Individuation

individuation isn't necessarily a step by step process. it can be guided (through therapy) but it's an inherently subjective process which requires the subject to dynamically integrate all parts of his personality, a significant part of which lies in the unconscious.
The principle of individuation, or ''principium individuationis'',[1] describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinguished from other things.[2] Philosophically, "individuation" expresses the general idea of how a thing is identified as an individual thing that "is not something else". This includes how an individual person is held to be distinct from other elements in the world and how a person is distinct from other persons.
For Schopenhauer the principium individuationis constituted of time and space, being the ground of multiplicity. In his view, the mere difference in location suffices to make two systems different, with the two states having its own real physical state, independent of the state of the other. This view influenced Einstein.[5] Schrödinger put the Schopenhaurian label on a folder of papers in his files “Collection of Thoughts on the physical Principium individuationis.”[6]
In Jungian psychology, also called analytical psychology, individuation is the process in which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become, if the process is more or less successful, integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.
The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Carl Gustav Jung, Gilbert Simondon, Alan Watts, Bernard Stiegler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Bohm, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Manuel De Landa.
See: the Individuation of Man.
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Initiation; Transcendence
Transcendentalism 
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