Peak Experiences





Feelings of limitless horizons opening up to the vision,
    the feeling of being simultaneously more powerful and also more helpless than one ever was before,
    the feeling of ecstasy and wonder and awe,
    the loss of placement in time and space with, finally,
    the conviction that something extremely important and valuable had happened,
     so that the subject was to some extent transformed and strengthened even in his daily life by such experiences. 
What is a peak experience?
Maslow, the term's inventor, says that  "peak experiences are sudden feelings of intense happiness and well-being, possibly the awareness of an "ultimate truth" and the unity of all things ... the experience fills the individual with wonder and awe....he  feels at one with the world, and is pleased with it ...." They are moments when you feel more at one with yourself and the world, more integrated.  You feel happy, even ecstatic, interconnected and in harmony. Peak experiences are one type of mystical experiences, and perhaps one of the most interesting in that Maslow aims to talk about mystical experiences in non-supernatural terms.




            &nb sp;   Abraham Maslow

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