Origins of Man and the Universe

Barry Long

Sujets

• Mindfulness
• Mindfulness (Buddhism)
• Theology
• Philosophy of religion
• Mind
• Body
• Spirit

Informations

• Publié par: Barry Long Books
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781899324361
• Langue: English

Extrait

T HIS BOOK is the account of a spiritual enquiry into evolution, civilisation, our place in the universe and the structure of reality itself. It is a cosmology which relates to present science but takes us beyond the Big Bang. Charting the evolutionary work of consciousness on earth, it takes us back through man’s psyche to our original state in eternity or God’s mind.
L IFE, DEATH and the whole of existence is seen as a great mythic design. The amazing complexity of life on earth is related to the reality behind everything. The evolution of consciousness is our human story and when we hear it told we can connect with our own reality more consciously. For there is a profound connection between man’s discovery of the universe and self-discovery, between scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
B ARRY L ONG was born in Australia in 1926 and died in 2003. Those who met him, listened to his talks and endeavoured to live his teachings, came to regard him as a radical and powerful spiritual teacher, a pioneer of the new spirituality emerging towards the end of the 20th century, in which individuals take personal responsibility for their lives, for love and for their spiritual well-being. This book is the summation of Barry Long’s many insights and realisations about our being in existence. It is an extraordinary and unique work of immense vision.
Also by Barry Long
Wisdom and Where To Find It Meditation A Foundation Course Stillness Is The Way Knowing Yourself Only Fear Dies To Woman In Love Making Love To Man in Truth Raising Children in Love, Justice and Peace The Way In Where the Spirit Speaks To Its Own A Prayer for Life My Life of Love and Truth From Here to Reality
THE
ORIGINS
of Man and the Universe
The myth that came to life
BARRY LONG

