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Prologue

The Universe Principles below represent the core basics of 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 we call Progressive Evolution. Your life will dramatically improve as you practice the principles and actions described below.

The Universe Principles work because your life and existence are entirely embedded inside the universe's evolutionaries system. By understanding and aligning with this system, your life can't help but improve in the most critical and meaningful ways. As you practice the universe principles (the Way of the Universe), you are aligning with and tapping into the most potent, time-proven, reoccurring patterns of successful and sustainable action found within the 13.7 billion-year-old evolution of the universe.

“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

Overview

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

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

"The Universe Principles are the meta-principles of successful and sustainable universe evolution. Within them is captured the universe's core wisdom concerning what the Universe has learned about sustainable success over the last 13.8 billion years.

As a fully integrated system, you will also find every life-affirming human virtue and society's wisest moral and ethical precepts and values for keeping individuals and groups thriving and cooperating. They will help you create an optimal and correct relationship to the realities of successful and sustainable living, evolution, and the universe." Lawrence Wollersheim

The Universe Principles of Right Action and Right Attitude should be viewed as a comprehensive set of essential actions and attitudes that balance individual and collective rights and responsibilities in sustainable, effective, and universalized ways. 

Why The Universe Principles are Important:

The Universe Principles are essential to a good life because, directly or indirectly, eventually, the evolutionary processes of the master universe condition and control all actions within the universe. Therefore, your understanding of the evolutionary processes controlling and conditioning the universe, simplified in the form of the Universe Principles, will help you make the right decisions and take the right actions at the right time and in the right way. In practical terms, the more your life aligns with and manifests the Universe Principles of Right Action and Right Attitude, the better your life will become.

The Universe Principles of Right Action

One uses the Universe Principles of Right Action in wise and balanced application with the Universe Principles of Right Attitude. Think about the Universe Principles of Right Attitude as creating the right mindset to persist and stay motivated positively to execute the Universe Principles of Right Action successfully.

“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

"Evolutionary science IS a branch of science most firmly anchored in reality. The Universe Principles (Right Attitudes (below) and Right Actions) represent evolution's most proven, basic, and controlling rules as well as evolution's core operating system." Lawrence Wollersheim

The Universe Principles of Right Attitude Are

1.) From What We Know Now, Only One Meta Universe Exists; Everything is Included, and Nothing is Excluded from this Great Union: 

The universe is the only "text" with no "context." It is the context that holds everything in one total union!

You are completely embedded within this one interconnected universe, a union of inextricable interdependent energy sharing and interdependent relationships with all other life and things in the universe.

This is not a philosophic opinion or spiritual theory. Evolution science has demonstrated that we are all embedded within this oneness of the universe's universal union!

This means that nothing embedded in this universe and universal union is ever truly separate or excluded. When we understand and then act from this universal oneness truth and realize its inherent inclusion of all things, the separation and tensions with other people begin to lessen and dissolve the "us vs. them" to our and the world's great benefit. Whole new possibilities of creative (and loving) action are possible when one realizes and embraces this: "Nothing is ultimately and completely separate from you --- as scientific truth!

Each day, this means fully embracing being in a co-evolutionary, co-creative, and co-responsible universe union composed of self, other beings, the evolving Universe, and (if you are spiritually inclined) the Ultimate Reality that was the origin of the Universe! (You can choose either secular or spiritual definition of Ultimate Reality by clicking the preceding Ultimate Reality link.)

2.) Embrace the Fundamental Is-ness and Neutral Quality of all Universe Reality: 

Realize that at the most fundamental, simple, and scientifically provable level, what can be said with the highest certainty and widespread agreement is--- that "the Universe just and simply IS." This is-ness and "neutral" quality of the universe and its parts also implies an empowering and excellent converse concept, which is that life, the universe, and the universe’s parts (like you) are not inherently deficient, naturally flawed, or intrinsically evil in any way --- at least when seen as being parts of the universe's wondrous evolutionary process viewed from the whole system at universe scale.

