The 1% are Living in Bliss

Less than 1% of the population ever reaches Self-Actualization according to Abraham Maslow.  This statement is the main reason I feel this topic needs to be investigated.  Why are so few people living their lives to their full potential?  Why are most of us settling for mediocrity, instead realizing our dreams?  These questions require exploring into because all of us look at these Self-Actualizers and are in awe of them.  We want what they have and fail to see that it is within our potential to self actualize at any moment.   However, this requires a “leap of faith” in our self.  This “leap of faith” is accepting The Call of The Hero’s Journey, which leads us to the knowing that within us exist the potential to manifest our wildest dreams.  If we can conceive it, it must be.  Mohandas Gandhi is an example of a self-actualizer.  He conceived an India free from British rule and that was what he manifested with the help of many.  So, why are so many of us living an existence that we find unpleasant?  We all dream.  Why then is it that so few of us ever makes our dreams our reality?  Why do so few of us achieve our full potential?

The purpose of this blog is to understand Self-Actualization as set out by Maslow and the journey one needs to take in order to get to the peak of the pyramid.  The Hero's Journey as described by Joseph Campbell is the journey to Self-Actualization.  However, the Hero's Journey is an Archetypal Journey, making us look inside ourselves and this is where Carl G. Jung will come to play.  I hope that all you reading this will take this Journey Into Bliss with me.