"...never once suspected that he (price) might consider himself one." I wonder, can one be self-actualized, Maslow's pyramid top, and not have transcended the definition of adulthood? You may have to be disciplined, an adult, to reach that state- but arrival would be the birth of a new creature- a child by definition, with many childlike attributes. We enter the kingdom as a child... Any state of transcendence would naturally lie above the self-actualized state, climbing an inverted pyramid towards the Godhead, the all knowing all encompassing bass- which is actually the ceiling with this extension of the Maslow model?