Embrace Continuous Learning and the Development of ALL Possible Potentials of Any Thing (Individually or Collectively) as a Primary "What's Happening" of Universe Evolution:

Fully acknowledge that the evolving universe can be seen primarily as a "university" for having diverse and novel experiences and learning how to release all inherent potentials for the development of any thing. Once a thing releases its intrinsic potential, it can learn, adapt, and develop better. This development of potentials occurs most optimally through conscious relationships of inter-connected and interdependent sharing toward greater unions(s).

Imitate the universe and embrace the attitude of a life-long release of your full developmental potential and a life of continuous learning and adaption as a primary life necessity. When any problem or conflict arises, it would also be wise to see them initially as possible developmental, learning, or adaptation issues before going on to other remedial approaches. Releasing your full developmental potential and continuous learning is an "essential beginning" universe attitude.

This also indicates that to be optimally successful, individuals, families, businesses, and communities must adopt policies and practices that consistently and continuously support the potential development, learning/training/education process within themselves and their groups.

It is so important that after establishing any needed justice, safety, and security foundation so that sustainable action may occur, there needs to be a primary, continual, and major focus for any successful system upon the development, learning/training, and education of its members.

4.) Everything that is now Occurring as an Integral and Essential part of the Universe’s Evolutionary Process of Continuous Change:

This "everything is ALWAYS in a continuously evolutionary change process."

This ever-changing process also implies there will be differentials between things in different states of evolution and that accepting that inherent differential (differences) in the evolutionary process at varying levels of development will naturally create dynamic tensions (conflicts) and stress. The good news is that this is part of the natural process and is also okay! This is ok because these elements of difference, tensional conflict, and stress will always be used in one way or another to advance the developmental dynamics and progress of the universe's evolutionary processes as a whole.

The principle of continuous change also indirectly and subtly implies that --- every universe part or whole emerges, develops, or HAS in its own inherent “perfect” timing, and it develops through its unique and ever-changing evolutionary processes! When seen from the biggest evolutionary universe scale perspective, one could even say that --- "things do not happen to you. They happen with you and for you. This is because you, too, are also a vital and integral part of the Universe's amazing evolutionary process! 

5.) Realize that Everything always Works out for the Good of the Evolution of the Universe as a Whole:

Over the last 13.7 billion years, everything, including conflicts, seeming retrogressions, "failed experiments," and even extinctions in parts or subsystems is eventually directly or indirectly utilized and recycled by the master universe’s evolutionary processes to advance the value interests (the goods and wellbeing) of the Universe as a whole system.

If you are well aligned with universe evolution by living the Universe Principles, things will generally and frequently be good for your individual well-being! While the universe's evolutionary processes always work for the good of the whole, first and foremost, they simultaneously do whatever they can to preserve and forward the well-being of the individual parts of the universe in direct proportion to how well those parts are aligned with the Universe Principles.

6.) Enjoy this Current Moment in Universe Evolution Because it "Really is the Most Evolved and Best that it has Ever Been:"

When seen from the perspective of the whole universe system, progressive universe evolution is actually at its highest known level of evolutionary development right now! While there will be conflicts, seeming retrogressions, "failed experiments," and even extinctions in parts or subsystems of the master universe system, as a whole universe system, it is the most evolved and best it has ever been!

One could even extend this "most evolved and best" attitude to the current state of the Earth when the planet is seen as a whole system over the entire 4.2 billion years of its developmental process. Although humanity may face its greatest challenges ever, human civilization can be seen from many different levels to be its "most evolved and best" for larger numbers of humanity than ever before.

7.) Embrace Life's truly Unpredictable Uncertainties:

Uncertainties are intrinsic to the evolutionary process. Uncertainties are essential to future evolution and the preservation of hope possibilities. (An ever-present element of uncertainty is also natural due to the ever-increasing complexity and spontaneities inherent within the evolutionary process.)

8.) Let Go and Move On to What’s Next --- When Any Thing IS Done or Needs to be Over: 

When you let go and move on to what's next when something no longer serves, all of the resources of what is over will then be more effectively recycled back into the universe’s evolutionary processes and be “reborn” into new experiments, forms, parts, possibilities, unions, and directions. By doing so, one may also become considerably less burdened in achieving their next step in evolutionary development, having let go and moved on from what no longer was useful or served. 

