Concerning Abraham Maslow

“I have found whenever I ran across authoritarian students that the best thing for me to do was to break their backs immediately.” Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management

“The correct thing to do with authoritarians is to take them realistically for the bastards they are and then behave toward them as if they were bastards.” Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management

Maslow commented to Jane Howard “We have to teach everyone to be a therapist.” He recognized the difficulty in getting the public schools to participate, “Reforming a school system is like melting a glacier.”

“This voice which really isn’t you but tells you the way the world works is a direct attack on creativity. We have to work to remove it.” “When we learn to silence the inner voice that judges yourself and others, there is no limit to what we can accomplish, individually and as part of a team. Absence of judgment makes you more receptive to innovative ideas.” Michael Ray Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 223, 225

“Maslow stated that creativity comes from ambiguity, uncertainty, living in the moment, lack of predictability--these qualities caused creativity to flow.” Jackie McGrath Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 223

“Who should teach whom?” he wrote, “I’ve been in continuous conflict over this Esalen-type, orgiastic, Dionysian-type education.” (Abraham Maslow The Journals of Abraham Maslow, ed. Richard J. Lowry, p. 132. June 1982

"History, almost universally, has dichotomized this higher & lower, but it is now clear that they are on the same continum, in a hierarchical-integration of prepotency & pospotency." Abraham Maslow (ed. by Lowery) The Journals of Abraham Maslow

"Salvation is a byproduct of Self-Actualization Duty." Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management 1998

"Seeking for personal salvation is anyway the wrong road to salvation. The only path was the Ikiru path―salvation via hard work & total commitment to doing well the job fate or personal task destiny called you to―an important job that 'called for ' doing." The Journals of A.H. Maslow, Volumes I and II. Lowry R.J. (1979) (ed)

"In self-actualizing people, the work they do might be better be called 'mission,' 'calling,' 'duty,' 'vocation,' in the priest’s sense." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 38

"Meaningful work comes very close to the religious quest in the humanistic sense." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 39

Where you try to move over from a strictly authoritarian managerial style to a more participative style [lifting rigid restrictions of authority] chaos, hostility, destructiveness [may result]. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 54

Theory X and Theory Y were based upon Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory [and] are not management styles but are assumptions which play a large role in the development of management styles. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 69

“We must ultimately assume at the highest theoretical levels of enlightenment management theory, a preference or a tendency.” “. . . to identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc.” (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management)

"Self-actualizing people have to a large extent transcended the values of their culture. They are not so much merely Americans as they are world citizens, members of the human species first and foremost." A. H. Maslow The Further Reaches of Human Nature

"We have to study the conditions which maximize ought-perceptiveness." "Oughtiness is itself a fact to be perceived." "If we wish to permit the facts to tell us their oughtiness, we must learn to listen to them in a very specific way which can be called Taoistic." Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature)

“Insofar as my own effort is concerned, it has always been an attempt to wed science with humanistic goals--to improve individual people and the society as a whole.” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management, , John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998.

“[The] goal is simply to build group companies where people can self-actualize.” George McCown Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 76

“[Business] and the not-for-profits have a much greater role to play in shaping the good society than any institution I can think of.” George McCown Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 79

“The best way to destroy democratic society would be by way of industrial authoritarianism, which is anti-democratic in the deepest sense.” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998

“We don’t know the answers to the question: What proportion of the population is irreversibly authoritarian?” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management

It has been the tendency of our military, with their authoritarian view of life [patriarchal], to be on the side of dictators [including constitutional republics—limited government] rather than people’s revolutionary movements throughout the world. I would stress to the military the huge number of man-hours [which] could be used for education, for social service, for psychotherapeutic and growth-fostering activities of all sorts in order to make better citizens." Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management

“Science can be the religion of the nonreligious.” Abraham H. Maslow Maslow on Management 1998

