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	As scientists, scholars, and just regular people, we don't really have any idea of what true human potential is. In fact, he things that for the most part we have sold ourselves short. <blockquote>On the whole I think it fair to say that human history is a record of the ways in which human nature has been sold short. The highest possibilities of human nature have practically always been underrated. Even when "good specimens." the saints and sages and great leaders of history. have been available for study. the temptation too often has been to consider them not human but supernaturally endowed.<ref>A. H. Maslow, ''The Farther Reaches of Human Nature'' (Viking, 1971). p. 7.</ref> </blockquote>		As scientists, scholars, and just regular people, we don't really have any idea of what true human potential is. In fact, he things that for the most part we have sold ourselves short. <blockquote>On the whole I think it fair to say that human history is a record of the ways in which human nature has been sold short. The highest possibilities of human nature have practically always been underrated. Even when "good specimens." the saints and sages and great leaders of history. have been available for study. the temptation too often has been to consider them not human but supernaturally endowed.<ref>A. H. Maslow, ''The Farther Reaches of Human Nature'' (Viking, 1971). p. 7.</ref> </blockquote>

	Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>However, what this potential might be (the question "What would a fully realized human look like") is hard to theorize because, as Maslow pointed out, ~~that~~ in states of chronic needs deprivation, we get a "lopsided view" of human motivation (and human potential). <blockquote>Obviously a good way to obscure the 'higher' motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man's goals and desires by his behavior during extreme physiological deprivation is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone- when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?<ref>Maslow, A. H. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” ''Psychological Review'' 50, no. 4 (1943): 370–96. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.179622. p. 375.</ref></blockquote>The human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible. In fact, it may be easily argued that our capitalist and consumer focused societies completely fail to meet most of the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of an individual providing us with a sad caricature of what human potential might be. In current conditions, even the peak specimen, the [[Aggridant]] as Maslow took to calling them, are not accurate representation of full human potential.		Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>However, what this potential might be (the question "What would a fully realized human look like") is hard to theorize because, as Maslow pointed out, in states of chronic needs deprivation, we get a "lopsided view" of human motivation (and human potential). <blockquote>Obviously a good way to obscure the 'higher' motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man's goals and desires by his behavior during extreme physiological deprivation is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone- when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?<ref>Maslow, A. H. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” ''Psychological Review'' 50, no. 4 (1943): 370–96. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.179622. p. 375.</ref></blockquote>The human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible. In fact, it may be easily argued that our capitalist and consumer focused societies completely fail to meet most of the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of an individual providing us with a sad caricature of what human potential might be. In current conditions, even the peak specimen, the [[Aggridant]] as Maslow took to calling them, are not accurate representation of full human potential.

	~~Maslow suggested that if we wanted to actuate full human potential, we'd need to great~~ "~~good conditions~~" ~~and a~~ [[~~Good Society~~]]. "It is now quite clear that the actualization of the highest human potentials is possible--on a mass basis--only under 'good conditions.' Or more directly, good human beings will generally need a good society in which to grow."<ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” ''American Psychologist'' 24, no. 8 (1969)~~: 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 726.</ref>~~		What is considered "normal" in these societies is in fact pathological (see [[Normalcy]])

	Maslow suggested that the best way top determine what our human potential might be was to look at the "growing-tip," the forward phalanx of human beings, those who were self-actualizing. He speculated you might find these people where "better cognizers and perceivers." <ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 725.</ref>		'''Maslow suggested that if we wanted to actuate full human potential,''' we'd need to great "good conditions" and a [[Good Society]]. "It is now quite clear that the actualization of the highest human potentials is possible--on a mass basis--only under 'good conditions.' Or more directly, good human beings will generally need a good society in which to grow."<ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” ''American Psychologist'' 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 726.</ref>

			Creating a Good Society was one of the [[Big Problem\|Big Problems]] identified by Maslow that humanity had to solve it wasn't going to end up an evolutionary dead end.<ref>Sosteric, Mike. “Humanity’s Big Problem.” ''The Peace Table'', 2026. <nowiki>https://medium.com/the-peace-table</nowiki>.</ref>

