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.
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Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer and teacher. For a large part of his life he lived and taught in Manchester running groups and giving guidance and personal tuition to a large number of interested people. He was a gifted artist, a writer of books, plays, and poetry as well as possessing a profound understanding of philosophy, religion and the science of his day. His legacy is extensive with 15 books published and many other writings and over 250 recorded talks. Much o ...
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Episode 47 - Non-Seriality
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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 alrea…
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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…
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Episode 45 - Impotence
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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 …
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Episode 44 - Resentment
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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-…
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Episode 43 - Advice to Young Girls
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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…
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Episode 42 - Intuition
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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 dele…
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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 t…
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Send us a text ZERO MAHLOWE – AN APPRECIATION BY BOB HARDY – January 2023 ZERO’s BACKGROUND Born in London in 1930, Pauline Jones (later to change her name to Zero) was 21 when she first met both Eugene Halliday and his wife Peg. This was during a visit by her to the Isle of Man in the summer of 1951 when she heard first heard him speaking about hi…
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Send us a text ZERO MAHLOWE – AN APPRECIATION BY BOB HARDY – January 2023 ZERO’s BACKGROUND Born in London in 1930, Pauline Jones (later to change her name to Zero) was 21 when she first met both Eugene Halliday and his wife Peg. This was during a visit by her to the Isle of Man in the summer of 1951 when she heard first heard him speaking about hi…
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Send us a text ZERO MAHLOWE – AN APPRECIATION BY BOB HARDY – January 2023 ZERO’s BACKGROUND Born in London in 1930, Pauline Jones (later to change her name to Zero) was 21 when she first met both Eugene Halliday and his wife Peg. This was during a visit by her to the Isle of Man in the summer of 1951 when she heard first heard him speaking about hi…
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Send us a text ZERO MAHLOWE – AN APPRECIATION BY BOB HARDY – January 2023 ZERO’s BACKGROUND Born in London in 1930, Pauline Jones (later to change her name to Zero) was 21 when she first met both Eugene Halliday and his wife Peg. This was during a visit by her to the Isle of Man in the summer of 1951 when she heard first heard him speaking about hi…
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Send us a text ZERO MAHLOWE – AN APPRECIATION BY BOB HARDY – January 2023 ZERO’s BACKGROUND Born in London in 1930, Pauline Jones (later to change her name to Zero) was 21 when she first met both Eugene Halliday and his wife Peg. This was during a visit by her to the Isle of Man in the summer of 1951 when she heard first heard him speaking about hi…
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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.…
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Send us a text The text above is a sample section of the Precis of the full transcript - Please note that further information can be found at www.eugenehalliday.com/welcome On the website, there are links for you to freely download full transcripts of all of the talks available here. eugenehalliday.com encourages dialogue and would warmly welcome o…
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Send us a text Zero Mahlow reading The Conquest of Anxiety 1 of 12 The text above is a sample section of the Precis of the full transcript - Please note that further information can be found at www.eugenehalliday.com/welcome On the website, there are links for you to freely download full transcripts of all of the talks available here. eugenehallida…
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Episode 39 - Levels of Being
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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.Di eugenehallidaypodcast
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Episode 38 - First Love
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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…
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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.…
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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 e…
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Episode 35 - Heavenly Jerusalem
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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 dev…
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Episode 34 - Hierarchy
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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…
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TOP ECONOMY
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Send us a text Eugene begins by defining ‘Top Economy’ “Local intelligences, supplied with the appropriate information, are better equipped to solve local problems than a central intelligence in the metropolis far away.” He then applies this concept, designed for local decision-making of governments and town councils, to the human body. There is an…
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YOGIC ALIGNMENT
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Send us a text In Yoga this means aligning all the parts of the being in one, unified direction. The parts to be aligned are the urges from below, the feelings from the chest region, and the thinking in the head. If we put numbers on these then we have a single appetite in the belly, two feelings in the chest: like/dislike and, in the head, five sp…
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VOCABULARY
