Becoming Antifragile 034: How To Combat Meaninglessness Through Peak Experiences - Abraham Maslow
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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Shownotes:
00:00 - Excerpt from “Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences” by Abraham Maslow
05:50 - Why Maslow thinks we should study peak-experiences
08:10 - What is Peak-experiences? Why Logical Positivism is wrong
14:25 - Mystical experience == peak experiences, the state of B-Cognition
20:50 - Finding meaning, curing nihilism
22:17 - The importance of artists and Humanist scholars for inspiring people to do great things
25:40 - If you’re too materialistic or over religious persons, you can’t have peak-experiences
33:19 - The greatest threat is our valuelessness nihilistic society
35:08 - If there is no beauty, what is there to admire? This creates a bleak society
38:00 - 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
44:25 - Aspects of peak-experiences, and attaining new knowledge through it
50:40 - Challenge
52:12 - Announcement