			Maslow suggested that the best way top determine what our human potential might be was to look at the "growing-tip," the forward phalanx of human beings, those who were self-actualizing. He speculated you might find these people where "better cognizers and perceivers." <ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 725.</ref>

			Maslow noted that humans all have an "impulse towards full development of humanness" but that this is blocked.<ref>A. H. Maslow, ''The Farther Reaches of Human Nature'' (Viking, 1971). p. 25.</ref>

	=== LP Eupsychian Theorization ===		=== LP Eupsychian Theorization ===

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Michael at 17:31, 16 February 2026

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	As scientists, scholars, and just regular people, we don't really have any idea of what true human potential is.		As scientists, scholars, and just regular people, we don't really have any idea of what true human potential is. In fact, he things that for the most part we have sold ourselves short. <blockquote>On the whole I think it fair to say that human history is a record of the ways in which human nature has been sold short. The highest possibilities of human nature have practically always been underrated. Even when "good specimens." the saints and sages and great leaders of history. have been available for study. the temptation too often has been to consider them not human but supernaturally endowed.<ref>A. H. Maslow, ''The Farther Reaches of Human Nature'' (Viking, 1971). p. 7.</ref> </blockquote>

	Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>However, what this potential might be (the question "What would a fully realized human look like") is hard to theorize because, as Maslow pointed out, that in states of chronic needs deprivation, we get a "lopsided view" of human motivation (and human potential). <blockquote>Obviously a good way to obscure the 'higher' motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man's goals and desires by his behavior during extreme physiological deprivation is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone- when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?<ref>Maslow, A. H. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” ''Psychological Review'' 50, no. 4 (1943): 370–96. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.179622. p. 375.</ref></blockquote>The human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible. In fact, it may be easily argued that our capitalist and consumer focused societies completely fail to meet most of the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of an individual providing us with a sad caricature of what human potential might be. In current conditions, even the peak specimen, the [[Aggridant]] as Maslow took to calling them, are not accurate representation of full human potential.		Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>However, what this potential might be (the question "What would a fully realized human look like") is hard to theorize because, as Maslow pointed out, that in states of chronic needs deprivation, we get a "lopsided view" of human motivation (and human potential). <blockquote>Obviously a good way to obscure the 'higher' motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man's goals and desires by his behavior during extreme physiological deprivation is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone- when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?<ref>Maslow, A. H. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” ''Psychological Review'' 50, no. 4 (1943): 370–96. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.179622. p. 375.</ref></blockquote>The human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible. In fact, it may be easily argued that our capitalist and consumer focused societies completely fail to meet most of the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of an individual providing us with a sad caricature of what human potential might be. In current conditions, even the peak specimen, the [[Aggridant]] as Maslow took to calling them, are not accurate representation of full human potential.

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	As scientists, scholars, and just regular people, we don't really have any idea of what true human potential is.		As scientists, scholars, and just regular people, we don't really have any idea of what true human potential is.

	Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>However, what this potential might be (the question "What would a fully realized human look like") is hard to theorize because, as Maslow pointed out, that in states of chronic needs deprivation, we get a "lopsided view" of human motivation (and human potential). <blockquote>Obviously a good way to obscure the 'higher' motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man's goals and desires by his behavior during extreme physiological deprivation is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone- when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?<ref>Maslow, A. H. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” ''Psychological Review'' 50, no. 4 (1943): 370–96. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.179622. p. 375.</ref></blockquote>The human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible. In fact, it may be easily argued that our ~~current~~ consumer focused societies completely fail to meet most of the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of an individual providing us with a sad caricature of what human potential might be. In current conditions, even the peak specimen, the [[Aggridant]] as Maslow took to calling them, are not accurate representation of full human potential.		Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>However, what this potential might be (the question "What would a fully realized human look like") is hard to theorize because, as Maslow pointed out, that in states of chronic needs deprivation, we get a "lopsided view" of human motivation (and human potential). <blockquote>Obviously a good way to obscure the 'higher' motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man's goals and desires by his behavior during extreme physiological deprivation is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone- when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?<ref>Maslow, A. H. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” ''Psychological Review'' 50, no. 4 (1943): 370–96. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.179622. p. 375.</ref></blockquote>The human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible. In fact, it may be easily argued that our capitalist and consumer focused societies completely fail to meet most of the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of an individual providing us with a sad caricature of what human potential might be. In current conditions, even the peak specimen, the [[Aggridant]] as Maslow took to calling them, are not accurate representation of full human potential.

