The primary and the innermost Life Zone in the Salaam Matrix is the Spiritual Zone, which pertains to the “software” and coding of a person or society, including any malware or latent thoughts, routines, notions and memories. These are the beliefs, thought formations, programming, faith systems, codes of conduct, life outlook, perceptions, inner information and internal landscape of a person, group, nation, or a scattered formation that doesn’t define well as a collective.

Note that while the title of the Zone is “Spiritual”, this does not denote any particular religious, spiritual or other leanings or their opposites. It is a condensed term that represents what in the most common denominator language is called the “software” in our analysis. Depending on the audience and context, the interpretative language for this Zone changes to reflect the dominant “software” of the audience. Also, while it was initially assumed in the model that there is a top-down flow from the SPIRITUAL to other life zones, this may in fact not be the case and the SPIRITUAL remains a composite of both celestial insights and lived experience and reality.

This is the intimate family and household zone in which a person operates, and interacts with whatever shape or form of family (and some neighborhood) they have. This pertains to their household tasks, family and personal duties, daily rituals, habits, personal habits, family contracts and negotiations, sharing, space negotiations and allotments and so on. Domestic affairs including violations come under this Life Zone.

This is the zone where the person steps beyond the threshold of household, and steps into the world. This is a more transactional zone. Economic transactions, earning, career, travel, transport, logistics, trade, socialization, friendships, neighborhood and close community work, education, supply and demand, purchasing and selling, labor rights, employer/employee/customer rights, insurance, housing, banking, money systems, construction, resource mining, regeneration – all fall under primarily this zone.

Beyond socioeconomic zone, lies the ideological space that is deemed the Ecological-Political zone, the outward container zone of them all. This is a zone of the collective and of the individual operating in the collective – negotiating, navigating, laying and walking the path. This is the zone of (the design of the) law, national boundaries, and political movements, organization, and the national or tribal executive function. This is also the zone for ecological and environmental design, containers, and contents which are normally called “resources” or “assets” but there has long been an extractive and exploitative connotation associated with those words thansk to extractive human behavior. The new outlook is REGENERATIVE and one based on GUARDIANSHIP of Earth and KINSHIP with the species and all creation. This is the zone of voting, governance, and one’s philosophy and outlook towards the outer world, as put in practice (instead of as processes internally, as in the Spiritual Zone). This is where the proof is found in the pudding, and the collective outcome of all pravious zones is exhibited as national spirit, content, behavior and direction.

All other zones can be seen as the atomization of the Ecological-Political Zone, whereas looking inside-out, all zones are the expansion of the Spiritual Zone. These two zones are each other’s feeders and mirrors, and change can be affected in one through the Other, whereas the individual carries larger authority over the Spiritual Zone, and the governers and the collective operate in the Ecological-Political Zone, which is better their primary focus.