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From: rdh@sun.uucp (Robert Hartman)
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Subject: Re: Puppy-dog-ism (Maslow, ideals vs. freedom)
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 02:30:28 EDT
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> 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.