“We will know that our knowledge of the authoritarian character structure is truly scientific when an average authoritarian character will be able to read the information on the subject and the regard his own authoritarian character as undesirable or sick or pathological and will go about trying to get rid of it.” “We don’t know the answers to the question: What proportion of the population is irreversibly authoritarian?” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management

“In a democratic society a patriarchal culture should make us depressed instead of glad; it is an argument against the higher possibilities of human nature, of self actualization.” “In our democratic society, any enterprise--any individual--has its obligations to the whole.” “Tax credits would be given to the company that helps to improve the whole society, and helps to improve the democracy by helping to create democratic individuals.” Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 66

"Oughtiness is itself a fact to be perceived." "Here the fusion comes not so much from an improvement of actuality, the is, but from a scaling down of the [collective] ought, from a redefining of expectations so that they come closer and closer to actuality and therefore to attainability." Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature.

“One is always in the process of becoming.” Ann Robinson quoting Maslow, Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998.

“I have found whenever I ran across authoritarian students that the best thing for me to do was to break their backs immediately. The correct thing to do with authoritarians is to take them realistically for the bastards they are and then behave toward them as if they were bastards.” “In a democratic society a patriarchal culture should make us depressed instead of glad; it is an argument against the higher possibilities of human nature, of self actualization.” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management 1998

"Salvation is a byproduct of Self-Actualization Duty." Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management 1998

“Eros is fundamentally a desire for union with objects in the world. Eros is the foundation of morality.”
Brown, Norman O. LIFE AGAINST DEATH. Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1959 p. 41

"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."
1 John 2:16

“This carry-over from the study of neurosis to the study of labor in factories is legitimate.” “Work is not about paying the rent anymore--it is about self-fulfillment.” “Enlightenment management and humanistic supervision can be a brotherhood situation.” “Partnership is the same as synergy.” “The United States is changing into a managerial society.” “In our democratic society, any enterprise--any individual--has its obligations to the whole.” “Tax credits would be given to the company that helps to improve the whole society, and helps to improve the democracy by helping to create democratic individuals.” “The goals of democratic education can be nothing else but development toward psychological health.” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998

“Marx defines the essence of man as labor and traces the dialectic of labor in history till labor abolishes itself.” “Freud suggests that beyond labor at the end of history is love.” “Love has always been there from the beginning . . . the hidden force supplying the energy devoted to labor and to making history.” “Repressed Eros is the energy of history and labor must be seen as sublimated Eros.” Norman O. Brown LIFE AGAINST DEATH. Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1959

“Meaningful work comes very close to the religious quest in the humanistic sense.” [The] "goal is simply to build group companies where people can self-actualize.” George McCown “The problem for the accountants is to work out some way of putting on the balance sheet the amount of synergy in the organization, the amount of time and money and effort that has been invested in getting groups to work together.” “. . . to identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc.” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998

“We don’t know the answers to the question: What proportion of the population is irreversibly authoritarian?” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management

"I’ve decided to get into the World Federalists, become pro-UN . . . One World. A world government with world-shared values . . . Until sovereignty is given up little by little by “nations.” This is a realistic combination of the Marxian version and the Humanistic." The Journals of Abraham Maslow, ed. Richard J. Lowry, p. 132. June 1982

"In fact, after a lecture at Sacred Heart in 1962, Abraham Maslow noted in a diary entry that the talk had been 'successful,' and that 'They shouldn't applaud me. They should attack me. If they were fully aware of what I was doing, they would attack.'" The Journals of Abraham Maslow, ed. Richard J. Lowry, p. 132. June 1982, p. 157; Nuns and Midshipmen by Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson 4 July 2001

“Abe gave to all of us the democratization of the soul.” Warren Bennis Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. xiii

"Synergy can be defined as the resolution [synthesis] of the dichotomy between selfishness and unselfishness (altruism)." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 22

"Enlightened economics must assume as a prerequisite synergic institutions set up in such a way that what benefits one benefits all." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 23

