Explore: Self Actualization

Self-actualization, in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, is the highest personal aspirational human need in the hierarchy. It represents where one's potential

needs (the most prepotent of all) and culminates at the top with self-actualization needs. In his later writings, Maslow added a sixth level of "meta-needs"

predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Brandeis University, Brooklyn

self-actualizing individuals. That is, for the time they become self-actualizers. [...] This makes it possible for us to redefine self-actualization [.

What one wishes one were really like (ideal self) Abraham Maslow applied his concept of self-actualization in his hierarchy of needs theory. In this theory

his time. In the parlance of modern behavioral sciences, the term self-actualization is defined as a fundamental tendency to maximum realization and fulfilment

possibilities of one's character or personality" (see also self-actualization). In Jainism, self realization is called Samyak darshan (meaning right perception)

between the motives of those who operate at or below the level of self-actualization (ones still striving for their basic needs, or ones who have met their

Ecstatic Imagination: Psychedelic Experiences and the Psychoanalysis of Self-Actualization, SUNY Press Merkur, Daniel (2007), Crucified with Christ: Meditations

and self-actualization (highest level). According to Maslow, a human is motivated by the level they have not yet reached, and self-actualization cannot