Abraham Maslow
| Abraham Maslow was a psychologist and professor at Brandeis University, Brooklyn University, Columbia University and The New School, who worked for the CIA (Esalen Institute). He was educated at CCNY and University of Wisconsin-Madison (one eye emblem). He was influenced by Kurt Lewin, Henry Murray (Harvard, work with Ted Kaczinsky) and Alfred Adler (colleague of Sigmund Freud), his teacher at Columbia. His 'hierarchy of needs' is one eye pyramid symbolism. He admired Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Henri Bergson. He influenced Abbie Hoffman and Colin Wilson (SPR, book on Crowley). |  |
Brandeis University was also the school of Herbert Marcuse, Martha Kaufman and David Crane, creators of NBC show Friends), Angela Davis, Abbie Hoffman. Hoffman played the role of anti-war counterculture icon in the Youth International Party.
His model of self-actualization was influenced by Albert Einstein, Ruth Benedict and Max Wertheimer.
He worked for the League for Spiritual Discovery in Greenwich Village of CIA agents Timothy Leary and Nina Gabrol, associated with other CIA agents of the Esalen Institute like Abraham Maslow, Alan Watts, jesuit Jean Houston (advisor Hilary Clinton), jesuit Margaret Mead, with a LSD based meditation center in Manhattan.
He worked with Stanislav Grof (Esalen Institute) and Viktor Frankl at the school of transpersonal psychology (drugs to induce prenatal experiences).
In 1963 he became a member of the Association for Humanistic Psychology with Carl Rogers (MK Ultra), James Bugenthal, Gordon Allport, Rollo May, sponsored by Brandeis University.
In 1967 he was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association (gay agenda with LGBTQ Humanist Alliance, Reason Rally with Richard Dawkins, James Randi). Other Humanists of the Year were Margaret Sanger, Julian Huxley, Brock Chisholm, Buckminster Fuller, BF Skinner, Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Betty Friedan, Richard Dawkins, Alice Walker, Jonas Salk, Oliver Stone, Corliss Lamont, Ashley Montagu, Steven Pinker, Gloria Steinem, Lawrence Kraus, Bill Nye, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, Jared Diamond.
In 1969 he was president of the American Psychological Association (APA, John Dewey of Columbia, Gardner Murphy of SPR).
born 4/1/1908.
died 6/8/1970.