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Prologue
At Universe Spirit, we now call the Universe Evolutionary Worldview, the principles of Progressive Evolution, and the Universe Principles collectively "the Way of the Universe" to emphasize that they embody the most time-tested, recurring patterns of successful and sustainable action found throughout the universe's 14.2-billion-year evolution. (Click here now to review a brief overview of the new "Way of the Universe" and what it involves if you have not already done so.)
Introduction
Below are the critical links explaining the New Universe Evolutionary Worldview, also known as the Way of the Universe Worldview, the Evolutionary Worldview, or the Universe Worldview. This new worldview offers humanity new, more effective, and more powerful tools, along with a realistic hope of solving the many problems it faces globally.
The emergence of every new worldview is vital because a worldview IS the most fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society, encompassing the whole of the individual's or a society's knowledge and point of view. There have been about five new worldviews throughout human evolution. Whenever a new worldview emerges, there is great potential for major personal and societal improvement. Each worldview reframes human knowledge, values, and experience.
This new worldview provides more tools and a more realistic hope for the future than any previous worldview. It will help you live a more successful and sustainable life and help humanity manage its 12 biggest global crises.
The emergence of the Universe Evolutionary Worldview results from two foundational new developments.
1. the principles of Progressive Evolution, and
2. The new thinking methodology for analyzing complex adaptive systems is called Dialectical Metasystemic Thinking.
As you will read below, this is not the first time that a new thinking methodology brought about a new worldview and a period of great advancement.
What is the Universe Evolutionary Worldview
The birth of a new worldview is a monumental event in human evolution and for the possibility of improving the human condition. Numerous new worldviews have emerged in human history, and each has driven significant advancements.
Each of us interprets life through our current worldview. Yet, worldviews are almost always invisible and unknown to their holders, which makes them powerful and dangerous.
They are powerful if they meet the needs and challenges of the time with appropriate and sustainable solutions. They are dangerous when out of touch with the needs and challenges of the time.
(If you are still unsure what a worldview is and why it is so critical to understanding the evolution of humanity and improving our collective future, please be sure to click here before continuing. It will give you a better understanding of what a worldview is and does, and how important having an accurate worldview is for our lives.)
The new Universe Evolutionary Worldview, which has recently appeared, is founded upon and defined by the most current evolutionary science.
It is a major upgrade to previous worldviews.
It is an evolutionary upgrade because it goes beyond Darwin's original theory of evolution. It also goes well beyond the version of evolutionary principles that E. O Wilson described in his New Synthesis.
The new Universe Evolutionary Worldview is unique as a worldview in that it is an encompassing yet non-overthrowing next progressive upgrade to our understanding of evolutionary principles within evolution.
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview is:
1.) firmly grounded in objective science and,
2.) based on our best current understanding of the progressive directionality of universe evolution. (This new meta-view of progressive stages of human, global, and universe evolution is always viewed from a universe-scaled, interdisciplinary, and whole systems perspective.)
From the many powerful predictive capabilities found within the Universe Evolutionary Worldview, it is not hard to see that humanity is heading toward a highly probable Great Global Collapse and a subsequent possible Great Global Rebirth. Using the tools of the Universe Evolutionary Worldview, the Universe Spirit organization is dedicated to helping us through the Great Global Collapse and bringing into being the Great Global Rebirth. In many ways, the breakthrough Universe Evolutionary worldview not only creates the future --- it IS the future!
What Are The Universe Evolutionary Worldview's unique benefits?
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview provides a science-grounded, shareable, and common genesis story for the universe's 13.8 billion years of existence, unifying all humanity! In this Genesis story, a new common identity full of meaning and purpose is offered as a vital partner in the progressive evolution of life on our planet and in the universe. Click here for more information on this science-grounded uniting genesis story.
