Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!rdh From: rdh@sun.uucp (Robert Hartman) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Puppy-dog-ism (Maslow, ideals vs. freedom) Message-ID: <2409@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 02:30:28 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2409 Posted: Thu Jul 11 02:30:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 10:37:58 EDT References: <2175@ut-sally.UUCP> <372@philabs.UUCP> <1199@peora.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 22 > Maslow in one of his journals writes a truly inspiring essay on this > subject. He concludes that such a person sees his or her SO in "glowing > colors" because he or she sees the person in their full potential, what > they could be if they achieved full humanness. Unfortunately, Maslow in > his journals often wrote in a very unscientific, sometimes plainly vulgar > manner, and thus goes on to discuss (pardon me) the fact that "the godess > shits," ... In *The Fire Within*, Castaneda's latest book, Don Juan introduces Carlos to the "Mold of Man", a being that is the embodiment of all that is admirable in a man. Don Juan, with an unexpected line of reasoning, uses the fact that Carlos percieved this being as a *male* (Why not a woman?) to convice him that freedom is incompatible with *devotion*, and that to bask in the glow of some idealized being is nothing more than a trap. Maslow, of course, advocates achieving full human potential. Apparently, Don Juan has something different in mind. -bob.