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“… to be able to give something one has to be something… one must consist of gold and not of hunger.”
- C.G.Jung
“How can you love somebody if you don’t love yourself? How can you give what you don’t have?”
- Maya Angelou
SACRED SELFISHNESS:
A Guide for Cultivating a Life of Love,
Authenticity, and Substance
LECTURE 1
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 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 assumptions 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.
SEMINAR
In the workshop, Dr. Harris explains how most of us are taught from childhood that we are supposed to be generous, to give to other and to meet the needs of people around us. In this part of the program we will explore how Jung’s insistence that we eat the gold in the world and accumulate abundance differs from our 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. Workshop participants are asked to bring a pen and paper.
THEMES IN THE JOURNEY OF SACRED SELFISHNESS 1. Understanding the differences between sickly selfishness and Sacred Selfishness.
2. The benefits and spiritual dimensions of Sacred Selfishness.
3. Recognizing the role of Sacred Selfishness in healthy growth
4. How we all have become “captives of normalcy.”
5. How we can truly become ourselves.
6. Encountering loneliness and darkness on the path.
7. Facing and dealing with the realities of our famiies.
8. Accepting symptoms and finding hope and healing.
9. Living a life of passion.
10. How to deal with conflicts between obligations and personal values in the journey.
11. Finding consciousness, illumination and community.
12. What it means to love others and life.
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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
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.
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