The never ending quest : a treatise on an emergent cyclical conception of adult behavioral systems and their development ; Dr. Clare W. Graves explores human nature

Dr. Clare W. Graves Explores Human Nature This is a book about the levels of human existence, those everemergent, ever-spiraling psychological way stations at which the adult human being may tarry and live out a psychological lifetime. Why and how this system’s conception of adult human behavior came to be, what the systems are, how they operate and what they imply in the many faceted aspects of the mature human’s life are the subject matter of this book. CONTENTS Editors’ Foreword ..........................................................................i Preface ........................................................................................... 1 Section I – What is Human Life All About? .................................. 9 Chapter 1 – The Problem..............................................................11 Chapter 2 – An Approach for Investigating the Problem ............... 33 Chapter 3 – The Basic Data ......................................................... 51 Chapter 4 – Confusion and Contradiction Exacerbated ................. 91 Chapter 5 – New Problem, New Opportunity, New Task .............133 Chapter 6 – The Emergent Cyclical Model...................................159 Section II – The Levels of Existence ..........................................195 Chapter 7 – The Autistic Existence – The AN State .....................199 Chapter 8 – The Animistic Existence – The BO State...................215 Chapter 9 – The Egocentric Existence – The CP State ................ 225 Chapter 10 – The Absolutistic Existence – The DQ State .............251 Chapter 11 – The Multiplistic Existence – The ER State .............. 307 Chapter 12 – The Relativistic Existence - The FS State ................ 337 Chapter 13 – The Systemic Existence - The A’N’ State ................ 365 Chapter 14 – The Intuitive Existence – The B’O’ State ................ 395 Section III – The Sum of All Our Days is Just a Beginning...... 403 Chapter 15 – Verification ........................................................... 405 Chapter 16 – The Broader Meaning of the Concept..................... 475 Appendix ................................................................................... 505 Bibliography .............................................................................. 509 Index .......................................................................................... 543 From the Publisher: "The Never Ending Quest contains the preface and chapters from Dr. Graves's unfinished manuscript on the development and details of his double-helix theory of personality and culture. He also reports verification studies and comparisons with other researchers and then addresses the broader meanings of the concept to psychology and social development These conversations, which run throughout the entire text, range from education to business to large-scale systems change. The book also helps to understand Spiral Dynamics or its derivatives. It clarifies Dr. Graves's conception of how conditions outside the person(s) and neurological systems inside interact to produce the emergent, cyclical, levels of existence; explains the 'levels' in more accurate detail than ever before; and discusses the realities of the theory."