The Eugene Halliday Podcast

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 23rd May 1976.  What does it mean to describe an object as being ‘out there’? If I say that something is 'out there', it is only so in relation to my body. Instead, consider the object as an appearance within consciousness. To do this we need to get rid of the out there-ness, so that we merely deal with appearances.  Eugene describes the steps involved i...

A talk about two ways of living - the Way of the Moon and the Way of the Sun. The Way of the Moon: A synonym of ancestor worship; parent worship. Children have to be grateful to parents because the parents have provided a body. And the parents have to be grateful to the children for projecting the intention of the parent from generation to generation.  The Way of the Sun: The affirmation of freedo...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 25th January 1981.  Eugene discusses the present significance of the four fixed signs of the zodiac; Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. These signs correspond with the four gospels of the New Testament and with four beasts before the throne of God in the Old Testament. They also correspond with four headings in the Egyptian burial ritual (i.e. three anim...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 2nd October 1983.  Human beings have been collecting information for thousands of years about correct behaviour to each other, but they have not yet begun to apply that in any considerable degree.  Every year, millions of people are killed by accidents, by wars, by diseases, by starvation and so on. Why have we not yet learned the lesson, when we know th...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 25th September 1977.  Eugene responds to three (3) questions; namely:  1. Can desire be stilled?  2. How does one intelligently use the egotism with which we are burdened?  3. What is the origin of all true religion?  A key takeaway from the talk is "...if we listen to ourselves internally in the innermost, we will always find we have an intention to evo...

Talk recorded in Liverpool, UK.  Eugene discusses 'Reflexive Self-Consciousness', which is understood to be at the core of all of his teachings.  Consciousness itself is philosophically undefinable. Consciousness is that in which things exist and are defined. The things are defined, but consciousness is not defined; nor is it definable. Consciousness is an immediate awareness by a conscious being,...

Talk given on 29th June 1975.  Eugene begins by saying that to examine the idea of death he has to examine the opposite, because they are “mutually defining.” However, the opposite of death is not ‘life’ but ‘love’. The word ‘live’ refers to the individual (the ‘i’ signifies ‘individuation’). The word ‘love’ requires another being, two or more are needed. Death means ‘disintegration’, and in this...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 25th May 1986.  We begin by examining the meaning of 'stone'. Eugene suggests approaching it from the idea of: S means ‘Spirit’, T means ‘fixation’ or ‘crucifixion’, N means both ‘negation’ and ‘intelligence’. The fundamental idea in ‘ST one’ is that all matter is really spirit, self-fixated and when this stone is discovered it will confer immortality on...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 24th July 1975.  Eugene delivers a talk about the wisdom in the body, and not of it. Wisdom is defined as “total knowledge in its simultaneity.” Anything less may be knowledge, but it is not wisdom. We have extensive knowledge of the body from the world of empirical science, but the accumulation of this knowledge does not give us ‘body wisdom’. Taking a...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 29th September 1985.  Eugene responds to an audience member who states “Life is hard and ends in death.”  ‘Hard” = HRD =Hierarchical, Discriminative, Division. “The ‘universe is hard’ means that...there are differences of power and discriminative ability.” People are different in all manner of ways. They do not think, feel or will in the same way. “No tw...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 23rd February 1975.  We begin by considering the three-part man. Truth goes into the head, Beauty in the chest, and Goodness in the belly. Truth is perfection, as in a perfect circle, or a perfect straight line. A circle includes and excludes. It includes a finite amount of space and excludes an infinite amount. It is a synonym for rota, form, shape, sph...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) in 1974. Eugene compares Eastern and Western approaches to 'enlightenment'. The terms ‘East’ and ‘West’ do not refer to geography but to the human body. The East is the consciousness in the centre of our body, the West is the body itself, the physical world. The sun, the light of consciousness, rises in the East and shines to the West, the physical body. Si...

Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 28th February 1982. Eugene introduces the analogy of the projectionist in the cinema. When we hear the word ‘God’ we should forget all we have been taught and just think “Generative, Intelligent Power.” The Universe we know is entirely energy, power at work, and this power is sentient. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.