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Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences (Compass)
by Abraham H. Maslow
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1994-04-01)
ISBN: 0140194878
EAN: 9780140194876
Dewey Decimal #: 200.19
Binding/Media: Paperback - 144 pages
SKU: SK-1NFI-EWLJ
Condition: Good
Comments: 1976 edition, with different cover. Text is identical. Softcover from Penguin Books (1976), 12th printing, this is Religions, Values and Peak-Experiences by Abraham H. Maslow. Book has pink highlighting in first two chapters, as if person had dropped the class or gotten tired of the book. The cover has some edge wear and rubbing. The pages are age-tanned. Nice reading copy of Maslow's classic text. « if ( document.getElementById ) { document.writeln('Show less'); }
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Customer Reviews
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Don't give up.
Rating  (4)
Date: 2010-05-09
The last appendix is worth the wait. If you are a novice like me, don't give up reading until you make your way to the end.
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Explains a lot...
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-03-03
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book of Maslow's is way underrated! Though a child of the 60's I just discovered this book a week ago.
The book touches on many important life themes. It explains why so many people can not swallow organized religions, which in turn explains why so many people describe themselves as atheists. At the same time, it explains the commonality of values shared by most people and makes an important case as to why such universal values should be taught in schools. There are also implications about child-rearing practices and how it is done best. The book also shows why the mystics in any religion struggle with the administrators and clerics (and visa versus). The struggles and causes of struggles between men and women are also examined. It is fairly easy reading though it may send you to the dictionary a little.
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A SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-01-01
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Written near the end of his life, Dr. Maslow sought to leave threads for others to pick up and develop. He disturbed those who prefer the logic-tight barriers between science and religion, and boldly suggests that his "most important finding" was his discovery of what he termed "being values," or metavalues. This, his lost discovery, has been virtually ignored by psychologists and religionists. Yet, this insight is pivotal to understanding Dr. Maslow's belief that human nature has been sold short. He discovered metavalues to be active agents that configure the personalities of self-actualizing individuals. He pointed out that Truth, Beauty and Goodness are expressed in the lives of all self-actualizing personalities. Without these metavalues, the qualities of devotion and passion toward a cause or mission can become lethal to humankind. Science without higher values often creates better weapons of distruction and even more efficient gas chambers. Those who observe that much of what Maslow says in this book is colored by religion and philosophy are correct. His intention was to break down the arbitrary barriers between disciplines. Along with "The Psychology of Science" ad his posthumous: "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature" this book is of landmark importance to the 21st century.
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Existential Reaching
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-02-22
1 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Maslow reaches with the "a priori" bias of pluralism. Clearly he struggled with his own being and sought to discover himself in terms of pluralistic existentialism. It is heartbreaking to read this book knowing he was never able to find his answer.
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Maslow and religion
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-06-29
2 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Being a Maslow fan I actually expected more than I feel I got. Maybe because I felt that the religious angle was a little too much. Peak experience is an important phenomenon. And of course Maslow cannot write about it without giving some inspiring insights. But I felt Maslow has had to press his material somewhat to make it fit the religious experiences of a Buddha or Mohammed.
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