The aim of this teaching is for the individual to be free of unhappiness. Barry Long recognised that it is the problematical love life between man and woman which is the cause of most of the unhappiness on earth. What makes the teaching so irresistibly beautiful or disturbing, is his communication that the love between man and woman is in reality divine. Whereas most teachings and religions ignore the love life, Barry addresses it with inspired authority and practicality as the way to God and truth. His revelations of the divine nature of man and woman's love sprang directly from the experiences of a lifetime of living that love with woman. His great love of the principle of woman ensured that he has always had a spiritual woman by his side who loved and served him and by her presence contributed to the teaching.

'Since the truth, the pure intelligence of the universe, began to enter my body at the age of 31, my life of truth has been intimately connected with the love of woman. My first woman, whom I've described as the first bhagavati, meaning God in female form, revealed herself in a vision to be just that, when I was about 36. She, by leaving me, caused me such pain and suffering that I realised immortality. I passed through the level of death in the psyche and entered that realm of consciousness where the bodies of man and woman are one with the nature of the earth.

It was only later I discovered that every significant woman in my life since the first bhagavati was an aspect of the same divine woman, the one divine female principle that is present in every woman's body, more or less. It can be said that I have been taught by the divine principle of woman, I have been led by her, I have been crucified by her and most certainly I am loved by her. I am the product of that love, as is my teaching.'