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Jungian Conversation Series
A 4 part series of lectures by Dr. Bud Harris at a local bookstore in Asheville, NC. Each presentation includes a 30 minute talk by Dr. Bud Harris and a one hour discussion led by him.
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Professional Lectures
Professional Lectures by Dr. Bud Harris available for audio download or Compact Disc.
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“Story, Dreams, Healing, and Individuation”
90 minutes with Dr. Bud Harris at Accent on Books May 16th, 2010
Part 2 of a series of lectures titled “A Beginner’s Guide to Jungian Psychology.” They were given as part of a series at a local bookstore in Asheville. The presentations include a 30 minute talk by Dr. Bud Harris and a one hour discussion let by him.
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approx. 90 mins
“The Imagination As Transformation: Living the Symbolic Life”
90 minutes with Dr. Bud Harris at Accent on Books June 13th, 2010
Part 3 of a series of lectures titled “A Beginner’s Guide to Jungian Psychology.” They were given as part of a series at a local bookstore in Asheville. The presentations include a 30 minute talk by Dr. Bud Harris and a one hour discussion let by him.
- Part 3 of 4
approx. 90 mins
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“The Quest for Consciousness (How to Live a Life With Soul)”
90 minutes with Dr. Bud Harris at Accent on Books April 11th, 2010
Part 1 of a series of lectures titled “A Beginner’s Guide to Jungian Psychology.” They were given as part of a series at a local bookstore in Asheville. The presentations include a 30 minute talk by Dr. Bud Harris and a one hour discussion let by him.
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approx. 77 mins
A Lifetime of Promise (A Jungian Guide to Discovering the Transformative Power in Complexes)
In this lecture we will focus on the spirit of individuation which teaches us how to see some of our most frustrating characteristics as a source of new life. We will look at how we can strengthen our personality for this work and explore the seven steps in transforming a complex from life-draining to life-empowering. And, we will look into how this process frees us from our history, inner conflicts and helps us live in partnership with out Self and the Divine within us.
Find out more about this lecture here: Lifetime of Promise
approx. 72 min
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The continuing attraction to Jungian psychology rests on Jung’s focus on the healthy personality… suffering and struggle are not pathological. They are meaningful parts of life that when understood initiate us into a more profound sense of being and satisfaction. Complexes, the centerpiece of Jung’s work, are not signs of pathology unless we insist on repressing them and turning them into enemies.
Complexes are both energy fields and the building blocks of our psychic structure. When they are realized and integrated they become the architecture of a fulfilled life. Like the stone the builder rejected, our most devilish and frustrating complexes hold the greatest promise for expanding our personalities and our lives. When repressed and battled they drain our energy like a chronic disease, souring our relationship with ourselves and everyone around us. But, every complex holds an inspiring challenge and the promise of transformation.
Learning how to face these challenges and unleash their transformative powers renews our energy, reconnects us to its source and enables this transformed complex to become the cornerstone in a more creative life.
Facing the Death Mother (Audio CD)
A Guide for Healing Our Feminine Selves and Moving from Paralysis to Full Vitality and Creativity
with Jungian Analyst and Author Massimilla M. Harris, Ph.D.
Recorded Live ( October 28th, 2011 )
On both a personal and a societal level, the wounding of the Feminine archetype is one of the most important psychological challenges facing women and men today. Undermining this great archetypal force creates space for the deadly influence of the Death Mother, an archetype that entraps us and paralyzes our initiative, spirits, creativity, and vitality. The evening lecture is a journey deep into the human and psychological dimensions of how the Death Mother shapes our culture, as well as how many of us are held captive by the internalized effects of the wounded mothering we experienced as children. This healing path is based on the classic myth of Medusa, enriched with personal experiences and psychological insights that open our direction toward healing and renewed personal consciousness. It will help us examine our assumptions about ourselves and our lives in order to move from paralysis to full vitality and creativity—and most of all to a deeper love of ourselves, others and life.
Dr. Harris draws upon a tapestry of mythical images, stories, and psychological truths, to guide our journey into this most important aspect of the dark and wounded Feminine to learn how this journey can transform and enrich our lives.
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“The Death Mother wields a cold, fierce, violent, and corrosive power. She is rampant in our society right now.”
—Marion Woodman
“Every dark thing one falls into can be called an initiation. To be initiated into a thing means to go into it. The first step is generally falling into the dark place… falling into something or being possessed by something.”
—Marie Louise von Franz
“Where love reigns there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other… an unconscious Eros always experiences itself as will to power.”
—C. G. Jung
Facing the Death Mother (audio download)
A Guide for Healing Our Feminine Selves and Moving from Paralysis to Full Vitality and Creativity
with Jungian Analyst and Author Massimilla M. Harris, Ph.D.
