A lot of my posts make use of a theory called E-C theory / Spiral Dynamics. This page lists a collection of posts that should get you up to speed with the theory. If you think you already know what Spiral Dynamics is then please also read them, there are several different schools of thought and to understand my posts well you will need to know where I am coming from. Please ensure you read the first two posts before moving on as the rest may make little sense.

This is of necessity a brief introduction, my aim is to explain the framework of the theory, whilst at the same time attempt to help you avoid the common pitfalls that a short introduction often introduces. Hopefully I will enable you to understand what I am on about in my posts when I reference it. This is by no means a comprehensive exploration and the theory has a lot of hidden complexity, if you find it useful, then I thoroughly recommend further study (see links below)

A short history of E-C Theory and Spiral Dynamics
Spiral Dynamics and E-C theory, multiple explanations *Must read this before reading the individual value systems below
B-O (purple) Description of E-C Theory and Spiral Dynamics
C-P (red) Description of E-C Theory and Spiral Dynamics
D-Q (blue) Description of E-C Theory and Spiral Dynamics
(To Do:
E-R
F-S
G-T
In plain language, what do I think of all this.
Further research that is needed needed.
A shorter summary.
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You may also like to check out the Spiral Dynamics tag and the Spiral Dynamics category collections.

Finally if you would like to get the information from the horses mouth then check out the following resources:-

This pdf introducing Spiral Dynamics provides a good quick summary, but beware its simplicity, the theory is a lot more complex and interwoven than this suggests.
The Never Ending Quest : The closest we have to Graves original material.
www.clarewgraves.com. : A web resource containing among other things, reproductions of all the articles that Graves published.
The original Spiral Dynamics book : Written by two of Graves students.
www.spiraldynamics.org The school of Spiral Dynamics I am trained in.
www.spiraldynamics.net The school of Spiral Dynamics that intorduced me to Spiral Dynamics, but now disagree with and am not trained in.
This wikipedia article is also pretty good for basic information.