Last updated 3.24.25.

Prologue

The Universe Principles below represent the core practices behind the Way of the Universe. Practicing the Universe Principles will align your life with the most successful and sustainable system that has ever existed. That system is universe evolution or what is also called Progressive Evolution. Your life will dramatically improve as you practice the Universe Principles of Right Action described below.

The Universe Principles work because your life and existence are completely embedded inside the universe's evolutionary system. By understanding and aligning with this time-proven system your life can't help but improve in the most important and meaningful ways.

As you practice the Universe Principles the you are aligning with and tapping into the most powerful reoccurring patterns of successful and sustainable action found within the 13.7 billion-year-old evolution of the universe.

 

 

Overview

The Universe Principles of Right Action and Right Attitude are based the principles of Progressive Evolution. They are a comprehensive new set of essential basic actions and attitudes that balance individual and collective rights and responsibilities in sustainable, effective, and universalized ways as the core principles of universe evolution does.

At the end of the descriptions for the Universe Principles of Right Action, you'll find a link to a shorter printable version that you can use to do a seven-day experiment to test and prove the dramatic power of these principles in your life.

 

Why The Universe Principles are Important

Directly or indirectly, the evolutionary processes of the universe eventually condition and control ALL actions within the universe. Therefore, understanding the time-proven evolutionary processes controlling and conditioning evolution in the universe will help you align you actions with these processes allowing you to make better decisions and take the right actions at the right time and in the right way. This cannot help but produce a better life.

 

The Universe Principles of Right Action

The Universe Principles of Right Action are none other than the time-proven meta-principles of the universe's 13.7 billion years of successful progressive evolution.  These Right Actions and their corresponding Right Attitudes are the rules and principles for creating and maintaining thriving and sustainable individuals, families, groups, businesses, communities, nations, and even a just and equitable planetary government. The same principles, when ignored or not followed, are the deep causes of failure of any individual or group or, of their activities.

Failure to follow the principles of right action below eventually causes individuals, groups, and their activities to fail and eventually to be broken down and be recycled by the universe's evolutionary processes to be used elsewhere in more productive ways.

The complete Universe Principles are and represent energy, chemical and biological success, and sustainability. They are the secrets of life itself applicable to individuals, groups, and cultures. Think about them as the rules of evolution and our most basic "operating system."

If you consistently apply the Universe Principles, both you and the groups to which you belong will have the highest possible probability of achieving meaningful and sustainable success, which naturally will help to create a just civilization and a sustainable prosperity for all --- even in the sea of current and future conflicts and uncertainties in which we all exist.

Remember that it is through the wise and balanced application of ALL of the Universe Principles in an integrated and systemic way that a truly sustainable success can be achieved. 

We call individuals who practice these principles Evolutioneers.  

 

Here are the Universe Principles of Right Action

They will assist you in creating personal success that will also create a just civilization and a meaningful and Sustainable Prosperity for sll.

“The most practical belief system for a large-scale society, in the long run, is one that is firmly anchored in factual reality.”-- DAVID SLOAN WILSON

In the complete collection of Universe Principles, you will see the full cycle of energy in the universe as it manifests in successful, sustainable, and thriving systems. Every aspect of the full cycle of energy from creation to transformation and transmutation is covered, including how to increase energy efficiency, energy sharing, or energy reserves. To help you better visualize the energy management relationships of each Universe Principle you will also find a short [bracketed statement] describing how this principle works within the full cycle of energy creation and transformation after each principle.

"The modern scientific principles of evolution can be used in practical ways to dramatically improve the success of our daily lives and much more. These essential principles of universe scale evolution when used are also able to better guide and improve today's economics, political landscape and even improve today's religions and deteriorating climate conditions." Lawrence Wollersheim

The Universe Principles of Right Action are always moving toward Exhausting all Potentials and Possibilities to:

 

1.) Increase Creative Experimentation:

Create lots of small, low-risk experiments to discover new beneficial adaptations or to create positive "accidents." Tinker these experiments into higher levels of learning or success. (Humans are far better at tinkering than knowing.)