"In self-actualizing people, the work they do might be better be called 'mission,' 'calling,' 'duty,' 'vocation,' in the priest’s sense." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 38

"Meaningful work comes very close to the religious quest in the humanistic sense." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 39

ENLIGHTENED PROCESS PERSON

He has stress-tolerance.
He knows creative insecurity.
He can endure anxiety.
Meaningful work comes very close to the religious quest in the humanistic sense. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 39

We must ultimately assume at the highest theoretical levels of enlightenment management theory, a preference or a tendency Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 42

To identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 42

Enlightened management depends on all sorts of preconditions in order to make itself possible. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 53

It is necessary to accentuate the negative, perhaps even before accentuating the positive. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p53

REGRESSION FORCES
SCARCITY OF FOOD
CESSATION (or threat) OF PREPOTENT BASIC NEED GOODS
ANTISYNERGIC ORGANIZATION OR LAWS
ANYTHING THAT INCREASES FEAR OR ANXIETY
REGRESSION FORCES
LOSS OR SEPARATION OF ANY KIND FOR THE PERSON
CHANGE OF ANY KIND FOR PEOPLE PRONE TO ANXIETY OR TO FEAR
BAD COMMUNICATION OF ANY KIND
REGRESSION FORCES
SUSPICION
DENIAL IN THE SENSE OF DENIAL OF TRUTH
DISHONESTY, UNTRUTH, LYING, VULGARIZATION OF THE TRUTH, CONFUSION OF THE LINES BETWEEN TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD
REGRESSION FORCES
LOSS OF ANY OF THE BASIC NEED GRATIFICATION IN THE WORLD, e.g. freedom, self-esteem, status, respect, love objects, being loved, belonging, safety, physiological needs, values systems, truth, beauty, etc.
What forces could change the dynamic balance toward regression instead of toward growth? Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 45

Enlightened conditions may produce in some people, a regressive effect, that is to say, a bad effect. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 54

A certain proportion of the population cannot take responsibility well [and] are frightened by freedom, which tends to throw them into anxiety. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 54

People will sometimes show their lack of resources in an unstructured situation. [resulting in apathy, laxity, inertia, mistrust, anxiety, depression, etc.] Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 54

What this means for organization theorists is in moving over to the newer style of management, they should assume that a certain proportion will not respond well to good conditions. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 54

Where you try to move over from a strictly authoritarian managerial style to a more participative style [lifting rigid restrictions of authority] chaos, hostility, destructiveness [may result]. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 54

''And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Luke 16: 15

One of the necessary foundations for self esteem is (esteem) respect and applause from other people. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 56

A feeling of dignity--controlling one’s own life, and being one’s own boss. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 57

In a democratic society [a patriarchal culture] should make us depressed instead of glad; it is an argument against the higher possibilities of human nature, of self actualization. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 66

Neurosis can be seen either as a sign of sin and evil or can be seen as growth and self-actualization. Hostility shows that [one] wants to grow. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 66

Theory Y is a kind of pilot experiment . . . The data which justify this experiment are definitely not final data, not clearly convincing beyond a shadow of a doubt. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 67

We don’t know the answers to the question: What proportion of the population is irreversibly authoritarian? Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 67

Theory X and Theory Y were based upon Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory [and] are not management styles but are assumptions which play a large role in the development of management styles. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 69

Authoritarianism is alive and well in the 1990’s Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 69

These are articles of faith rather than articles of final knowledge. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 71

We will know that our knowledge of the authoritarian character structure is truly scientific when an average authoritarian character will be able to read the information on the subject and the regard his own authoritarian character as undesirable or sick or pathological and will go about trying to get rid of it. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 71

A good deal of the evidence upon which Douglas McGregor [Theory X] bases his conclusions comes from my researches and my papers on motivations. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 71

My work on motivations come from the clinic, from a study of neurotic people. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 71

