The Eugene Halliday Podcast
Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer and teacher. Possessing a profound understanding of philosophy, religion and the science of his day, he published 15 books and gave over 250 recorded talks. Much of his work centred on his interpretation of the esoteric ideas behind religion. The purpose of this podcast is to share Halliday’s teachings.
Episodes
"If opposition is necessary for our growth, how is it so many people and nations have been crushed by this very thing? Can you explain how they have benefited by being opposed?"
So we’re going to consider this question of opposition ... how it is necessary. And we have to be very careful about people and nations. Many peoples have failed to recognise the necessity of the opposition, ...
Eugene responds to a question regarding non-attachment, articulating the relationship between the observer and the observed.
"The observer is consciousness actually serving some object. The observed is the object receiving the energy from the consciousness. Now, consciousness can see quite easily without attachment at all. It can simply see, become aware of the nature of any object...The obser...
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth". (2 Timothy 2:15; KJV)
This verse implies "...that truth is divisible and yet truth is somehow whole."
TRUTH: "Truth we remember is a TR with another T at the end, aspirated with TH, is the same thing as the Law, the Torah. The T here means the fixed and ...
Do we need sleep? What is the function of dreaming? How can dreaming be be used to help develop the potentials of being?
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960.
Is the end superior to the beginning?
"Is our final condition - our 'Big O', our Omega - better than our Alpha?"
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.
In this talk, Eugene covers a wide range of topics, including:
- Conservation Laws
- The Function of the King
- Consciousness, Subject and Object
- Authority
- Pavlov's Dog-conditioning Experiments
- Dialectical Inversion
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s.
"The word becoming means ceasing to be and coming to be other than it was. So the word becoming covers a concept of being and not being simultaneously... there’s a necessity for a resolution between the being that is, and the being that might be, and the non-being. The non-being and the being together act upon each other and produce becoming....
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK).
"We are all Sons of God, but we are not First Sons of God. There is One Son that is the first Son..."
"Who is Jesus? Jesus is that original One-ly-Begotten power of the infinite Fatherpower and He is not other than that power self-manifeste...
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) in 1982.
"Now this is very peculiar, that inside the one being...there can be a variety of minds. There can be a ‘pattern-mind’ [i.e. higher mind] that sees all, there can be a ‘time-mind’ [i.e. lower mind] that sees the thing it’s chasing at the moment, and there can be, in between those two, any numb...
This episode is a series of Easter readings by David and Zero Mahlowe, based on various of Eugene's writings.
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s.
Eugene continues the discussion on Lucifer, commencing with an analysis of the work of Carl Jung.
A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. (Note - this talk has been spilt into two parts. If you're following along in the transcript, Part 2 commences under th...
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s.
Do we need Lucifer? Eugene responds to a question from the audience:
"I just said that I’ve fallen out a bit with Lucifer...after what you’ve told us over the last few weeks, it doesn’t seem that he’s necessary at all...I don’t need Lucife...
Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s.
"When you identify with your gross material body, you are identifying with the slowest beat that there is where you are. It isn't the only beat there, it's the slowest one. It is identification and the need for gross material experience that causes this focusing on the slow, because the slow is easier...
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 24th June 1984.
What is freedom?
Freedom is NOT the absence of all constraint. Freedom is NOT the following of impulses indiscriminately.
Rather, freedom is "...a gathering to...
Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 29th May 1977.
Eugene responds to an audience member's question regarding the 'Bardo Thodol', or 'Tibetan Book of the Dead'.
In terms of our being, the Bardo refers to the intermediate zone between life and death. It is the realm of dream...
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 co...
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.
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 imp...
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 n...
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