Barry Long

In his twenties he became editor of a Sydney Sunday newspaper, The Truth[2] and later press secretary in the New South Wales Parliament.

[3] Leaving India he moved to London, living in Highgate and working as a sub-editor in Fleet Street until he was able to support himself from teaching and publishing.

In 1986 he returned to his native Australia, living on Tamborine Mountain, Queensland with his wife Kathy and young stepson, Simon, then in Burleigh Heads, Queensland when they divorced, and finally moving to Crabbes Creek, New South Wales where he lived until his death from prostate cancer in December 2003.

His last public seminar was the tenth annual 14-day Master Session held in Queensland, Australia in late October 2002.

It includes: The sexual aspects of his teaching gained great notoriety, assuming a greater prominence in the public mind than Long wished.

In response to an article by Andrew Cohen he wrote "One notion I would like to correct is where you say that in my teaching "the primary spiritual practice is making love rightly."

[20] He recommended abandoning religious tradition in favour of direct experience and asked his audience not to believe anything he said,[21] but to listen for the "ring of truth" in it.

[20] The most prominent of these is Eckhart Tolle, best-selling author of The Power of Now, who met him in person and is on record as saying he loved Barry Long's teaching.