This carry-over from the study of neurosis to the study of labor in factories is legitimate. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 71

The main support of this theory has come mostly from psychotherapists like Rogers and Fromm. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 71

Work is not about paying the rent anymore--it is about self-fulfillment. The United States is changing into a managerial society. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 72

The evidence upon which Theory X management is based is practically nil. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 73

In our democratic society, any enterprise--any individual--has its obligations to the whole. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 74

Any company that restricts its goals purely to its own profits, its own production, and its own sales is getting a kind of a free ride from me and other taxpayers. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 75

Tax credits would be given to the company that helps to improve the whole society, and helps to improve the democracy by helping to create democratic individuals. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 75

“[The] goal is simply to build group companies where people can self-actualize.” George McCown Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 76

“[Business] and the not-for-profits have a much greater role to play in shaping the good society than any institution I can think of.” George McCown Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 79

The best way to destroy democratic society would be by way of industrial authoritarianism, which is anti-democratic in the deepest sense. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 82

It has been the tendency of our military, with their authoritarian view of life, to be on the side of dictators rather than people’s revolutionary movements throughout the world. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 84

I would stress to the military the huge number of man-hours [which] could be used for education, for social service, for psychotherapeutic and growth-fostering activities of all sorts in order to make better citizens. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 84

Progressive education had better be revived and resuscitated because progressive education was much like the participative management policy. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 85

The goals of democratic education can be nothing else but development toward psychological health. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 86

Education must be eupsychian [Theory Y management] or else it is not democratic. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 86

Enlightenment management and humanistic supervision can be a brotherhood situation. Partnership [common interest] is the same as synergy. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 86, 87

The correct thing to do with authoritarians is to take them realistically for the bastards they are and then behave toward them as if they were bastards. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 92

I have found whenever I ran across authoritarian students that the best thing for me to do was to break their backs immediately. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 92

Human evil is an acquired or reactive kind of response to bad treatment of the individual. At least this is what the Third Force psychologists generally agree upon. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 104

The problem for the accountants is to work out some way of putting on the balance sheet the amount of synergy in the organization, the amount of time and money and effort that has been invested in getting groups to work together. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 247

The more enlightened the religious institutions get, that is to say, the more liberal they get, the greater will be the advantage for an enterprise run in an enlightened way. Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 293

“This voice which really isn’t you but tells you the way the world works is a direct attack on creativity. We have to work to remove it.” Michael Ray Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 223

“Maslow stated that creativity comes from ambiguity, uncertainty, living in the moment, lack of predictability--these qualities caused creativity to flow.” Jackie McGrath Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 223

“When we learn to silence the inner voice that judges yourself and others, there is no limit to what we can accomplish, individually and as part of a team. Absence of judgment makes you more receptive to innovative ideas.” Michael Ray Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p225

"The best way to destroy democratic society would be by way of industrial authoritarianism, which is anti-democratic in the deepest sense." Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management

We must ultimately assume at the highest theoretical levels of enlightenment management theory, a preference or a tendency ... to identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc. A patriarchal culture is an argument against the higher possibilities of human nature, of self actualization.
Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management

"A patriarchal culture is an argument against the higher possibilities of human nature, of social actualization" Abraham H. Maslow Maslow on Management

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“My work on motivations come from the clinic, from a study of neurotic people.” “This carry-over from the study of neurosis to the study of labor in factories is legitimate.” “Work is not about paying the rent anymore--it is about self-fulfillment.” “Enlightenment management and humanistic supervision can be a brotherhood situation.” “Partnership is the same as synergy.” “The United States is changing into a managerial society.” “In our democratic society, any enterprise--any individual--has its obligations to the whole.” “Tax credits would be given to the company that helps to improve the whole society, and helps to improve the democracy by helping to create democratic individuals.” “The goals of democratic education can be nothing else but development toward psychological health.” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998

