The Hierarchy of Needs

The One

What is your highest aspiration in life? Is it your need for knowledge and continuous development? Is it to have the best for you and your children, or the best for the entire world? Is it to watch TV? Your needs determine your life closely, while they control everything that you think and do, because everything common, necessary, unique, delightful, or original in life, you do it in order to fulfill your needs. …Yet your needs might not regard you always, as you expect. Study your life through your needs now, to realize that you do not live your life on your own behalf, but you live it on behalf of your cells. …Because your entire activity is meant to tend to your cells in every manner, and nothing else. Your eating activity is an example, since you eat in order to feed your cells, always. It is the same with thirst, security, breathing, recovery, and reproduction, you fulfill these all in order to tend to your cells, and even to keep their genetic material in the world long after you die.

…Yet there is still more to your needs and life to study and understand. You live your life on behalf of your cells, body, and subconscious mind, through your lower level needs, while you live your life on behalf of your family, community, nation, Society, and on behalf of the entire world, through the fulfillment of your needs of higher levels and higher classes. …Because people expect you to fulfill some of their needs too, while they also fulfill some of yours. Study yourself now, to find your lifelong activity filled with a multitude of needs, all being more or less important, harder or easier to fulfill, higher or lower in nature, addressing higher classes of life or lower, and all being fulfilled many times simultaneously.

What we are seeking throughout this book is to understand these needs, to make order in this entirety of needs, to classify them accurately, and to find a hierarchy of needs, to find a hierarchy of fulfillment throughout life, in order to help us understand the good from the bad among all these needs and activities, in order to be able to distinguish the necessary and the priority from the casual and the irrelevant, and in order to find a clear meaning in life and in the world in this manner, for us and for everybody else.

…But how do you know how to prioritize needs, while forming these extraordinary hierarchies of needs? Many times, your intelligences know, and you have learned to trust them, since they are the ones to know exactly what to eat and in what amount, or how much air to breathe in, or when to visit the bathroom, or what partner is a better match for your own genes, etc. While it takes your own expertise with the outside world to create their hierarchy and to fulfill them in this manner, according to their necessity, urgency, opportunity, and possibility. ...And this is your inner interconnective circle, with you, your reasoning, and all your inner intelligences and their needs and feelings within. …And if you manage to keep your inner interconnectivity of an egalitarian, harmonious type, you are even more successful in life, indeed.

This particular study of the hierarchy of your needs does not only span your entire life and behavior on all their distinct levels and classes, but it requires from you to remain permanently aware of your reasoning involved, since the level of your reasoning itself must match precisely each level and perspective of each need and fulfillment modeled and classified. This is why, for a better understanding, I integrate this study within the entire cognitive system, while making further correlations to adjacent systems as the human body, the human mind, Society, Civilization, the natural laws of the universe, Existence, and Life Herself.