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The Eugene Halliday Podcast
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Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer and teacher. Possessing a profound understanding of philosophy, religion and the science of his day, he published 15 books and gave over 250 recorded talks. Much of his work centred on his interpretation of the esoteric ideas behind religion.The purpose of this podcast is to share Halliday’s teachings.
Episodes
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Episode 65 - Every Spirit Seeks a Body
Eugene explores the relationship between spirit, consciousness, individuality and manifestation. He begins with the idea of an infinite, undivided Sentient Power—a continuum possessing both awareness and power. Through local contraction and expansion, this continuum produces distinct “zones of...
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Episode 64 - Involution
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK). Rather than discussing evolution in the conventional sense, Eugene Halliday argues that evolution presupposes involution: nothing can emerge unless it has first been enfolded within its source. Evolution (unfolding) and involution (enfolding) are…
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Episode 63 - God or Field
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 23rd October 1974. Eugene argues that the apparent opposition between a personal God and an impersonal universal field is false. Beginning with the scientific insight that matter is energy, he critiques both dualism (separate principles of good and…
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Episode 62 - Opposition
"If opposition is necessary for our growth, how is it so many people and nations have been crushed by this very thing? Can you explain how they have benefited by being opposed?" So we’re going to consider this question of opposition ... how it is necessary. And we have to be very careful about...
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Episode 61 - Non-Attachment
Eugene responds to a question regarding non-attachment, articulating the relationship between the observer and the observed. "The observer is consciousness actually serving some object. The observed is the object receiving the energy from the consciousness. Now, consciousness can see quite easily...
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Episode 60 - Truth
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth". (2 Timothy 2:15; KJV) This verse implies "...that truth is divisible and yet truth is somehow whole." TRUTH: "Truth we remember is a TR with another T at the end, aspirated…
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Episode 59 - Dreams
Do we need sleep? What is the function of dreaming? How can dreaming be be used to help develop the potentials of being? A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.
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Episode 58 - Alpha and Omega
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960. Is the end superior to the beginning? "Is our final condition - our 'Big O', our Omega - better than our Alpha?" A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.
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Episode 57 - Kingdom Within
In this talk, Eugene covers a wide range of topics, including: Conservation Laws The Function of the King Consciousness, Subject and Object Authority Pavlov's Dog-conditioning Experiments Dialectical Inversion The Dooming of the Perfect Relation Mass Inertia...the Devil Marxism, Tom Payne and…
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Episode 56 - Becoming
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. "The word becoming means ceasing to be and coming to be other than it was. So the word becoming covers a concept of being and not being simultaneously... there’s a necessity for a resolution between the being that is, and the being that might be, and the...
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Episode 55 - Who is Jesus?
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…
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Episode 54 - Each and All
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…
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Episode 53 - Easter Anthology
This episode is a series of Easter readings by David and Zero Mahlowe, based on various of Eugene's writings.
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Episode 52 - Lucifer (Part 2)
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...
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Episode 51 - Lucifer (Part 1)
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...
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Episode 50 - Judgement (Matter, Spirit)
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...
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Episode 49 - Freedom
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...
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Episode 48 - The Bardo
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…
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Episode 47 - Non-Seriality
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…
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Episode 46 - Stress
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...
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Episode 45 - Impotence
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...
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Episode 44 - Resentment
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…
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Episode 43 - Advice to Young Girls
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...
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Episode 42 - Intuition
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...
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Episode 41 - The Nature of the Zeitgeist
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…
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Episode 40 - Comings of Messiah
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...
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Episode 39 - Levels of Being
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.
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Episode 38 - First Love
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,...
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Episode 37 - ABC of Relations
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...
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Episode 36 - Cyclic Law
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…
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Episode 35 - Heavenly Jerusalem
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 27th November 1977. What is meant by Heavenly Jerusalem? "...it is a peculiar city, it is a city that needs no light of sun or moon, for the light of it is constituted by the Glory of God and the Light of the Lamb, His Son, so that already we have a...
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Episode 34 - Hierarchy
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, on 4th July 1963. "Considering the mechanism of social hierarchy, the analogy has been made with the behaviour of lumps of coal in a bucket, where it could be observed that on shaking the bucket, large lumps of coal rose to the surface due to the smaller pieces…
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Episode 33 - Church and State
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. "Now church...means assembly. Now this assembly of individuals is for the many who feel not strong enough to stand alone. When they go into this church they participate, and therefore declare themselves a part in the ceremony. They are apart from the…
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Episode 32 - Ancestral Influence
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. Eugene discusses the biology of human reproduction and what it means for the transmission of information from generation to generation. "...all multiplication of biological elements is by division. The cell divides in order to multiply. Now this same…
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Episode 31 - God and the Devil
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, on 16th February 1961. "At no point in Christian history has this view, namely the view of the identity, absolutely, of God and the Devil, been seriously propounded or gained even limited acceptance, and this despite the earnest thinking of many great minds. This view...
