Refers to both the individual levels that people move through psychologically and the cultural levels that mark collective progress. In both cases the developmental path moves toward greater complexity, and each level transcends but includes the levels below. The spiral oscillates between levels that are defined by differentiation from the collective and integration back into a larger group. The differentiation process leads to a more self expressive person or culture while the integration tends toward a more self‑sacrificing inclination. The levels of the evolutionary spiral, from the bottom to the top, are identified below: 1.Help me (Basic survival): This level focuses on nature and basic survival instincts. Results in loose clan based survival groups and is rarely found today. 2.Tribal we (Collective survival): This level is tribal in organization and spiritual in outlook. Blood bonds are strong as is respect for clan rules, allegiances and leaders. 1.Gratify me (Immediate wants): Exploitative, rough and harsh – this level is characterized by rugged authoritarianism, and is expressed in slavery or virtual slavery, and exploitation of unskilled labor. It is currently found in street life and gangs in many cities. 2.Righteous we (Stable authority): This level is purposeful and patriotic and leads people to obey authority, feel guilty when not conforming to group norms and try to serve the greater good through self‐sacrifice. 3.Competitive me (Material success): Entrepreneurial, with a focus on personal success – at this level, each person rationally calculates what is to their personal advantage. Motivations are largely economic. 4.Holistic us (Global harmony): The focus of this level is community and personal growth, equality and attention to environmental concerns. Work is motivated less by economic concerns than by human contact, contribution and learning from others. 5.Interdependent me (Sustainable world): Those working at this level are motivated by learning for its own sake and are oriented towards integration of complex systems. Change and challenge are welcome parts of life. This level is characterized by systems thinking and an orientation to how parts interact to create a greater whole. Spiritual we (Collective Renewal): Holistic, experiential and transpersonal – work at this level must be meaningful to overall health and life. Feelings and information are experienced together and enrich both. The evolutionary spiral supports a forecast for the continued human development necessary to century as our population grows by two to three more billion people. Address the more complex problems of the 21
