Bud Harris - The Journey into Wholeness: A Jungian Guide to Discovering the Meaning of Your Lifes Path

The Journey Into Wholeness

A Jungian Guide to Discovering the Meaning of Your Life's Path

Bud Harris, PhD

Daphne Publications

Copyright 2020 Bud Harris, PhD

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Daphne Publications, 6 Cambridge Road, Asheville, North Carolina 28804
DAPHNE PUBLICATIONS, AN IMPRINT OF SPES, INC.
Harris, Clifton T. Bud
ISBN 978-0-578-62382-5
Non-fiction
1. Psychology 2. Jungian Psychology 3. Spirituality
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016908974 Spes, Inc, Asheville, NC

Contents

Authors Note

Bud Harris, PhD Asheville, North Carolina

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success or money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears. For that reason the idea of development was always of the highest importance to me.

C.G. Jung

The meaning of whole or wholeness is to make holy or to heal. The descent into the depths will bring healing. It is the way to the total being, to the treasure which suffering mankind is forever seeking, which is hidden in the place guarded by terrible danger.

C.G. Jung

Introduction

Whenever I can, before starting my workday as a Jungian analyst, I like to spend some quiet time mulling over my leftover thoughts and dreams from the preceding day and evening. This book began as a series of such reflections.

Ed and his family found that their experience had taken a surprising turn. They were learning to live in one of the hardest possible waysand through their ordeal they were discovering dimensions of themselves and of life, dimensions of meaning and vitality they could not have imagined previously. Of course, they were still confused, deeply concerned, and scared. Paradoxically, his cancer seemed to have emerged as an inner teacher that was instructing Ed and his family on the importance of a fuller way of life than they had been leading.

These kinds of situations return our attention to the fact that we live in, and our lives reflect, two patterns. One seems to belong to uswe own it through our personal experiences. And one seems to belong to life itself. As we develop a more profound sense of conscious awareness, we can begin to recognize our personal pattern. And if we pursue even greater consciousness, we will be able to see through that personal pattern and perceive the structure of the other pattern lifes pattern, or patternswhich supports us and is likewise being lived through us.