Recorded Live ( October 28th, 2011 )
On both a personal and a societal level, the wounding of the Feminine archetype is one of the most important psychological challenges facing women and men today. Undermining this great archetypal force creates space for the deadly influence of the Death Mother, an archetype that entraps us and paralyzes our initiative, spirits, creativity, and vitality. The evening lecture is a journey deep into the human and psychological dimensions of how the Death Mother shapes our culture, as well as how many of us are held captive by the internalized effects of the wounded mothering we experienced as children. This healing path is based on the classic myth of Medusa, enriched with personal experiences and psychological insights that open our direction toward healing and renewed personal consciousness. It will help us examine our assumptions about ourselves and our lives in order to move from paralysis to full vitality and creativity—and most of all to a deeper love of ourselves, others and life.
Dr. Harris draws upon a tapestry of mythical images, stories, and psychological truths, to guide our journey into this most important aspect of the dark and wounded Feminine to learn how this journey can transform and enrich our lives.
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“The Death Mother wields a cold, fierce, violent, and corrosive power. She is rampant in our society right now.”
—Marion Woodman
“Every dark thing one falls into can be called an initiation. To be initiated into a thing means to go into it. The first step is generally falling into the dark place… falling into something or being possessed by something.”
—Marie Louise von Franz
“Where love reigns there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other… an unconscious Eros always experiences itself as will to power.”
—C. G. Jung
Fire in the Soul (A Jungian Guide to Discovering the Promise in Our Holy Longing)
This lecture will focus on the spirit of individuation in Jungian psychology and how it can become a guide to reawakening and re-imagining the archetypal and mythic dimensions of our spiritual and religious depths. This path can enliven our traditions if we so chose, while it becomes the foundation for becoming responsible for our own spiritual path in a way that is truly transforming and enlightening. Dr. Harris will look into how this process grows from our history and inner conflicts and helps us live in partnership with our Self and the Divine within us.
approx. 80 min
Learn more about this lecture here: Fire in the Soul
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To be human is to be filled with longing. Even beneath the good lives we may have achieved, we still long for safety, health, love, family peace, abundance, and freedom from anxiety. Beneath the busy and often frantic, imagined importance of our lives, we long to know that our lives have purpose, meaning; that our perception of realty is true and that we have value to something greater than ourselves.
Phoenix and the Moth; Transformation, Love, & Wholeness
90 Minutes with Jungian Analyst Dr. Bud Harris at Accent on Books at July 11th, 2010
Part 4 of a series of lectures titled “A Beginner’s Guide to Jungian Psychology.” They were given as part of a series at a local bookstore in Asheville. The presentations include a 30 minute talk by Dr. Bud Harris and a one hour discussion let by him.
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Sacred Selfishness – A guide for Cultivating a Life of Love, Authenticity and Substance
In this illuminating lecture Dr. Bud Harris will share with us the path for renewing our lives through Sacred Selfishness and how Jungian psychology can help us transform ourselves and the world around us.
approx. 80 min
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In his seminars on Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra,” Dr. Carl Jung emphasized that we must eat the gold of the world until we are made of gold and not of hunger. Sacred Selfishness is the path of filling ourselves with gold. This path is based on the classic quest stories that reveal the path of renewed personal consciousness and help us examine all of our assumption about ourselves and our lives to assist us in uncovering our hidden potentials.
Filling ourselves with gold is more than an intellectual exercise. It engages us fully in life and through growing self-knowledge softens and strengthens us while helping us to love life and other people. This lecture will explain how this idea evolved with Dr. Harris in the context of Dr. Jung’s theory of individuation. Dr. Harris will provide an overview of how this path unfolds theoretically and in everyday life, how real love grows from the foundation of self-love.
In the workshop, Dr. Harris explains how most of us are taught from childhood that we are supposed to be generous, to give to others and to meet the needs of people around us. In this part of the program, we explore how Jung’s insistence that we eat the gold in the world and accumulate abundance differs from out early teachings and runs against society’s sets of demands for feeling successful and worthwhile. Our early lessons and society’s values leave us with unmet, often hidden needs and desires, especially those for love, passion and authenticity.
We will seek to amplify and understand the personal and collective forces that have molded our lives, created our scripts and the ways we can free ourselves from these influences and allow the potentials we have formerly curtailed to flourish with new life and transform us.
We will conclude by exploring how we can cultivate relationships and lives that are filled with gold.
The Father Quest (A Guide for Rediscovering and Renewing the Foundations of Fatherhood)
In this important lecture, Dr. Harris shares a Multi-faceted view of fathering that is an individual process that challenges our uniqueness, courage and ability to live with love. He reveals how this process can transform us and our world for the better.
approx. 90 min
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Renewing the meaning of fatherhood on a personal and societal level is one of the most important issues of today. This journey will focus on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of fatherhood. The lecture will go beyond simple prescriptions and techniques to explain the importance of fatherhood in the lives of every man and woman, as well as in our present culture. The “Father” is one of the two great pillars of society that shape and support human life from its beginning. Men who are struggling to be fathers and women who are struggling to find their voice, as well as anyone struggling with their own fathers will find a wealth of healing ingredients that will awaken inner sources of renewal and inspiration. This lecture will explain the importance of the “Father” in Jung’s theory of individuation and the archetypal dimensions of fatherhood, how we experience them, and how we can affect what they mean in our lives. One of the many subjects explored will be the critical importance of courage, passion and love as key ingredients of the “spirit of fatherhood.”
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