Fully Human / Fully Alive is written to help the 70 percent of all Americans living today who are stuck on Maslow’s social level of living. Without their realizing it, they cannot find their path that would allow them to rise above the social level of living of Dr. Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This book will help them build their own bridges over their own barriers. The barriers that are precluding living a full life exist because they block us from even seeing any conflicting information, so we do not know they even exist. There are unknown barriers in each of us. This book will show you paths around your barriers without conflicting with your current beliefs. You can build a bridge over your own barriers without giving up any belief. It just no longer controls you. Those who read this book with an open mind can find their own path to become among the 1 percent who are able to reach the three levels of Maslow’s hierarchy that exist above the social level in order for them to become fully alive.

Lyle Simpson is a former chair of the Humanist Foundation and the former president of the American Humanist Association. He is a retired attorney at law, specializing in business development and estate planning at Simpson, Jensen, Abels, Fischer, and Bouslog, P.C.

He was born in Des Moines, Iowa, graduated from East High School, and received his B.A. in psychology and philosophy from Drake University. He served as Assistant to the Dean of Students at Drake for two years, and he graduated with an L.L.B. and J.D. from Drake University Law School.

My Goal in life is to want nothing and need little, and to be able to fully appreciate the environment in which I find myself at that moment. Then I will know that I am Fully Human, having actualized my own life, and when I leave this world a better place because I have been here, I will realize that I am finally Fully Alive. If I have lived as much of my life as I am able above the level of actualization my life will have been meaningful to me. And if I have made the world a better place through my endeavors, my life will have been significant for others  .~Lyle Simpson