Transcendence Needs

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Transcendence Needs are needs aimed at reconnection with The Fabric of Consciousness, or fuller expression of the Resident Monadic Self. People motivated by transcendence working towards reconnection. Abraham Maslow called these needs metaneeds. Noted people motivated by

-devoted to some task, call, vocation. include outside work could also include family work though maslow clealry has some trouble here. -inner requiredness" what they want to do, they must do. I want to be a sociologist, love it, also must be it. if anything else not satisfied. inexorable, preordained, destiny all words Maslow used -identify with their work. make it defining characteristics --ambivalent. fortunte to have found purpose, sad that others not so fortunate -no distinction between work and play. work is his play (p. 97

References

Maslow, A. H. (1967). A theory of metamotivatipn: the biological rooting of the value-life. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 7, 93-127.


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Motivation

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