Originally described by Abraham Maslow, Peak Experiences are "rare, exciting, oceanic, deeply moving, exhilarating, elevating experiences that generate an advanced form of perceiving reality."
I've long held that peak experiences are those moments when we discover that: what ought to be... is.
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What if we put together a sharable list of these moments to make... A Collection?
When I saw this video clip, I experienced something that felt life affirming. Let me know what you think.
"According to Maslow, often-reported emotions in a peak experience include "wonder, awe, reverence, humility, surrender, and even worship before the greatness of the experience", and reality is perceived with truth, goodness, beauty, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, perfection, completion, justice, simplicity, richness, effortlessness, playfulness, and self-sufficiency." --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_experience#:~:text=In%20original%20peak%20experience%20research%2C%20Maslow%20utilized,creative%20work%2C%20music%2C%20scientific%20knowledge%2C%20and%20introspection.
It was either good luck, gravity, or deep insight that I ended up a career teacher. I mention my 39 years of teaching as an excellent place to study peak experiences, where I'd be in a position to watch as my students walked into epiphanies.