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Episode 30 - Genius
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960. "How is it that we're all so clever, considering that we never do anything to deserve it? Or more specifically, if a genius is born, a sort of Mozart, and is playing brilliantly at four and composing music, how does all this information get into him or...
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Episode 29 - Existence of God
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 27th January 1987. Beginning with a refutation of dualism, Eugene puts forward a proof for the existence of God. "How do we define God as infinitely, powerful, wise, active? We say God is power, form, function. Power, that which pushes itself about…
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Episode 28 - Education
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960. "Can we in-fact put information into a child, other than that which its physical level allows it to do?" In short, yes, this can be done...but it is not advisable. If we put information into a child that does not correspond with its physical performance or...
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Episode 27 - The Buddhist Wheel of Life (Part 2)
Talk given in Manchester, UK. Eugene concludes his discussion of the symbology of the Bhavachakra, or Buddhist Wheel of Life. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.
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Episode 26 - The Buddhist Wheel of Life (Part 1)
Talk given in Manchester, UK. Also known as The Bhavachakra, or Wheel of Becoming, the Wheel of Life is a mandala that represents the Buddhist view of the universe. For Buddhists, existence is a cycle of life, death, rebirth and suffering that they seek to escape altogether. Eugene discusses the...
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Episode 25 - The Value of Words
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960. The words that we use to communicate ideas are imbued with deep significance. Many great thinkers have discerned that 'to think' is 'to formulate'. The words that we use must be in correspondence with our thought processes; if they are not, then we are not...
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Episode 24 - Apocalypse
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 30th June 1985. Eugene discusses the meaning of 'apocalypse' and the general principles underlying writings about the 'end of the world'. Throughout recorded human history, governments have formulated rules (laws) in order to keep the masses under...
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Episode 23 - Dialectics
Talk given in Manchester, UK, on 29th May 1977. "...it is always possible to know more and we’ll see that if anyone thinks it’s not possible to know more when you know all there is to know, that person is an idolater. He has come to rest on a formulation of some kind and in so doing he has...
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Episode 22 - Nuclear War
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) in 1984. We, a handful of people, are not going to affect world governments who are pursuing control of world raw materials through having a shoot out over the possession of those materials, we can’t stop them. If we go and sit in a square in any town in…
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Episode 21 - Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 26th February 1978. There was a Hassid Rabbi; the most wise man that has ever appeared on this globe. He was so wise all his disciples hung on his lips. When he was dying and getting weaker and weaker his disciples asked, “Oh most worthy and wise rabbi...
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Episode 20 - Geometrical Thinking
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, in the early 1960s. There is a very old Chinese statement that says - fire does not burn, water does not wet. The statement has to do with subjectivity and the fact that all we receive from outside is motion and that how we experience this motion depends on our own...
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Episode 19 - Here and Now
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) in 1968. Consider the word time; we see that it reads in the opposite direction, emit. This is a reference to the energy that is released every moment by any existential observer of time. In other words, you cannot observe time without releasing energy...
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Episode 18 - The Aquarian Age
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, in 1962. What is the true significance and the historical process which the human race as we know today, is undergoing? Our contemporary mode of thought is scientific. As we enter the Aquarian phase of our evolution, this means that the scientific spirit will develop…
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Episode 17 - Bending the Knee
Talk given in Liverpool, UK. "It is quite obvious that of the millions of people that we know, they don't strive for perfection at all. Most of them don't strive at all in any way because striving implies the application of effort over a time in some sort of directional sense. Most people don't...
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Episode 16 - Arrogance
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 22nd February 1987. Arrogance is defined as "the taking to oneself, of anything whatever, without entitlement". If an individual believes they have something of themselves not derivative from the Absolute - that is arrogance. Our lowest level of...
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Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer and teacher. Possessing a profound understanding of philosophy, religion and the science of his day, he published 15 books and gave over 250 recorded talks. Much of his work centred on his interpretation of the esoteric ideas behind religion.The purpose of this podcast is to share Halliday’s teachings.
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