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.
For full-length talks and extended dialogues, besides 'Barry Long Answers', the usual 'Barry Long Podcast' continues as a separate stream, with both free and subscriber-only editions available. Or if you'd like access to the full Barry Long Archive, the Barry Long website offers a subscription to this.
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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Publisher
Barry Long Foundation International
Category
religion & spirituality · society & culture · society & culture
How do I overcome my addiction to masturbation and sexual imagination?
A man admits a long struggle with masturbation and sexual fantasy, and asks Barry Long how to stop feeding it. Barry says the real problem is not the girls in short skirts but the ‘psychic tongue’ of imagination that keeps reaching out and exciting the sexual demon in man. The only way to weaken it is ‘prayer and fasting’ Barry say – refusing to look, refusing to indulge fantasy, refusing to feed the habit in any way, even when it erupts in erotic dreams. Two other men also ask about t...
28 Apr 2026
Why does love frighten me?
Barry engages a man who says that he is afraid and unsure whether he has ever truly loved. Barry distinguishes between having love within oneself and actually loving, and says that real love requires courage, honesty, steadiness, and freedom from fear. Most relationships are distorted because sexuality, excitement, fear, and emotional defences are mistaken for love. Barry describes a man’s task as remaining firm, tender, and truthful rather than seeking excitement or retreating in fear, and ...
28 Apr 2026
Are my contacts with extraterrestrial intelligence truly spiritual guidance?
A woman tells Barry that since first meeting him her life has changed, but she needs clarification. Without consciously seeking it, she says, communication with dead people, higher beings, other intelligences and extraterrestrial intelligence has come into her awareness and guided her towards what she calls God realisation. She says this began about ten years earlier when dead people started speaking through her, giving proofs of their survival to people she had never met. Barry replies that...
28 Apr 2026
Why do I keep feeling "what am I doing here?" in my relationship?
A woman asks about Barry’s teaching. She says she has been in a relationship for three and a half years, and two things keep coming up: her doubt—“what am I doing here in this relationship?”—and her partner's moodiness. She says she could never fully leave, and she could never fully be there. Barry says it is a compromise and that eventually in love you have to give up compromise. He says if the man doesn’t change and doesn’t love her enough, she has to leave him. He tells her she doubts bec...
28 Apr 2026
How much free will do I have?
"The only free will that we have is when we have no will, and then there is only the Divine Will, which is every moment. Then I have no will on my own, then I am free." A woman asks Barry Long how much free will does she really have and how she can 'choose' to let go of anger if, as he says, there is no free will. Barry replies that the only real freedom is when there is no personal will at all, only Divine Will operating in every moment. What we normally call 'choice' is simply the s...
28 Apr 2026
Since I had a nervous breakdown long ago, why do I experience pressure now?
A woman says she had a nervous breakdown a long time ago and that since then she feels pressure everywhere; if she wants to do something, she reports, she turns it into pressure. Barry asks her what a nervous breakdown is, and she says she experiences it as her body not doing what she wanted to do. She says that on the telephone she cannot hear anymore, gets blockages, and cannot translate what people are saying, and that when she swallows she cannot swallow. ~ This exchange is drawn from re...
28 Apr 2026
How does my woman's past, including past lovers, affect me?
A man asks Barry how a woman’s past — the energies of her past lovers, her mother and father, and so on — affect him. Barry says that her past is all that has accumulated in her — past lovers, mother, father, the life she has lived – and there is pain and emotion attached. The man’s job is to take that world out of her – the penis, “a loving penis,” is made to take the world out of a woman. Barry adds that a woman shouldn’t have any world in her; her fundamental state is pure love, and the w...
28 Apr 2026
How is life here an extraterrestrial intelligence experiment?
'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 personalitie...
28 Apr 2026
I have become a computer-addicted workaholic – how do I stop losing my life to the screen?
A man who works in software admits that his life is being swallowed by the computer. He feels like a workaholic whose mind is constantly running on concepts, screens and deadlines, while his body and real life fade into the background. Barry Long responds by exposing the unreality of the computer world: it grips the brain, builds momentum in the mind, and gradually robs a man of the simple sense of being alive in his body. He warns that humanity is in danger of becoming “computerholic,” livin...
26 Apr 2026
How long do I wait for my partner to give up his pornography habit?
A woman asks Barry Long how long she should give her man to get rid of his sexual deception. She says she discovered that for the last three years he has been buying pornographic magazines and masturbating habitually, although he said he had stopped, and that this has happened before over six years. She felt this was the end of the relationship, she stopped making love with him, and says it seems she has no choice but to go. Barry responds to her, telling her that the point of her life with t...
26 Apr 2026
How do I heal past pain that blocks me from being loved as woman now?
During an audience dialogue, a woman says her partner loves her, yet past emotions block her from receiving his love. Barry confirms that the past interferes when she identifies with it, and asks about her everyday discontent. She struggles to name one, eventually admitting doubts about trusting herself as a woman and revealing she facilitates workshops on men and women. Barry argues she shouldn’t teach what she isn’t living; truth must be embodied, or it disturbs the teacher. He advises re-l...
26 Apr 2026
I’m terrified of my wife’s emotions – how do I reach her without reacting emotionally myself?
In this dialogue, a man tells Barry Long he has spent years terrified of his wife’s emotions and of his own reactions – if, for instance, his questions come from intelligence or his angry self. Barry turns the question around: instead of asking what is wrong with her, the man must ask, “What am I doing to make you emotional?” Barry says no woman becomes emotional without a good reason from her point of view, often rooted in something painful she cannot yet face. “The question is, why is my ...
26 Apr 2026
Given conflict in my partnership, how do I be a true custodian of our love?
During a dialogue, a woman asks how to be a “custodian of love” when her relationship is full of conflict, friction and she becomes defensive and emotional. Barry says every woman contains the “real woman,” yet layers of guilt, self-judgment, and a man’s undermining can stir emotion. Barry adds that women often become emotional when not loved enough or when unconsciously attached to past lovers, projecting old disappointments onto the present man. Barry warns that demanding love makes ...
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