The Eugene Halliday Podcast
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
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-manifeste...
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 numb...
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 th...
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 Lucife...
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...
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 to...
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...
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 co...
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.
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 imp...
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 n...
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...
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.
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 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 old Chinese saying that says 'if it ...
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