The Eugene Halliday Podcast

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK). "We are all Sons of God, but we are not First Sons of God. There is One Son that is the first Son..." "Who is Jesus? Jesus is that original One-ly-Begotten power of the infinite Fatherpower and He is not other than that power self-manifested, so there is no division whatever between Jesus the Son and God the Father." A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) in 1982. "Now this is very peculiar, that inside the one being...there can be a variety of minds. There can be a ‘pattern-mind’ [i.e. higher mind] that sees all, there can be a ‘time-mind’ [i.e. lower mind] that sees the thing it’s chasing at the moment, and there can be, in between those two, any number of lesser and greater levels." Eugene discusses these different minds, highlighting the importance of applying a governing concept as a permanent reference centre for being, one that will continue beyond death. Of course, for those who believe that death represents your total annihilation, then "...eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." However, if this belief turns out to be wrong, you risk spending eternity as a lost soul. Proceed with caution; do not waste the opportunity you've been given. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

This episode is a series of Easter readings by David and Zero Mahlowe, based on various of Eugene's writings.

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. Eugene continues the discussion on Lucifer, commencing with an analysis of the work of Carl Jung. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. (Note - this talk has been spilt into two parts. If you're following along in the transcript, Part 2 commences under the heading 'Carl Jung'.)

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. Do we need Lucifer? Eugene responds to a question from the audience: "I just said that I’ve fallen out a bit with Lucifer...after what you’ve told us over the last few weeks, it doesn’t seem that he’s necessary at all...I don’t need Lucifer. That’s the thing I’ve been thinking of lately." A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. (Note - this talk has been spilt into two parts.)

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. "When you identify with your gross material body, you are identifying with the slowest beat that there is where you are. It isn't the only beat there, it's the slowest one. It is identification and the need for gross material experience that causes this focusing on the slow, because the slow is easier to learn first. But riding on it, there's another beat, and riding on that a very, very fine beat..." "First a physical body, then a spiritual body". (St Paul) A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 24th June 1984. What is freedom? Freedom is NOT the absence of all constraint. Freedom is NOT the following of impulses indiscriminately. Rather, freedom is "...a gathering together and appointing a periphery to one's being, and a definition within that peripheralised zone of one's fundamental unique idea of one's own being contribution to Cosmos, and then following that with all the power of your trine nature, thinking, feeling, willing...". "Is it possible to be unsatisfied if you can do that?" A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 29th May 1977. Eugene responds to an audience member's question regarding the 'Bardo Thodol', or 'Tibetan Book of the Dead'. In terms of our being, the Bardo refers to the intermediate zone between life and death. It is the realm of dream. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. We begin with a question from the audience: "...effectually, we have to work from the conceptual apparatus that we have, and this appears to be slower than the emotional apparatus. In other words if we get involved in a situation that we conceptually decide we can do something about beforehand, but it already precipitates itself before the concept can get a hold of it. And I was wondering, what was the method of attacking it, to stop it?" In his response, Eugene articulates why serial thinking is slower than our immediate awareness, and the processes involved, referencing the 'three-part man'. Ultimately, our goal is not to learn how to inhibit our response to a stimulus, but rather to become 'transparent' to the stimulus, so that it passes through us. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

The talk begins with Eugene reading a question from the audience - Are we ever tried more than we can bear? It is a common view amongst theologians that we are never tried more than we are able to bear the trial. How is this so? The key is to avoid looking backwards and acting based on the conditioning of your past experience. You must respond with immediacy to the stimulus presented. Only then can you be free of your conditioning and ensure an adequate response in the here and now. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit". A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, on 13th June 1963. Eugene is asked a question about the lack of power. The question is, "How do we consider impotence on the three levels of being?" (i.e. the drive or will centre, in the belly; feeling, in the chest; ideas, in the head.) "We are going to consider how we deal with impotence on four levels of being. The three-part man is tied together on the spinal cord as coordinator. We will write in will, feeling and thinking on the three levels of being, coordination on the spine, and we will pro­ceed to examine what it is that causes impotence on any of these levels." A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, on 1st November 1961. What does the fact that certain behaviour patterns in others produce feelings of resentment signify for the being who experiences such feelings? What is the best way: a) of overcoming these feelings in oneself? b) of making others reflect on their behaviour? A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Eugene discusses the differences between two kinds of awareness - the masculine and the feminine - and the historical to-and-fro between lunar, matriarchal cultures and the solar patriarchal cultures. In the modern context "...all people being born today...are tending towards a hermaphroditic state. That is, they are tending to balance the male and female sides of their being...". A person with the outward appearance of a boy is not necessarily an old-school militarist man of initiative and violence. They could be a "...very, very quiet, subtle weaver of patterns of feelings and of ideas, a wheedler as much as a man of violence." "Simultaneously, because of this female emergent in the so-called male, the females have had to start thinking to themselves, 'Can we find a masculine principle inside ourselves so that we can rescue ourselves from being toys for warriors, considering the warriors don’t exist?'" How does a girl get in contact with the male side of her being? A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

How do we tell the difference between intuition and conjecture? Eugene defines 'intuition', before explaining its importance in the next stage of evolution for human beings. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. (NB - There was an error in this recording, resulting in a loss of audio at approximately 45:05. A paragraph has been deleted; please review the transcript for the missing passage.)

This is a narration of Eugene Halliday's work "The Nature of the Zeitgeist", published by the International Hermeneutic Society in 1988. "The term 'Zeitgeist', literally translated 'Time Ghost', was formulated by German philosophers in the nineteenth century when the idea of history as a developing organic process first made itself deeply felt in the consciousness of man. Until this time, and this is still largely the unconscious habit today, men had thought of other men at other times as very much the same as themselves...."

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 25th June 1985. Will there be a second coming of the messiah? This presupposes that there was a first coming. Eugene discusses what is meant by messiah, how many comings there have been, and how many are likely. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960. Eugene explains the five (5) levels of being, specifically: 1. Mineral 2. Plant 3. Animal 4. Empirical Man 5. Logical Man A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 25th May 1980. "I have been asked to talk about a very delicate subject, of a personal nature, and you know I dislike talking about personal things unless I can make a macrocosmic reference, so I shall universalise the problem. It is the problem raised, by falling in love for the first time." A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960. 'A' equals "The Absolute', meaning that which IS when all else is 'sol'd away'. 'A' is infinite. 'B' represents closure, the relative. 'B' is finite. Whenever we talk about 'being' we are talking about closure; when we talk about 'non-being' we are talking about the Absolute. From 'A' to 'B' there is a fall. The 'Fall' is always from the Absolute to the Relative; from the infinite to the finite. What emerges after 'A' and 'B'? In the case of English, we get 'C' and in the case of Hebrew we get a 'hard G'. This refers to the solidification or substantialisation of that which is bound. Eugene describes the relation between these concepts. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. Existence is governed by cyclic law. We are born, we live, we die. The sun rises, the sun sets. The seasons progress. "If you try to hold an idea in your mind you will find that this idea will disappear very shortly. If you think it has gone forever you may become depressed. If you know cyclic law you can expect to see it again later." "There is an old Chinese saying that says 'if it is winter think about summer, if it is spring think about autumn'. Now this is a kind of trick, a psychological device, to help you to conquer cyclic law." However, attempting to do this for a period of time results in tiring. When tired, we lapse and forget. Rather than becoming depressed about what we feel is an apparent lack of progress, we must remember that we are not training for time; we are using time to train for eternity. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.