Last Updated 3.26.25.

Prologue

The following are complex materials designed for advanced students who have also read evolution science books, particularly biology, cosmology, and physics. You do not need to understand these advanced materials to practice the Right Attitudes of the Universe Principles. These advanced materials are here for those individuals who need to know why something is valid and works at the deepest levels.

"[Evolution] appears to be not only a series of accidents the course of which is determined only by the change of environments during Earth history and the resultant struggle for existence,… but is governed by definite laws… The discovery of these laws constitutes one of the most important tasks of the future. Ludvig von Bertalanffy, biologist"

Introduction

Within the inherent spatial and quantum qualities of the physical universe are found numerous result-conditioning field attributes that affect and condition most all actions and results of the processes of progressive evolution within the physical universe. This makes these result-conditioning field attributes critically important!

The inherent result-conditioning spatial or quantum field attributes and values can also easily be converted into and called universe "attitudes" or "values," which also can be used for empowering your success in all areas of life. The following page lays out these result-conditioning universe field qualities, attributes, and values extrapolated from the most current cosmological and progressive evolutionary science.

Knowing and utilizing these time-tested 14.2 billion-year-old reality-conditioning space field attributes can dramatically improve the quality of your life, not to mention your future success. Reviewing these physical universe attributes and values, you may also discover that they both transcend yet still creatively include many of the most life-affirming virtues and perspectives from humanity’s greatest philosophic and spiritual wisdom traditions.

The Advanced Right Attitudes

The Universe’s Master Field Qualities are the Action and Result Conditioning Universe Attributes and Value-Interests that Control and Condition the Actions of Progressive Evolution in the Universe.

Listed below are the key inherent universe space and quantum action conditioning and controlling master field qualities and value probabilities (interests) derived from current cosmological and progressive evolutionary science. They describe the multifaceted nature of the universe’s master time, space, and energy field(s).

This universe master space field ultimately conditions and/or controls ALL of the actions and results going on within it.

These space field attributes may often seem to have paradoxical relationships to one another. This is similar to quantum physics, which is loaded with paradoxes and from which many of the space field qualities below are derived. These space field attributes are complex and may require some careful thought on each one of them before moving on to the next.

The universe’s master space field came into being because of the first massive “energy” throughput from the initiating Big Bang event to the universe (and possibly continuous energy throughput according to some theories), which produced the energy, matter, time, and space of the universe, as we know it. (We still do not know what occurred before the Big Bang and exactly what kind of “energy” created the energy that appeared after the Big Bang.)  

Because the universe’s space field directly or indirectly conditions and controls all actions and results going on within it, it is also helpful at this advanced level to understand what the many qualities of the Universe’s space field are so that one may also use that valuable information in one’s life to forward their success.

The interconnected and result conditioning master space field attributes, value-interests, and “attitudes” of the post-Big Bang Universe are as follows:

Inherent “is-ness:”

At the most basic minimum level, the existence of the universe or any thing within it ---  just IS as it is. This is universe is-ness --- pure and simple.

This issness reality also implies that the physical universe or any thing within it is not inherently or intrinsically good, bad, or deficient in any way --- no matter what our current partial view perspectives, religious beliefs, or personal attitudes about either the nature of the universe or the things within it might be. The inherent simple "issness" of the universe also infers that, at some basic level, the universe is a mostly neutral space in its posture toward the parts and wholes existing within it.

While the universe's progressive evolutionary directionality does seem to favor the creation of larger and larger cooperative groupings and parts of itself, that better align with its progressive evolutionary meta-principles, in general, and as a whole system, it can be thought of as mostly neutral seeking only to enact its inherent meta-principles or laws of the evolutionary process on itself in a part-neutral manner.) 

Native original inclusiveness, oneness, or union and unity:

This is the always-current cohesion, union, and unity of all things existing within the limits of time and space of the known universe. (In qualified ways all things are sharing time and space within the universe's totality of existence. The original and ongoing inclusiveness and union of all things within the universe implies that at its deepest levels, the universe is essentially an interdependent and interconnected sharing experience.

