The Never Ending Quest contains the preface and chapters from Dr. Graves's unfinished manuscript on the development and details of his double-helix theory of personality and culture. He also reports verification studies and comparisons with other researchers and then addresses the broader meanings of the concept to psychology and social development These conversations, which run throughout the entire text, range from education to business to large-scale systems change. The book also helps to understand Spiral Dynamics or its derivatives. It clarifies Dr. Graves's conception of how conditions outside the person(s) and neurological systems inside interact to produce the emergent, cyclical, levels of existence; explains the 'levels' in more accurate detail than ever before; and discusses the realities of the theory.

The Never Ending Quest contains the preface and chapters from Dr. Graves's unfinished manuscript on the development and details of his double-helix theory of personality and culture (chapters 1-6). He also reports verification studies and comparisons with other researchers (chapter 15), and then addresses the broader meanings of the concept to psychology and social development (chapter 16). These conversations, which run throughout the entire text, range from education to business to large-scale systems change. The middle section, a discussion of each of the eight nodal levels of psychological existence and transitional states (chapters 7-14), is also entirely in Dr. Graves's words. However, each is a compilation of verbatim excerpts compiled by the editors from published and unpublished Graves writings, as well as recorded presentations and seminars in which Dr. Graves discusses his theory. (Because of health problems, he was never able to complete this part of his book himself.) These chapters are organized to provide a comprehensive view of the levels, their psychologies, management, learning, and transitional forces with emphasis given to his later ideas when they differed from his earlier work.