Reflections on Maslow's Early Writings: Transcendence, Psychedelics, Grof, and the Future

• Published in: The Journal of transpersonal psychology Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 162 - 166
• Main Author: Roberts, Thomas B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Stanford Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 01-07-2023
• Subjects: Alcoholism; Humanistic psychology; Humanities; Psychedelic drugs; Psychotherapy; Religion; Self-actualization; Transpersonal psychology
• ISSN: 0022-524X

[...]I would now add to the peak-experience material a greater consideration, not only of nadir-experiences, the psycholytic therapy of Groff, [sic] confrontation with and reprieves from death, postsurgical visions, etc., but also of the "plateau experience." (pp. 75-76) From The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. 1971. * Self-Actualizing and Beyond, Chapter 3 After I published my investigations, there appeared perhaps six, eight, or ten other lines of evidence that supported the findings, not by replication, but by approaches from different angles. Some of the work with LSD (Mogar, 1967), some of the effects of therapy (good therapy, that is) some test results-in fact, everything I know adds up to corroborative support, though not replicated support, to that study. Professor Emeritus in the Honors Program and in Educational Psychology at Northern Illinois University, his books can be found at https://www.amazon.com/-/ e/B00MD4IUXA NOTES 1 In addition, subsequent to those early efforts, a rudimentary draft with a list of Maslow quotes, but without narrative or references, had been posted on academia.edu (a member repository site for drafts and other unpublished material), and was taken up by Research Gate as well (a site for researchers to share their work).