Works Related to the Work of Eugene Halliday

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Metathinking Top-economy - Booklets One to Seven (Complete Set)

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These seven short booklets together consider a wide range of closely related socio-governmental ideas. With a few small exceptions, everything in the booklets either was spoken by Eugene Halliday (mainly in reply to questions) and the answers written down by the joint author, or the words were written by the joint author and edited by Eugene Halliday.

The term "meta" implies, within the dynamism of the universe, the necessary changes that must occur in the time process. Eugene used metawords to describe these new ideas, and to distinguish them from the ideas current in earlier socio-political epochs.

Evolution on earth tends towards a form of pan-terrestrial government. In the past, this has been conceived as eventually operating through a type of super-mega-state. There is now growing recognition that new post-monostate-thinking systems of government are required and that the post-monostate-metacentre is the logical next step in history, but that this development will be gradual as it will be dependent upon the personal integrity and character of the human individuals concerned.

Just as the Copernican system arose out of the wreck of the overstrained Ptolemaic system, bringing a new, simple and natural heliocentric description of the motions of the heavenly bodies, so, if we desire it, a new and improved system of socio-governmental relations will arise out of the wreck of the monocentral concept of the national state.

Single booklets can be purchased (UK postage paid) at £2 each or £10 for all seven booklets

Published in 2003 by The Melchisedec Press, PO Box 14, 8 Nelson Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool L69 7AA. England.

Code : AV-5
Price : £10.00 for all seven booklets

Metathinking Top-economy - Booklet One

This booklet introduces the concepts of #8220; metathinking top-economy” and #8220; the post-monostate-metacentre”, and explains that metawords are used to distinguish these ideas from those current in earlier socio-political epochs. It includes an explanation of the emblem, and a statement on intelligent support for the metacentre. A glossary is supplied.

In the foreword Eugene Halliday states: Just as no man can halt the movement of time, so no man can prevent body-political and socio-governmental changes from occurring as a direct consequence of technological advance. No profitless opinion is offered on which came first, the need or the invention. Here and now computerisation faces us with a new science of government, with great possibilities for good and for evil. The challenge cannot safely be ignored, man must "Adapt or Perish".

We are compelled to recognise that we are standing at the threshold of a new age. One of the purposes of this present work is to indicate that when men see for themselves the political implications of the effects of technology and computerisation, they will realise that, from the technical viewpoint of intercommunications, there is no longer any necessity for frontiers, boundaries or centres of government, except those centres and boundaries which are freely willed in the minds and hearts of men in socially co-operative interrelations.

Published in 2003 by The Melchisedec Press, PO Box 14, 8 Nelson Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool L69 7AA. England.
ISBN No: 1-872240-21-6

Code : AV-6
Price : £2.00 each

Metathinking Top-economy - Booklet Two

The individual need for the creative use of energies is also a universal need which every human seeks to fulfil. A renewed and redefined concept of charity could recognise that by charity not only do we mean giving help to the deficient or impoverished, although this is certainly one important aspect of it that needs to be borne in mind; we mean also giving help towards the beneficial utilisation of newly released energies and powers by opening positive outlets of a creative order.

The determinant and interrelating human influences in society, acting on and within the self-defined centres of human interests, loyalties and activities in a nation, naturally give rise to a six-sided formation of government within each recognised self-determining centre.

The State functions as a policy determining triad, consisting of a policy creation complex (supplying policy integration, initiation and publication), a government services complex (supplying policy research, administration and preservation), and a secular law complex (supplying policy definition, interpretation and execution).

The Community functions as a policy conditioning triad, consisting of a policy ratification complex (supplying policy examination, deliberation and orientation), a commodity and services policy complex (supplying policy advice and commodity and services distribution and utilisation), and a spiritual social policy complex (supplying policy meditation, mediation and inspiration).

Metathinking top-economy, including the SU-VOC idea (booklet three), offers a practical basis for the formation of a more viable spiritual social policy complex of government.

Published in 2003 by The Melchisedec Press, PO Box 14, 8 Nelson Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool L69 7AA. England.
ISBN No: 1-872240-22-4

Code : AV-7
Price : £2.00 each

Metathinking Top-economy - Booklet Three

This booklet suggests why and how to achieve a sense of common purpose in the United Kingdom, and substantial new resources for the voluntary sector through workers' payroll giving, within a Society of United Voluntary Organisations within Community ("SU-VOC")

The SU-VOC idea, by whatever name, may be viewed both:

as a way to improve further the social, economic and personal health of the nation at large and of its constituent groups and individuals, through increased free-will giving of services and monetary aid, and
as a plan within the framework of national and local government boundaries to make charity more democratic, and thus to provide a responsible voluntary counterweight to national and local government bureaucracies.
Given leading support, the development of the SU-VOC idea could prove a feasible practical application of metathinking top-economy. For the socio-governmental considerations stated in the booklet, its development could contribute significantly to achieve an organisation throughout the country which allows the human beings involved to co-operate with the greatest efficiency and with the least friction, and where there could be a community of interest and a sense of common purpose between all individuals and groups.

Published in 2003 by The Melchisedec Press, PO Box 14, 8 Nelson Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool L69 7AA. England.
ISBN No: 1-872240-23-2

Code : AV-8
Price : £2.00 each

Metathinking Top-economy - Booklet Four

The meta-individual is here viewed as a mature person who has become conscious in himself of his creative force and of his power as a unit of social metamorphosis. He is aware that effective government consists in the dynamic interrelation between the two aspects of its being, the State and the Community, and that national health depends upon the standards and effectivity of that interrelation.

