: About Me

I grew up in North Miami Beach, Florida, and the sun and the sea were a big part of my life. I was the oldest of four children, three boys and a girl.

I loved everything sports related. I began competitive swimming and diving at five, but my first love was always baseball. Later on in my early twenties, before joining the real world, I was a Worlds Professional High Diver.

I eventually did join the real world, at age 27 learned how to tie a tie, and spent 27 years working for AT&T and various Baby Bells mostly in management positions related to sales and marketing. I retired in 2006 to begin a consulting business that started off fine, but crashed with the economy. I am now seeking my second career.

I am an avid reader but never an artist. The authors that most influenced me were Harper Lee, Hermann Hesse, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac. Jimi Hendrix was a poet/musician/guitar player,who had a huge influence on my thinking.

Around the age 18, I began to sense that religion and spirituality were two very different things. I have a history of Hatha Yoga and meditation. I have read volumes on this subject and to name just a few favorites: "Autobiography of a Yogi", "Tibetan Book of the Dead" "I Am That" and the first three volumes from Carlos Castaneda. Currently, I am a Kabbalah student of Dr. Michael Laitman.

I currently live in Edmond, Oklahoma with my beautiful and patient wife, Nancy, and our little Corgi named Zoe.

Sciences > Psychology Introduction to Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs

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World Crisis and Man's Hierarchy of Needs Many of us are familiar with Abraham Maslow's work on the hierarchy of human needs. This was not so much an original postulate, but more of an attempt to synthesize a large body of work related to human motivation. Prior to Maslow, most explanations for what drives human behavior focused on singular behaviors such as biological, success or power. Maslow created a hierarchy of needs divided into two groups, (deficiency needs and growth needs), with eight levels. These levels might be visualized as a pyramid with the bottom being one and the pinnacle...

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