"So it looks as if nudism is the first step toward ultimate fee-animality-humanness. It's the easiest to take. Must encourage it. Only trouble is, I feel uneasy allying myself with nuts, fringe people, borderline characters, e.g. as in this number of ANKH; the tipoff―there are only young, shapely, & beautiful bodies." "Yet nakedness is absolutely right. So is the attack on antieroticism, the Christian & Jewish foundations. Must move in the direction of the Reichian orgasm." "This movement can be dignified and Apollonian & can avoid pornography & neurosis & ugliness. I must put as much of this as is possible & usable in my education book, & more & more in succeeding writings." "Marxian theory needs Freudian-type instinct theory to round it out. And of course, vice versa." ". . . I’ve decided to get into the World Federalists, become pro-UN, & the like." "The whole discussion becomes species-wide, One World, at least so far as the guiding goal is concerned. To get to that goal is politics & is in time and space & will take a long time & cost much blood." ". . . A caretaker government could immediately start training for democracy & self-government & give it little by little, as deserved." "This is a realistic combination of the Marxian version & the humanistic. (Better add to definition of “humanistic” that it also means one species, One World.)" "Only a world government with world-shared values could be trusted or permitted to take such powers. If only for such a reason a world government is necessary. It too would have to evolve. I suppose it would be weak or lousy or even corrupt at first--it certainly doesn’t amount to much now & won’t until sovereignty is given up little by little by 'nations.'" Excerpts from The Journals of A.H. Maslow, Volumes I and II.
Lowry R.J. (1979)

"To identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 42

“The person at the peak experience is godlike . . . complete, loving, uncondemning, compassionate and accept[ing] of the world and of the person.” Abraham Maslow Toward a Psychology of Being

"Partnership is the same as synergy. The problem for the accountants is to work out some way of putting on the balance sheet the amount of synergy in the organization, the amount of time and money and effort that has been invested in getting groups to work together." Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management

"Oughtiness is itself a fact to be perceived." Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

“When we learn to silence the inner voice that judges yourself and others, there is no limit to what we can accomplish, individually and as part of a team. Absence of judgment makes you more receptive to innovative ideas.” Michael Ray in Maslow on Management, written by Abraham Maslow.

“The innermost core of man’s nature, the base of his ‘animal nature,’ is positive in nature." “Maslow puts up a vigorous case for man's animal nature . . . " Carl Rogers On becoming a person

"Theory X and Theory Y were based upon Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory [and] are assumptions which play a large role in the development of management styles. The evidence upon which Theory X management is based is practically nil." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 69

“In self-actualizing people, the work they do might be better be called ‘mission,’ ‘calling,’ ‘duty,’ ‘vocation,’ in the priest’s sense.” (Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management)

“My work on motivations come from the clinic, from a study of neurotic people.” “This carry-over from the study of neurosis to the study of labor in factories is legitimate.” “The main support of this theory has come mostly from psychotherapists like Rogers and Fromm.” “Work is not about paying the rent anymore--it is about self-fulfillment.” “The United States is changing into a managerial society.” (Maslow)

“Education must be eupsychian or else it is not democratic."

Tax credits would be given to the company that helps to improve the whole society, and helps to improve the democracy by helping to create democratic individuals. [The] goal is simply to build group companies where people can self-actualize." (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management)

"Human evil is an acquired or reactive kind of response to bad treatment of the individual [having to obey God or parent against one's carnal desires]. At least this is what the Third Force psychologists generally agree upon." (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management)

"The problem for the accountants is to work out some way of putting on the balance sheet the amount of synergy in the organization, the amount of time and money and effort that has been invested in getting groups to work together." (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management)

"We have to study the conditions which maximize ought-perceptiveness. Oughtiness is itself a fact to be perceived. If we wish to permit the facts to tell us their oughtiness, we must learn to listen to them in a very specific way which can be called Taoistic. Discovering one’s real nature is simultaneously an ought quest and an is quest. An 'Ought-Is-Quest' is a religious quest in the naturalistic sense. Is becomes the same as ought. Fact becomes the same as value. The world which is becomes the world which ought to be." (Maslow)

