The Eugene Halliday Podcast

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 impotence on four levels of being. The three-part man is tied together on the spinal cord as coordinator. We will write in will, feeling and thinking on the three levels of being, coordination on the spine, and we will pro­ceed to examine what it is that causes impotence on any of these levels." 

A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

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 not necessarily an old-school militarist man of initiative and violence. They could be a "...very, very quiet, subtle weaver of patterns of feelings and of ideas, a wheedler as much as a man of violence." 

"Simultaneously, because of this female emergent in the so-called male, the females have had to start thinking to themselves, 'Can we find a masculine principle inside ourselves so that we can rescue ourselves from being toys for warriors, considering the warriors don’t exist?'" 

How does a girl get in contact with the male side of her being? 

A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

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 in the consciousness of man. Until this time, and this is still largely the unconscious habit today, men had thought of other men at other times as very much the same as themselves...." 

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. 

A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960. 

Eugene explains the five (5) levels of being, specifically: 

1. Mineral 

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'. 

'B' represents closure, the relative. 

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 the finite. 

What emerges after 'A' and 'B'? 

Eugene describes the relation between these concepts. 

A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. 

Existence is governed by cyclic law. 

We are born, we live, we die. 

"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 is winter think about summer, if it is spring think about autumn'. Now this is a kind of trick, a psychological device, to help you to conquer cyclic law." 

However, attempting to do this for a period of time results in tiring. When tired, we lapse and forget. 

Rather than becoming depressed about what we feel is an apparent lack of progress, we must remember that we are not training for time; we are using time to train for eternity. 

A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.