Native and abundant potentiality:

At the level of the part of the universe, potentiality is manifest as the drive to release and realize the inherent full nature and evolutionary possibilities within a thing. On the level of the universe as a whole, potentiality appears to be manifesting as the drive to exhaust all possibilities for creativity and novelty and all of the universe’s other main value interests at every level of existence, with that creativity and novelty eventually adding to the amazingly abundant richness and quality of the progressive directionality of evolution in the universe itself. This universe’s space field potentiality manifests and fulfills itself in many concrete ways, such as parts or whole unions within the universe learning, adapting, and showing emergent self-organization, etc.

Native transparency: (The universe hides nothing from anyone at any time who looks in the right way with the right instruments. It is always fully transparent.)

Native creativity: Within the universe's native potentialities lies its realizable and inherent native creativity. This creativity continuously bursts forth from the inherent creativity within all parts of the universe and from what could be an inherent conditioning creativity within the time-space itself. The potential for creativity and self-organization (autopoiesis) is just one example of this native inherent creativity. 

inherent universe dynamism, continuous change, evolvability, process: This equals an abundant and continuous change, in part because of the process of continuous energy flow or flow-through continuously creating the universe, and the near limitless consequent ongoing energy exchanges seeking to establish (or needed to establish,) new dynamic energy balances as new or expanding parts and wholes [unions.] The Universe’s continuous dynamism/processes of change and its dynamic balance conditioning qualities show up as the following sub-levels of the evolutionary process:

Incompleteness:

The manifestation of the inherent inclination or impulse toward becoming more, evolving, changing, growing (growth and transformation are abundantly and continually emerging toward resolving this "incompleteness," and these emergences of new growth are aligned by evolution in the direction of the universe's progressive evolution, or they are recycled.

Growth can also mean growth that evolves to new levels when older levels of growth run their course, such as when one grows physically to adulthood. After a human being has physically grown to full capacity, many levels of maturity, skill, intellectual, or other forms of growth are still available.) Incompleteness is a paradoxical term as it is used in association with universe qualities. It does not imply any deficiency or imperfection. It just means a pre-next evolutionary step state possibility.

This universe inherent "incompleteness" toward growth manifests as and through:

Emergence and its consequent differentiation of what has been emerged:

The universe abundantly emerges new things. Those emergences create differentials, differences or separation for those new things.

The existence of differentials [differences and separation between things] that can also create the appearance of dissonance [conflict perspectives] is because of the natural separation created by the mere differentials themselves. Differentiation between things and their resultant dissonance is utilized by evolution as one of its most effective tools to energize, motivate, and stimulate optimal adaptation and growth. On a purely physical level, the universe sometimes uses differentials and polarities to generate and create energy.) 

Complexity: (More emergence and differentiation creates an abundance of more complex things. This then creates increasing inherent spontaneity (caused by the inherent creativity, novelty, and diverse innovation of the universe. This new complexity then creates at various levels a new scale of new uncertainty, [unpredictability,] linked with new probabilities.

Inherent and increasing uncertainty:

In the physical universe, absolute certainties and truths are, in essence, relativistic probabilities or, in some severe cases, self-created illusions or delusions. This is due in part to abundantly increasing complexity, (diversity) spontaneity, and often nonlinear creativity of the universe.

These levels of increasing uncertainty created by increasing creative emergence, complexity (diversity), and unpredictable nonlinear spontaneities create various levels of natural unpredictability, uncertainty, and the adventure of our lives. The increasing uncertainties and their consequent increasing unpredictabilities far outstrip our far lower increasing abilities to model and predict probable future outcomes.

