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Psychologists searched for their own unified field theory since Einstein's forays in quantum physics. To reconcile the conflicting theories of Maslow, Freud, Jung, Skinner, Erikson, Rogers and others, Dr. Graves set out on a 30-year research project to explore and explain human nature. 

By bringing compartmentalized and competing disciplines together within an integrative systems frame, Graves found remarkable patterns. He was among the first to approach psychological development from what he termed a “biopsychosocial systems” perspective. He found that the interactions between external life conditions and internal neuronal mind capacities create levels of psychological existence which lead to worldviews and coping systems. Since each level of existence is a hidden, complex combination of nature and nurture, the old either/or debate was essentially moot. Personality and behavior were a both/and proposition as genetic propensities and life experiences impact each other. 

The result is a work that was called "a theory that explains everything" in Canada's Maclean's Magazine way back in 1967. While he chuckled at that hyperbole, Dr. Graves’s point of view helps to address profound questions that psychologists, coaches, sociologists, therapists, managers, educators and others are still asking - sometimes more so today than then. The Gravesian framework provides a structure and organizing principle which pulls conventional behavioral studies and cutting edge neuroscience together as it informs many disciplines. The applications are endless.

Thousands of people have been introduced to elements of Dr. Graves’s work under the flag of Spiral Dynamics®, yet little of his original writing has been available except on our www.clarewgraves.com website. With the endorsement of the Graves estate, we’ve spent five years compiling, editing and reconstructing the missing chapters of the major book he was writing bad health and failing vision stopped him. We have reconstructed missing chapters using his own words compiled from other tapes and writings. While it is not the book he intended, NEQ is a remarkable work from a mind out of his time, one whose time has finally come because executives, parents, and leaders in many realms are asking the very questions he sought to answer. 

We invite you to explore this remarkable work and learn where the theory came from, how it relates to other perspectives, and what this point of view can mean to the future. For applications and extensions of Dr. Graves's thinking, visit our sister website at www.spiraldynamics.org. 

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