Editing Maslow's hierarchy of needs (section)

=== Transcendence needs ===
{{Main|Transcendence (philosophy)|Transcendence (religion)|Self-transcendence}}

Maslow later subdivided the triangle's top to include self-transcendence, also known as spiritual needs. Spiritual needs differ from other types of needs in that they can be met on multiple levels. When this need is met, it produces feelings of integrity and raises things to a higher plane of existence.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 14, 2007 |first =Sandeep|  last = Gautum |format = Blog |title=Maslow's eight basic needs and the eight stage developmental model |url=https://the-mouse-trap.com/2007/12/14/maslows-eight-basic-needs-and-the-eight-stage-devlopmental-model/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801051503/https://the-mouse-trap.com/2007/12/14/maslows-eight-basic-needs-and-the-eight-stage-devlopmental-model/ |archive-date=August 1, 2021 |access-date=August 1, 2021 |website=The Mouse Trap}}</ref>  In his later years, Maslow explored a further dimension of motivation, while criticizing his original vision of self-actualization.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Maslow |first=Abraham H. |title=Future visions: The unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow |publisher=Sage |year=1996 |isbn=978-0761900511 |editor-last=Hoffman |editor-first=Edward |location=Thousand Oaks, CA |pages=26–32 |chapter=Critique of self-actualization theory}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Maslow |first=Abraham H. |year=1969 |title=The farther reaches of human nature |journal=Journal of Transpersonal Psychology |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–9}}</ref>{{sfn|Maslow|1971}}{{sfn|Koltko-Rivera|2006}} Maslow tells us that by transcending you have a set of roots in your current culture but you are able to look over it as well and see other viewpoints and ideas.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Maslow |first=Abraham |date=1969 |title=Various Meanings of Transcendence |url=https://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-01-69-01-056.pdf |journal=Journal of Transpersonal Psychology |pages=56–66}}</ref> By these later ideas, one finds the fullest realization in giving oneself to something beyond oneself—for example, in altruism or spirituality. He equated this with the desire to reach the infinite.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Garcia-Romeu |first=Albert |year=2010 |title=Self-transcendence as a measurable transpersonal construct |url=http://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-42-10-01-026.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Journal of Transpersonal Psychology |volume=421 |pages=26–47 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214135428/http://www.atpweb.org/jtparchive/trps-42-10-01-026.pdf |archive-date=February 14, 2021 |access-date=May 25, 2020}}</ref> "Transcendence refers to the very highest and most inclusive or holistic levels of human consciousness, behaving and relating, as ends rather than means, to oneself, to significant others, to human beings in general, to other species, to nature, and to the [[cosmos]]."{{sfn|Maslow|1971|p=269}}