The Eugene Halliday Podcast

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. 

Episode 37 - ABC of Relations

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 the finite. 
What emerges after 'A' and 'B'? In the case of English, we get 'C' and in the case of Hebrew we get a 'hard G'. This refers to the solidification or substantialisation of that which is bound. 
Eugene describes the relation between these concepts. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 36 - Cyclic Law

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 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. 

Episode 35 - Heavenly Jerusalem

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 develop into is a being that needs no external light. We don’t need an external sun, we don’t need an external spotlight, we don’t need an external moon, we don’t need external stars. Our goal is that our light shall be inside. Here is your Heavenly Jerusalem...". 
 
How are we to build this Heavenly Jerusalem?
"What has happened to every great civilisation that has established its bricks one on top of the other so securely that it has not needed to attend to them?
It has fallen down.
It actually dies in the middle of its greatness because it begins to rest on its laurels. It stops the necessary striving to transcend its own previous creation and as soon as you stop the movement to transcendence of going beyond your own design, you are already dead. It is only a matter of three hundred years and you will really fall over. Rome was dead three hundred years earlier than it showed itself because it had begun to rest on a concept that was built originally by man." 
Eugene discusses the process whereby we can develop all aspects of being and realise the Heavenly Jerusalem, the city of God, within. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 34 - Hierarchy

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 are large lumps and others, small chips. This could lead to a fatalistic conclusion. What is the true position?" 
Eugene discusses the dynamics of hierarchy. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.