The Origins of Man and the Universe

		THE ORIGINS OF MAN AND THE UNIVERSE
		TABLE OF CONTENTS
		Foreword Introduction
		ONE	EVOLUTION The missing link -- The intelligence behind evolution -- The world of the psyche -- The emergence of the brain -- The body of primitive man -- The dawn of self-consciousness -- A journey to the light
		TWO	THE GODS The myth of myths -- The gods arrive -- The gods' game of love
		THREE	HUMAN NATURE The end of Eden - Man projects his new world -- Evolution by involution
		FOUR	VIOLENCE AND CIVILISATION The first society -- The original gnostics -- The masters' power -- Westernisation -- Man, the fighter -- How violence grew sophisticated -- The birth of shame -- The art of civilisation -- Decline and fall -- A cosmic law -- Paranational terror -- The beginning of the end
		FIVE	THE UNDERWORLD The genie gets out of the bottle -- Invasion from the dark -- How the self gets into the brain -- The vitality of the psyche -- The source of dread -- Psychic possession -- The return to immortality
		SIX	THE UNIVERSAL MIND The origin of the earth-idea -- Terrestrial mind -- The intellect -- The position of the senses -- The perception of reality -- Death, the reasonable reality -- The fifth and sixth dimensions
		SEVEN	THE SEVEN LEVELS The embodiment of mind -- Consciousness in the seven levels of mind -- Levels One, Two and Three -- The Band of Death -- Level Four -- Level Five -- Level Six -- Level Seven
		EIGHT	THE THREE PLANES OF EXISTENCE The moon's gift to earth -- The Creation -- The Red Plane -- The Yellow Plane -- The Blue Plane
		NINE	LIVING AND DYING The authentic being -- The sex drive -- Freedom from self -- The process of dying -- The world of the dead -- Purification -- Love in the world -- Man's character
		TEN	HIGHER INTELLIGENCE Science and the Planes -- The permanent atom -- Presence of mind -- Communication from higher intelligences -- UFOs and the speed of time -- The human charade
		ELEVEN	THE DRACONIC TRANSVERSE Draco, the myth -- Yang and Yin -- Real Energy -- Cosmic participation -- Astrology -- Man's sense of time -- The influence of the sun and moon
		TWELVE	THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE The theories -- The real Big Bang -- The birth of intelligence -- The stationary universe -- Evolving intelligence -- The world of motion -- Perceiving reality -- Looking into eternity -- The original moment
		THIRTEEN	POWER IN THE UNIVERSE The first three principles -- The will's first creation -- The formation of the stars -- The birth of the solar system -- Power, gravitation and force -- Force-lines on earth -- The reducing speed of light
		FOURTEEN	THE OBJECTIVE UNIVERSE Induction and deduction -- The error of science -- The two sides of the universe -- The sense-machine -- The solid in which we live -- The living past -- Being objective -- Being subjective -- Mental associations -- Perceiving objectively
		FIFTEEN	THE FUNCTION OF THE INTELLECT The degradation of the intellect -- The world of figments -- The activation of ideas
		SIXTEEN	THE MYTHIC UNIVERSE Behind the human mind -- How ideas become manifest --The timeless -- The limits of intelligence --The cosmic body -- The limits of sense- perception -- The movement of intelligence
		SEVENTEEN	THE GIRDLE OF ETERNITY The system of being -- Reality is an object -- The mirror of infinite mind -- Looking towards infinity -- The prospect of immortality -- The galleries of reality
		EIGHTEEN	SOMETHING FROM NOTHING The ring of truth -- The echo of now -- The expansion of space -- The original word -- Original number -- The primary proposition of existence -- The truth of the beginning -- A journey through the higher galleries -- Our ultimate dread
		NINETEEN	THE PLANETS The planetary ideo-rings -- How man forms the universe -- Life on other planets
		TWENTY	THE MYTH COMES TO LIFE The emergence of the psychic I -- The egoic intelligence realises itself -- Lunar enlightenment
		Appendix - The Origins of the Book Index
		Notes from the book jacket : This is an account of a spiritual enquiry into evolution, civilisation, our place in the universe and the structure of reality. It is a cosmology which relates to modern science but takes us beyond the Big Bang. It charts the evolutionary work of consciousness on earth and takes us back through the human psyche to our original state in eternity or God's Mind. This is an extraordinary work that brings self-discovery to the exploration of the universe, an enlightening fusion of knowledge in which every reader shares, since the story of existence is the story of us all. There is a profound connection between the discovery of the universe and self-discovery, scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. This most rewarding connection is made in this book, which relates the amazing complexity of life to the eternal essence at the centre of everything. Barry Long opens our minds to that enlightening reality and accounts for life, death and the whole of existence in a grand mythic design, revealing our part in the evolution of consciousness. For several years following his transcendental realisation Barry Long was engaged in a gnostic enquiry into life on earth and the nature of consciousness. This book is a summation of his many remarkable insights and realisations about life, death and our being in existence.