What is perfect/normal psychological health?
Is it a state?
Or is it a process?
Clare W. Graves
“Briefly, what I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature human being is
an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive
subordination of older, lower-behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man’s existential problems change.”
Introducing the “meme”
• The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in the mid 1970’s proposed -
• The evolution of culture should be considered as independent from genetic or biological evolution but it has similar characteristics
• He coined the term “meme” to mean units of cultural transformation
• Examples of “memes” are– Songs– Ideas– Fashion– Architecture
Introducing the vMeme
• The Richard Dawkins definition of “meme” is referred to in Spiral Dynamics as the little meme
• In Spiral Dynamics we use the vMeme which refers to:– A core value system, a world view, an
organizing principle that permeates thought structures, decision-making systems and various expressions of culture
vMEMES DEFINED
• A vMeme, as evolutionary code, shapes and influences …– Politics Economics Religion– Education SportsLiterature– Philosophy Science Health care / medicine– Future destiny The meaning of the past– Sex Marriage FamilyWork – ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIETY
• Whenever core vMemes in the “cultural DNA” change, everything is impacted
Meme Infestation
Worldviews & Value Systems
Actions
Ideas
Beliefs
Organizing Principles & Meaning
Ways of thinking& Mindsets
Trends
The Master Codes – scaffolds & stratification, attractors of surface values
Icons
EventsPlaces
TunesBehaviors
that have meaningPeople Art
ThemesCauses
NormsIssues
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