Religions Values and Peak-Experiences

One of the foremost spokesmen for the Third Force movement in psychology, Abraham H.

Maslow, here articulates one of his prominent theses: the religious experience is a rightful subject for scientific investigation and speculation and, conversely, the scientific community will see its work enhanced by acknowledging and studying enhanced by the species-wide need for spiritual expression which, in so many, forms, is at the heart of peak-experiences reached by healthy, fully functioning people.