Educating for Eupsychia: Maslow’s Unfinished Agenda and Aldous Huxley’s Role in Its Advancement

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110381
Author(s):  
Edward Hoffman ◽  
Tass Bey
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Peak Experiences ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Movement Education ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Sense Of Wonder

Although Abraham Maslow never specified how eupsychia (his paradigm for the best possible human society) might be achieved, he was inspired in the 1960s by Aldous Huxley’s notions that major changes in education were vital for its attainment: in Maslow’s view, spurring personality growth and fulfillment and ultimately leading to self-actualization on a societal level. In this light, Maslow’s scattered writings on the necessity for revisioning education provide meaningful direction for realizing the eupsychian ideal. Drawing particularly on his enthusiasm for revamped pedagogy as presented in Huxley’s utopian novel Island and related writings, we highlight three elements that Maslow deemed crucial: valuing children’s constitutional and temperamental differences, incorporating somatic and movement education including dance, and, related to peak experiences, fostering a sense of wonder. We also add a fourth element that Maslow was beginning to embrace at the time of his death—eudaimonic education comprising aspects such as volunteerism, mentoring, and civic engagement.

Having Their Say, Leaving Their Mark

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-153
Author(s):  
Adolphus G. Belk ◽  
Robert C. Smith ◽  
Sherri L. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Adverse Conditions ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Independent Organization

In general, the founders of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists were “movement people.” Powerful agents of socialization such as the uprisings of the 1960s molded them into scholars with tremendous resolve to tackle systemic inequalities in the political science discipline. In forming NCOBPS as an independent organization, many sought to develop a Black perspective in political science to push the boundaries of knowledge and to use that scholarship to ameliorate the adverse conditions confronting Black people in the United States and around the globe. This paper utilizes historical documents, speeches, interviews, and other scholarly works to detail the lasting contributions of the founders and Black political scientists to the discipline, paying particular attention to their scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and civic engagement. It finds that while political science is much improved as a result of their efforts, there is still work to do if their goals are to be achieved.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KEPRIBADIAN TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL GENDUK KARYA SUNDARI MARDJUKI (KAJIAN PSIKOLOGI SASTRA)

EDU-KATA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Nazilatul Masruroh
Keyword(s):  
Personality Development ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Needs Theory ◽  
Library Method

This research was conducted with the aim of describing the main character's personality in the novel "Genduk" by Sundari Mardjuki (Literature Psychology Study) by using Abraham Maslow's perspective. The data in this study are derived from the novel Genduk by Sundari Mardjuki, Cetakan November 2017, the publisher of PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, with a total of 232 pages. Data is collected by library method, see, record, and documentation. The findings of the study show that all the needs theory proposed by Abraham Maslow has been obtained by the main character. The five needs raised include physiological needs or basic needs, the need for security, needs to be owned and loved, the need for self-esteem, and the need for self-actualization. The results showed that the fulfillment of these five needs in the main character found a good personality development from the main characters, including sociability, compassion, helping, not being easily offended, never giving up in achieving desires, and wise in responding to conflicts or problems.

With Rigor

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-208
Author(s):  
Ira Helderman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Meditation Practice ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Therapeutic Goals ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

In the adopting religion approaches to Buddhist traditions explicated in this chapter, clinicians actively and openly take up Buddhist teachings, practices, and identities. Instead of treating Buddhist traditions as resources for clinical work, therapists taking adopting religion approaches sometimes frame psychotherapies as resources to aid Buddhist communities. The chapter briefly surveys the impact this has on Buddhist communities in the United States, a number of which have been established by psychotherapists. Such approaches can appear to upend a hierarchy between the religious and not-religious as clinicians characterize therapy as merely a tool to, for example, clear psychological obstacles from meditation practice. This reversal can be traced back to humanistic and transpersonal therapists of the 1960s-1970s like Abraham Maslow who, critiquing secularity and “the medical model,” remade therapeutic goals to include the activation of “human potential.” While contemporary therapists who take adopting religion approaches could be defined as fully practicing religion (some describe their psychotherapies as new hybrid Buddhist schools), this arrangement of religious/not-religious also remains unstable: the specific Buddhist traditions they adopt can themselves be characterized as secularized forms, already bereft of features coded as more “conventionally” or “self-evidently” religious (merit-making practices, propitiation of deities, etc.).