			Maslow suggested that if we wanted to actuate full human potential, we'd need to great "good conditions" and a [[Good Society]]. "It is now quite clear that the actualization of the highest human potentials is possible--on a mass basis--only under 'good conditions.' Or more directly, good human beings will generally need a good society in which to grow."<ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” ''American Psychologist'' 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 726.</ref>

	Maslow suggested that the best way top determine what our human potential might be was to look at the "growing-tip," the forward phalanx of human beings, those who were self-actualizing. He speculated you might find these people where "better cognizers and perceivers" <ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 725.</ref>		Maslow suggested that the best way top determine what our human potential might be was to look at the "growing-tip," the forward phalanx of human beings, those who were self-actualizing. He speculated you might find these people where "better cognizers and perceivers" <ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 725.</ref>

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	Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>What this potential might be (the question "What would a fully realized human look like") is hard to theorize. Maslow pointed out that in states of chronic needs deprivation, we ~~get a "lopsided view" of human motivation (and human potential). <blockquote>Obviously a good way to obscure the~~ '~~higher' motivations, and to get a lopsided view~~ of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man's goals and desires by his behavior during extreme physiological deprivation is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone- when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?<ref>Maslow, A. H. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” ''Psychological Review'' 50, no. 4 (1943): 370–96. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.179622. p. 375.</ref></blockquote>The human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible. In fact, it may be easily argued that our current consumer focused societies completely fail to meet most of the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of an individual providing us with a sad caricature of what human potential might be. In current conditions, even the peak specimen, the [[Aggridant]] as Maslow took to calling them, are not accurate representation of full human potential.		As scientists, scholars, and just regular people, we don't really have any idea of what true human potential is.

			Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>However, what this potential might be (the question "What would a fully realized human look like") is hard to theorize because, as Maslow pointed out, that in states of chronic needs deprivation, we get a "lopsided view" of human motivation (and human potential). <blockquote>Obviously a good way to obscure the 'higher' motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man's goals and desires by his behavior during extreme physiological deprivation is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone- when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?<ref>Maslow, A. H. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” ''Psychological Review'' 50, no. 4 (1943): 370–96. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.179622. p. 375.</ref></blockquote>The human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible. In fact, it may be easily argued that our current consumer focused societies completely fail to meet most of the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of an individual providing us with a sad caricature of what human potential might be. In current conditions, even the peak specimen, the [[Aggridant]] as Maslow took to calling them, are not accurate representation of full human potential.

			Maslow suggested that the best way top determine what our human potential might be was to look at the "growing-tip," the forward phalanx of human beings, those who were self-actualizing. He speculated you might find these people where "better cognizers and perceivers" <ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 725.</ref>

			=== LP Theorization ===
	That said, we may theorize that.		That said, we may theorize that.

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	Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>~~Human~~ potential ~~may~~ be ~~broken~~ into [[~~Individual Potential~~]] and [[~~Species Potential~~]].		Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>What this potential might be (the question "What would a fully realized human look like") is hard to theorize. Maslow pointed out that in states of chronic needs deprivation, we get a "lopsided view" of human motivation (and human potential). <blockquote>Obviously a good way to obscure the 'higher' motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man's goals and desires by his behavior during extreme physiological deprivation is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone- when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?<ref>Maslow, A. H. “A Theory of Human Motivation.” ''Psychological Review'' 50, no. 4 (1943): 370–96. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.179622. p. 375.</ref></blockquote>The human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible. In fact, it may be easily argued that our current consumer focused societies completely fail to meet most of the [[Seven Essential Needs]] of an individual providing us with a sad caricature of what human potential might be. In current conditions, even the peak specimen, the [[Aggridant]] as Maslow took to calling them, are not accurate representation of full human potential.

	~~Human potential consists of [[Actual Realization]]~~, ~~which is what an individual and a society is able to achieve, and [[Potential Realization]], what is possible~~.		That said, we may theorize that.

