REL-1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Abraham Maslow, Thematic Relation, Evelyn Underhill
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Chapter 6: inner adventure: the way of realization, the way of faith. Ways to go: religion is almost always defined as going somewhere. Its great adventure is a journey of which earthly pilgrimages are but symbols. The religious adventure, then, can be seen as a journey, like life itself: paul ricoeur described 3 stages of religious growth. Then a time comes when on the basis of further education and life experience, or just an innate restlessness of spirit, the disciple beings to submit these beliefs to intellectual examination. They may not hold up, and if so, they may be abandoned, as least i(cid:374)(cid:449)ardl(cid:455). In the b-state, people are content in the here and now; nothing required beyond it. One loses all sense of time, as one is not waiting for anything more to come later. Maslow also described what an ego-bound person would have which he coined as the d (deprivation) state.
