthumously.

The story begins with his early career as a journalist. He becomes the youngest editor of a Sydney Sunday paper, The Truth (later the Sunday Mirror ). But the daily reflection of the spirit supplants all ambition and he leaves that world for the real truth, which beckons him to India. There, after travelling across the subcontinent in a van, he finds himself alone in the foothills of the Himalayas and passes through a mystic death, his realisation of immortality.
The story continues in London where he meets the woman who takes a central role in the unfolding drama. Their life together produces profound spiritual realisations and the biography then reaches out beyond normal experience to encounters with powers from deep inner space.
We see a master being made. But before he can enter the world stage there are severe tests to be undergone, culminating in the death of his beloved.
Packed with incident, acutely observed and honestly told, this is not just the story of one life but a revelation of the way destiny works when the life is guided by truth.
Also by Barry Long
Where the Spirit Speaks To Its Own
A Prayer for Life
The Way In
Making Love
The Origins of Man and the Universe
Only Fear Dies
Meditation – A Foundation Course
Stillness is the Way
Knowing Yourself
Wisdom and Where To Find It
Raising Children in Love, Justice and Truth
To Woman In Love
To Man In Truth
Audio Books
Start Meditating Now
A Journey in Consciousness
Seeing Through Death
Making Love
How to Live Joyously
Barry Long
MY LIFE OF LOVE AND TRUTH
A Spiritual Autobiography
Published by The Barry Long Foundation International 2013 Ebook edition 2017
© The Barry Long Trust 2013, 2017
The right of Barry Long to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher.
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2012954203 Paperback: ISBN 978-1-899324-19-4 Ebook: ISBN 978-1-899324-37-8
Cover photo and design by Rita Newman Cover photo © Rita Newman / www.newman.at All other photographs © The Barry Long Trust
CONTENTS
Publisher’s Note
About Truth
I Must Go…
1 The First Test
2 All Is Provided
3 God-Mad
4 Spiritual Experiences
5 Masters
6 Bhagavati, Bhagavat
7 Leaving
8 India
9 To The Himalayas
10 Goodbye Ann
11 Immortality
12 Hello Julie
13 The Broom That Swept By Itself
14 The Star
15 Who Will Teach The Teacher?
16 The Black Energy
17 Teach Me!
18 And His Tears Were Of Joy Not Sorrow
19 Julia
20 The Working Of The Great Will
21 The Climax
22 Life In The Moment
23 The Archons
24 Just One More Day
25 John, The Man
26 Gold From Mr Gold
27 The Mystic Restitution
28 Come Home Daddy
29 Into The World
30 Mum And Dad
31 The Homecoming (Almost)
32 The Devil
33 God Speaks
34 The Guardian Of The Threshold
35 The Children’s School Nobody Wanted
36 The Birth Of The Centre
37 The Boy Mystic
38 The Origins Book
39 More To Life Than The Mind Believes
40 No Greater Love
41 What To Do?
42 Julie’s Writings
43 Desperate Days
44 The Last Hope
45 Final Days
46 Julie’s Return
Bibliographic Notes
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Barry Long began writing his autobiography in the 1970s and continued writing and revising it in the years and months before his death in December 2003.
He occasionally spoke in public about his life but generally only to demonstrate a point in his spiritual teaching. He was not concerned with drawing attention to himself or his story if that would detract from his message, which is essentially that divine truth and love reside in a direct experience accessible to every one of us in our own lives now.
As long as he lived, he was living proof of his own teachings; he lived what he taught. In death he leaves us an account of his life which puts his other published works in that living context. It is a testament to the extraordinary way God, truth and love worked in Barry Long; and by his example we are inspired to look to the underlying purpose of our own lives.
This book is Barry Long’s story up to 1982 and describes the making of a spiritual master. It is an honest account and for the most part names and facts have not been concealed or changed. Where Barry Long makes use of writings by other people, permission to quote them has been sought and given. Letters have had customary pleasantries and personal details removed.
Barry Long’s autobiography survives him as proof and a reminder that the authentic spiritual or divine life is original and informed by a living power of which we are normally unaware. As this is not a normal life, some aspects of the story may offend expectations or appear incredible. To get the most from the book, please read it with a still mind.
ABOUT TRUTH
E verything in this autobiography is necessarily written from my viewpoint – with a few exceptions where people tell their own stories. As there is no universal viewpoint in recounting anything, it is possible from another’s point of view, and over a span of so many years, that I may offend, misrepresent or misquote. If so, it is not intentional; I have endeavoured to tell the life straight as I perceived it.
Throughout the book I also present the spiritual truth behind the events and experiences described. Truth, unlike viewpoints, is universal, which means there can be no dispute in truth. Nonetheless, there may be a difficulty. Many people have realisations of truth, right up to what could be called the ultimate. But no realisation is complete – it remains partial – until actually lived in the world. A popular concept is that after, say, God-realisation (“Self-realisation” in the East), the whole life is instant bliss. This, like all assumptions, is not true. Moreover, the error seems to have been fostered by so-called “realised” men and women. God-realisation does indeed induce a constant untroubled equilibrium in a man or woman. But what is not commonly known is that there then follows an external testing of the inner equilibrium. Circumstances and situations that previously would have caused concern, disturbance or distress have to be faced to affirm that the equilibrium is real. This may take many years. The deeper the realisation, the more provoking or demanding the circumstances are likely to be.
Also not commonly known is that there are multiple descending levels within of God or truth realisation. Which explains why there are so many teachers each convinced that their way is right. Real knowledge of God at any level is right. But the profundity and extent of the knowledge depends on the depth of the realisation – and the living of it. People realise things and don’t make them real. As the levels of realisation deepen, and the circumstances demanded by each are lived through, the outer life improves. Finally, the inner state is known to have been perfected; and the perfection (which has nothing to do with the man or woman) is reflected in the harmony of the external life. All is solved; all is provided. The life is free of problematical circumstances. There are no conflicting relationships. The lovelife is trouble-free. Work and fulfilment have come together.
In all that I’ve just said there is no certainty of continuity. Truth is always moving. Nothing remains static. Anything is possible in the moment.
All this of course describes an extraordinary depth of God or truth-realisation often referred to as enlightenment. Bringing such realisation into the world is the same as bringing God into the world. And God knows, the world needs it – but only God knows in whom.
When I present the truth in this book there may be room for doubt in a reader who has not realised the same depth of truth and lived it through. I accept that. But it doesn’t alter the truth.
I MUST GO…
I n 1962, at the age of 36, I was having lunch with my wife and two young children at my father’s home near Sydney, Australia. Six of us were around a table in the kitchen nook. It was a bit cramped and I had an increasing feeling of being closed in, stifled. The sensation became most unpleasant. I knew I had to get outside. Mumbling my apologies I hurriedly left, and once outdoors immediately felt better. As I strolled up the road, words and then a tune began to compose themselves in my head. I walked along singing them to myself, the chorus first:

Stand back, stand back
Stand back forever.
Stand back, stand back
Stand back, it’s now or never.
Then came the first verse:

I must go where the tall trees grow
Where the giants stand alone,
And there I will be
Made eternally free
For I am going home.
The chorus about “standing back” certainly described exactly what I’d felt. The sentiment was not directed at my family or anyone in particular. It was just a statement that was completely right for me at tha