Multi-metacentralisation implies a coming to consciousness of the necessity for individual and small group responsibilities within the large group. It has unity grown from mutual understanding of the necessity for co-ordinative and co-operative unity rather than imposed unity.

The principle of socio-governmental parity is based on the concept: from each according to response-ability to each according to utilisation-capacity. Socio-governmental parity implies that gradually, as individual citizens assimilate and adopt that basic governmental principle, the whole electorate can participate in government, through conscious assumption of response-ability.

The purpose of citizenship is viewed as the development, within a social context, of the whole person. This metathinking purpose if pursued leads to the development of a mature society of individuals, and to the progressive realisation that the assumption of personal response-ability is more essential to freedom than the claiming of assumed or ill-defined "rights"; for such falsely conceived rights, exercised without regard to their effect on other people, are more in keeping with a primitive than with a civilized society. From each individual there is not and cannot be a higher authority than the inner principle of his own conscience.

Published in 2003 by The Melchisedec Press, PO Box 14, 8 Nelson Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool L69 7AA. England.
ISBN No: 1-872240-24-0

Code : AV-9
Price : £2.00 each

Metathinking Top-economy - Booklet Five

As mankind evolves, those persons responsible for government must realise that, in preference to power structures based on physical violence, systems of government must evolve, based on law and reason, which recognise that more intelligent consideration, co-operation and such-like principles provide safer and more enduring forms of government.

It is now too late to stop the development of the metacentre concept. Men are becoming better educated, with more fully developed vocabularies and concepts, and they have experienced a sufficient degree of freedom to have generated the desire to be able to think for themselves.

History can be regarded as a battle of concepts, determining the actions of people in an environment of challenge and response, and in the process giving rise to the progressive evolution of more powerful concepts. If a weak concept appears to triumph, it does so only for a relatively short time. The most powerful concepts win in the end, and the less powerful concepts lose.

Just as it is true to say that the people get the government they deserve, so it is true to say that the government is always a reflection of the state of evolution of the society within which it governs.

Once a mature nation has assimilated the formal content of the principle of socio-governmental parity, and generally is aware that the adoption of such a policy is feasible, it is predictable that, in accordance with the appropriate tempi of developmental change, the progressive leading members of that national group will demand its adoption.

Actions are said to speak louder than words, therefore people would do well to remember that they beget the government they deserve.

Published in 2003 by The Melchisedec Press, PO Box 14, 8 Nelson Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool L69 7AA. England.
ISBN No: 1-872240-25-9

Code : AV-10
Price : £2.00 each

Metathinking Top-economy - Booklet Six

As human beings evolve towards more personal integration they require more response-ability as individuals, and this personal response-ability must be exercised by them for, when it comes to assessing locality-relevant data, no machine can compete with the human brain.

Two-way multi-metacentral government would not disintegrate humanity into a vast number of insular-centres, consisting of small groups of isolated individuals governing only themselves, because such regressive change would be a denial of evolved human insight. A developed integrated person is aware of the necessity for active co-operation with other developed persons for the co-ordination of data. Thus a policy of two-way multi-metacentral government means a will to the co-ordination of the locality-relevant data from all localities.

In consideration of world needs for the development of a metacentre system of pan-terrestrial government, we cannot ignore the fact that many nations are not yet ready for the development of such a governing concept. Only the most politically mature nations can give positive leadership in this direction. And initially the most politically mature nation in the world must take the first practical steps towards its ultimate fulfilment. This first step now is Britain's metathinking leading role in world needs, for Britain rightly may claim to be the most politically mature nation in the world.

Published in 2003 by The Melchisedec Press, PO Box 14, 8 Nelson Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool L69 7AA. England.
ISBN No: 1-872240-26-7

Code : AV-11
Price : £2.00 each

Metathinking Top-economy - Booklet Seven

The key to the disclosure of information is the capacity of the recipient to assimilate that information, and to give it adequate utilisation or comprehension. Socio-governmental information is that need-relevant portion of community information which members of society and government should be required reciprocally to exchange.

Computerisation now offers the self-stabilisation mechanism necessary to further the development of the metacentre concept, through feeding knowledge and conscious understanding of socio-governmental necessities to all aspects of the body politic.

The tremendous potential advantages of intelligent computerisation of the totality of man's knowledge of all times and places, and the making available of this for the projection of all intelligent purposes, is a sufficient justification of the computer for us to give an unqualified "Yes" to its employment.

To quote the late Lord Keynes, and to apply his words in the context of the computer, we may say that the principle purpose of the computer: is #8220;the assertion of truth, the unveiling of illusion, the dissipation of hate, the enlargement and instruction of men's hearts and minds”.

Published in 2003 by The Melchisedec Press, PO Box 14, 8 Nelson Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool L69 7AA. England.
ISBN No: 1-872240-27-5

Code : AV-12
Price : £2.00 each

Metathinking Top-economy - Britain's Moment of Destiny in World Evolution

Talk by Fred Freeman based on the teachings of Eugene Halliday
This talk, delivered in 2003, summarises many of the principal concepts of metathinking top-economy.
The talk can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Quotations section of this website.

Published in 2003 by The Melchisedec Press, PO Box 14, 8 Nelson Road, Edge Hill, Liverpool L69 7AA. England.

Code : AV-13
Price : £0.00 (Free to Download)