"Freud takes with absolute seriousness the proposition of Jesus: ‘Except ye become as little children, ye can in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven.’” (Brown)

According to Brown heaven can be found on earth: “In the words of Thoreau: ‘We need pray for no higher heaven than the pure senses can furnish, a purely sensuous life. Our present senses are but rudiments of what they are destined to become.’” The famous socio-psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote: "Heaven is available to us now, and is all around us." (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management) “The foundation on which the man of the future will be built is already there, in the repressed unconscious; the foundation has to be recovered.” (Brown) Brown writes: since “[s]exual instinct seeks union with objects in the world....” and “[e]ros is fundamentally a desire for union (being one) with objects in the world ... [e]ros is the foundation of morality.” Therefore "... self-perfection (narcissism) of the human individual is fulfilled in union with the world in pleasure.” “Human perfection consists in an expansion of the self until it enjoys the world as it enjoys itself.” Any such praxis of Eros is "tabooed" in a patriarchal society. Yet in a civilization of Eros (built upon sensitivity training) a patriarchal society is seen as enslaving "the pleasure ego by the reality ego" i.e. "enslaving" the children and the mother by the father. Take note: this is the foundation on which "hate" crimes are being defined and will be judged. "Children ... have not acquired that sense of shame which, according to the Biblical story, expelled mankind from Paradise [seen as an act of hate], and which, presumably, would be discarded if Paradise were regained." (Brown) The issue with all these men was how to restore the Garden in Eden (Eden means "pleasure"; "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Genesis 2:9), a lifestyle of (p)leasure and guaranteed sustenance ("the good life," the sensuous life). But this time the world wants a garden of pleasure without God.

"the age old problem of the relationship between is and ought."
Abraham Maslow The Further Reaches of Human Nature

"It has been the tendency of our military, with their authoritarian view of life [patriarchal], to be on the side of dictators [including constitutional republics—limited government] rather than people’s revolutionary movements throughout the world. I would stress to the military the huge number of man-hours [which] could be used for education, for social service, for psychotherapeutic and growth-fostering activities of all sorts in order to make better citizens." Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management

"The more enlightened the religious institutions get, that is to say, the more liberal they get, the greater will be the advantage for an enterprise run in an enlightened way." Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management

"Marxian theory needs Freudian-type instinct theory to round it out. And of course, vice versa." The Journals of A.H. Maslow, Volumes I and II. Ed. Lowry R.J. (1979)

"The more 'is' something becomes [the more the parent demands obedience], the more 'ought' it becomes [the more the child wants his way], the louder it 'calls for' particular action [the more the child looks for ways to escape obedience, i.e. justify disobedience]." Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches Of Human Nature

"Third-Force psychology is also epi-Marxian in these senses, i.e., including the most basic scheme as true-good social conditions are necessary for personal growth, bad social conditions stunt human nature,... This is to say, one could reinterpret Marx into a self-actualization-fostering Third- and Fourth-Force psychology-philosophy. And my impression is anyway that this is the direction in which they are going now." Abraham Maslow The Journals of A.H. Maslow by Lowry

"So it looks as if nudism is the first step toward ultimate fee-animality-humanness. It's the easiest to take. Must encourage it. Yet nakedness is absolutely right. So is the attack on antieroticism, the Christian & Jewish foundations. Must move in the direction of the Reichian orgasm. I certainly enjoy nudism as at Esalen & have no trouble with it. And I certainly think sex is wonderful, even sacred. And I approve in principle of the advancement of knowledge & experimentation with anything." Abraham Maslow The Journals of A.H. Maslow by Lowry

