Our Beliefs, Vision, and Values
Our Vision
We see a world filled with healthy, happy, empowered and fulfilled human beings, a Eupsychia as psychologist Abraham Maslow called it,[1]“Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): 1. working together to improve lives, transform environments, and save the planet.
What We Do
From the SpiritWiki
The SpiritWiki
Building new paradigms is difficult, changing the world even more so. In order to have even a hope, we need to facilitate rapid paradigmatic evolution. The Lightning Path does this, in part, with the SpiritWiki.
The SpiritWiki is the canonical repository of all things Lightning Path. It contains definitions, semantic linkages, and scholarly citations all designed to help build a solid foundation for education and transformation.
Connection
Spirituality is a funny concept, and there is a lot of misconception about what being spiritual actually means. Is it submission to a higher power? Is it about experiences in nature?
On the LP we adopt the perspective of Abraham Maslow and William James,[2]James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1903. https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up and others and define spirituality as rooted in mystical experiences of unity, oneness, and Connection. A primary goal of the LP is to facilitate healing and reconnection.
Eupsychia
What does a healthy society look like? What do we even call such a society? Humanistic Psychologist Abraham Maslow had some important ideas about that.
Eupsychia is Abraham Maslow‘s term for a “psychologically healthy culture–rather than just another materially based Utopia.[3] Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 2 As we noted in our theoretical section, Eupsychia is a society in which all our Seven Essential Needs
Footnotes
↟1 | “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): 1. |
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↟2 | James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1903. https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up |
↟3 | Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 2 |