In this exceptionally readable book, Jungian analysts and authors Massimilla and Bud Harris dynamically weave their own personal and professional experiences in the form of rich and compelling stories, providing a down-to-earth book available to a wide audience. A Book for Women...for Men...and for our Culture... Imagine within each of us, there is a deep, powerful source for living lives of love, creativity, and fulfillment.To imagine this foundation for life and the energy it produces is to imagine ourselves and our world filled with the influence of the archetypal feminine - her passionate creativity, love, and ageless knowing. Personally and culturally, this force - which lives at the heart of our lives - has been diminished and wounded until it seems to have retreated beyond the horizon, in a world filled with rationalism and an anxious search for the material "good life." This is a powerfully moving book that goes beyond gender roles into the soul of the archetypal feminine, exploring how it has been damaged and traumatized, and finding out how this condition affects all of us. Through the myth of Medusa, the authors create an inspirational guide for healing, revitalizing, loving, and nurturing the archetypal feminine as we awaken our own voices and transform our fate. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Massimilla Harris, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst with a practice in Asheville, North Carolina for the past 25 years. She holds a doctorate in Psychology and is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She is also an author, teacher, award-winning quilter, and certified Solisten Provider. Developed by Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis, Solisten is a special kind of music therapy that, along with Jungian analysis, enables Dr. Harris to help people bring mind and body together to release their full potentials. Bud Harris, Ph.D., originally became a businessman and successfully owned his own business before returning to school to become a psychotherapist. After earning his Ph.D. in psychology and practicing as a psychotherapist and psychologist, he experienced the call to further his growth and become a Jungian analyst. He then moved to Zürich, Switzerland where he trained for over five years and graduated from the C. G. Jung Institute. He is the author of ten books, lectures widely, and practices as a Jungian analyst in Asheville, North Carolina. For additional information about their practice and their work, visit their website: www.budharris.com and www.facebook.com/BudHarrisPh.D.

Into the Heart of the Feminine: Facing the Death Mother Archetype to Reclaim Love, Strength, and Vitality

Politics & Social Sciences

Bud Harris

Massimilla Harris

Women's Studies

Daphne Publications

This fresh 2015 second printing of the paperback version of Sacred Selfishness is in response to a continued, renewed interest in this key contemporary topic dealing with healing and wholeness. In the tradition of Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled and Thomas Moore's The Care of the Soul, Jungian analyst Bud Harris provides compassionate guidance to: 
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<li>discover what true self-love and self-forgiveness mean</li>
<li>value ourselves and live meaningful lives we love</li>
<li>develop into authentic human beings who give back vitality and hope to all around us</li>
<li>have lives of our own, and to be able to love others without losing ourselves</li>
<li>resolve problems in modern life such as unhappy relationships, stagnating career, financial issues, and even weight problems</li>
</ul>Using strategies such as analyzing dreams, developing inner dialogue, and keeping a detailed journal, Sacred Selfishness wisely assures us that our lives are sacred tasks, where holiness is love and the way to the Divine is through self-knowledge. While growing up, unselfishness was usually defined as putting the needs of others above our own. As a result, we became outward-directed people, cut off from our inner source of energy and vitality. If we have failed, through the years, to develop our own individuality, eventually we may slide into depression and ill health. It is only after becoming whole again that we can help others and truly renew our society. This is the path of sacred selfishness.

Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance

Religion & Spirituality

An Engaging Book...Thoughtful, Searching, and Surprisingly Personal Dr. Harris is a Jungian analyst, author, and life teacher dedicated to the passionate pursuit of self-exploration and the art of living a well-lived life. By being willing to share his own very personal journaling, he shows us the importance of reflecting about our lives in an ongoing way...and even the importance of revisiting these reflections. Through his re-membering and storytelling, he brings to light the interface between dramatic periods of transformation in his own life and reveals how "past" history is always penetrating the present. During these reflections, it becomes clear how deeply he is wrestling like Jacob with the angel, as he attempts to grasp the creative patterns of life that are trying to be lived through him. Dr. Harris tells about his surprise when his journaling takes on a life of its own, and shifts like scenes in a dream - a dream created by his greater Self. Like any serious quest, his story has a haunting history with terrors and resistances along the way. He recounts the shocks, surprises, and hard work necessary to pursue self-knowledge and admits how living with awareness and the search for healing and wholeness brings about suffering to his ego, his everyday self. Yet, he tenderly leads us into the spiritual depths of passion, transformation, and renewal, and shares how his devotion to this work forces his transformation and helps him to tap into the joy of creation. Dr. Harris tells about his surprise when his journaling takes on a life of its own, and shifts like scenes in a dream - a dream created by his greater Self. Like any serious quest, his story has a haunting history with terrors and resistances along the way. He recounts the shocks, surprises, and hard work necessary to pursue self-knowledge and admits how living with awareness and the search for healing and wholeness brings about suffering to his ego, his everyday self. Yet, he tenderly leads us into the spiritual depths of passion, transformation, and renewal, and shares how his devotion to this work forces his transformation and helps him to tap into the joy of creation. Throughout this book, Dr. Harris offers us a fresh, accessible approach to finding out how to heal and recover what has been lost of our own intrinsic selves. His thoughtful reflections show us how the path of creative transformation can also be healing, when the life-giving journey begins with self-exploration. This invaluable book has strength as well as soul, and offers a challenging and encouraging voice that needs to be heard in this time when our lives are being defined by our culture in the most shallow of terms. Through this book made up of special moments in the quest for personal meaning, Dr. Harris will inspire you to deepen your own relationship to yourself and to life itself.

