'Life here is an experiment originated by extraterrestrial intelligence, which, of course, is the very source of our own intelligence... This is an experiment to see, can these robots that we are, can we bring love to Earth...'

Barry Long answers a question about a statement he made in a previous talk: “life here is an experiment.” He declares that life on Earth is an experiment originated by extraterrestrial intelligence – the very source of our own intelligence. Our bodies and personalities, he says, function largely as automatons, running on fear, habit and sexual possession. The experiment is simple: can we, these robots, discover and live love in this dense, sense-bound world?

Barry states that humanity is spiritually primitive, devoted to staying unhappy and exporting its misery everywhere. Yet there is hope for the individual. One life lived right is a victory in this cosmic experiment and, he says, matters far more than any scientific breakthrough or imagined contact with distant, supposedly higher forms of life – the only real gift we bring to Earth is love.

If our scientists met other life, they would only transmit their fear and unhappiness. Therefore no genuine contact with other life in the universe is possible at this time, until love rules life on Earth; the universe itself withholds that meeting until we fulfil the mission of bringing love to this planet – until love flowers here, no real contact with other life is possible.

Barry pre-sages and anticipates a future in which humanity flees natural existence and life in the body, moving instead into a mental, virtual existence. Rather than living on the earth in real relationship, we will increasingly inhabit virtual worlds, pressing buttons in the brain for whatever experience we want – such as an orgasm. As this takes over, it will replace the need for love, and both the world and the individual will find themselves in an ever more loveless existence.

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This exchange is drawn from Eindhoven talks, first recorded in 1996. These and many other never-before-published recordings have been meticulously digitised only recently and are now available for listening in high quality through the Barry Long Archive.

Direct links to the full recording and the recording where he talks about life being an experiment will be posted here, as they become available.

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Barry Long Answers is a new, free podcast that invites listeners into the intimate dialogue of audience questions and the spiritual master’s answer. These exchanges provide universal guidance to a range of everyday issues concerning man and woman. Each episode begins with a direct question put to Barry and his uncompromising response. The series draws from the Barry Long Archive, a repository of over 20 years of Barry Long’s teachings.

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Barry described himself as the ‘Master of The West.’ His ideas, vocabulary and expressions are unmistakably and patently Western: down to earth and practical. His teaching is free from tradition or religion, be it Western or Eastern. Over more than twenty-five years he spoke to thousands of men and women and he addressed them where they were – in their real, living life. The reference point always being in living the truth now, not the past. In this directness lies Barry’s distinctive usefulness and uniqueness: a practical wisdom that addresses contemporary issues and presents a way to transform the unhappy human condition into the freedom of being.

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