Be particularly watchful for positive "accidents” and serendipity in these experiments when they do occur. Aggressively pursue and utilize these positive accidents and serendipities as well as the real opportunities your discover.

Always allowing for about 5-10% of experimenting is potentially far more beneficial than generally understood in producing positive results and positive "black swans.” (Black swans are unpredictable events with consequences of huge or exponential impacts.)

 

 

 

2.) Maintain Present Moment Awareness, Particularly Awareness of Feedback:

Maintain awareness of essential feedback through present monent awareness of self, others, and the physical Universe. Various meditation or other now centering practices are tangible ways to increase your ability to be awarenof present moment feedback. Developing listening skills is another great way to increase your awareness of the feedback from others.

 

 

 

3.) Increase Learning from Current and Past Feedback and knowledge to Optimize Your Adaptability:

The three general levels to improve adaptability:

1. Rapidly learn from all accurate current correctional feedback that you receive from your life and experiments then use that new information to adapt. If you cannot adapt to something, change the environment wherever possible and appropriate.

 

 

2. Additionally, gather past knowledge on self, others, and particularly the Universe's success patterns to learn life’s guiding principles and to develop or improve exchangeable life skills and knowledge. 

3. In order to optimally advance individual and group learning and adaptability, it is essential to learn future prediction and future modeling skills using everything from one's own intelligence to super-computers. Doing experimentation with future modeling computer simulations allows one to experiment and tinker at a fraction of the normal cost and without the dangerous or costly mistakes of real experiments. Experiment, learn, and adapt is a core cycle of evolution. 

 

 

 

4.) Increase the Quantity and Quality of Fair Exchange transactions by Increasing Abundant, Sustainable Personal and Group Productivity:

Abundantly increase the fair exchange (just reciprocality) of sustainable, quality, and meritorious individual and group productivity (of real product or service value,) with other individuals and groups and then enjoy the earned pleasures and rewards of those productivity real value exchanges.

Every physically and mentally sound adult needs to be in an abundantly productive (producing more energy than they use or at least the same level of energy they use). It is essential to produce sustainable fair exchange with others, groups, and/or the environment.

This also means establishing fair exchange sustainability through the justice by eliminating all forms of individual or group freeloading, “gaming the system" and non-fair-exchange resource and energy theft. 

Why is the Universe Principle of fair energy exchange critical for a successful life? (B)

 

 

Abundant and sustainable productivity is one of the Universe meta-principles because of the reality of the Second Law of Thermodynamics known as entropy. Because all-natural systems require additional energy (human effort is energy too,) to sustain or reproduce themselves and/or create a new order (in the forms of products or services, life, or creating a dynamic equilibrium,) to counter the effects of entropy, abundant and sustainable productivity using continuous (and in many cases increasing energy and effort), is a fundamental inescapable reality of life.

Another way to think about this critical principle is to think about it a just reciprocality. All healthy and sustainable human relationships require a just and healthy reciprocality!

Please note that both exchange and productivity can be of both an economic or non-economic nature. There are many noneconomic products and services that contribute to the wellbeing and sustainability of the grouping, community or nation.

Fair exchange also is one of the most essential ingredients in-group cooperation building. Group cooperation building depends heavily on trust which comes and is expanded by a reciprocal fair exchange! 

This core Universe Principle is all about energy exchange reciprocation (fairness,) and increasing energy sources within a whole or group to counter and overcome the continual effect of energy entropy. This principle means that everyone who is not a child, sick, elderly, disabled mentally or physically or injured should be productive and produce more energy than they use because of entropy and the need for individual and group reserves (discussed in another Universe Principle farther down this list.

 

 

 

5.) Increase Individual Creative Freedom within Wise Boundaries:

Improve self-organization, self-discipline, and self-responsibility to increase freedom and wise choice in self and in one's groups. But it needs to be done in a way that self-interests, group interests, and Universe value-interests are aligned and balanced! An additional aspect of this principle and of the principle of building more cooperative groups and communities (a bit farther down this page,) is to always create and promote as much personal freedom for the group's or communities' individual members as is possible up to the point where the exercise of the individual freedom of that group or community member seriously debilitates or destroys the overall wellbeing and sustainability of the group union threatening the existence and essential functions of the group itself. 

This principle demonstrates the practical energy creation truth that individuals parts within a system and whole are ultimately better at energy creation and energy management when given the highest possible amounts of local freedom and autonomy.

 

 

 

6.) Increase Fair and Appropriate Consequence Capture for One's own or Group's actions:

Ensure timely fair and appropriate consequence capture for ALL individuals or groups that caused a particular positiveor negative consequence. Do it through appropriate transparency, truth sharing, co-responsible accountability, and where applicable triple bottom line, full-cycle accounting.

The fair and appropriate consequence capture principle is critically important in order to ensure community fair exchange, (the fairness of community justice) and to capture ALL:

a.) individual and group learning potentials,

b.) effective and essential correction-motivating stress feedback or,

c.) success-enhancing positive reinforcement feedback in the fastest and most efficient way.

Ensuring fair and appropriate consequence capture along with its essential justice partner of fair exchange are two of the most basic, powerful, and evolution-proven ways to create the minimal justice necessary to maintain the essential cooperation building trust and wellbeing in any individual or group as well as the fastest possible positive evolution!

Fair and appropriate consequence capture is also another effective way to prevent freeloading, “gaming the system" and non-fair-exchange, nonreciprocal energy, and resource theft, which inevitably first weakens and then destroys group trust and reciprocality, which then destroys the sustainability and thrivability groups and unions.

A critical element of both fair exchange and the fair and appropriate consequence capture reciprocality principles is that of scaling the positive (reward) and negative (punishment) consequences. In a healthy sustainable system, an individual or group should always receive the fair, appropriate, and proportionally increasing rewards of their productivity that demonstrates higher levels of intelligent effort, merit, and quality of results. The same is true of scaling appropriate and proportional penalties.

High and expanding levels of transparency and accountability are critical to enacting fair and appropriate consequence capture because the powerful evolutionary self-interests of either the individual parts or the self-interests of wholes [groupings/unions,] when hidden or not accounted for will always take over and lessen the essential optimal balance and tension between the self-interests of the individual and the self-interests of the whole group or union.

Remove this single critical and central meta-principle and the parts and groups within the system do not learn from their own negative and positive feedback quickly or efficiently or--- at all!

Believe it or not, when seen from the universe perspective having ALL individuals or groups always fairly and appropriately capture both the positive or negative consequences of their own actions is not only the fastest way to adapt and evolve it is also the most merciful and compassionate way because in general an "earned" consequence delayed in a consequence intensified!

This fair and appropriate consequence capture meta-principle is also about energy exchange reciprocation (fairness,) multiplying vital energy creation sources within a whole or group through energy rewards and lessening energy depletion sources within a group through energy penalties. This critical principle maintains energy productivity and fairness within every whole system or group.

 

 

 

7.) Increase Wise Cooperation:

In spite of what we have heard about the survival of the fittest evolution actually favors the survival of the most wisely cooperative. Wise cooperation occurs in conditions of general fairness, trust, and reciprocality. Therefore, first ensure group fairness, trust, transparency, and reciprocality and then wisely COOPERATE.

Wise cooperation implies using all of the Universe Principles as a whole system of principled guidance to know when and how to cooperate or how to know when not to cooperate until the necessary trust, fair exchange, transparency and reciprocality and other conditions for wise cooperation have been established.

The principle of wise cooperation is partially about preserving energy reciprocation and energy conservation (so you do not violate the second law of thermodynamics,) while working more importantly towards managing balancing and aligning the tensional self-interests of the member parts of the whole to the overall health and well being of the whole collective union as well as to the value interests of the Universe. This then creates greater and wiser near optimal energy sharing in scale, frequency, or quality.

A way to think about unwise cooperation is that it is when after a cooperative agreement --- you or your group does significantly worse, gets fewer resources to reproduce or sustain itself while another individual or group unfairly and non-reciprocalally significantly does better or gets more resources to reproduce or sustain itself.  

Wise cooperation is always solidly grounded in fair exchange, reciprocality, and aligned and managed self-interests. 

 

 

 

8.) Expand Group/Union Building:

Build and/or replicate both more and larger unions and mini-cultures where self-interests, group/union interests, and Universe directional value-interests are mutually aligned in a win/win/win scenario. When enough groups create enough unions and mini-cultures that follow these Universe Principles these principles will eventually move into a larger union and permeate and be taken on by the macro-culture. Imitate a whole systems understanding of universe evolution at every opportunity, which appears to be moving toward creating a super-union of all universe parts, wholes and sub-unions by creating more wise and reciprocating unions. 

The principle of creating more or larger unions (through wise cooperation,) is about working towards creating greater energy sharing in scale, frequency, or quality. 

 

 

9.) Increase Group/Community/Union Transparency, Integration, Harmony, and Order:

Improve the transparency, integration, harmony, and dynamic flexible order in one’s groups and communities that is also universe value-interest aligned and balanced. 

This principle improves the efficiency of energy creation and sharing for and among the parts of a group/union. Better energy sharing creates stronger more sustainable groups and unions.

 

 

 

10.) Increase the Release of All Individual, Group, and Union Creative Developmental Potentials:

Work actively both as individuals and as groups or communities toward realizing ALL individual unrealized potentials and the unrealized potentials of yourindividualmember, groups, or communities to learn, adapt and develop and, where possible, to transcend the current conditions and challenges!

Development of individual and group unrealized potentials here means the full spectrum of possible development as expressed in achieving the development fulfillment potentials such as expressed basically in Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy or more complexly in Kegan's model of psychological development or Kohlberg's stages of moral development. 

This principle helps to realize the full energy creation efficiency of the individual parts or members of a group or union.

 

 

 

11.) Increase Appropriate Individual and Group Abundance, Reserves, and Resilience:

Build robustness, redundancies, and adequate reserves into both individual parts and all groups and unions to build adequate resilience and the necessary reserve abundance to insure against rare, very large-impact negative consequences and unpredictable emergencies caused by inherent system uncertainties and “negative black swans.” This reserve abundance building also provides the resources for wise and appropriate energy investment in charity and group support for illness or physical or mental incapacitation or other situations where a member of the group is unable to produce more energy than they use, such as in the case of growing children, the retired or diminished capacity elderly or those injured in work or defending the nation.

Another level of resilient robustness can also be achieved by creating distributed and decentralized resources, authority, and adaptability at local node levels of all kinds of networks. Appropriate resilient abundance is not a state where some parts and unions have obtained (or take,) such excessive amounts of energy and resources or, accumulate such excessive reserves by either productive or non-fair exchange means, that other productive and/or inter-dependent essential parts of the groupings are unable to obtain adequate, fair and appropriate energy and resource exchange for their productivity, reproductivity, and sustainability.

This principle is about energy storage and energy abundance availability --- namely to ALWAYS have enough energy reserves available to maintain individual or group resilience and energy use requirements when either an unexpected energy loss occurs (a crisis, emergency, etc.,) or when temporarily or permanently nonproductive members of the group require additional energy support is critical.

In addition to the Second Law of Thermodynamics known as entropy, it also is necessary to have these reserves because of the additional lessening effects of the law of diminishing returns, which will eventually always bring about a collapse in systems without new energy sources or emergency backup reserves.

 

 

12.) Increase Individual and Group Evolvability to Expand a Sustainable Control of the Environment and to Co-Evolve a Better Shared Future:

Improve one's self and one's group's evolvability by teaching, knowing, and using the Universe's value-interest aligned core principles (the Universe Principles). Use the Universe Principles in all areas of life to directly expand your and your group's sustainable environmental control.

Also use these evolutionary principles to intentionally create the education, governance, and management systems to teach others, to replicate and create new and larger more successful universe principle-based mini-cultures, groups, or unions, and to replicate and expand the Universe Evolutionary Worldview movement into becoming the dominant macro-culture.

Improving individual and group evolvability and environmental control particularly includes creating future modeling, awareness and adaptable intelligence by using rational/analytical thinking, systems thinking and new dialectical metasystemic thinking for future modeling and risk analysis for wise evolution aligned future planning and model testing.

 

 

 

13.) Increase Individual and Group Out-of-Evolutionary Alignment Breakdowns:

Keep vividly in mind that failure to adapt and align oneself, one's groups, businesses, and nations with the core universe success patterns, value interests, principles, and the directionality of progressive evolution (as found above and within the Universe Principles when applied in an integrated whole systems manner,) results in the other great meta-pattern and meta-process of progressive evolution to take over. This core pattern, and core universe meta-principle of sustainability is:

The universe is always in an act of destructive creation breaking down and recycling any and all continually non-learning, non-adaptive, and/or non "cooperating" parts or wholes to be recycled and reused later in other evolutionary experiments or situations.

Evolution wastes nothing and unfailingly eventually breaks down and recycles ALL nonaligned and non-adaptive parts or wholes in an act of creative destruction to once again attempt to forward the progressive directionality and value interests of evolution by reusing and recycling the resources of failed, no longer needed or relevant evolutionary experiments.

From its original creativity to its ending destructive creativity qualities in the breakdown and recycling of non-learning, non-adaptive, and/or non-cooperating parts and wholes, the Universe Principles create a full creative cycle containing everything essential to keep the directional; processes of evolution progressing.

This principle is all about avoiding unnecessary energy loss and understanding that any and all energy losses ultimately will be reused and recycled.

 

 

We have finally reached the amazing phase of evolution where we can now become evolution’s partner consciously co-evolving universe evolution. The above Universe Principles are the actions that help us do it! When we live sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods applying the Universe Principles and we enact laws that reflect the application of the Universe Principles when applied to groups, corporations, and nations we will attain a just civilization and a meaningful and sustainable prosperity for ALL.

If any individual, group, nation, business, or whole union of any kind fails to apply, align with, and forward the Universe Principles as a whole and integrated system in a balanced way, they will eventually be broken down and recycled (distributed elsewhere for new evolutionary experiments.)

 

 

How to Use the Universe Principles of Right Action and Sustainable Prosperity

"The application of the evolutionary science derived Universe Principles will create a just civilization, a sustainable prosperity and a meaning and purpose-filled life for all. When applied wisely, they create the optimization and simultaneous maximization of both individual and collective well-being. They are the most basic rules of evolution's core "operating system." Lawrence Wollersheim

1. Read, meditate upon and practice them every day and discover for yourself just how dramatically your life will improve. It takes many readings and at least 90 days of practice for their wisdom and power to slowly evolve away any of your present deeply embedded, biased, or habituated thinking and reactions. You will never know how well they work until you actually practice and apply them even if you do not fully understand them! Just start reading and practicing --- explore and experiment. (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.)

2. Regularly think about how you are or how are not currently using applying them in your life or in the groups to which you belong. If you are applying them, figure out how you can apply them more. If you are not applying them, figure out how you can then watch the proactive evolution unfold! It will take real-life self-discipline to start and then continue to read and apply these life success and sustainability critical principles.

3. Remember in your practice that the universe attitudes are the discriminating and wise spirit from which you apply all of the Universe Principles of Right Action in a balanced way. Right action, right attitude applied to the right conditions equals right results. This is very important to remember. If you do the correct thing with the wrong or attitude the correct thing will often produce wrong results. Always apply the universe principle actions from and using the perspective of the right attitudes! (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.)

Click here to begin a five-minute-a-day test and experiment on what the Universe Principles can do for your life. This experiment contains the short form of the Universe Principles.

 

 

Here is what the Universe Principles will eventually do to create greater success in your life if you build its principles into a habit

The Universe Principles will:

1. 1. Show you how to align with the unstoppable, ever-flowing wave of evolution itself. 
   2. Provide a practical and step-by-step principle-aligned map and tool for managing your daily life challenges,
   3. Help you realize your biggest, long-term personal goals in dramatically more effective, sustainable, and meaningful ways,
   4. Provide a new, practical, and step-by-step principle-aligned tool for collectively managing our many humanity-ending planetary challenges,
   5. Convey to your life the ultimate "big story” and a universe-scale perspective. This new big story and universe-scaled perspective provides a colossal problem-solving and quality-of-life-improving advantage. And,
   6. Provide the most practical global tools for realizing the benefits implied within the following quote:

“The planetary consciousness which has created our current planetary problems is not the consciousness that will solve them. To effectively resolve our most serious planetary challenges (like human-caused catastrophic climate destabilization,) it will require the new and larger universe evolutionary consciousness and its emerging Universe Evolutionary Worldview.”  Lawrence Wollersheim

 

When you're ready, after your successful experiment, see below for the Intermediate and Advanced-level Universe Principles materials

Click here to read an inspiring article on why the Universe Principles derived from the principles of Progressive Evolution are so important to the future of humanity.

Click here to see the intermediate Universal Principles of Right Attitude.

Click here for the advanced Universe Principles Right Actions materials.

Click here for the advanced Universe Principles Right Attitudes materials.

 

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Optional Advanced Reading and Documentation

(If you are one of those individuals who wants to know all of the technical details, science, and hows and whys, continue reading below. If you are not such a person. what you have read above is more than enough to get you started.) 

 

How the Universe Principles Relate to Justice

An additional and important way to think about and see the preceding "Right Actions" of the Universe Principles is to see them as the boundaries and formulas of individual and collective justice in an evolutionary system, particularly as it relates to energy sharing justice. If you see these principles collectively as the minimal operational rules and evolutionary "operating system" for creating, maintaining, and sharing energy fairly and reciprocally that then can be used to establish stable unions good for both individuals and groups (dynamic evolutionary equilibriums,) you would also have a practical perspective on how to use them to establish either the foundational or essential ongoing energy sharing justice systems always needed so any human system can become more balanced and sustainable and thrive for more of its members.

 

The Universe Principles and Our Key Human Virtues

In one way or another, the Universe Principles and the value interests of progressive evolution also embrace most all of the key human virtues in one way or another. Now that you are familiar with these science-grounded meta-principles and value interests of the evolutionary universe you can also go to our human virtues master list and also try to connect up each human virtue listed with one or more of the meta-principles and value interests of progressive evolution and the above Universe Principles.

You may have to be a little creative, but it will not be hard to see that our key human virtues have roots far deeper and are more complex than just our spiritual traditions. It appears that our ancestors also saw, although incompletely, what successfully adaptive individual and group behavior to numerous kinds of environments looked like and they tried to teach these adaptive behaviors to their children as human virtues.

 

The Universe Principles and the Open Source Model

In open-source software terms, the Universe Principles are the Open Source Kernel of all Kernels! They are the most basic rules of evolution's core "operating system." They are the "core software program and core evolutionary algorithm: of the successful universe evolution of life itself and everything that creates, sustains, and thrives it.

The in open source software the kernel conditions and controls all sub-systems and secondary processes just like the macro processes of Universe evolution condition and control the sub-systems and secondary processes of evolution. Once you know the evolutionary universe's kernel of core meta-processes you can then better execute the restructuring and "re-coding" all of our economic, social, and political systems to better align them to the "kernel" of the universe's successful evolutionary processes so that those secondary applications run more effectively and successfully. 

The meta-principles of the Universe Principles of Sustainability are the Kernel of successful life itself!

 

Here are our very advanced materials on the Right Actions of the Universe Principles.