Best eugenehallidaypodcast Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 43 - Advice to Young Girls 1:28:07

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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…

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Episode 42 - Intuition 1:06:06

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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 dele…

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Episode 41 - The Nature of the Zeitgeist 50:18

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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 t…

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Episode 40 - Comings of Messiah 56:29

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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.…

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Episode 39 - Levels of Being 1:03:21

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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.By eugenehallidaypodcast

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Episode 38 - First Love 1:22:58

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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…

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Episode 37 - ABC of Relations 59:02

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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.…

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Episode 36 - Cyclic Law 56:33

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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 e…

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Episode 35 - Heavenly Jerusalem 1:06:56

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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 dev…

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Episode 34 - Hierarchy 1:02:29

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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…

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Episode 33 - Church and State 1:25:04

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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…

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Episode 32 - Ancestral Influence 1:10:40

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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 mono…

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Episode 31 - God and the Devil 1:03:15

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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…

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Episode 30 - Genius 1:16:48

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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-hal…

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Episode 29 - Existence of God 1:14:40

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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, th…

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Episode 28 - Education 34:00

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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 …

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Episode 27 - The Buddhist Wheel of Life (Part 2) 1:21:18

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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.By eugenehallidaypodcast

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Episode 26 - The Buddhist Wheel of Life (Part 1) 54:32

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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…

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Episode 25 - The Value of Words 1:30:24

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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 es…

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Episode 24 - Apocalypse 1:14:18

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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 …

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Episode 23 - Dialectics 1:13:04

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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, …

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Episode 22 - Nuclear War 1:06:15

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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 d…

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Episode 21 - Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries 1:26:27

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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 …

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Episode 20 - Geometrical Thinking 1:01:26

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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…

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Episode 19 - Here and Now 1:07:47

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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 being…

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Episode 18 - The Aquarian Age 58:06

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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 …

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Episode 17 - Bending the Knee 1:01:52

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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." Technicall…

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Episode 16 - Arrogance 1:11:25

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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…

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Episode 15 - Hierology 1:14:53

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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…

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Episode 14 - The Absolute 1:07:56

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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 be…

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Episode 13 - The Deficiencies of Phenomenology 1:09:43

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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 ap…

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Episode 12 - The Two Paths 1:00:42

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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 generati…

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Episode 11 - Four Fixed Signs of the Zodiac 1:25:24

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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 headin…

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Episode 10 - Applying What We Know 1:16:31

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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 hav…

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Episode 9 - Desire and the Ego 1:05:58

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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…

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Episode 8 - Reflexive Self-Consciousness 1:19:09

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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…

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Episode 7 - Love and Death 1:32:01

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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 n…

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Episode 6 - Philosopher’s Stone 1:19:50

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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 …

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Episode 5 - Body Wisdom 1:34:28

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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 kn…

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Episode 4 - Life is Hard 1:17:07

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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…

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Episode 3 - Goodness, Truth and Beauty 1:31:06

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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 a…

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Episode 2 - Enlightenment 1:26:36

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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 …

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Episode 1 - God as Projectionist 1:19:43

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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 ava…

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