Top 20 Talks

Psychometry, teachings intentionally recorded in artifacts, the nature of The Work, and the Unspeakable Sacrifice are explored.

Similar in presentation to the Grapefruit Talk, this talk includes a discussion of man and Being, the occurrences necessary for the formation of a soul, and the solar plexus as a "black box" (an unknowable and internally inaccessible source of catharsis).

Voluntary descent into self-imposed conditions of purgatory are a powerful means for the growth of conscience within the individual. Also, headbrain and tailbrain functions, lineage transplants and invocation of an Angelic host are discussed.

As any serious seeker can attest, Man on the Cross material is hard to come by. The difficult and esoteric work idea of "Die before you die" is explored within the context of voluntary reascension of the cross. Very esoteric ideas are presented here with full candor. This talk is pan-religious and erases all barriers between oneself and one's cosmic position.

In this first easaphone conversation between the New York Study Circle and Core Group in California, the nature and behavior of the machine, the chronic and the essential self are explored.

This fascinating talk covers the machine as a four-dimensional tunnel through creation, the soul as raw material, turning on the alchemical factory, the illusion of time, and the creation in higher dimensions.

Sensing the machine in sleep, the sixty-day exercise to gather "Exhibit A," beginning steps to awaken the machine, transference from the machine to a nonphenomenal self then to the Being, and eating consciously are discussed. Parker Dickson offers three new work folksongs.

This talk covers the subjects of Alchemy, Repairing the Heart, Head Brain/ Tail Brain. How to awaken the machine, letting the dead bury the dead, and the vision of higher dimensions are revealed in this informative presentation.

This talk emphasizes the differences between the machine's problems and those relevant to transformation. Relaxing within the tension, life-repair and the resolution of organic problems as an inhibitor of the transformation effect are revealed. The usefulness of this talk for practical work on self quickly becomes apparent upon listening.

E.J. Gold presents the qualities of the waking state and differences from the sleeping state. Consequences and conditions of movement from the sleeping to the waking state and back are explored. Ritual, theatre, transit, hypnotism, psychosomatic diseases, The Work, Teacher as the guest and other domains are discussed as well, in relation to these states.

Inner transformation sooner or later comes to address the issue of negative emotions. This Montreal talk with partial French translations explores the nature and arising of negative emotions. Moving centrum sensations, higher emotions without mental significance, presence of the essential self and banishing negative emotions are presented.

This tape explores the efficiency and consequences of using different methods to achieve the waking state. Adoration of the machine is stressed and students reconstruct instructions given, but not recorded, concerning the Popcorn exercise and the reversal of headbrain/tailbrain functions.

In this revealing presentation of work data and perspectives, E.J. Gold speaks on the Angel of Death, being the center of one's own mandala, the Man on the Cross, stillness and silence at the speed of light, light in infinite extension, eternity, the void and the deathbed experience.

Samuel Avital is present for this vital discourse with E.J. wherein one student is put on "Lookout" for the Messiah and another is taken on a journey up "Shit Creek" to try and retrieve her life mantram.

What is the relationship of the Voyager to the Absolute? The necessity for discipline and the Creation as a dead lover are explored in this revealing talk.

The machine and the electric bubble, expansion of one's own morphology, repetition in beginning work, expansion, contraction, focusing and withdrawal of attention are all explored.

Problem solving in the labyrinth may utilize skills that are not readily acquired. The Zelda game requires a method, although limited, of learning how to think in other categories and how to look at things in a new way, as you might do in voyaging situations. Join us on this fascinating discovery where many learning surprises await you.

This is the only recorded material from the Cosmo Street era. Tape recorders were not allowed in these early meetings. This recording is available because someone smuggled a tape recorder in. Warning -- inferior sound quality, but very rare and collectible.

Using the analogy of training for the Bardo through the rigors of playing online video games, E.J. Gold reveals how to learn, in theory, bardo habits required for working as a group in the work. This training provides a foundation. However one needs a mechanism to remind one to engage attention, wake up and apply bardo habits in a practical setting. Gold shows how an alarm clock within one's ordinary life can be devised toward this aim. "I've always liked the idea of an alarm clock for awakening, but until I heard this talk, I never knew exactly how they worked," Pedro Gonzales, Ibiza Spain

This talk clearly delivers the "bottom line" on the attitude required for working in the Work - one's situation in a Work life. Gold also presents a Bardo Training tool which gives us the opportunity to transmute the "life" habits into "work" habits, habits that before now were completely invisible. In the Bardo Training we see how we live our lives, how we handle the sudden ambushes of the Labyrinth, and how we are able to work in a group. Bardo Training also provides, in a fun and safe way, the opportunity to bring ourselves in line with the Work self we wish to build.