	According to the [[Lightning Path Human Development Framework]], actuation of full potential requires [[Sufficient Satisfaction]] of the [[Seven Essential Needs]], from birth through old age.<ref>Mike Sosteric and Gina Ratkovic, “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” ''Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work,'' 2022, doi:https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol34iss1id887.</ref>		* Human potential may be broken into [[Individual Potential]] and [[Species Potential]].
			* Human potential consists of [[Actual Realization]], which is what an individual and a society is able to achieve, and [[Potential Realization]], what is possible.
			* The goal of societal development is to create conditions for the [[Full Realization]] of human potential.
			* According to the [[Lightning Path Human Development Framework]], actuation of full potential requires [[Sufficient Satisfaction]] of the [[Seven Essential Needs]], from birth through old age.<ref>Mike Sosteric and Gina Ratkovic, “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” ''Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work,'' 2022, doi:https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol34iss1id887.</ref>
			* Failure to meet essential needs undermines potential, stunts development, and leads to the [[5Ds of Toxic Existence]]
			* Current socialization systems are toxic (see [[Toxic Socialization]] and intentionally designed to thwart needs satisfaction and full realization of human potential.

	~~Failure to meet essential needs undermines potential, stunts development, and causes damage.~~		Abraham Maslow provided some speculations.<ref>Maslow, A. H. “The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 1, no. 1 (1969): 1–9.</ref>

	~~Active suppression of needs within a [[Toxic Socialization]] process leads to the [[5Ds of Toxic Existence]]~~

	There is, of course, the important question of "What is full human potential?" That's hard to tell because the human species has never enjoyed an optimal environment. We've never had a society that has the capacity to meet all [[Seven Essential Needs]] and we've never had a society that prioritizes their satisfaction. Until we do, we can only speculate what's possible.

	Abraham Maslow provided some speculations.<ref>Maslow, A. H. “The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 1, no. 1 (1969): 1–9.</ref>

	Nasa scientists Dr. George Land has some thoughts.<ref>Engels, Coert. “We Are Born Creative Geniuses and the Education System Dumbs Us down, According to NASA Scientists - ''Ideapod''.” Ideapod (blog), December 16, 2017. https://ideapod.com/born-creative-geniuses-education-system-dumbs-us-according-nasa-scientists/</ref>. View his brief talk below where he suggests that all children are born creative geniuses but that something (i.e., [[The System]]) dumbs them down.		Nasa scientists Dr. George Land has some thoughts.<ref>Engels, Coert. “We Are Born Creative Geniuses and the Education System Dumbs Us down, According to NASA Scientists - ''Ideapod''.” Ideapod (blog), December 16, 2017. https://ideapod.com/born-creative-geniuses-education-system-dumbs-us-according-nasa-scientists/</ref>. View his brief talk below where he suggests that all children are born creative geniuses but that something (i.e., [[The System]]) dumbs them down.

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			Maslow had some intimations about human potential. He believed humans were capable of far more than currently instantiated. <blockquote>...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on. If we can accept this notion, then the key question isn’t “What fosters creativity? How was a Beethoven created?” But it is “Why in God s name isn’t everyone a Beethoven?” That is what has to be explained now. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it was a miracle if anybody created anything. <ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref></blockquote>Human potential may be broken into [[Individual Potential]] and [[Species Potential]].

	Maslow had some intimations about human potential.

	"...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on."<ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref>

	Human potential may be broken into [[Individual Potential]] and [[Species Potential]].

	Human potential consists of [[Actual Realization]], which is what an individual and a society is able to achieve, and [[Potential Realization]], what is possible.		Human potential consists of [[Actual Realization]], which is what an individual and a society is able to achieve, and [[Potential Realization]], what is possible.
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			Maslow had some intimations about human potential.

			"...we have to start seeing ourselves in a different light. This is what I mean by saying, “For centuries, human nature has been sold short.” For my theory is implying that in a certain sense, every newborn baby is a potential Plato. Every child has an instinctive need for the highest values of beauty, truth, justice, and so on."<ref>Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In ''Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow'', edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 95.</ref>

	Human potential may be broken into [[Individual Potential]] and [[Species Potential]].		Human potential may be broken into [[Individual Potential]] and [[Species Potential]].

