Barry Long (1926-2003) was a writer and spiritual teacher with an original and challenging way of communicating age-old truths.
His legacy may be seen in their lives and in the work of some of those he inspired, including other teachers, notably Eckhart Tolle..
Evidently very many did.
He was fulfilled by the prospect that one day someone might hear the truth from him and be able to live it.
He taught that the way to truth and the reality of love is through direct experience, not belief or imagination; and that freedom comes from taking responsibility for one\'s own life.
He was concerned with the individual, not society.
He inspired and guided many thousands of men and women without wanting to create a big organisation or attract personal fame.
He wrote of his insights and realisations and for thirty years gave talks and seminars in many countries.
This was the real beginning of his journey towards \'the unfathomable mystery of God or Life and that other Divine mystery of true love between man and woman\'.
After many adventures, alone in the Himalayas he experienced what he called a \'mystic death\', or the realisation of immortality.
Eventually, in 1965, he fled Australia and went to India.
For some years his inner pain and suffering increased.
At that time spiritual truth was far from his mind, but in his early 30s, the ambitious and successful family man began to question all his values.
Born and raised in Australia he started out as a junior journalist and became the youngest-ever editor of a Sydney Sunday tabloid, somewhat prophetically called \'Truth\'.
Barry Long (1926-2003) was a writer and spiritual teacher with an original and challenging way of communicating age-old truths