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Send us a text Most of our vocabulary is acquired as children and remains ‘passive’.The terms we use are mostly not defined and their implications are not examined. Our words are learned in social situations and with emotive overtones; e.g. the word ‘naughty’. So when we hear a particular word we receive with it some reference to other things and t…
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VIRTUE IS KNOWLEDGE
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Send us a text The talk begins with a quotation from Socrates: “Virtue is knowledge and the person necessarily acts upon the knowledge that they have.” Eugene asks his audience: “Do you believe it?” The answer is “No.” He then asks: “If you had absolute knowledge and knew everything, could you then disobey it?” (mixed responses of Yes/No) He says t…
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THE ZODIAC
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Send us a text Eugene starts with a circle to represent the universe, but makes the point that it could be used to represent any encapsulated zone of energy, all the way down to a human being, or indeed, a virus. He starts with the AIR triad, with the cardinal sign of Libra, which symbolises the perceptual field and intellectual formulation. He str…
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YOGA OF LISTENING
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Send us a text Eugene begins by saying that the talk is going to be about sound and listening to sound, a yoga called ‘Nada Yoga’. He equates the word ‘nada’ with the ‘logos’ of the fourth gospel. In the beginning was creative sound. The Universe, and everything in it, was created by vibrations, by the undulations of a force. Space is a ‘sonorifero…
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PHENOMENOLOGY
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Send us a text Eugene begins the talk light-heartedly and reminds the audience of the use of the hand as a mnemonic device. Then from a definition from the audience of phenomenology as ‘having a think’ he mentions that there is suggestion that Husserl the originator of phenomenology had had influence from Oriental philosophy, then states that pheno…
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Episode 33 - Church and State
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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…
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Episode 32 - Ancestral Influence
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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 mono…
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TETRAGAMMATRON
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Send us a text Eugene starts by drawing the symbols represented by the above name. It is the name of God. Christians would translate it as ‘Jehovah’ but orthodox Jews would say Adonai ‘Lord’. He asks for four volunteers to shout each of the four letters simultaneously. This is because, to Jewish Orthodoxy, the name of God is unpronounceable as the …
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SURVIVAL
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Send us a text Eugene considers the difficult problem of the effects of a nuclear war upon survivors and “even those who do not.” Very big shocks to our lives tend to sharpen our awareness. We might then become aware that whatever we do will have effects which could be far away but will be reflected back to each causal centre. This is, in fact, a r…
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WILL & INTELLECT
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Send us a text E.H. Starts by drawing the letter ‘O’ to symbolise ‘ALL’. The ‘All’ has to be analysed because we are in a fallen state: fallen from wholeness into partiality; the preference for one thing rather than another. He draws a circle, and then a horizontal diameter to cut the ‘All’ in half. This ‘parting’ of the circle does not destroy the…
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REFLEXIVITY
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Send us a text The question Eugene addresses is the meaning of the term ‘reflexivity’. He draws a circle and then another round it, then two more, making four concentric rings, but says he should really draw seven. He draws a horizontal line passing through the centre and writes ‘H’ for ‘Hierarchy’ above the line and ‘M’ for Matter below it. The Hi…
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SEX AFTER DEATH
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Send us a text Eugene begins by explaining how the title of this talk came about. He takes a brown pencil and begins to draw on the OHP the profile of a man’s head. He says he is going to put into the head three kinds of soul. He defines a soul as “a zone of encapsulated Sentient Power.” In the centre of this head he draws two overlapping circles, …
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Send us a text Eugene is asked the question: does the same spirit or soul reconstitute again? He answers by saying that there are various views which can only be resolved “by returning to very abstract principles of mathematics.” He firstly, defines ‘soul’ as “an encapsulated zone of Sentient Power.” As such, it could “reincarnate into many differe…
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SYMBOLOGY OF THE LAMP
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Send us a text Eugene starts with a simple drawing of an earthenware oil lamp containing olive oil and a wick. The olive oil symbolises ‘life-force’ (love). All life is love. He gives the example of petrol, a fuel created by the ‘love-life’ of millions of minute, marine animals over millennia. ‘Life’ in English = ‘Lieben’ in German, ‘to love.’ They…
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SERIAL THINKING & LOGOS
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Send us a text Eugene begins by stating that his aim is: “to show that serial thinking has a very definite purpose of its own quite opposite to the simultaneous, Logos reasoning process.” Evolution has resulted in man having reached the level when he can think serially. We know that we come from the same protoplasm as all living things, back throug…
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WILL 7 URGE
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Send us a text E.H. Starts by drawing the letter ‘O’ to symbolise ‘ALL’. The ‘All’ has to be analysed because we are in a fallen state: fallen from wholeness into partiality; the preference for one thing rather than another. He draws a circle, and then a horizontal diameter to cut the ‘All’ in half. This ‘parting’ of the circle does not destroy the…
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Episode 31 - God and the Devil
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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…
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