Thus far, our future modeling and future prediction technologies are not even close to keeping up with the increasing levels of uncertainty occurring because of the accelerating levels of increasing complexity, diversity, and cause-and-effect non-linearity in so many areas of life. For example, when the gasses hydrogen and oxygen became spontaneously mixed in the right proportions, who could have predicted the more complex and diverse nonlinear cause-and-effect outcome of a new solid coming into being called water? 

Expansion potentiality:

Growth implies expansion. The galaxies are expanding away from each other faster and faster because of the dark energy effect of space. On a cultural level --- complexity, knowledge, uncertainty, non-linear cause and effect, interdependence, interconnectedness, and change (to name but a few cultural qualities) also all appear to be in states of accelerating expansion.)

Native/inherent directionality:

All things are seeking to grow and fulfill their inherent and natural potentialities. This is like fruit that manifests the potentials contained within its seed.

Here, we are mainly talking about the universe as a whole unto itself. As a whole system, there is also a progressive directionality inherent in the universe's evolution, seeking to manifest its inherent and natural potentials. There is also inherent directionality within universe parts as well. All of the above continuous process steps of abundant universe dynamism moving things toward growth (or change) are facilitated by the dynamically balancing qualities and interactions of:

Centralization, compression:

Numerous known and unknown attractive forces exist within the space field of the universe that draw things together in acts of centralization or compression. These are forces such as gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak atomic forces, and theoretically, dark matter. There also appear to be other biological and non-biological attractive forces, which in living organisms and cultures naturally cause new centralizing unions and communing wholes to be formed and maintained. 

Native inter-connectedness, Interdependence and sharing:

Inter-dependence and inter-connectedness are intrinsically linked and paradoxical in some ways. For example, new physics research shows that there is nothing within the universe that is not interconnected at some level to all other things included within the universe.

Because of that, all things, no matter how seemingly independent, are also interdependent to varying degrees upon all other things within the universe. To varying degrees, the universe is a complete and unified system where anything in the system is, in effect, to some degree, dependent on all other things within the system.

This is because dependent or independent parts and/or wholes [unions] of the universe's inclusiveness naturally always share some form of energy, spacial relationship at some scale, energy exchanges or relationship, or a reciprocating cohesion or forms essential to existing or growing. This native inter-connectedness of all things in one universe union implies that where space, energy, and matter are shared and transformed, that sharing is also a fundamental attribute and meta-principle that allows the universe to exist and function. If this is true, then sharing as a principle appears to have a much larger role to fulfill in our social, economic, political, and religious systems.)

All of the preceding sub-processes of universe dynamism, when directionalized as growth (not merely change,) then lead to or involve:

Dynamic balance:

An ever-changing state of new and evolving "imperfect" changing energy/matter dynamic balance within the universe itself as a whole is also found within sub-states of dynamic balance within some parts and wholes [unions] of the universe. (Dynamic balance is not a static perfect balance, but a paradoxical "balanced" state of continuous energy/matter change within certain necessary tolerance levels, creating new levels of simultaneously closed and yet open dynamic balance.

This dynamic balance is vitally needed between the differentials (differences, what we often see as conflicts) found within various parts and wholes of the universe to maintain their stable yet evolving, closed yet open relationships. Matter and energy in the universe are constant, but they take on many constantly evolving forms.

For this possibility to occur, there is a paradoxical and simultaneous closedness and openness that must also occur throughout the physical universe's evolution to create the necessary ever-changing states of dynamic balance. It is the various states of necessary dynamic balance that dynamically adjust, where necessary, the differentials, differences, and conflicts between parts and wholes so that various essential dynamic balances (unions) may take place or be maintained so that not only existence but also the various steps of progressive evolution can continue to unfold.

