The Social Helix: Toward a Transcendent Theory of Human Communication

By Alfonso Brillantes Deza

The Social Helix is a model responsive to what Stewart Brand describes as a communication environment of biological complexity and planetary scale. It draws inspiration from Frank E. X. Dance's individual communication helix, which represents human communication and learning -- from conception to the earliest developmental stages. But while Dance's model is undifferentiated as to its elements and their relations, the Social Helix is explicit of ascending tiers of consciousness and of a world of diversity and matter (biosphere) that is crowned by a world of oneness and spirit (noosphere). It is a dynamic paradigm for exploring levels of integration beyond our early years.

The Social Helix suggests that true development is consciousness-driven. We mature and become fully human through meaningful interaction across Quadrants of Being comprising our lifeworld. As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has pointed out, human evolution is marked by individual and collective consciousness of lived experience. This leads to higher psychisms and greater psychobiological union. The upward spiral of consciousness directs our course from self-realization to God-realization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09X4B4CYX
• ISBN13: 9798429350523
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"