God does not make mistakes, Barry Long

If God does not make mistakes how do we come to be in this divided existence with its separation, loss and heartbreak? Barry Long explores the question profoundly: 'Whenever you leave God - which is the good in you - that is the original error. Whenever you get emotional and identified with your emotion, you leave God. Whenever you start thinking and trying to work things out, you leave God. Whenever you are unconscious of the sky, the rain, the birds in the trees, the sheer benevolence of the life around you, you leave God and you become unhappy.’ Barry Long speaks of the transcendent completion possible in the union of man and woman. He demonstrates how they leave God in their daily lives. He speaks of the difference between love and truth, the purpose of meditation and how identification with the body keeps us afraid of death and running from God, the original state. In a concise and powerful exposition, he clearly describes how to detach from the body by entering it using our unchanging intelligence and sensation, and how the practice of giving can help us return to the original state • Live meeting. Gold Coast, Australia. May, 1999.