C7 RAcE Kae OE BARRY LONG, Australian writer and spiritual teacher, was born in 1926 and lives on the Gold Coast of Queensland. His uncom- promising and practical approach to the truth of life has attracted an increasing international audience since he began his public teaching in England in 1982. ONLY FEAR DIES contains eight essays on the causes and effects of unhappiness and the spiritual process of “dying for life’, a way of practical self-knowledge which ultimately brings freedom from fear and liberation from the perpetual discontent of humanity. Also by Barry Long Wisdom And Where To Find It Meditation A Foundation Course Knowing Yourself Stillness Is The Way To Woman In Love Only FEAR DIES A book of liberation BARRY LONG BLAORNRGY = |BOOKS This edition first published 1994 by Barry Long Books BCM Box 876, London WC1N 3XX England. Reprinted 1996. ‘Only Fear Dies’ is a revised and extended edition of ‘Ridding Yourself of Unhappiness’, first published by The Barry Long Foundation in 1984. Three of the essays were originally written to be recorded as audio-tapes: ‘The Being Behind The Mask’ recorded in 1993 as ‘How To Live Joyously’; ‘The Law of Life’ and part of ‘Death, Birth and the Secret of Hell’ were recorded in 1985 as ‘The Law of Life - Karma’. © Barry Long 1984, 1993, 1994. The right of Barry Long to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the publisher. Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: A catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-096013. ISBN 0 9508050 7 6 Cover design: Rene Graphics, Brisbane. Typesetting: Wordbase Ltd, London. Photo: International Photographic Library. Printed in England on acid-free paper by Redwood Books. BARRY LONG BOOKS are published by The Barry Long Foundation, an educational charity registered in the United Kingdom, and are represented in the United States by ATRIUM PUBLISHERS GROUP 3356 Coffey Lane, Santa Rosa, California 95403. CONTENTS Prologue 1 The Being Behind the Mask 5 The Truth of Life on Earth 27 Love, The Teacher 47 The Child Possessed 57 The Word of the World 69 A Political History of The World op The Law of Life 109 Death, Birth and The Secret of Hell 125 Epilogue 145 alt Sea Oey? ee bow aonaaget incase :