After the Wall II: The Fall and Rise of an Educational System

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Rodden
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Maximum Speed ◽  
The West ◽  
System P ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Journey To The West ◽  
The 1960S

In the fall of 1990, a hit movie comedy opened to packed houses in eastern German theaters. Go, Trabi, Go!—the producers gave the film an English title—celebrated with rollicking Weltschmerz the misadventures of Georg, a hapless baby-blue Trabant 601—whose jinxed capers make him the undeniable screen successor to Herbie, the Disney VW Beetle of the 1960s. Georg stalls pitifully on the Autobahn, is shorn of his bumper in Munich traffic, is robbed of all four tires by pranksters during a camping stop, and even gets mistaken for scrap near an auto junkyard, an obvious metaphor for the DDR running out of gas—as it lurches toward unity. Go, Trabi, Go! begins with DDR German teacher Udo Struutz deciding to fulfill a long-deferred dream: his first journey to the West will be to travel from his hellhole hometown of industrial Bitterfield, the dirtiest city in all of Eastern Europe, to balmy Naples, thereby tracing the footsteps of his beloved Goethe, whose Italian Journey recorded his own (less quixotic) southern pilgrimage from Weimar in the 1780s. Herr Struutz packs his wife and daughter into little Georg, a family member for 20 years whom Herr Struutz lovingly wipes down with his own washcloth. “See Naples and Die!” scrawls Herr Struutz on Georg’s trunk, recalling Goethe’s clarion call to self-actualization: “Sterbe und werde!” (“die and become!”). The adventure turns out to be a story of Innocent Ossis Abroad and their psychological collision with the West. Numerous scenes in Go, Trabi, Go! allude to the region’s plight: putt-putting along on the Autobahn, little Georg strains to do his maximum speed of 60 mph as contemptuous Mercedes-Benzes, Porsches, and BMWs fly by; broken-down in Bavaria, Georg costs the Struutz family a steep (an outrageously inflated) price for repair, which the intrepid socialist entrepreneurs earn by charging curious Bavarians DM 5 for a “Trabi Peep Show” and a five-minute joy ride in Georg. Reassuringly, the Struutz family eventually does reach its destination, albeit with the accident-prone but indomitable Georg—now minus his top—as a breezy convertible.

The Sexual Clock: Middle-Aged American Women and Sexual Vitality in the 1960s and 1970s

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 922-938
Author(s):  
Leslie Paris
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Body Project ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Abstract In the wake of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s, a new American consensus emerged both that women’s sexual lives remained important past their youth and that women’s sexual pleasure generally increased into middle age. Challenging the idea that older people were (or ought to be) asexual, mainstream pundits suggested ways to retain or even improve one’s sexual vitality into middle age and beyond, and argued that sex itself was both physically and emotionally rejuvenating. New attitudes toward middle-aged women’s sexuality did not entirely supplant a more traditional body project whose focus was physical maintenance, the appearance of youthfulness, and a nostalgic return to the “true” (that is, younger) self. Yet by the 1970s, increasing numbers of middle-aged women began to consider sexual renewal as an avenue for personal and relational growth, sparked by unexpected shifts in midlife, the mainstreaming of feminist critiques of ageism, and a new ethos of self-actualization. The redefinition of sexuality as a lifelong journey enabled middle-aged women to reconsider their intimate relationships and their bodies, rethink their assumptions about age and sexual desirability, and examine their current levels of sexual satisfaction. By defying the notion that aging was inherently shameful and desexualizing for women, sexologists and feminists of the late 1960s and 1970s offered a significant challenge to the “sexual clock” and helped to redefine middle age as a time of continued growth.

