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Aging Strong: Ambition and Awareness Come Together

One of the biggest surprises in my life is to find myself as ambitious as I have ever been while I am approaching my eighth decade. I credit Jung’s individuation process for this reality and for helping me uncover the …
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Dr. Bud Harris Presents Aging Strong at Malaprop’s

I will be presenting my new book Aging Strong: Living it Forward and Giving it Back at Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville this Saturday at 7 pm. Please join me for this presentation followed by discussion of how to thrive in …
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Aging Strong, The Opportunity of a Lifetime

 I am enjoying aging! What a surprise…. To be honest with you I never thought I would be as old as I am now. Nor did I think I would still be as excited about my life, my work, my …
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My Newest Book, and $2.99 Kindle Books

I am pleased to announce my newest book, Becoming Whole: A Jungian Guide to Individuation. This book comprises the text of two lectures and the seminars that accompanied them. I have presented these workshops and seminars in Asheville, North Carolina …
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The Search for Self & the Search for God (Part 3)

What triggers our engagement in life? What makes us want to deepen ourselves and have a life rooted in the authentic ground of our being? As we begin to consider these questions, we may realize that we aren’t born highly …
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The Search for Self & the Search for God (Part 2)

  … Do you really know what you want?… I encounter many different people daily who are fascinating and remarkable, and I often find myself standing in awe of how unique we all are as individuals. Yet as I get …
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The Search for Self & the Search for God (Part 1)

My new book, The Search for Self & the Search for God, is available for FREE in Kindle format June 7-11, 2016. Get it FREE Have you ever wondered how you could live with passion, purpose, clarity, and a sense …
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Captives of Normalcy (Part 4)

Erich Fromm believed that character determined behavior. In his studies of how society affects our development, he concluded that every society shares a common character structure, meaning a common set of traits that motivate us to behave in ways that fulfill the goals and ideals of our culture. For example we are taught and conditioned to believe our self-worth depends upon our achievements, our financial value, the things we own, how productive we are, and how other people evaluate us. Fromm called this collection of traits our social character. Society from its largest institutional units down to its smallest, the family, endeavors to teach us these traits.

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Individuation: The Path to Growth and Authenticity – Captives of Normalcy (Part 3)

In understanding Jung's individuation process and how it works for us, it helps to know a few basic things about the levels of consciousness we can obtain. To begin with, our levels of consciousness or psychological maturity become increasingly based on self-awareness rather than age after we have reached adulthood.

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Awakening to Our Stories: Captives of Normalcy (Part 2)

To understand what Jung meant by a religious attitude and our emotional problems, we need to become familiar with what he calls the individuation process. While each of us grows and ages physically, whether we like it or not, the same fact isn’t true about our psychological growth. The individuation process recognizes that after we have grown to a certain point psychologically, we have to make an effort; we have to pursue self-knowledge, to mature as people and live in a satisfying manner in our relationships and culture.

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