Author: Edward Hoffman


The Lamed-Vov (Thirty-Six Hidden Saints)

Tiflis_types3B_A_street_shoe-cobler_28A29

Photo by George Keenan. The fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology today are enlarged by the wisdom of the world’s great spiritual traditions. In this light, one of the oldest and most profound Jewish legends is that of the 36 hidden just persons, known in Yiddish as the Lamed-vovniks (lamed-vov means “thirty-six” in Hebrew). Tradition… Read more »

Abraham Maslow: A Brief Retrospective

Maslow27s_hierarchy_of_needs

Do you enjoy challenges in everyday life? Does your work give you a sense of personal meaning? Is helping to make the world a better place important to you? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then you’re likely to be intrinsically motivated—standing near the top of Abraham Maslow’s famous pyramid of inborn… Read more »