The evolutionary impulse toward unification:

More universe parts are growing and evolving into more new and larger wholes/unions of greater cooperation and scale towards a theoretical whole super-union and super-organism that includes all parts of the universe in cooperative alignment with the universe's progressive directionality.) This then takes the dynamism and dynamic balance processes listed just above paradoxically "back to" a new, evolved, and enhanced form of its original…

Union, unity, inclusiveness:

On the level of the whole, the universe may not be just the ultimate union, unity, and inclusiveness. It might also be the only true indivisible unity and inclusiveness in scientifically known existence when seen as the currently largest known totality. The universe may be “the only text without any larger context,” as Thomas Berry said.

On the level of the part, there is also an inherent union and unity within each thing, helping to hold it together and make it continue to be what its nature is. This stability can then take the dynamism and dynamic balance processes listed above to paradoxically complete the progressive evolutionary impulse manifesting itself toward or as:

Transcendence:

The universe and the parts of the universe [some parts through increasing autonomy and consciousness] appear to be moving or growing toward first realizing and then transcending the limits of themselves as individual parts and, in the participation of these parts in the creation of new dynamic wholes/unions, which are also seeking to transcend themselves. Every part of the universe and the universe itself appears to be trying to transcend itself over time. 

How to Creatively Apply the Universe's Life Conditioning Attitudes and Values to Practical Daily Living Success?

The above macro and subtle quantum result-conditioning space field qualities and potentialities of the master universe can be creatively expressed as in the success attitudes, which include most of the space conditioning qualities of the universe. These attitudes directly or indirectly condition all of the actions and results of the actions taking place within the universe. When embraced, they will help to successfully optimize the daily and long-term actions and results of your life or organization.

To dive far deeper into the advanced underpinnings of the science behind the Universe Principles

Please go to the Progressive Evolution link in the Learn pull-down menu at the top of every website page.

Footnotes, Qualifications, and Additional Resources and Information Regarding the Right Attitudes of the Universe Principles

1.) If you are a philosopher, you may want to see how the meta-principles of universe evolution defeat the arguments of the Naturalistic Fallacy. Click here to find out why and how the meta-principles of universe evolution legitimately create values and "oughts" and "shoulds" to improve our personal lives and world.

2.) When both the action and attitudinal parts of the Universe Principles are taken and used as a balanced whole they are in effect a new universal evolutionary ethics, meta-ethics, and meta-morality. This is important because:

“The greatest fight in the history of the world and the world of ideas is the fight to establish a universal morality.” Stefan Molyneux philosopher

3.) The Universe Principles and the Open Source Software Movement: In open-source software terms the Universe Principles are the Kernel of all Kernels! They are the "core software program and core evolutionary algorithms: of the successful universe evolution of life itself and everything that creates, sustains, and thrives it.

The kernel conditions and controls all sub-systems and secondary processes just like the macro processes of the Universe evolution condition and control the sub-systems and secondary processes of evolution. Once you know the evolutionary universe's kernel of core processes you can then better execute the restructuring and "re-coding" all of our economic, social, and political systems to better them.

4.) Looking at the Universe Principles as a whole and particularly through their keywords like fair exchange and sustainability, one can begin to see in new and expanded wording the core essence, key parts, or more enlightened aspects of almost every ethical, moral, and legal code humanity has ever developed. This is only natural because humanity has always used what happens in real human life and in nature (the universe) to create its ethical and moral codes, even when it attributes the origin of these codes to other supernatural sources. Click here to see how we have woven the Universe Principles into our code of conduct and ethics for living.

5.) The Universe Principles come in two parts: the Universe Principles of Right Action and the Universe Principles of Right Mind and Right Attitude. We recommend reading the action principles first. The Universe Principles are derived from the soon-to-be-released new book the Universe Manifesto. Additional explanatory commentary and exercises for each principle will be published soon. There has been 3 years of new cosmological and evolutionary science research and thinking put in just to get them this far.

6.) The Universe has demonstrated adaptive patterns that can use and incorporate unforeseen spontaneities to eventually also forward its core value-interests.

7.) The universe as a whole system appears to behave much like smaller living evolutionary systems. Or are smaller living evolutionary systems really behaving like the universe when viewed as a whole system? Is the universe itself a living thing or organism at the ultimate universe scale?

