Discoveries in Maslow

[Diane Brandon]

If you take a look at the Appendices (I think it's B) in Religion,  
Values, and Peak Experiences, you'll see a list of B-values (values  
of Being) that Maslow suggested go at the top of the hierarchy of  
needs pyramid. Creativity is one of the B-values, but there are a  
list of perhaps 15-20 of them there. Good stuff!

Diane Brandon
www.kitchentableconsulting.net

On Dec 1, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Patricia Haines wrote:

> After Maslow's death his wife published what he'd been working on -  
> which was a final stage for adult development where CREATIVITY is  
> the peak need. This stage is seldom if ever mentioned in works on  
> Maslow, but it seems one that we all could use at this challenging  
> time in history - and it certainly works for what OS fosters in  
> participants! Collective creativity and responsibility -
>
>
> --- On Mon, 12/1/08, douglas germann <76066.515 at compuserve.com> wrote:
> From: douglas germann <76066.515 at compuserve.com>
> Subject: [OSLIST] Discoveries in Maslow
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 12:36 PM
>
> 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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