The Eugene Halliday Podcast

Episode 33 - Church and State

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 do go in." 
"Outside us we have men making propaganda, acting continuously upon us, and declaring that we, and they mean our body, belong to an organisation — trade union, static church or whatever it is — and that they are requiring us to go into that thing and join…at the body level. And the state organises itself a church, and gets people to belong to it, because when it gets people to belong it can manipulate them. Remember the church is the left arm of the state...". 
But, we are not merely a body; we have inside ourselves immanent spirit. By identifying with this immanent spirit, which is essentially creative, we can actively put ourselves in resistant situations to awaken our volitional urge and enable our further development. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 32 - Ancestral Influence

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 monocelled animal occurs in the multiplication of human beings; only, the mode of doing it is rather less obvious. You get under the microscope a monocell and watch it long enough, you will actually see the thing goes through a process of division. It has inside it a little nuclear spot, the intelligence. This is observed to behave in a peculiar way and then to divide itself into two centres and then various processes take place between the two centres and it builds a wall up. And then it pinches where the wall is and gradually brings itself into a state where it can sever itself into two beings. And that’s the basic method of multiplication by division." 
"The implications of this in religion and philosophy are tremendous, because it means that none of us actually start life with the blank tablet that some thinkers assume. The tabula rasa, the blank tablet of certain philosophical schools is just a pure abstraction ... it just never did exist." 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 31 - God and the Devil

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 not being seriously propounded is simply because it is unfit for publication." 
That's right; deemed not fit for consumption by the general public. But you, dear listener, are not merely a member of the public, and are therefore fit to tune in to this discussion. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 
 

Episode 30 - Genius

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-halliday.net. 

Episode 29 - Existence of God

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, that which causes it to express itself in the actual world of phenomena, Power, Form, Function." 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 28 - Education

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 put into action, it will operate as a poison within the organism. In trying to educate a child beyond the level at which their body can respond, we are sewing the seeds of future trouble. In fact, the increase in schizophrenia and similar mental disorders that we see today are a consequence of attempting to accelerate mental content beyond the capacity of the body to actualise it. 
Eugene discusses this process and how we can maintain our organism in correspondence with reality. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 27 - The Buddhist Wheel of Life (Part 2)

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. 

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

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 provided in two parts. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 25 - The Value of Words

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 essential for there to be understanding. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. 

Episode 24 - Apocalypse

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 to restrict themselves by those same rules. Ultimately, all official rules made by government are made to maintain government. People who hold opinions different to those held by governments have frequently been persecuted by the lawmakers, via inquisitions, being burnt at the stake, hanged etc. 
There have always been intelligent people who have recognised that the laws made by the lawmakers were really "statements of the will of the lawmakers to control a situation, and handle people who were not bright enough to make laws for themselves". 'Prophets' who spoke out against the corruption of governments, because they wanted people to evolve towards a more conscious, free-willed, intelligent way of relating, were often put to death. 
Subsequently there came the 'Apocalyptics' who said "if we tell the truth openly, we will be put to death". So, they concealed the true meaning of their visions / revelations by using symbology. Eugene unpacks this symbology and outlines its true meaning for the individual. 
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.