The Eugene Halliday Podcast

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 th...

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 o...

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 definition. What we are looking for, what we hope to develop into is a being that needs no external l...

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 falling down. This poses the question as to why some people are large lumps and others, small chips. This co...

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 people who don’t go in, but they are a part of people who do go in."  "Outside us we have men making propa...

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 thing that you can observe under the microscope in a monocelled animal occurs in the multiplication of hum...

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 has not been seriously propounded. The reason for it not being seriously propounded is simply because...

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 through him?  A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net . 

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; form, that which shapes itself; function or activity, that which causes it to express itself in the ac...

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 experience, and that information is, therefore, not put into action, it will operate as a poison wit...

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 . 

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 symbology of the Buddhist Wheel of Life. This talk is provided in two parts.  A transcript is availab...

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 able to understand ourselves.  Precise language is essential for there to be understanding.  A transc...

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 control. However, those that make the rules do not intend to restrict themselves by those same rules. Ulti...

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 actually, by his identification with a finite formulation, stopped his own further evolution. The reason for...

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 the rain in the middle of winter with notices saying down with nuclear bombs, they are not going to sto...

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 that ever lived, will you please, please tell us, is there some super message that you have not reveal...

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 sensorium and its qualities. As individuals with senses we are interpretative mechanisms. No individual...

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 moment by moment. So time, as experienced by human beings depends on energy emission by those human being...

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 to the nth degree. Science will have so many devices that can prove certain things to exist that peopl...

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 have a directional sense and don't strive."  Technically speaking, the word 'people' means 'knee-bender...

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 conferring a title/label of responsibility comes from people. The next level of conferring titles/labels of...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 29th September 1968.   Hierology is the study of the sacred traditions of ancient peoples. It is concerned with the technique of the differentiations of power that turn might into right. As the backdrop for this discussion, Eugene considers that "we are slowly moving towards a third world war. The reason we are studying hierology, is related to this fact...

Talk given in Liverpool, circa 1960.  "If the Absolute can only perceive through a finite, does not this suppose that the universe and all beings in it are already finited in all their stages of evolution?"  Eugene explores questions concerning the Absolute; including man's role as a vehicle of perception, the Logos Principle, and the relationship between Immanent Spirit and Transcendent Spirit. ...