Denaturalizing Time: On Kris Verdonck's Performative Installation End

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATIA ARFARA
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Installation Art ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Space Art

Originating from the avant-garde's attempt to supplant the structural limitations of perspective which ‘bound the spectator to a single point of view’, installation art emerged during the 1960s and the 1970s as a critique of the pure, self-referential work of art. Belgian artist Kris Verdonck integrates that modernist debate into his hybrid practice of performative installation. Trained in visual arts, architecture and theatre, Verdonck uses sophisticated technological devices in order to blur binary distinctions such as time- and space-art, inanimate and animate figures, and immateriality and materiality. This study focuses on End (Brussels 2008), which shows the possible final stages of a human society in ten scenes. I analyse End as an echo of the Futurists’ performance tactics, which prefigured a broadening of the formal aesthetic boundaries of performance art under the major influence of Henri Bergson's theory of time.

scholarly journals Peak-experience and the entheogenic use of cannabis in world religions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark S. Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Peak Experiences ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Peak Experience ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unitive Consciousness ◽  
Self Transcendence

AbstractThis paper demonstrates that cannabis can evoke “peak-experiences”—the name psychologist Abraham Maslow gave to fleeting moments of expanded perception indicative of self-transcendence—when used alongside more traditional religious practices such as meditation, fasting, contemplative prayer, and sacramental ritual. For that reason, religious seekers around the globe have deployed cannabis as a deliberate psychoactive to trigger the peak-experiences that stir feelings of ecstasy, wonder, and awe and resolve the “dichotomies, polarities, and conflicts of life.” As such, peak-experiences exemplify a form of spiritual revelation that has played a pivotal role in the history of religion, and because of its ability to elicit unitive consciousness at the heart of mystical insight, cannabis has been utilized as a mild entheogen across culture and tradition for millennia.

scholarly journals NAFS IN SUFISM PSYCHOLOGY: ROBERT FRAGER’S PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Asty Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Psychology Perspective ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Definition Of

Objek utama kajian psikologi ialah manusia yang terdiri dari jiwa dan raga. Dalam psikologi, raga manusia dapat berfungsi atau beraktifitas ketika jiwa mampu menggerakkannya dalam bentuk motif. Secara garis besar, jiwa bergerak yang berpadu dengan raga membentuk sebuah nama “diri/aku (self)” atau dalam satu konsep “kepribadian”. Hal senada juga menjadi bagian dalam kajian Islam (tasawuf/sufisme), kepribdian (akhlak) melibatkan dua substansi yaitu jasad dan ruh. Dua substansi yang saling berlawanan ini pada prinsipnya saling membutuhkan. Dalam hal ini tentu saja term “nafs” merupakan jembatan untuk memadukan keduanya. Berawal dari ulasan komparatif atau bahkan menyamakan antara Psikologi Barat dan Tasawuf, Robert Frager (seorang psikolog sekaligus syekh) dalam dalam bukunya juga membicarakan term yang sama (nafs). Dalam buku Psikologi sufi yang ia tulis, ia mengaskan bahwa tasawuf adalah pendekatan yang sangat holisik (mengintegasikan antara fisik, psikis dan spirit) dan memahamkan bahwa tasawuf adalah disiplin spiritual bagi semua orang tanpa kelas dan kasta. Dengan demikian, rumusan masalah dalam tulisan ini ialah apa dan bagaimana definisi nafs, posisi dan karakteristik nafs dalam Psikologi Sufi dan tingkatan nafs dalam Psikologi Sufi perspektif Robert Frager. Dalam bagian kesimpulan, penulis menilik pada dua sudut pandang, yaitu sudut perkembangan nafs secara tasawuf dan mengkritisi aspek psikologis yang digunakan Robert Frager. Dalam sudut pandang sufisme, Robert Frager telah melakukan pengembangan dari konsep nafs yang telah dirumuskan al-Ghazali maupun al-Hifni. Namun demikian dalam tulisannya Robert Frager belum menyinggung hirarki kebutuhan yang diprakarsai Abraham Maslow ,terutama tingkat aktualisasi diri.The main object of psychology study is the human being as a wealth of body and soul. In psychology, the human body can function or act when the soul is able to move it in the form of motive. Broadly speaking, the moving soul that blends with the body forms a name called "self / I" or in a "personality" concept. The same thing is also a part of Islamic studies of tasawuf or sufism, personality (akhlak) involves two substances namely the body and spirit. These two opposing substances in principle need each other. In this case, of course the term "nafs" acts as a bridge to combine the two. Starting from a comparative review or even equating between Western Psychology and Sufism, Robert Frager, a psychologist as well as a sheikh, in his book also speaks of the same term (nafs). In his book of Sufi Psychology, he asserts that Sufism is a very holistic approach for it integrates physical, psychic and spirit and underlines that Sufism is a spiritual discipline for all people without class and caste. Thus, the formulation of the problem in this paper is what and how the definition of nafs, positions and characteristics of the nafs in Sufi Psychology and the level of nafs in the Sufi Psychology perspective of Robert Frager. In the conclusion part, the writer looks at two points of view, i.e. the nafs development in tasawuf and critiques the psychological aspects used by Robert Frager. In the view of Sufism, Robert Frager has been developing the concept of the nafs that al-Ghazali and al-Hifni have formulated. However, in his writings Robert Frager has not touched upon the hierarchy of needs initiated by Abraham Maslow, especially the level of self-actualization. 