"Only a world government with world-shared values could be trusted or permitted to take such powers. If only for such a reason a world government is necessary. It too would have to evolve. I suppose it would be weak or lousy or even corrupt at first--it certainly doesn’t amount to much now & won’t until sovereignty is given up little by little by 'nations.' The whole discussion becomes species-wide, One World, at least so far as the guiding goal is concerned. To get to that goal is politics & is in time and space & will take a long time & cost much blood." Abraham Maslow The Journals of A.H. Maslow by Lowry

"Kant was certainly correct in claiming that we can never fully know nonhuman reality." Abraham Maslow Motivation and Personality 1954, p. 7-8.

"Of course, Humanistic Psychology did not begin with Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May, Frederick Pearls or Esalen Institute. It's roots are in humanism, which go back thousands of years, with many variants, as seen in the ideas of Socrates, St. Thomas Aquinas and other defenders of human dignity. There have always been rebels against humanly degrading establishments. The most significant Western rebirthing of humanism was the artistic and intellectual flowering during the Renaissance and Enlightenment." Geoffrey Hill The Failure of the Human Potential Movement: From Self-actualization to Experientialism

"'fusion-words' [double speak] . . . to solve the 'is' and 'ought' problem." [A] “'heuristic' . . . part of the new humanistic Weltanschauung." "Seem to be" [words. “The words ‘seem to’ are significant; it is the perception which functions in guiding behavior." (Carl Rogers) Words of double speak, ambiguity, opinions, theories. Examples:] "mature, evolved, developed, stunted, crippled, fully functioning, graceful, awkward, clumsy." "Acceptance," [not basing decisions on specifics—truths, facts, which can call divisions, but rather on generality—feelings, emotions, common experiences, for the purpose of achieving consensus.] "Here the fusion comes not so much from an improvement of actuality, the is, but from a scaling down of the ought, from a redefining of expectations (redefining that which is above in terms of that which is below) so that they come closer and closer to actuality and therefore to attainability." "The process of acceptance.... Move toward resignation (giving up hope on set standards which seem to be interfering with progress) .... Move toward thinking (freedom in thinking, to ponder those things previously unthought-of, due to ridged standards preventing inquiry, influenced by approval of actions by others we now relate with or seek to relate with, actions which were formerly unapproved of).... “After all that’s not so bad. It’s really quite human . . .” Abraham Maslow The Further Reaches of Human Nature.

"Enlightened economics must assume as a prerequisite synergic institutions set up in such a way that what benefits one benefits all.” “Enlightenment management and humanistic supervision can be a brotherhood situation.” “The more enlightened the religious institutions get, that is to say, the more liberal they get, the greater will be the advantage for an enterprise run in an enlightened way.” “Partnership is the same as synergy.” "The problem for the accountants is to work out some way of putting on the balance sheet the amount of synergy in the organization, the amount of time and money and effort that has been invested in getting groups to work together." “The United States is changing into a managerial society.” “In our democratic society, any enterprise--any individual--has its obligations to the whole.” “Tax credits would be given to the company that helps to improve the whole society, and helps to improve the democracy by helping to create democratic individuals.” “The goals of democratic education can be nothing else but development toward psychological health.” Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998

The dialectic of the body

1 Timothy 6:20-21

20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

Romans 7:14-8:39

14 ¶ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
1 ¶ There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 ¶ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint–heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 ¶ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 ¶ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 ¶ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 2:15-2 John 1:13

15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
18 ¶ Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20 ¶ But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
28 ¶ And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
1 ¶ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
4 ¶ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 ¶ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14 ¶ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20 ¶ For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. 22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 ¶ And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
1 ¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 ¶ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 ¶ And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17 ¶ Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us. 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
1 ¶ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 ¶ This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
10 ¶ He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
14 ¶ And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
18 ¶ We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
1 ¶ The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; 2 For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. 3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
5 ¶ And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
7 ¶ For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 ¶ If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
12 ¶ Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. 13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.