Cracking Open: A Memoir of Struggling, Passages, and Transformations

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Individuation is a path of awakening…transforming…becoming conscious… being fully engaged in living… being authentically alive… and fulfilling the unique pattern within ourselves. There is a common thread that runs throughout this book of lectures and seminars that Dr. Harris presented over the last ten years, including the questions and exercises that sparked reflection and participation. In Jungian terms, the process he spoke about is referred to as individuation, yet, personally, Dr. Harris calls it the search for Self and the search for God. He also emphasizes that this process of fruitful self-knowledge calls us into a continuing confrontation with ourselves and our experiences. “This search - which has required me to become liberated from the person that I had been shaped, formed, and indoctrinated into being, as I grew up - has been and is the foundation for my growing consciousness and for becoming real. In Zurich, I became keenly aware of the power of the deep, innate, substrate patterns within us, which are called archetypes. In particular, I came to understand that religion and spirituality are the great, primordial archetypal pathways that offer the possibility of connecting to the Self, to God within us. Through these universal pathways of religion and spirituality, we find an archetypal, living Story that can nurture, inspire, and sustain us, and give perspective and meaning to our lives. Yet, this living, sacred pathway must also be able to evolve in our psyche or soul, as we ourselves evolve throughout our lives. It must be able to continue to support our connection to the Self, God within us. Our spiritual selves actually need these ongoing, religious/spiritual practices that can, in a day-to-day way, support and inspire our connection to life and the presence of the Self and the Divine within us.”

The Search for Self and the Search for God: Three Jungian Lectures and Seminars to Guide the Journey

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

In the present day, our culture's evolving masculine spirit seems to be sputtering out. We began with a powerful, creative force, yet somewhere along our path, phallus has been rendered impotent. The unicorn, this wondrous masculine symbol, has been reduced to a limp-horned stuffed animal found in novelty stores or worse yet, discarded to a dusty old shelf of a second-hand thrift shop.Resurrecting the Unicorn addresses the impoverished state of masculinity in the 21st century. Without a strong masculine image, our souls become fragmented and we lose our way. In fact, this is how many men feel today and women, too as we all have these inner components. When we are in such a state of psychological confusion and imbalance, we must begin again to search for The Holy Grail; The Grail is the symbolic container of the psycho-spiritual contents that can nourish, balance, and renew our lives.All the compensatory posturing, chest-pounding or drum-beating in the world won t revive this great masculine spirit! This can only be accomplished by developing a deeper relationship to soul. The mental landscape of metaphors dreams, stories, myths, fairy tales deal with the eternal truths of human nature and are the language of soul. In Resurrecting the Unicorn, Bud Harris guides us deep into the realm of metaphors so we can examine the evolution and development of human consciousness and reclaim discarded, yet much needed, aspects of our humanity.

