[broscillator]

I think if you view the pyramid as blocks you're being a bit simplistic.

All aspects of the pyramid are present at all levels, what the pyramid represents is what you have to free yourself of in order to truly and wholly endeavor in each stage.

You can act with self-transcendence even if you're starving, but you can't direct as much thought, time and energy towards it unless you cover the underlying needs.

[anonymouskimmer]

I see what you're saying and understand.

This is all well and good, by my psychological need for esteem, and to a lesser extent love/belonging, is so much less that I ignore its pull to large extents (and have even been viscerally repulsed by praise through portions of my life). Maybe that's why I've not been all that facile at Captaining my own destiny in this world.

I think the pyramid is a bad shape.