In: Psychology
Using Maslow’s definition of a peak experience, select an experience from your own life that most closely corresponds. Discuss the event itself, and the way in which it does and does not meet Maslow’s description. (Do not disclose any activities that involve illegal actions by you or any identifiable person.)
Once we, four friends went for a picnic to a distant forest. The
forest was so dense that the chances were more for getting lost in
the wilderness but thanks to the GPS coordinates in the phone. We
were enjoying our moment in the forest and we started climbing on a
small mountain that led to a cave. Earlier, we heard that hermits
are living there for a long time inside the caves but we didn’t
believe it. We went up to the mountain and everyone was afraid to
go into the cave. I decided that I should get into it and prove
that there are no hermits. I turned my torch light on and started
walking into the cave. It was bid at the entrance but narrow
inside.
I kept pointing my torch on both the sides and at the back
occasionally. After walking for nearly 3 minutes inside the cave, I
started to notice rock paintings and drawings. My instinct told me
to get back but my reason held me back. I inched forwards and after
3 more minutes of walking the cave started expanding and I noticed
that someone was hanging on the roof of the rock. First I thought
it was an illusion but the figure slowly started to move its body
and jumped in front of me. I froze for a second and stood still. I
saw a man in his early 30s standing in front of me wearing only his
loin cloth. I pinched myself to make sure that I was still alive
and it was not a dream. The man didn’t speak anything but he kept
his hand on my head as if he was blessing me and asked me to go
back to where I came from.
That day is still my peak experience and when I narrated this to my
friends, they didn’t believe me instead, they told that I’m in a
shock. But for me the experience is still fresh and God I
experienced God.