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Date: September 12, 2016 10:03PM
Maslow added a stage after self-actualization called ego transcendence. He also wrote about peak experiences as follows:
"Feelings of limitless horizons opening up to the vision, the feeling of being simultaneously more powerful and also more helpless than one ever was before, the feeling of ecstasy and wonder and awe, the loss of placement in time and space with, finally, the conviction that something extremely important and valuable had happened, so that the subject was to some extent transformed and strengthened even in his/her daily life by such experiences." Abraham Maslow
Peak experiences can happen to anyone such as when you are up a tree for hours due to a flood and reach a point of surrender or with the birth of a baby. With ego transcendence one would live on the peak of unconditional love and peace. Me, I keep falling off the peak.
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From
http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/p/peak_experiences.htmlPeak experiences render therapeutic value as they foster a sense of being lucky or graced; release creative energies; reaffirm the worthiness of life; and change an individual's view of himself or herself.
Maslow cautioned against seeking such experiences for their own sake; echoing the advice of the mystics who have pointed out that the sacred exists in the ordinary.
Maslow further believed that domestic and public violence, alcoholism, and drug abuse stem from spiritual emptiness, and that even one peak experience might be able to prevent, or at least abate, such ills.