Spiritual Needs

Term ‘Spiritual’ comes from ‘spirit’, ‘spiritus’ which means breathe or form of purely-made alcohol. That’s why spirituality could be represented as a something pure and it includes thought, feeling and our character. Spirituality doesn’t refer to some religion, although they are closely inter-related. Consequently, no matter what our religion is, moreover, the most important thing is who we (our spirit) are exactly.

Hierarchy of Needs, written by Abraham Maslow cited that every single person experiencing phase of needs includes:

1. Physiological Needs, e.g. clothing, food, resident, and biological needs.
2. Safety Needs, e.g. job (financial) security, free from pressure or other threatening situation.
3. Social Needs, e.g. friendship, family, interaction and affection.
4. Esteem Needs, e.g. prestige, status, honor and self-worth.
5. Self-actualization Needs, e.g. self fulfillment by maximizing self potential and giving influence to surrounding.

Based on those five needs, self-actualization is ranked at the highest position, and actually, that is our Spiritual needs. It will be fulfilled if and only if the physiological and psychological needs have been achieved.

According to Maslow statement, spiritual experience is a peak experience, the farthest reaches of human nature. Furthermore, he even state that spiritual experience has going beyond humanness, identity, self-actualization, and the like. Remember that actually we are spiritual being, like France philosopher, Teilhard de Chardin said, “we are not human beings having spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having human experiences.”