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...movie then begins switching between two subplots: that of maverick Europol agent Mika (Naomie Harris) and that of ninja prodigy and outcast Raizo (played by Korean pop superstar Rain). While Mika disobeys her boss Maslow (Ben Miles) and follows a money trail leading toward a mythical set of Eastern ninja assassin clans, Raizo struggles through a series of flashbacks about his orphan past. As a child, he had been taken in by the centuries-old Ozunu clan and trained to become a ninja; after witnessing the clan murder his love interest, Raizo broke down, killed scores of his former brethren...
...also cited Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist who wrote about the “Jonah [Yonah] Complex...
...Anyone with a glancing knowledge of the writings of the human-potential movement of the past 40 years will have no trouble finding in Chopra's work influences, both hidden and acknowledged, from beyond India's borders. Abraham Maslow, Teilhard de Chardin, Joseph Campbell, Carlos Castaneda and other counterculture standards blend into the mix with a healthy helping of contemporary psychologists, biologists and physicists. "Our brains are hardwired to know God," Chopra has said, in a characteristic splice of old-fashioned mysticism and modern techno-speak. In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, he explains that "the physical universe...
...pouring into the work force since World War II, and the Pill offered sexual liberation to go with growing social and economic freedom. The baby-boom generation shaped its culture around sex, drugs and defiance of traditional values. The California therapies, chiefly those derived from the ideas of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, supplied much of the rationale for the sexual revolt. Fulfillment and growth came from close attention to the needs of the self. Maslow taught that the self is a hierarchy of inner needs and that culture and tradition push people toward inauthentic selves; living for others...
Chip Conley, the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which operates 40 boutique hotels and other properties, exemplifies San Francisco smarts in Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Conley's company was almost wiped out by the post-9/11 downturn. But the theories of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow provided "mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," says Conley, a Stanford M.B.A. (In miniature: Maslow believed that as their basic needs are met, human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency...