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.