Discoveries in Maslow

[douglas germann]

Spark--

Thanks. Maslow does talk a lot about love, too.

			:- Doug.

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 16:56 +0900, Stanley Park wrote:
> Doug,
> 
> Good pick!
> 
> I'd like to share this with others...
> 
> The secret is hidden in the enlightening understanding that love, hatred,
> and whatsoever emanate from within, I think. Short of that understanding
> life becomes less lovable or even worse: somthing to hate about.
> 
> And practicing emancipation of True Self leads to Spacious self-fullfilment
> and communal-fulfillmen as we all cherish being together in the Open Space.
> 
> With All My Love,
> 
> spark
> ~~~
> 
> Stanley Park
> Open Space Institute of Korea
> 218-8 Gusan-dong, Eunpyung-gu
> Seoul, Korea
> spark at openspace.kr
> Phone: 82-10-7237-0636
> www.OPENSPACE.kr
> 'Liberate the Leader in Each of Us'
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of douglas
> germann
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:36 AM
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> Subject: [OSLIST] Discoveries in Maslow
> 
> Hi--
> 
> For the last few days I have been reading Maslow and finding a lot of
> insights into OST. From today's reading:
> 
>                 Pilot experiment: Unquantified observation from
>                 two-year-long experiments with group therapy: both the
>                 college boys and the college girls in general looked
>                 more beautiful or handsome both to me and to the
>                 participants themselves (and actually became more
>                 beautiful, attractive as measured by the judgment of
>                 strangers) because of increased self-love and
>                 self-respect and increased pleasure in pleasing the
>                 group members (out of increased love for them). In
>                 general, if we stress the uncovering aspect of therapy,
>                 then whatever it reveals was there already in some
>                 sense. Therefore, whatever emerges or is revealed by
>                 uncovering therapy is very likely to be constitutionally
>                 or temperamentally or genetically intrinsic to the
>                 organism;i.e., its essence, its deepest reality, is
>                 biologically given. Abraham H. Maslow, The Farther
>                 Reaches of Human Nature, p 139
> 
> Wow! This might explain some of what happens in OST: increased self respect
> leading to better ideas, better perhaps in the sense of simplicity,
> elegance, beauty. OS leads to beautiful people: how's that for high
> performance?
> 
> Have you noticed anything akin to this?
> 
> What is the "uncovering aspect" in opening space?
> 
> 			:- Doug.
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