Dr. Eyford develops a continuum on which change takes place. He focusses on the social aspects of change. He describes five ways in which change, or development takes place in society. Violence, legislation or laws, public participation, education and culture are these five. Dr. Eyford uses “culture” for “spiritual” because it is less well understood by the general public.
We need to make progress our spiritual life by which everything else evolves. He uses the case of Ecuador which has a Bahá’í radio station that serves a population of about 100,000 illiterate villages that get by through subsistence farming. Indigenous music was played and religious talks which got people listening and over time even the Ministry of Agriculture wanted to have time to help these villages which were primarily farming villages. But the key that opened that door was “spirituality”, here called culture.