Send us a textEugene begins by saying that everybody believes that accidents happen. He says “There isn’t any.” He goes back to the fundamental idea that dualism is impossible and asks someone to say why. The proof is that absolute un-likes could not communicate and therefore there cannot be more than one basic reality. As human beings, two facts are obvious to us: we have physicality, in our bodies, and we have consciousness of it, and of our ideas and feelings. These two facts interact with each other. Our volition, thoughts and feelings interact with our body, so the physical body and our consciousness of it cannot be fundamentally different.If dualism is impossible then everything that happens must be caused by the “ultimate, non-dual reality.” “There cannot be an event that is not caused.” The word ‘accident’ means ‘to falling’, something falls without a cause. But if sentience and matter are not different, everything that happens, physically, like a falling object hitting someone, must have an aspect of consciousness, of intention, of volition. But we don’t want to believe this. Why? Because we don’t want to accept the responsibility for being on the receiving end. ‘The price of freedom is eternal vigilance’. If we are not continuously watchful, we can become the ‘victim’ of an ‘accident’.  Purity of heart is to will one thing’. The Absolute Will is pure because, being Infinite, there can be nothing outside to interfere with it. Therefore, there can be nothing accidental in God. God is the only absolutely free motion and remains free unless, “It binds Itself by a Self-committal.” This happens when the Absolute commits Itself to objective existence and makes a finite world, the Universe. The Bible tells us that we are ‘made in the image of God’. This means that we have the same three attributes of Intelligence, will and the ability to articulate them. Intelligence is sentience, will is initiative, and “the power to express what your intelligence and will motivate themselves by.” The power of speech is important because if we do not verbalise what we are doing, we cannot be clear about it. A baby has intelligence and will but cannot yet express itself. By the time it can, its innate intelligence has been imposed upon by parents and other educators, and it has been reduced to the level of a civilised being.“Now there is nothing in our non-dual universe that is not caused by intelligent will.” The universe is made of vibrating energies in rotation and translation. Each structure is the form which determines any vibrational frequency. A structure is a ‘stricture’, a restraint. Everything in the universe is a creation of fundamental power. We call it ‘cosmic reason’, the Logos, and it is an encapsulation of that power, a compression, and a release, an expansion, producing a rotation, and thereby beings. Every such being is an encapsulation of Sentient Power, but when such beings are created there arises the possibility of contingent relation, and from this comes the idea of ‘accident’. The Absolute can “knock” on the walls of any such sphere and the being will not have any warning that this knock is coming. If the being is surprised in this way, it will view the knock as ‘accidental’. We should all be expecting this to happen, but because of an erroneous education, we are not. We think something knocking on us has ‘befallen’ us. From the point of view of the Absolute, of cPlease note that further information can be found at www.eugenehalliday.com/welcomeOn 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 opening a dialogue with anyone who has an interest in wanting to discuss the contents of eugenehalliday.com further.

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