How accurate is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

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Looking at that pyramid, it’s hard to map out the stages of spiral dynamics with each segment of that pyramid. For example, the need for friendship, family and sexual intimacy sounds like a green need, but the need for self esteem and respect, which is on top, sounds more like an orange need. Plus, I don’t see where religion fits in the model. Religion comes from the fear of an afterlife. I don’t see it as fulfilling any need. Religious people can never become atheists after they fulfill some ‘need’. Otherwise it would be easy to convert religious people. What do you guys think?

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I think Maslows hiearchy of needs is very accurate. It's actually more practical then Spiral Dynamics I think. 

Spiral Dynamics has a lot of traps. Not the least it opens a door to moralizing. 

Maslows hiearchy looks simple at the surface but it goes really deep. 

I have had experience with pretty much all the stages up to and including self-actualization and from my experience it's a very natural model. Not just a theoretical thought experiment.

Maybe it doesn't really fit Spiral Dynamics perfect but in the end those are all models, they are all limited to a degree. 

Also Spiral Dynamics is very big picture. Maslows hiearchy is also big picture but a little more zoomed in to day to day life. Big picture but not huge picture like Spiral Dynamics. 

People like to say big picture thinking is better but you need thinking on all levels. Very small to huge and everything in between. Like shifting gears in a manual transmission.