034: How To Combat Meaninglessness Through Peak Experiences - Abraham Maslow from Becoming Antifragile

034: How To Combat Meaninglessness Through Peak Experiences - Abraham Maslow

53 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2024 at 10:45 am.

Excerpt from “Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences” by Abraham Maslow

Why Maslow thinks we should study peak-experiences

What is Peak-experiences? Why Logical Positivism is wrong

Mystical experience == peak experiences, the state of B-Cognition

Finding meaning, curing nihilism

The importance of artists and Humanist scholars for inspiring people to do great things

If you’re too materialistic or over religious persons, you can’t have peak-experiences

The greatest threat is our valuelessness nihilistic society

If there is no beauty, what is there to admire? This creates a bleak society

To cross the barrier of science and religion we need good education. Good education addresses the questions of life, meaning, goodness, beauty, ethics, and peak-experiences

Aspects of peak-experiences, and attaining new knowledge through it

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Lessons from “Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences” by Abraham Maslow. Maslow is the American psychologist who developed Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and proposed a theory of psychological well-being based on satisfying fundamental human needs in a specific order, ultimately leading to self-actualization.

The article referenced in the episode: 'Beyond Modern Nihilism: The Revival of Symbollism and Beauty in Art' - https://ijmakan.substack.com/p/beyond-modern-nihilism-the-revival?r=763v5

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