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7 Common Traits of Self-Transcended People

By Mike Colagrossi — 2019

Maslow’s highest level on the hierarchy of needs.

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Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

A bold reimagining of Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs—and new insights for realizing your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life.

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Scott Barry Kaufman
2024
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Nils von Heijne: Understanding My Transcendent Experience

CRAZYWISE Conversations: Nils von Heijne – Understanding My Transcendent Experience Nils is a Swedish entrepreneur and coach who I met at the Guardian of Life Conference near Stockholm, Sweden.

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2019
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The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher’s Search for Ecstatic Experience

Since the Enlightenment, Western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness.

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Jules Evans
2024
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Jonathan Haidt: Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.

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Jonathan Haidt
2012
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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth about Everything

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time.

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Barbara Ehrenreich
2020
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Alex Grey: My 1st DMT Experience Was Very Memorable

Alex Grey describes his very memorable first experience with the psychedelic DMT, as well as several subsequent experiences, and how they influenced his art. From the documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule.

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2011
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Andrew Harvey at Shantivanam Ashram in Tamil Nadu, South India

In this video, taken at Shantivanam Ashram in Tamil Nadu, South India, Andrew talks about his awakening experiences and tells us the answer to his burning question, "what is awakening for, in this time".

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Andrew Harvey
2018
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Roland Griffiths, Tim Ferriss | The Future and Science of Psychedelics | SXSW 2018 (Audio Enhanced)

Bestselling author Tim Ferriss (Tools of Titans, The 4-Hour Workweek, etc.) probes the science, mysteries, and future of psychedelics with Dr. Roland R. Griffiths, a clinical pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins. Dr.

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Roland Griffiths
2020
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Exploring The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Split Minds and Meta-Realities

In this classic follow-up to his bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Joseph Chilton Pearce explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our self-limiting “cosmic egg” of consensus reality.

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Joseph Chilton Pearce
2024
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The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit

In The Biology of Transcendence Joseph Chilton Pearce examines the current biological understanding of our neural organization to address how we can go beyond the limitations and constraints of our current capacities of body and mind--how we can transcend.

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Joseph Chilton Pearce
2004
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