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Research: INDIUS,
Listed in Issue 314
Abstract
INDIUS, (1), Aalborg, Denmark. simone.indius@gmail.com .seeks to further explore how mindfulness, meditation and self-transcendence plays a role in the personal needs hierarchy of the human organism.
Background
Building on Fircks (2023), who aims at integrating the theoretical and historical roots of mindfulness into psychology through a bridge between Taoism, relying on the polarity of life and wu wei (the principle of not-forcing) and Mead's Social Psychology, this commentary seeks to further explore how mindfulness, meditation and self-transcendence plays a role in the personal needs hierarchy of the human organism.
Methodology
This is done in the framework of Abraham Maslow's theory of human motivation and his hierarchy of needs, where a model that introduces a new layer in the hierarchy of needs, the need for self-transcendence, is presented.
Results
This model containing the new hierarchy of self-transcendence is based on Maslow's own notion of peak-experiences, as well as related to William James' notion of mystical experiences.
Conclusion
Fircks' (2023) auto ethnographic meditative experience is conceptualized as a peak-experience and analyzed to show how human beings strive to experience this state of being. © 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
References
Indius S(1). Meditation and Self-transcendence: A Human Need? Integr Psychol Behav Sci. ;58(3):878-883. Epub Jun 15 2024 . Sep 2024. doi: 10.1007/s12124-024-09848-6.
