Lifelong personal development and growth are core values of the Universe Spirit movement and the Job One for Humanity communities. The potentials for human development and growth have been described by numerous researchers.

Whenever we use the terms "spiral of life" or the "spiraling memes of human development" is used, it means the potential levels of development as the dialectical spiral of human and cultural development turns and expands through time. These levels of human growth and consciousness development, and cultural development have been stated in many similar ways by numerous developmental psychologists, but the spiral meme version we are specifically referring to was developed over 50 years by professor Claire Graves.

Professor Grave’s work has been popularized in the Book Spiral Dynamics. Each of Grave's spiral levels of human consciousness development produces a unique worldview and each worldview produces specific values and personal and cultural qualities. Click here for more about the spiral levels and spiral memes. 

The following are some illustrations of the spiral development memes. This illustration also shows the human developmental potential work of several other researchers shown in comparison.

The following developmental spiral of life virtues and values are copied with permission from a book entitled Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution by Steve McIntosh.

Think of the following spiral meme descriptions as how certain virtues cluster at a particular level as we develop and grow from the earliest tribal consciousness and tribal developmental level through to the later universe consciousness level. Ideally and optimally, each new developmental level includes and encompasses the non-pathological developmental virtues and values of the previous developmental level and then transcends them within its own new developmental virtue and value cluster. 

The additional Integral Movement virtues and values below that Universe Spirit and the Universe Community embraces and are also directly relevant to adapting and adjusting to the conditions of an ever-changing exterior environment are:

1. The Tribal Consciousness Value Contributions to the Development Spiral (AKA Magic Consciousness): Family and kinship loyalty; strong sense of the enchantment of the world; innocence; imagination; closeness to nature
2. The Warrior Consciousness Value Contribution to the Development Spiral (AKA Mythic Consciousness): Individual empowerment; initiative; action orientation
3. The Traditional Consciousness Value Contribution to the Development Spiral: Sense of civic duty; law and order; appropriate respect for authority; strong moral regard for group members; preserves traditions; loyalty; hope, and a strong sense of faith
4. The Modernist Consciousness Value Contribution to the Development Spiral: Meritocracy; upward mobility; the middle class; excellence through competition; science; technology; confidence in progress
5. The Postmodern Consciousness Value Contribution to the Development Spiral: World centric morality; recognition of human potential; increased responsibility for people and the planet; compassion and inclusion; celebration of the feminine; renewed spiritual freedom and creativity
6. The Integral Consciousness Value Contribution to the Developmental Development Spiral: Practical world-centric morality; compassion for all worldviews; the revival of philosophy; seeing spirituality in evolution; overcoming the culture war; renewed insistence on achieving results
7. The Universe Consciousness Value Contribution to the Developmental Spiral: Practical Universe centric morality, ability to encompass and unify all previous worldviews, revival, and re-alignment of all universe subsystems and studies with principles of new cosmology and progressive evolution, overcoming of all planetary polarities, renewed insistence on establishing a balance between the needs and intentions of parts of wholes and the needs and intentions of the wholes themselves. For more see the Universe Evolutionary Worldview overview. (Please note this last section on Universe Consciousness was not part of the work of Steve McIntosh mentioned above in a-f. (The Universe Evolutionary Worldview and its related links will also provide additional information relating to where many of the virtues have come from and their relation to both spirituality and nature.)

Here is another illustration with more comparisons of the potentials of development for both ourselves and our cultures.

Developmental work special mention

Some of the design, management, and learning systems of our eco-communities are also derived from using the synergetic and transcending work of Professor Otto Laske on human cognitive development and socio-emotional development as well as his advanced dialectical, meta-systemic thinking process work.

Here is a summary of Otto Laske's developmental work and some of its applications.