034: How To Combat Meaninglessness Through Peak Experiences

Lessons from “Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences” by Abraham Maslow. Maslow is the American psychologist who developed Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and proposed a theory of psychological well-being based on satisfying fundamental human needs in a specific order, ultimately leading to self-actualization. The article referenced in the episode: 'Beyond Modern Nihilism: The Revival of Symbollism and Beauty in Art' - ⁠https://ijmakan.substack.com/p/beyond... - Ways to Support: Patreon: ⁠⁠  / becomingantifragile⁠⁠   Substack: ⁠⁠https://ijmakan.substack.com/subscrib... Website: ⁠⁠https://becomingantifragile.com/suppo... - Buy the book: CA - ⁠https://amzn.to/3RC2NA2⁠ USA - ⁠https://amzn.to/4czjDrx⁠ - Shownotes: 00:00 - Excerpt from “Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences” by Abraham Maslow 05:50 - Why Maslow thinks we should study peak-experiences 08:10 - What is Peak-experiences? Why Logical Positivism is wrong 14:25 - Mystical experience == peak experiences, the state of B-Cognition 20:50 - Finding meaning, curing nihilism 22:17 - The importance of artists and Humanist scholars for inspiring people to do great things 25:40 - If you’re too materialistic or over religious persons, you can’t have peak-experiences 33:19 - The greatest threat is our valuelessness nihilistic society 35:08 - If there is no beauty, what is there to admire? This creates a bleak society 38:00 - To cross the barrier of science and religion we need good education. Good education addresses the questions of life, meaning, goodness, beauty, ethics, and peak-experiences 44:25 - Aspects of peak-experiences, and attaining new knowledge through it 50:40 - Challenge 52:12 - Announcement