B ARRY L ONG B OOKS
This revised edition first published 1998 by
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Ebook edition: 2016
First published 1984 by Routledge & Kegan Paul
© Barry Long 1984, 1998
© The Barry Lonf Trust 2016
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 Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988
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Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: A catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-93601
ISBN Paperback 978 1 899324 12 5
ISBN Hardcover 0 9508050 6 8
ISBN Ebook 978 1 899324 36 1
Editor of first edition: Peter Kingsley
Editors of second edition: Clive Tempest and Jade Bell
Illustrations: Jorma Sauvala
Cover design: Rene Graphics, Brisbane
Star over lake photo: Linton Lowe
Photo of Barry Long: Andrew Hawdon
T O THE TRUTH
This ebook contains an INDEX. Links to Index Entries: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
CONTENTS  
F OREWORD  
I NTRODUCTION
O NE
E VOLUTION The missing link The intelligence behind evolution The world of the psyche The emergence of the brain The body of primitive man The dawn of selfconsciousness A journey to the light
T WO
T HE G ODS The myth of myths The gods arrive The gods’ game of love
T HREE
H UMAN N ATURE The end of Eden Man projects his new world Evolution by involution
F OUR
V IOLENCE AND C IVILISATION The first society The original gnostics The masters’ power Westernisation Man, the fighter How violence grew sophisticated The birth of shame The art of civilisation Decline and fall A cosmic law Paranational terror The beginning of the end
F IVE
T HE U NDERWORLD The genie gets out of the bottle Invasion from the dark How the self gets into the brain The vitality of the psyche The source of dread Psychic possession The return to immortality
S IX
T HE U NIVERSAL M IND The origin of the earth-idea Terrestrial mind The intellect The position of the senses The perception of reality Death, the reasonable reality The fifth and sixth dimensions
S EVEN
T HE S EVEN L EVELS The embodiment of mind Consciousness in the seven levels of mind Levels One, Two and Three The Band of Death Level Four Level Five Level Six Level Seven
E IGHT
T HE T HREE P LANES OF E XISTENCE The moon’s gift to earth The Creation The Red Plane The Yellow Plane The Blue Plane
N INE
L IVING AND D YING The authentic being The sex drive Freedom from self The process of dying The world of the dead Purification Love in the world Man’s character
T EN
H IGHER I NTELLIGENCE Science and the Planes The permanent atom Presence of mind Communication from higher intelligences UFOs and the speed of time The human charade
E LEVEN
T HE D RACONIC T RANSVERSE Draco, the myth Yang and Yin Real Energy Cosmic participation Astrology Man’s sense of time The influence of the sun and moon
T WELVE
T HE C REATION OF THE U NIVERSE The theories The real Big Bang The birth of intelligence The stationary universe Evolving intelligence The world of motion Perceiving reality Looking into eternity The original moment
T HIRTEEN
P OWER IN THE U NIVERSE The first three principles The will’s first creation The formation of the stars The birth of the solar system Power, gravitation and force Force-lines on earth The reducing speed of light
F OURTEEN
T HE O BJECTIVE U NIVERSE Induction and deduction The error of science The two sides of the universe The sense-machine The solid in which we live The living past Being objective Being subjective Mental associations Perceiving objectively
F IFTEEN
T HE F UNCTION OF THE I NTELLECT The degradation of the intellect The world of figments The activation of ideas
S IXTEEN
T HE M YTHIC U NIVERSE Behind the human mind How ideas become manifest The timeless The limits of intelligence The cosmic body The limits of sense-perception The movement of intelligence
S EVENTEEN
T HE G IRDLE OF E TERNITY The system of being Reality is an object The mirror of infinite mind Looking towards infinity The prospect of immortality The galleries of reality
E IGHTEEN
S OMETHING FROM N OTHING The ring of truth The echo of now The expansion of space The original word Original number The primary proposition of existence The truth of the beginning A journey through the higher galleries Our ultimate dread
N INETEEN
T HE P LANETS The planetary ideo-rings How man forms the universe Life on other planets
T WENTY
T HE M YTH COMES TO L IFE The emergence of the psychic I The egoic intelligence realises itself Lunar enlightenment
A PPENDIX
O RIGINS OF THE B OOK  
I NDEX  
L IST OF D IAGRAMS
FOREWORD
T HIS BOOK IS the product of an intense period of introspection by a man whom many regard as one of the spiritual masters of our times. The story begins in 1978. Barry Long had been consciously engaged in self-realisation for more than twenty years and now, at the age of 52, he was about to explore the immense knowledge unlocked by his realisations. As he began to write he had no idea where it would lead. A flood of insights into human nature simply took him from one subject to another. In fact he had begun a project that would occupy him for the next five years and encompass the entire story of existence. As he wrote he went deeper and deeper into an exploration of the very source of our consciousness, ultimately leading him to describe the fundamental structures of reality itself.
The author’s only source was his own spiritual realisation and revelation. He refrained from consulting other authorities, scientific, philosophical or spiritual. Through his own gnosis, or direct knowledge of universal truth, he found he was accounting for the host of perennial questions that have teased philosophers since ancient times and still bemuse the leading physicists of our day. Not only that, but he was gathering all these insights together into one grand design, a mythic account of the work of consciousness on earth.
The many strands and themes of these writings were woven together to form a book and it was ready by 1983. The manuscript was shown to a leading publishing company in London, where Barry Long was then living. A little dubious about the lack of academic credentials but recognising the book’s unique quality, the publisher took it on and printed five thousand copies. It was some years before that edition was out of print and many readers said it was a book that changed their lives.
For the present edition, which appears fourteen years after the first, Barry Long and his editors have given the text a thorough revision. The language and style is generally simpler and in many sections the exposition has been clarified. The structure of the book is very much changed, with a new approach to the division of the material into chapters and sections. An appendix has been added which provides further background to the contents. Some passages in the first edition have been deleted, others have been totally rewritten and there are many paragraphs that are completely new. The author has nevertheless remained true to the original revelation of the book, adding very little from his subsequent realisations yet bringing to it the greater refinement with which he naturally sees things now.
Clive Tempest
INTRODUCTION

You are going on a mythic journey, deep into the psyche, back before the beginning of time
 

INTRODUCTION
F ROM THE BEGINNING of western culture the story of Genesis has been the fundamental myth of the West. It records that in the beginning there was a spiritual principle, an energy called Man, the one and only, and out of that principle came what we now call man and woman. As stated in the myth, woman was taken out of the one and only Man’s side. Or as I would put it: woman is man’s love and his love was taken from him and made separate. The one and only became the two of us and one thing led to another, right up t