{"id":6622,"date":"2017-03-16T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2025-01-23T19:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T03:18:29","slug":"22-ok-so-what-is-the-question-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?p=6622","title":{"rendered":"22: &#8220;OK! &#8230; So &#8230; What is &#8216;THE Question&#8217; &#8230; then?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>things are modalities or precipitations of the Infinite Sentient Power&nbsp;which is the Godhead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Eugene Halliday &#8211; Essays on God<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">++++++++++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">NOTE: &#8216;Godhead&#8217;. Translated from&nbsp;<em>Greek -&#8216;qeoths&#8217;<\/em> &#8211; &#8216;divine nature&#8217; or &#8216;the quality of being a God&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">++++++++++++<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Simply we may de\u00adfine Love as the will to work for the optimal dev\u00adelopement of the potentialities of being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Eugene Halliday &#8211; Essays on God<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">++++++++++++<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When love retreats, power advances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Carl Gustav Jung<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">++++++++++++<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">All that there is is Sentient Power; and this Sentient Power is continually Working for the development of the potentialities of its being. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We are circumscribed modalities of this Sentient Power. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We are sentient beings then, and we claim to possess &#8216;consciousness&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If we will to develop this conscious ability such that we can use it to function reflexively, we may &#8216;join in&#8217; with this act of Working, and thus &#8211; as it were &#8211; &#8216;lend a hand&#8217; here, in order to develop these potentialities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If we&nbsp;<strong>will<\/strong> to do this Work, then we will &#8216;realize a profit&#8217; in doing so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If we&nbsp;<strong>will<\/strong> not to do this Work, Work will still be going on within us, but obviously it will not be done <strong>by<\/strong>&nbsp;us; and<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&nbsp;any development of those potentialities that do happen to take place under these circumstance will proceed at a slower pace. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Far more importantly though, any profit arising as a consequence of any development here will not be-long to us&#8230; A state of affairs that we might like to think about if we suspect there might be something to the idea that there is an<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&nbsp;&#8216;accounting&#8217;, or &#8216;final judgment&#8217; that takes place just after we pop our clogs &#8230;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">From &#8216;NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Random Dribbling from the Twilight World of the Undead&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">by Bob Hardy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(A series of fragments from Bob Hardy&#8217;s notebooks &#8211; from the late-1970&#8217;s to date)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">++++++++++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to those who claimed to have known Eugene Halliday &#8216;early on&#8217; (and the two people with whom I spoke to at length about this period would be Donald Lord who, during a recorded interview that I conducted with him told me, &#8220;I remember exactly when I met Eugene. It was just before his 33<sup>rd<\/sup> birthday.&#8221; &#8211; which would be in&nbsp;1944 then; and Ken Ratcliffe, who met him after the War, and who related numerous stories, about their time together up until the mid-1960&#8217;s, to me) Eugene&nbsp;Halliday&#8217;s earliest published work would seem to be &#8216;Defense of the Devil&#8217; &#8211; a copy of which is freely available for downloading from Josh&#8217;s site here: &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugene-halliday.net\">http:\/\/www.eugene-halliday.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Defense of the Devil&#8217;&nbsp;does not seem, to me, to place the concept &nbsp;&#8216;All that there is, is Absolute Sentient Power&#8217;, center stage. At least in the sense that it constitutes a &#8216;governing concept&#8217;. However, the evidence that Eugene Halliday&#8217;s later went on to &#8216;involve&#8217; the use of his term &#8216;Sentient Power&#8217; as a &#8216;governing concept&#8217; can, I believe, be clearly appreciated in most of his subsequent written Work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">+++++++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I would just like to add a word of advice here about Eugene Halliday&#8217;s frequent use of&nbsp;the terms &#8216;Laws&#8217; and &#8216;Rules&#8217; in many of his texts. Whether or not you accept these claims of his, and why you might chose to do so, is entirely up to you.&nbsp;I simply want to say here that, in my opinion, should you actively decide to engage with these texts of his, it would be a good idea if first of all you did a little Work on your understanding and use of both &#8216;deductive&#8217; and &#8216;inductive&#8217; reasoning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">+++++++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So! &#8230; What is <strong>that<\/strong>&nbsp;question? &#8230; Then!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well I would say that there are an endless number of questions that revolve around my particular governing concept &#8211; &#8216;All there is is Sentient Power&#8217; &#8211; and that all I can really do here is supply you with a couple of examples, and hope &nbsp;that you get the general idea.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">If all there is is Sentient Power, why did I wake up feeling grumpy this morning, if I felt OK last night just before I went to sleep?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">If all there is is Sentient Power, and I see a brick on the floor in front of me and say something to myself like, &#8220;That brick right there is a complete object &#8216;in itself&#8217; .. And so it&#8217;s actually an example then of &#8216;circumscribed sentient power&#8217; &#8230; What happens to the sentient power if I hit the brick with a hammer, so that there are now two separate objects that I refer to as &#8216;two half-bricks&#8217; &#8230; Are there in fact now two circumscribed objects instead of one? Or is it just all about the way I chose to see them? &#8230; Is there some sort of weird reproductive process going on here? Does the sentience of the two new half-brick bits somehow &#8216;remember&#8217; that they was once a single brick ? What&#8217;s going on here, and how does it work?