What is the structure of the upper floor of the pyramid of civilization - the spiritual world of human social consciousness? This is primarily the area of human knowledge, which has acquired over time form an ordered knowledge - science, first purely empirical, and then - the abstract, the study of the laws of nature, society, man himself. Public consciousness begins with the time when people (not as a separate individual, but as collection of individuals) was able to separate themselves from the outside world to realize their place and purpose to use this knowledge to samovyzhivaniya and development. A certain level of knowledge has become part of the social genotype, which nurtures from generation to generation. Formed a green tree Sciences (social, natural, technological), is constantly updated. The mighty power of social intelligence, whose core is scientific knowledge, serve as the primary source of self-development and dynamics of human society, its historical movement of the turns of the helix. If science - the accumulated result of activity of the left hemisphere, culture - the fruit of the right hemisphere, specifically-shaped, the emotional perception of the world. It includes aesthetic evaluation, the concepts of beauty and ugliness, harmony between nature and human beauty.
K culture include a variety of art forms (painting, sculpture, architecture, music, singing, choreography, theater), some of which have arisen in the Palaeolithic period (rock paintings, dancing, singing), literature, film and video art that emerged only during the last century, the printing press and the media. The richness and diversity of culture, complementary skills, allows versatile, space to perceive the world, more effectively to transform it. In the spiritual realm also includes a set of moral standards, ethical conduct assessments of each person, his relations with other family members and social groups, etc. Moral standards provide criteria - what is good and bad deeds in every human being; impossible without them functioning of society. These rules are fixed in the behavior of family and national traditions, religious Commandments, and the most significant for the state - in the law.
Finally, in the public consciousness (the spiritual world) should include an ideology that expresses the worldview of a person, group of people, political parties, States set goals of their actions, prioritization, ideology can take a religious form, but its scope is not limited to religion. In my view (because the concept is ambiguous), ideology is goal-setting, determines the will, the targeting of people who rely not only on the mind, and subconscious, pushing him to the greatest feats of self-sacrifice for the sake of the goal - or a terrible villainy. All spheres of the spiritual life of a civilization is closely linked, mutually intertwined, express a certain stage in the progressive movement of social consciousness. In periods of transition occurs Radical "clearing" the spiritual realm: crashes outdated scientific paradigms and approved a new, changed artistic styles, content, methods and organizational forms of education, ethical updated rules out the old and form new ideological trends, religion, etc. Chaos at the time covering the spiritual world, revived the once discarded error and superstition, flashes a fierce struggle for what to fill a sudden vacuum in the public consciousness. Then the crisis is overcome by the spiritual sphere, be approved, extends and improves the new content of public consciousness, until it strikes an hour and it will not appear under the blows of the next crisis. So in the general form of the pyramid structure of civilization.