Reflected intelligence
'You have been given a special capability to reflect on that which is the very basis or source of instinct. You're also instinctive, like the animals and reflective. It's really something to have both.'
'I am reflected intelligence. I'm not intelligent and not intelligence itself. I'm reflected intelligence. And when you get a reflection like the reflection of the sun on the moon it is not sunlight at all, and it doesn't have the power of sunlight. So reflection is never what it reflects. So I am reflected intelligence.'
'Now there is an intelligence behind your awareness, which is what I'm speaking of, and it is the intelligence of your entire body, and that is your instinctual nature. It is a far greater intelligence than your mind or emotions.'
'We have the power of self reflection, the animals have instinct, and instinct is the most wonderful gift to us animals, because we couldn't get through the day without instinct to warn us of so many things that we just don't register, but we have the extra capability of being able to reflect.'
'If there is such a thing as a perfect reflection, that everyone is capable of sooner or later, once they give up all their beliefs, is to reflect on the state of stillness, the state of now, now, this moment now, to reflect on that which is nothing to speak of. Now that is the peak of the reflective capability, which signifies the peak of human intelligence while lived in a body not reflecting on myself, not reflecting on my body, not reflecting on my past experience, not reflecting on what I own, not reflecting on fear or anything, but on now, which is nothing to speak of.'
SESSIONS
Real Intelligence
Length: 1 hours and 12 minutes
The Wonder, not the Why: The Great Architect Behind it All
Length: 1 hours and 23 minutes
The Mirror Within: Reflections on Inner Space
Length: 1 hours and 18 minutes
Freedom from Opposites
Length: 58 minutes
The Final Truth and End of Seeking
Length: 1 hours and 11 minutes
Pure Intelligence: Beyond Reflection and Object
Length: 1 hours and 27 minutes
God being God – Intelligence reflecting inward
Length: 59 minutes
The Quickest Way to Enlightenment: Acknowledging the Good in Your Life
Length: 1 hours and 8 minutes
Barry Long declares the swiftest path to enlightenment is a continual inner acknowledgment of the good in one’s life, pointing out that people habitually overlook this reality in favour of dwelling on problems.
The Honesty of Love: Transforming Relationship Through Truth
Length: 1 hours and 23 minutes
Barry Long emphasises that true partnership is rooted in conscious love and honesty, warning that unspoken grievances and misplaced priorities—such as putting children before the relationship—invite suffering and breakdown.
Instinctual Intelligence and the Robotic Life
Length: 1 hours and 23 minutes
The session explores the distinction between the robotic nature of existence and the intelligence that animates all life. He emphasises self-knowledge as the path to true autonomy and uncovers the spiritual law that one must align as much as possible with the instinctual intelligence to be free.