The Eugene Halliday Podcast

Episode 47 - Non-Seriality

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 conceptually decide we can do something about beforehand, but it already precipitates itself before the concept can get a hold of it. And I was wondering, what was the method of attacking it, to stop it?" 
In his response, Eugene articulates why serial thinking is slower than our immediate awareness, and the processes involved, referencing the 'three-part man'. 
Ultimately, our goal is not to learn how to inhibit our response to a stimulus, but rather to become 'transparent' to the stimulus, so that it passes through us. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 46 - Stress

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. 
You must respond with immediacy to the stimulus presented. Only then can you be free of your conditioning and ensure an adequate response in the here and now. 
"The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit". 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 45 - Impotence

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. 

Episode 44 - Resentment

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. 

Episode 43 - Advice to Young Girls

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. 

Episode 42 - Intuition

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.) 

Episode 41 - The Nature of the Zeitgeist

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...." 
 

Episode 40 - Comings of Messiah

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. 

Episode 39 - Levels of Being

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. 

Episode 38 - First Love

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.