Resurrecting the Unicorn: Masculinity in the 21st Century

Relationships

Fisher King Press

We live in an era of pop psychology, where self-help books offer five easy steps to fixing your life, and television personalities like Dr. Phil solve marital problems in fifteen minute segments. It is refreshing to encounter work that challenges us to forego instant gratification, and instead take a long view of the work we each need to do to understand ourselves and our problems. Dr. Bud Harris, a Jungian analyst with several decades of clinical therapeutic experience, examines these essential topics in a thoughtful presentation of the psychological challenges we face over a life span.The ideas are complex, and the tone of the work is sober and scholarly. Fortunately, Harris writes beautifully, with simple, lucid prose. He elucidates how reflection and insight into the root causes of our behavior and attitudes can help us take "psychological responsibility for our previous unconscious actions, "and ultimately "weave the experiences of our life and our fate...into the patterns of our destiny and begin to comprehend what life wants of us." He hastens to add that this effort has minimal support and value in "a society focused on extroversion, identity, and productivity." But he effectively argues the case for such soul-searching, and suggests that the effort is rewarded in a far richer, happier life.Using Carl Jung's seminal concepts, Harris describes the developmental stages of our lives, including struggles with identity as we move into adulthood, midlife conflicts, and late-life efforts towards emotional maturity. He uses his own conversations with therapy clients to illustrate how some of these issues can play out, and details how clients' dreams can be remarkably useful in illuminating unconscious messages. In one example, he recounts the story of a woman who had started over in a midlife with a new career and a new relationship, feeling herself to be a different person. A dream repeating several times, however, found her in her old home with her former husband, who "looked at her and smirked knowingly." Therapist and client worked together to see that the dream was pointing out her denial of her past life and former self, and that the task of integrating the old with the new still remained. Rather than breaking and new ground, the author provides a synthesis of ideas in the field, drawing from and appropriately acknowledging the work of Jung, Sam Keen, Joseph Campbell, Marie-Louise von Franz, and others. But while there is nothing particularly innovative here, the work is nonetheless impressive as a gracefully written, clearly presented guide to a complex school of thought-Laurie Sullivan

Knowing the Questions, Living the Answers: A Jungian Guide Through the Paradoxes of Peace, Conflict and Love That Mark a Lifetime

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Fire and the Rose: The Wedding of Spirituality and Sexuality

Our encounters with love, spirituality, and sexuality play a major role in shaping who we are. These powerful aspects of our lives are woven into the pattern that forms our potential for wholeness. Through growing consciousness, sexuality and spirituality can support our efforts to live more passionately and to understand love in all of its forms. In this stimulating and inspiring book, Jungian Analyst Bud Harris, Ph.D., challenges us to reconsider our views of spirituality and sexuality as opposites and bring them into harmony and creativity. Together, we can heal one of our culture's great wounds of the soul.

Chiron Pubns

This is the Pocket Book Edition of the Art of Love: The Craft of Relationship.Are you:seeking to renew a relationship? considering a new relationship?troubled with establishing a long-term relationship?divorced and trying to understand why your marriage failed? experiencing problems in love, romance, sex, intimacy or marriage?a therapist or counselor who would like to provide an accessible resource for your clients?Millions of books on relationships have been printed over the years. Why do we need another? We need The Art of Love: The Craft of Relationship for the same reasons that over four and a half million readers wanted Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese. Following Johnson's methods of teaching to a broad, modern audience, The Art of Love: The Craft of Relationship presents the profound principles that form a loving relationship in an easily accessible manner. Using a very simple approach, it will help people shift their attitudes and provide them with the skills to create loving, long-lasting partnerships.

The Art of Love: The Craft of Relationship: A Practical Guide for Creating the Loving Relationships We Want

Parenting & Relationships

In this book, the author, a Jungian therapist, defines two kinds of selfishness. Sickly selfishness is based on egotism, and sacred selfishness is valuing ourselves enough to develop into authentic human beings.

Happiness

Inner Ocean Publishing

The author, a Jungian therapist, defines two kinds of selfishness: Sickly selfishness is self-serving, power-driven, and imposes its will on others, draining their energy. Sacred selfishness is valuing ourselves enough to develop into "authentic" human beings, who give back vitality and hope to all around us. While growing up, selfishness was usually defined, for most of us, as the first kind; we were taught to put the needs of others above our own. As a result, we became outward-directed people, cut off from our inner source of energy and vitality. If we have failed, through the years, to develop our own individuality, eventually we may slide into depression and ill health. It is only after becoming whole again that we can help others and truly renew our society. In the tradition of Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled and Thomas Moore’s The Care of the Soul, Bud Harris shows us to value and love ourselves, to think for ourselves, to have lives of our own, and to be able to love others without losing ourselves. This is the path of sacred selfishness.

Inner Ocean

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Books by Bud Harris

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Into the Heart of the Feminine: Facing the Death Mother Archetype to Reclaim Love, Strength, and Vitality

Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance

Cracking Open: A Memoir of Struggling, Passages, and Transformations

The Search for Self and the Search for God: Three Jungian Lectures and Seminars to Guide the Journey

Resurrecting the Unicorn: Masculinity in the 21st Century

Knowing the Questions, Living the Answers: A Jungian Guide Through the Paradoxes of Peace, Conflict and Love That Mark a Lifetime

The Fire and the Rose: The Wedding of Spirituality and Sexuality

The Art of Love: The Craft of Relationship: A Practical Guide for Creating the Loving Relationships We Want

Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance

Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance