Lawrence Wollersheim

Lawrence Wollersheim is also a director of Universe Spirit (www.UniverseSpirit.org). This organization has helped give birth to the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview, new principles of Sustainable Prosperity, Universe Citizenship, and other Evolutioneer social action programs, such as Evolution Spirituality, an open-source, meta-spirituality grounded solidly in the sciences and the principles of universe evolution.

Since 2002, Lawrence has also served as the Executive Director for all operational aspects of Universe Spirit's Universe Evolutionary Worldview research, educational activities, publishing, web operations, and related marketing. 

Since 1983, as a significant part of his life’s passion, Lawrence has been continuously studying, experiencing, and being committed to forwarding the balanced relationship of science and healthy personal spirituality, particularly as it relates to evolutionary science and the personal direct spiritual experience of Ultimate Reality found within both science's discoveries and the discoveries of the world’s great eastern and western spiritual traditions. 

Over the years, he has written extensively about unhealthy spiritual practices.

Lawrence Wollersheim is also a polymath and autodidact. He also has dyslexia, which he credits with helping him maintain a sense of humor and humility in his personal life and in his creative social advocacy work. 

See Lawrence Wollersheim's Wikipedia listing here.

Lawrence Wollersheim's LinkedIn profile is here. 

With a 40-year background in day-to-day business operations and information technology, Lawrence has extensive experience he can draw on across the non-profit, for-profit, and social advocacy sectors.

Lawrence has also assisted and supported in the evolution of the World Democracy Coalition.

Additional Relevnt Educational Background and Experience

Lawrence was mentored by Dr. Margaret Singer, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, for several decades. Before her passing, Dr. Singer was the world’s leading authority on mind control, destructive religious practices, and destructive cults. She published more than 160 papers and was one of the original co-founders of Factnet in 1993. 

Since 1993, Lawrence has also been a managing board director at FactNet Inc. (www.factnet.org), a nonprofit educational organization. Over 33 years, both before and during his tenure at FactNet and Job One for Humanity, Lawrence was involved in a series of 5 lawsuits against the infamous Scientology cult. His litigation success in all 5 of these lawsuits against Scientology established important new legal precedents on freedom of thought and informed consent in alleged religious settings.

These new legal "freedom of thought and belief" precedents are currently part of many US law students' first-year constitutional law studies. To date, Lawrence Wollersheim has been the only individual to ever successfully sue, win in court, and fully collect numerous damaging verdicts against the Scientology cult.

As a social advocate, Lawrence also helped win one of the largest California SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) lawsuits against an organization that used excessive litigation tactics to unfairly financially overwhelm, harass, and intimidate an underfunded non-profit social advocacy organization. His early SLAPP legal victory and the precedent it set have also been a powerful aid to all non-profit organizations in legal battles with big corporations, which often file meritless lawsuits designed to silence and bankrupt their less-wealthy nonprofit opponents.

Additional Management and Research Experience

Since its inception in 2011, Lawrence Wollersheim has also been part of the Universe Institute. In addition to his duties as a senior DMAP analyst (dialectical metasystemic analysis and problem-solving), he oversees all aspects of the organization's mission.  (www.UniverseInstitute.org)

Lawrence is skilled in system theory and the DMAP problem-solving methodology designed for complex adaptive systems. These skills are utilized in the research and analysis of numerous studies across various specialty areas. The DMAP methodology seeks out new or overlooked omissions, errors, and patterns that may not be readily apparent unless one uses DMAP to examine data horizontally across multiple research studies encompassing all related systems and subsystems. 

At Job One for Humanity

Since its inception in 2008, Lawrence Wollersheim has been the Executive Director of Job One for Humanity. He oversees all aspects of the organization's mission, including overseeing the analysis of research on global warming. He brings thirty-plus years of experience in successful social advocacy and social advocacy litigation.

At HealthKeeper

Lawrence spent over 20 years earlier in his career as the founder and managing director of HealthKeeper Inc., a software company specializing in assisting dieters, people with diabetes, and individuals with weight- and nutrition-related cardiovascular problems. At HealthKeeper, Lawrence designed software and invented the NutriCode. This colored barcode enables users to easily understand a food label’s nutritional content and its impact on their daily diet goals without performing any calculations.

Important upgrade note: We are still migrating 25 years' worth of materials from the older Universe Spirit website (about 1,000 pages) to this new Universe Spirit website. During this upgrade process, we will eventually move all new Way of the Universe philosophy materials still on the newer Universe Spirit website to its own site.

For all important information relating to this massive Universe Spirit upgrade, click here. We strongly recommend reading this detailed explanation of the massive upgrade underway, so you also understand our strategy and the reason for any confusion that you might experience with our ongoing edits on unedited pages transfered to our new website, remaining broken links, links still going to our old website, and sometimes conflicting terminology still found on pages at the new Universe Spirit website where we have not yet completed our editing upgrades. We hope to be fully done with this massive upgrade by January 2027.