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview's meta-principles and its new Universe Evolutionary Worldview provide the science-grounded foundation and needed ideological clarity and worldview justifications to underpin the validity of the new ideas, processes, and goals of a decentralized, collaborative, democratized, networked, and laterally-scaled new "Third Industrial Revolution Economy" and its vision of Sustainable Prosperity of abundance for more of humanity.
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview helps you to learn, use, and integrate many practical art-of-living skills that are also absolutely essential to a meaningful, successful, and sustainable life.
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview's social activism embodies the "first things first" principle. In fact, our first promandment is to act as self-organizing, responsible sustainability stewards of the living bio-systems of the planet and the universe. It is our first promandment simply because if we and future generations are not sustainable, the necessary "game board" for all of life will disappear, and all individual goals and life games will cease.
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview is today's leader in educating about evolutionary science and how to live its sustainability principles. The Universe's Principles of Progressive Evolution convey a Sustainable Prosperity-building advantage to all who understand and use them. These meta-principles will help you to create or expand a sustainable "right livelihood."
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview provides new codes of ethical conduct for wisely resolving the complexities and realities of the 21st century, with universal applicability. The Universe Evolutionary Worldview empowers the value of creating a safe environment.
We use a new set of universal guiding principles derived from universe-scale evolutionary science, which we call the Universe Principles. These principles are important in creating a collaborative and safe environment where individuals grow optimally, and our community thrives.
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview helps to create Evolutioneers. It helps the individual to become a universe citizen and Evolutioneer to help co-create a new science-rational evolutionary community and a new planetary culture and civilization. The dissemination and growth of Evolution 2.0 ideas and values will also hopefully help build many more universe science-grounded communities and a new mini-culture where objective scientific probabilities are wisely integrated with your subjective experiences. The vast challenges of today's new interconnectedness and interdependence urgently call for the creation of more jobs, healthier families, communities, and government, universal access to health care and education, and a new kind of fair exchange-based sustainable prosperity for ALL individuals, as well as our planet's bio-systems! The Universe Citizens and Evolutioneers that the Universe Evolutionary Worldview helps create are individuals leading in these areas of wise social activism. (When we emphasize the word wise social activism, we mean that one most optimally engages in social activism only after one has carefully evaluated the best plan for such actions using the new meta-systemic dialectical thinking processes for working with complex adaptive systems [that we will soon be offering in an online course.] This new kind of thinking breakthrough is a key tool of the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview.) (I)
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview is an adventure of self-organized personal and community full potential release, growth, and discovery. It is designed to release and develop both your and your community's full potential for growth by exploring the Three Great Adventures of Life in and with what is known as Ultimate Reality! These three Great Adventures of Life are the epic self-discovery and life-empowerment adventures of today’s new life and spirit heroes, heroines, and leaders. They are the life and spirit adventures that will release your greatest potential and conscious awareness to serve your most worthwhile and life-affirming goals, your community, the Earth and all its life, the amazing, unstoppable power flow of the progressive directionality of the universe's evolution, and the great mystery of Ultimate Reality, which interconnects all things. (If you have not read the Three Great Spiritual Adventures of Life, be sure to do so now!)
