Send us a textEugene begins by asking: “What are we going to talk about tonight?”An audience member asks about the ‘Bardo Thodol’, the ‘Tibetan Book of the Dead’.He draws a circle and puts an arrowhead on the circumference to show that it is going round.Without circumscription, there would be no ‘ground of being’. (‘Ground’ is G-round: the going round of energy.) Opposite to the ‘dead’ are the ‘quick’, the ‘wicca’. He uses the mnemonic of ‘Whicker’s World’ (a popular TV programme at the time,) WICR: ‘Worship is Continual Remembrance’. Remembrance of what? To remember is to re-member, a member of self-consciousness. The circle represents ‘continual remembrance’ as we run round it in our minds. A circle includes and excludes. It includes the finite and limitation, it excludes the infinite and limitlessness.A circle can also be represented by the word ‘ON’. This is an ancient word for the sphere of the Sun, and is seen in ‘Babylon’ and Aton. We all begin life as a sphere, as an egg. Although now elongated, the sphere of the egg still surrounds us in the form of our skin.Science now accepts that there is only energy, but has not yet accepted that energy is sentient. It feels, and through feeling knows its own state. Sentience means to know by feeling. Feeling is our primordial mode of awareness. We are inside a skin, we are made of energy, and that energy feels itself and therefore you feel that you are a being. This feeling of being is simply that the skin provides a resistance. Your energy reflects back from the skin to the centre, carrying with it the memory of impinging on the skin. He asks the audience: “How does an Infinite Power, which is infinitely sentient, feel to Itself?” Answer: “Absolutely dreadful.” Because of its enormity and responsibility. This state of ‘dread’ isanxiety. (German word ‘angst’. ) The Infinite, Sentient Power, prior to creation, is in a state of infinite anxiety.He draws another circle. Between the inside and outside of the circle he draws a line. This line can be drawn more widely to show another zone, an intermediate zone, between inner and outer. Thisis the intermediate zone we all must pass through in the shift of consciousness that happens when we die. It is a process of transition from one level of consciousness to another. This zone is the ‘Bardo’. He gives the example of a sparrow dying – going from the finite zone to the infinite. We do this every night when we go to sleep; we ‘die’ every night. Between waking and dreamless sleep, there is the dreaming state: the Bardo.He asks the audience to look at the image of the circle he has drawn and then to close their eyes and try to retain the image. Some people are able to retain an image with complete clarity – this is eidetic imagery, but most people retain a less-focussed, less clearly-defined image. This is similar to what happens when we dream. We retain images from the outside world but in a less clearly-defined form. (He draws a serrated edge on the circumference of the outer circle, to represent the clearly focused images of the external world, and an undulating edge on an inner circle to represent the dream images.) There is a second skin around our ideas with their emotional charges. This is the dream state. The images are not sharp here (unless we have eidetic imagery). This circle represents the non-sharp, emotionally charged forms within consciousPlease 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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