Aref Shabestri's communication theory in intrapersonal communication and its effects in social communication

Many western communicators believe that intrapersonal communication is the basis of all types of human communication in society and the foundation of communication science, and its other branches, i.e. interpersonal, group, and collective communication, are affected by it. Despite this fundamental importance, unfortunately, not much attention has been paid to this category in the scientific climate of the West, and in our country, despite the abundance of data in Islamic sources that have a wide capacity to explain this fundamental field, not much work has been done in this field. Shabestri, the mystic of the 8th century in the Gulshan Raz system, has elaborated his ideas in the field of intra-personal communication as well as its social effects, and Ferraro's research has explained his communication theory in this field with the analytical-documentary method and explored its effects in social communication. The achievements of this research are: explanation of "self" and its types, the centrality of intrapersonal communication (communication with self) for all types of social communication, understanding of human social communication based on the human relationship with the soul or theology, expressing the effects of each of these two types of communication in social communication, and deriving a model of intrapersonal communication from a Shabestrian perspective.