8.) If you are of a spiritual nature in the traditional sense of Religion and, you would like to see how the above meta-principles of progressive evolution could relate to better understanding the nature and purposes of God or, God's will or, even God's universal commandments, click here.

9.) The word Universe can also include whatever you call or believe the Universe’s origin to be, the great mystery of the universe's origin, total reality, God Buddha, Ultimate Reality, etc.

10.) Learning and living the Universe Principles in both action and attitudinal forms is also the Level 3 Universe Spirituality practice.

11.) Each of the Universe Principles taken collectively also suggests all of the important educational core curricula that Universe Evolutioneers and universe citizens should pursue and that integral, evolutionary, environmental, and sustainability organizations should be teaching to create effective and complete curriculums.

12.) If you have not yet read the full description of progressive evolution, --- the core facts upon which the Universe Principles are based, we recommend you do this advanced study soon.

13.) We strongly suggest that you print out the Universe Principles and then read and practice them every day and discover for yourself just how dramatically your life, groups, and the world can improve. It takes many daily readings of them and at least 90 days of conscious practice of them for their power to slowly evolve away from any contrary, deeply embedded, or habituated thinking and reactions. (Click here to go to the short forms of the Universe Principles of both Right Action and Right Attitude. They are easier to read and practice on a regular basis in this form.)

14.) The process of universe dynamism described in the Attitudes space field section is not always directionalized adaptation and growth. It can also become change or grow experiments that dead-end, go off on novel tangents, and stall or stall after various levels of growth. When growth and adaptation stop, the universe breaks down the growth experiment and recycles its parts.

15.) Whenever physicists look into the universe's quantum levels and the universe's space field, they encounter paradoxes. Some of the above action conditioning "attitudes" of the universe also paradoxically cross over and can appear to be an inherent conditioning quality of the universe itself and a universe action meta-pattern. Some universe action patterns above also needed to be included to help show the relationship or sequence of the conditioning "attitudes" of the universe to the action meta-patterns of the universe to better understand the conditioning "attitudes" of the universe and their relationships to each other as a whole progressive evolutionary system. 

16.) Although this attitudes booklet has been based in part on parts of the works of the following individuals, the inclusion of their names does not imply any specific endorsement of the Universe Principles or its new Universe Evolutionary Worldview as expressed herein. These individuals have been mentioned in part to gratefully recognize their contributions to expanding the areas of cosmology, big history, progressive evolutionary science and/or conscious evolution that are emerging within Progressive Evolution and its Universe Evolutionary Worldview. This article is based in part upon the universe and progressive evolutionary science and theories expressed by Teilhard De Chardin, Erich Jantsch, John Stewart, Michael Dowd, Nancy Ellen Abrams, Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, Joel Primack, David Christian, David Ray Griffin, Sri Aurobindo, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Ken Wilber as well as numerous other evolution theorists, scientists, authors, and speakers.

17.) To dive deeper into more about the science of the Universe Principles and universe evolution click here. This is mostly for advanced students and it covers much of what was not covered in the medium-length descriptions of the Universe Principles found in this online booklet.

18.) We hope that you have also discovered in reading the above universe attitudes that they both transcend and yet still creatively include the most life-affirming perspectives and classic virtues of humanity’s greatest philosophic and spiritual wisdom traditions. The above new universe principles of progressive evolution can act as a de facto lifestyle practices guide and new ethical code for evolutioneers or a statement of the attributes of the universe's evolutionary worldview (among many other things).

19.) This page was created by Lawrence Wollersheim.

20.) If you are spiritual in the traditional sense of Religion and would like to see how the above meta-principles of progressive evolution could help you better understand the nature and purposes of God, God's will, or even God's universal commandments, click here.

21.) The principle of Progressive Evolution is derived in a substantive part from evolutionary science.