scholarly journals Relevansi Teori Hierarki Kebutuhan Abraham Maslow Terhadap Motivasi Kerja Anggota Organisasi Penyuluhan Agama Islam

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-108
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ali Bagas
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Hierarchy Of Needs ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Needs Theory ◽  
Maslow’S Hierarchy Of Needs

This study aims to describe the relevance of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory with the work motivation fellow of Islamic counseling organizations. The research used is; library research that using content analysis as a technique in analyzing related data. The results of this study, namely; Fulfilling the needs of each fellow Islamic counseling organization are one of the causes that can describe the ups and downs of work motivation fellow. The fulfillment needs to be referred to here, namely; needs formulated by Abraham Maslow, the physiological needs, the safety needs, the belongingness and love needs, the esteem needs, and the need for self-actualization.

scholarly journals TRADISI LITERASI DI PERGURUAN TINGGI ISLAM: PANDANGAN DAN MOTIVASI PARA PENULIS JURNAL AL-AHWAL UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Ermi Suhasti Syafei ◽  
Samsul Hadi ◽  
Ihab Habudin
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Islamic Family Law

This article discusses the level of literacy traditions in Indonesia, especially with regard to the publication of comparatively low scientific journal articles. Psychologically, one that affects the level of scientific journal publications relates to the motivation of the authors. This article describes the views and motivations of authors of the Al-Ahwal Journal: Journal of Islamic Family Law, one of the nationally accredited journals (Rank two), published by Islamic Family Law Study Program, Syari'ah Faculty and Law, UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. Sources of research data were 30 respondents as article writers and 2 speakers. The data is analyzed through a psychological perspective, using motivational theories developed by Abraham Maslow and Alderfer. The study revealed that the motivation to write articles in journals is not based on the fulfillment of physiological needs and the need for security as in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, nor is it driven by the existence needs in Alderfer's theory. The writing tradition in Al-Ahwal's journal was motivated more by social needs and self-actualization in Maslow's theory, or based on factors to meet the needs of social relations and self-development as found in Alderfer's theory. [Artikel ini membahas tingkat tradisi literasi di Indonesia, khususnya yang berkaitan dengan publikasi artikel jurnal ilmiah yang relatif rendah. Secara psikologis, yang mempengaruhi tingkat publikasi jurnal ilmiah berkaitan dengan motivasi penulis. Artikel ini menjelaskan pandangan dan motivasi penulis Jurnal Al-Ahwal: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam, salah satu jurnal terakreditasi nasional (Peringkat dua), yang diterbitkan oleh Program Studi Hukum Keluarga Islam, Fakultas Syari'ah dan Hukum, UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. Sumber data penelitian adalah 30 responden sebagai penulis artikel dan 2 pembicara. Data dianalisis melalui perspektif psikologis, menggunakan teori motivasi yang dikembangkan oleh Abraham Maslow dan Alderfer. Studi ini mengungkapkan bahwa motivasi untuk menulis artikel di jurnal tidak didasarkan pada pemenuhan kebutuhan fisiologis dan kebutuhan akan keamanan seperti dalam hierarki kebutuhan Maslow, juga tidak didorong oleh kebutuhan yang ada dalam teori Alderfer. Tradisi penulisan dalam jurnal Al-Ahwal lebih termotivasi oleh kebutuhan sosial dan aktualisasi diri dalam teori Maslow, atau berdasarkan faktor untuk memenuhi kebutuhan hubungan sosial dan pengembangan diri seperti yang ditemukan dalam teori Alderfer.]

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