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">If all there is is Sentient Power, what is my temporary forgetfulness all about?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">If all there is is Sentient Power, how do I explain my feelings of, say, &#8216;disgust&#8217;?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t happen to think that these questions I have asked myself (or indeed any question that I could ask myself which begins &#8220;If all there is is Sentient Power&#8230;&#8221;) are trivial&#8230;<strong>ever! &#8230;&nbsp;<\/strong>If only because one of the answers to these questions might seem to&nbsp;refute my governing concept; or that, no matter how hard I tried, I might simply just&nbsp;be incapable of &nbsp;answering it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(And just so you know, I have <strong>actually<\/strong>&nbsp;Worked on the answers to the above four questions \ud83d\ude42 &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">++++++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The initial impression that I gained, particularly where it concerned Eugene Halliday&#8217;s written material, was that it was incredibly rich in the range of subjects that it attempted to &#8216;take in&#8217;. And also &#8211; and more importantly for me &#8211; Eugene Halliday seemed to be able to &#8216;link it all together&#8217;, or &#8216;connect it all up&#8217;, in what seemed to me to be a very straightforward way &#8211; although at that time I had no real ideas as to why it did so, but only the firm conviction that, from his standpoint at least, it did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I revisited this material, and began to subject it to more scrutiny, there were a number of directions taken, or points made, by Eugene Halliday, that I found I could not go along with. But this only served to engage me even more with his Work, because I now had to spend a great deal of time contemplating why it was that I didn&#8217;t agree with him, or why I was uneasy about something that he had written.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My, shall we call it, &#8216;confrontational interaction&#8217; here, with some aspect or other of Eugene Halliday&#8217;s&nbsp;material in no way diminishes my respect for him. In fact I believe this was actually one of the reasons why he produced it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">++++++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re looking for questions that involve a governing concept such as &#8216;All that there is is Sentient Power&#8217; then I can suggest one of the methods that I came to use. Which was to ask questions that began, &#8220;If all that there is is Sentient Power, what is it doing here when I (&#8230;. &#8230; )?&#8221; &nbsp;And then to fill in the blank here with my response(s) to a): whatever news source(s) I happened to have reacted to, or b): whatever form of leisure activity I was engaging in, such as, for example, watching movies, TV shows, or even documentaries, or c): my immersion (my identification with) characters &nbsp;in any novel that I happened to be reading&#8230; So no questions here about any obvious &#8216;creative activity&#8217; of mine then&#8230; At least not to begin with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">+++++++++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally here, I would like to suggest that you read the following essays by Eugene Halliday. Because, if you do, I believe there would then exist a strong possibility that you will experience what it is that I&#8217;m trying to convey here for yourself. The titles below also function as links to the essays themselves; thus you can download them to your computer, and read them at your leisure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6660\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6660\">Words of Power by Eugene Halliday<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6659\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6659\">The Structure Of The Psyche by Eugene Halliday<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6657\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6657\">The Role of the Unconscious in Religion and Art by Eugene Halliday<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6655\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6655\">The Pursuit of Power by Eugene Halliday<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6654\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6654\">The Psychogram by Eugene Halliday<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6652\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6652\">Psychotherapy Part 1 by Eugene Halliday<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6651\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6651\">Notes On Engram Work by Eugene Halliday<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6650\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6650\">IHS &#8211; Original pamphlet plus Meditation guide by Eugene Halliday<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6648\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6648\">Essays by Eugene Halliday from the Cavendish Magazine and Healing Quarterly 1956 &#8211; 60<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And finally, a text by Eugene Halliday, together with an audio-file of &nbsp;Ken Ratcliffe reading it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?attachment_id=6619\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6619\">The Biofield by Eugene Halliday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken Ratcliffe&#8217;s reading of &#8216;The Biofield&#8217; by Eugene Halliday<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6622-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Bio-Field-by-Eugene-Halliday-Read-by-Ken-Ratcliffe.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Bio-Field-by-Eugene-Halliday-Read-by-Ken-Ratcliffe.mp3\">http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Bio-Field-by-Eugene-Halliday-Read-by-Ken-Ratcliffe.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To be continued&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Bob Hardy<br \/>\nPortland, Oregon, USA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">16th March, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; All&nbsp;things are modalities or precipitations of the Infinite Sentient Power&nbsp;which is the Godhead. Eugene Halliday &#8211; Essays on God ++++++++++++ NOTE: &#8216;Godhead&#8217;. Translated from&nbsp;Greek -&#8216;qeoths&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;divine nature&#8217; or &#8216;the quality of being a God&#8217;. ++++++++++++ Simply we may de\u00adfine Love as the will to work for the optimal dev\u00adelopement of the potentialities of <a href='http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/?p=6622' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1,32],"tags":[24,8,22,40,6,7,9,13,15,17,16,39,12,25,14,35,34,47],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p29JwC-1IO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6622"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions\/7689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenehallidayarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}