Seven Principles to Guide You For more days than I can remember now, when my wife and I are taking our lunch break, I have remarked to her, “I am going to click on the computer for a minute and …
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When I was a child my mother began a slow journey with cancer. Her journey ended when I was fourteen years old. That was when I learned that the price of love was grief. It was love’s absence that finally …
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Dear Readers, Over the years of my writing career this book has been one of my favorites. In fact I’ve read it over many times and even though I wrote it, it still generates new ideas, new understandings and I …
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I define Sacred Selfishness as valuing ourselves enough to develop into “authentic” human beings who give back vitality and hope to the people around us. It is acquiring what Emerson refers to as “character—a reserved force which acts directly by …
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Why do so many of us want to own weapons designed to kill human beings, weapons designed for mass murder? What is it that makes us terrified of losing those weapons? The following article is from my book Students Under …
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Those of you who follow my work know that the rise of mass shootings in our country is deeply troubling to me, and I am strongly compelled to do what I can to help heal our individual and collective wounds …
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I first published this poem for Father’s Day in 2009 while I was preparing a lecture and workshop here in Asheville titled The Father Quest: A Guide for Rediscovering and Renewing the Foundation of Fatherhood. My life was permeated with …
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I am pleased to announce my newest book, Becoming Whole: A Jungian Guide to Individuation. This book comprises the text of two lectures and the seminars that accompanied them. I have presented these workshops and seminars in Asheville, North Carolina …
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… Do you really know what you want?… I encounter many different people daily who are fascinating and remarkable, and I often find myself standing in awe of how unique we all are as individuals. Yet as I get …
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Dear Readers, The following is the first of a 4-part excerpt from Chapter 1 of Sacred Selfishness, Captives of Normalcy. Captives of Normalcy For certain societies that people today like to call primitive, the dominating trait of life was …
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