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	<blockquote class="definition">The phrase '''Human Potential''' refers to the innate capacities, abilities, and possibilities that reside within each person.<ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” ''Journal of Peace Research'' 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91.</ref> It encompasses the totality of an individual's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual capabilities which can be developed and maximized over a lifetime given ~~full satisfaction~~ of one's [[Seven Essential Needs]]. </blockquote>		<blockquote class="definition">The phrase '''Human Potential''' refers to the innate capacities, abilities, and possibilities that reside within each person<ref>Galtung, Johan. “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.” ''Journal of Peace Research'' 6, no. 3 (January 1, 1969): 167–91.</ref> and within each society. It encompasses the totality of an individual's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual capabilities which can be developed and maximized over a lifetime given [[Sufficient Satisfaction]] of one's [[Seven Essential Needs]]. </blockquote>

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	Maslow suggested that if we wanted to actuate full human potential, we'd need to great "good conditions" and a [[Good Society]]. "It is now quite clear that the actualization of the highest human potentials is possible--on a mass basis--only under 'good conditions.' Or more directly, good human beings will generally need a good society in which to grow."<ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” ''American Psychologist'' 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 726.</ref>		Maslow suggested that if we wanted to actuate full human potential, we'd need to great "good conditions" and a [[Good Society]]. "It is now quite clear that the actualization of the highest human potentials is possible--on a mass basis--only under 'good conditions.' Or more directly, good human beings will generally need a good society in which to grow."<ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” ''American Psychologist'' 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 726.</ref>

	Maslow suggested that the best way top determine what our human potential might be was to look at the "growing-tip," the forward phalanx of human beings, those who were self-actualizing. He speculated you might find these people where "better cognizers and perceivers" <ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 725.</ref>		Maslow suggested that the best way top determine what our human potential might be was to look at the "growing-tip," the forward phalanx of human beings, those who were self-actualizing. He speculated you might find these people where "better cognizers and perceivers." <ref>Maslow, A. H. “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” American Psychologist 24, no. 8 (1969): 724–35. doi:10.1037/h0027859. p. 725.</ref>

	=== LP Theorization ===		=== LP Eupsychian Theorization ===
	That said, we may theorize that.		That said, we may theorize that.

	* Human potential may be broken into [[Individual Potential]] and [[Species Potential]].		# Human potential may be broken into [[Individual Potential]] and [[Species Potential]].
	* Human potential consists of [[Actual Realization]], which is what an individual and a society is able to achieve, and [[Potential Realization]], what is possible.		# Human potential consists of [[Actual Realization]], which is what an individual and a society is able to achieve, and [[Potential Realization]], what is possible.
	* The goal of societal development is to create conditions for the [[Full Realization]] of human potential.		# The goal of societal development is a eupsychian goal which is to create conditions for the [[Full Realization]] of human potential.
	* According to the [[Lightning Path Human Development Framework]], actuation of full potential requires [[Sufficient Satisfaction]] of the [[Seven Essential Needs]], from birth through old age.<ref>Mike Sosteric and Gina Ratkovic, “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” ''Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work,'' 2022, doi:https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol34iss1id887.</ref>		# According to the [[Lightning Path Human Development Framework]], actuation of full potential requires [[Sufficient Satisfaction]] of the [[Seven Essential Needs]], from birth through old age.<ref>Mike Sosteric and Gina Ratkovic, “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” ''Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work,'' 2022, doi:https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol34iss1id887.</ref>
	* Failure to meet essential needs undermines potential, stunts development, and leads to the [[5Ds of Toxic Existence]]		# Failure to meet essential needs undermines potential, stunts development, and leads to the [[5Ds of Toxic Existence]]
	* Current socialization systems are toxic (see [[Toxic Socialization]] and intentionally designed to thwart needs satisfaction and full realization of human potential.		# Current socialization systems are toxic (see [[Toxic Socialization]] and intentionally designed to thwart needs satisfaction and full realization of human potential.

	Abraham Maslow provided some speculations.<ref>Maslow, A. H. “The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 1, no. 1 (1969): 1–9.</ref>		Abraham Maslow provided some speculations.<ref>Maslow, A. H. “The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 1, no. 1 (1969): 1–9.</ref>