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview is based, to a significant extent, but not exclusively, on direct physical and objective observation and experience of the universe as a whole and as a unified system. If you are of a spiritual nature, it grounds, supports, and balances subjective personal religion and spirituality for the first time from a whole-system, integral, and physical universe-framed objective perspective. It holds that even though the physical universe may not be the ultimate end of the spiritual discovery and exploration process, it is the first, most direct, and most common objective collective space wherein individuals can explore and test their subjective personal spirituality and then agree upon what common or universal spiritual values and meanings they have discovered in an open and reasonable manner. Direct, objective observation of the patterns of the physical universe has always been the source of our oldest spiritual wisdom and practical principles for living. Now, because of the many new universe-scaled discoveries by modern science, it has once again become the surprising source of the newest and most life-affirming spiritual wisdom and practical principles for living (as found within the perspectives and principles of the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview) Direct observation of the physical universe may also be the most optimized way to know the nature, purposes of the Origin and Original Source of the physical universe in that directly observing the fruit (the universe,) of any seed tells you a lot about the nature, purposes, and destiny of that seed. In truth, all that we can know objectively about Ultimate Reality is from direct observation of the physical universe. What this means is that, if you are spiritual, the Universe Spirituality module of the Way of the Universe integrates the wisdom of both science and spirituality to foster integral well-being at all levels. Click here to see exactly how we integrate science and spirituality in a balanced way, and how we bring new, accurate, and useful science and humanity's omni-denominational spiritual heritage of life-affirming wisdom into a life-enhancing new balance. (B)
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview envisions death and what could lie beyond it in numerous humble and rational ways. We embrace all of the possibilities of everything from the many life extension and eventual immortality possibilities of evolutionary transhumanism to the possibilities of awakening at some new level to the union of one's own body/spirit/consciousness, which may eventually preserve and transport your highest spiritual Essence and potentially and --- even transcend the death of the physical body. Just as the material elements of the body will return to the planet and universe at death, it is rational to postulate that any non-material elements of an individual's life, such as the consciousness (or non-material parts of the mind), the soul, spirit, essence or personality, will return at death to any possible non-material source.
Who are the Thinkers, Authors, and Leaders of the Universe Worldview?
The New Universe Evolutionary Worldview is being adopted by individuals, groups, and organizations at an ever-increasing pace. The reason is simple. The Universe Evolutionary Worldview conveys many tremendous survival and sustainable success advantages to all who use it.
The following lists outline a few of the many authors and thinkers behind the expansion of the New Universe Worldview. Some of the aspects and perspectives of the New Universe Worldview have also been previously known as the Great Story, The Evolutionary Epic, The Big History, The Science Creation Myth, and the Universe Story.
The Leading Contemporary Universe Evolutionary Worldview and/or Progressive Evolution Authors:
Here are the most current new books, materials and authors helping to define, expand, and disseminate the New Universe Worldview and its progressive evolution perspectives:
1.) View from the Center of the Universe by Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams. (The books View from the Center of the Universe Along with The Universe Story by Brian Swimme (just below,) constitute one of the most accurate and complete statements of the common and shared cosmology and new genesis story currently held within the New Universe Worldview. These two books are essential initial must reads to grasp the scope of the new Universe Worldview.)
2.) The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era--A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos by Brian Swimme. (It is the Genesis Story that we use in our organization.)
3.) Evolution's Arrow: The Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity, by John Stewart. (This also is an essential New Universe Worldview read summarizing the key elements of progressive evolution.)
4.) Thank God for Evolution! How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow. (If you have a Judeo-Christian background this is easy fast read that will provide many of the New Universe Worldview perspectives.)
5.) The New Universe Principles, by Lawrence Wollersheim (See both Parts 1 and Part 2 of the New Universe Principles as well as the key links on those pages. The New Universe Principles are a statement of the values and ethical guidelines found within universe progressive evolution.)
6.) The Evolutionary Epic, Science's Story and Humanity's Response, by Russell Genet, Brian Swimme, Linda Palmer and Linda Gibler. (A great series of essays exploring various aspects of progressive evolution and the perspectives held within the New Universe Worldview.)
7.) Maps of Time, An Introduction to Big History by David Christian (and his CD lecture series called Big History. This book and the CDs provide a multi-disciplinary look at all of the universe's evolution including all human history. This work is finally being taught in progressive universities around the world).
8.) Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution, Steve Mcintosh. (Good look at the evolution of human consciousness through history.)
9.) Conscious Evolution: Examining humanity's next step, Barbara Marx Hubbard.
10.) A Brief History of Everything, Ken Wilber. (The evolution of the Universe for individuals coming from or appreciating an integral perspective.)
11.) Connie Barlow for her work on the Great Story Materials.
12. ) There are many teachers and professors bringing the perspectives and scope of the New Universe Worldview into their courses a few of them are Loyal Rue, Ursula Goodenough, Craig Benjamin, Todd Duncan and Eric Chaaisson to name but a few.
13.) Evolutionaries, Carter Phillips. A great and well-written history of the evolutionary movement heavy on the philosophy and spiritual aspects but weaker on evolutionary science and cosmology of the evolutionary universe.
14.) Lawrence Wollersheim for their work on this Universe Spirit website, the Universe College the Unissance social network and at the soon to be opened Universe Institute and Universe Academy.
The Universe Evolutionary Worldview and Progressive Evolution Earlier Thinkers and Authors
Here are the older books and authors that helped to define, expand, and disseminate the original parts and perspectives of the New Universe Worldview and progressive evolution:
1.) The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution, Erich Janstch. (Lots of deep advanced science on progressive evolution.)
2.) Design for Evolution: Self-Organization and Planning in the Life of Human Systems, Erich Janstch.
3.) The Future of Man, Teilhard de Chardin. (This was one of his many books on aspects of progressive evolution. He is considered one of the founding founders of the New Universe Worldview.)
4.) Process Theology, David Ray Griffin and John B. Cobb. (The Christian-focused marriage of science and spirituality and progressive evolution.)
5.) The Great Work, Our Way into the Future by Thomas Berry. (Progressive evolution and the future sustainability of our planet. Thomas Berry was one of the earliest advocates of many of the perspectives of the New Universe Worldview.)
6.) The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo, (He was an Oxford Scholar who discusses the progressive evolution of life and spirit in the universe. He is also considered one of the founding sources of some of the perspectives of the the New Universe Worldview in the areas of spirit and consciousness.)
New Books Coming out Soon on the Perspectives of the Universe Evolutionary Worldview and Progressive Evolution
There are currently 3-4 new books on the cusp of release about aspects of the New Universe Worldview and progressive evolution.
(Please note: The list of Universe Evolutionary Worldview authors and leaders above is not intended to be a complete list, and if we have inadvertently missed anyone who also should be on this list, please let us know.)
"The New Universe Worldview is so timely, empowering and monumental in its scope it will eventually re-align everything we now know to its transcending new perspectives. It is just the unifying and centering new worldview that we urgently need to resolve our biggest planetary challenges and, it is appearing precisely when it's needed most!" Lawrence Wollersheim
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More About the Universe Evolutionary Worldview
There is a code at the end of each Universe Worldview link below. The (B) is for the beginner level, the (I) is for the intermediate level, and the (A) is for the advanced.
Many of the links below will still take you to our older website, which we are in the process of moving over to the new site and upgrading.
What is the Universe Evolutionary Worldview's Great News of Science-Grounded Hope
What is the summary overview of the Universe Worldview? (I)
What are the Basics of the Universe Evolutionary Worldview
Why The Universe Evolutionary Worldview Now?
Why is this New Worldview so Important to Our Future? (B)
What are the practical benefits of Progressive Evolution and its Universe Worldview? (B)
What do you mean by the Universe Worldview's goal of sustainable prosperity for all? (I)
In What Ways is the Universe Worldview Growing into a Second Enlightenment for Humanity? (I)
How Can I help spread the Universe Worldview in my local area? (B)
What is the Universe Evolutionary Worldview, and why is it crucial? (I)
What is the New Universe Worldview? Booklet (B)
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What Can the Universe Evolutionary Worldview Do for the Challenges of the World Today?
What are the Other Unique Qualities of the Universe Evolutionary Worldview
For Whom is The New Universe Evolutionary Worldview Best Suited?
Do A Simple Universe Evolutionary Worldview Benefits Experiment and Test its Validity For Yourself
What are the Two Main Universe Evolutionary Worldview Controversies
90 Common Questions and Answers About the Universe Evolutionary Worldview: Our FAQ
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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.
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