Barry Harris Materials

Barry's Original Elevator Speech - Unedited

What My Course is About in One Paragraph (My Elevator Speech):

After presenting an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence validating both the reality of spirit, and our resulting spiritual powers, we look at why we have neither “the eyes to see” the evidence, nor the means to apply it. We will discover in the classes, that accessing the spiritual power predicted by the latest science, requires surrender to spirit, and that is the last thing our ego wants to do. Reviewing the latest discoveries in psychology, and the latest insights in philosophy, we create a new spiritual model, that reveals how high a price we pay for not surrendering to spirit, in order to bypass t he ego’s reluctance. We then experience that allegiance to spirit is not based on being convinced by some belief system, but on a gut level yearning not to be a masochist, who is disempowering oneself, by making oneself a victim to one's mind. Once we have this new motivation for spiritual surrender,  we will more-likely stop harming ourselves by believing in our ego-driven illusion of power. Then, once we see how important spiritual surrender actually is for our power and happiness in our lives, we can have "new eyes to see" the scientific evidence for these spiritual powers, and we can apply the method I teach to access these powers, and thus create miracles.

 

Barry's Original 10-Paragraph Description of His Course - Unedited

Here is the 10 paragraph summary:

ACCESS THE SOUL LEVEL OF YOUR BEING AND CREATE MIRACLES

There is something very revealing and significant about the experience of the  E.S. (ie extraordinary survivors), who created miracles, and recovered from so-called terminal illness. Almost without exception, they made an extraordinary claim: They said that their  life-threatening illness had been a great gift.

THE PRIMARY THEME OF MY CLASSES IS THAT THEIR VERY UNEXPECTED GRATITUDE FOR THEIR LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS IS AN INDICATION THAT MAJOR SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION HAD OCCURRED, BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN ABLE TO ACCESS THE SOUL LEVEL OF THEIR BEING.

This should not be so surprising, because didn't Christ say: "If you have faith, as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO YOU."  These gifts can be yours, too, if you access your soul level of being, and that is the purpose of my classes.

How do I know you can have these gifts? What many people don't realize is that modern science, in fields as diverse as  modern physics, cellular biology, mind/body medicine, parapsychology, and energy medicine, are amassing an overwhelming amount of evidence validating spirit, and that we are immortal souls, and revealing that we possess extraordinary spiritual powers.  

YET THE SCIENCE HAS NOT HAD THE EXPECTED IMPACT ON OUR LIVES OR CULTURE, FOR WE DO NOT HAVE THE EYES TO SEE THE SCIENCE, NOR THE MEANS TO APPLY IT, UNTIL WE HAVE ACCESSED THE SOUL LEVEL OF OUR BEING.

Until then, all the scientific proof for spirituality is just nice ideas, and not responsible for any experiential transformation. Thus, the potential for our spiritual transformation from science's new discoveries has been lost, for it hasn't given us more confidence in our spiritual faith, or, EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, MOTIVATED THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR A MOMENT TO MOMENT CHOICE FOR SURRENDER TO SPIRIT. As a result, the new science hasn't changed our lives or increased our level of power or happiness.

We will only have the "new eyes to see the science" validating spirit, and the new science will only have an impact on our lives,  when we have “new eyes to see” the relevance and importance of an allegance to spirit in our own, personal life circumstances, and thus we take seriously, our responsibility to moment to moment choose surrender to spirit . 

ALLEGIANCE TO SPIRIT WILL ONLY BECOME IMPORTANT TO US WHEN WE BECOME AWARE OF THE GREAT GIFTS WE ARE LOSING UNLESS WE SURRENDER LIKE THE E.S., AND EXPERIENCE OUR SOUL LEVEL OF BEING.

After presenting in my classes an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence, supporting a spiritual interpretation of reality, “I create a new spiritual model,” that proves spirits relevance and importance in our lives,  This new model proves how very important allegiance to spirit is in our lives, for my new spiritual model shows that without spiritual surrender human beings are masochists, who have willfully disempowered themselves, lost any feedback on the nature and source of true happiness,  and chosen a mode of experiencing that distorts our perceptions  and keeps us confused about what is real thus keeping us in self-deception.  And most relevant to these classes, if we stay in our usual mind, and we refuse to surrender to spirit, it prevents us from being able to access the spiritual healing powers, so recently discovered by science,which include the power to create so-called physical healing miracles.

Specifically, the method we will use in creating this new spiritual model, will be based on  experiential exercises, visual aids, and lecture to reinterpret the significance and importance of the findings of modern philosophy and psychology.The goal will be for the student to have a very powerful experience that without spiritual surrender, one is a powerless victim to one's mind, because one's perceptions of one's experience are distorted by one's unconscious, and one's actions are misguided, because of being driven by one's unconscious. The classes will also provide the experience that we remain powerless, primarily because we don’t experience we are driven by our unconscious, we trust the normal human mind much too much, whereas the source of real power will only come when with true humility, we are on guard for the ego-mind's tricks.

As a result of participation in these classes, and the application of my new spiritual model, the student will  at a new gut level, experience the price he/she is paying for not surrendering to spirit.   The combination of the "new eyes to see" the importance of spirit in one's life, from my new spiritual model, and the accompanying "new eyes to see"  all the latest science proving spirit, will give the student a new certainty about their spiritual faith, because the scientific truth and spiritual truth will support each other, and not oppose each other as they do now. The result will be a certainty about spiritual truth strong enough to be a constant companion throughout one's life, motivating ongoing spiritual surrender, and thus transforming one's moment to moment experience of one's life.

 In the classes, I will also prove that this new context of responsibility for ongoing moment-to-moment spiritual surrender (ie what I call “the miracle mind,”) optimizes the possibility for physical healing miracles.

After taking my classes, the student will be permanently aware they are creating their own powerlessness and misery, by the choice of how they experience their consciousness in the moment, and this awareness will motivate a new focus on responsibility for one's inner life, rather than on distraction into the outer world. This will bring true power and happiness to anyone's life, but is especially important for those who need to be in the optimal context for physical healing.

This new certainty about spirit, will change one's life, for one will no longer be, (as the title of my upcoming book states) "a beggar at God's banquet," but we will be able to claim the powers, that modern science has so recently discovered, and thus will be able to create miracles.