Evolution unfailingly does this by "letting go and moving on" every time it breaks down and recycles nonaligned and non-adaptive (failed) parts or wholes in acts of destructive creation.  Over the last 14.2 billion years, evolution has repeatedly done this to advance its progressive directionality and vital value interests by reusing and recycling the resources of failed, no longer needed, maladaptive, or no longer relevant evolutionary experiments.

9.) Delight in the Universe being Engaged in a Grand and Creative Adventure and its Progressive Evolutionary Processes Taking it Somewhere:

Because universe evolution is going somewhere, we can awarely align with its processes and "ride" its unstoppable directionality to enhance our success and do our part to sustainably advance the progressive evolutionary progress of humanity and life in the universe.

10.) Celebrate the Abundance of the Universe's Near Unlimited Creativity and Energy:

Celebrate your existence within a Universe of near limitless and abundant creative potential, energy abundance, beauty, continuously evolving diversity and process, and its opportunities, creative spontaneities, and uncertainties. 

Be grateful each day and celebrate the adventure, surprises, and opportunities brought to you by a progressively evolving Universe that is increasing in novelty, complexity, learning, adaptability, and intelligence.

"Over the past 13.7 billion years of progressive evolutionary creativity, the universe appears to have a broad creative directionality to it, and it seems to have continually repeated specific patterns and actions that cause certain parts and wholes within it to be sustained and thrive.

"When we understand and align with this evolutionary directionality as stated in the science-illuminated meta-principles of the Universe Principles, our lives, communities, and nations will thrive and be more sustainable, our lives will be as meaningful as they can be, and we will also not surprisingly --- be living in an ethical congruity with the life-affirming aspects of nearly all of humanity's moral codes." Lawrence Wollersheim

The Benefits of Using the Universe Principles of Right Attitude and Right Action

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

If you consistently apply the Universe Principles to your life and within the groups to which you belong, you and your groups will have the highest possible probability of achieving a sustainable prosperity rich in meaning. This prosperity will also create a just civilization even in the sea of future uncertainties that we all currently exist within.

Living the universe principles is the optimal way to master and "play the success percentages” by having the odds heavily weighted to your or your group’s advantage compared to individuals or groups that do not know, understand, or practice them.

On the other hand, and unfortunately, failure to align oneself and one's organization with the meta-patterns of universe progressive evolution as found within the Universe Principles results in the other great process and meta-pattern of progressive evolution known as destructive creation taking over. This pattern of destructive creation is essentially the breakdown and recycling of any and all failed, non-adaptive, or otherwise out-of-universe alignment parts or wholes to be recycled and reused later in some other evolutionary experiment or situation to once again attempt to further the unstoppable directionality of progressive evolution.

The Universe Principles are the essential and irreplaceable tools everyone needs to successfully forward the evolution of ALL life into an amazing and beautiful future! Living by these new meta-principles provides global society with a wholly rational and ultimately worthy goal and a life of purposeful service that enhances their success and creates deep life satisfaction and meaning.

Why the Right Attitudes Work So Well

Why the Universe Principles of Right Attitude are essential is simple. Attitude can be likened in many ways to the invisible field of conditioning space where some action occurs. If the attitude is affirming and supportive, actions generally improve, and the opposite is equally valid. Thinking of attitude as a kind of conditioning field of space and context, consider the following:

a.) The space-time qualities of the universe appear to pre-condition, pre-qualify, and pre-control ALL universe actions --- even the Universe Principles of Right Action.

b.) If any action remains out of alignment with the universe's preconditioning or pre-controlling space/time field qualities, it will eventually be slowed, pushed back, broken down, and/or recycled.

How to use the Universe Principles of Right Attitude

"[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. Ludwig von Bertalanffy, biologist"

1. Read, meditate upon, and practice them daily and discover how dramatically your life will improve. After your seven-day experiment, It takes about 90 days of practice for their wisdom and power to slowly evolve you away from your present deeply embedded and habituated thinking, biases, and reactions. You will never know how well they work until you practice and apply them, even if you do not fully understand them!

(if you haven't done so already, click here to go to the shorter beginning level forms of the Universe Principles of Right Action and Right Attitude. They are easier to read and practice regularly in this form.)

2. Regularly think about how you are or are not currently applying these critical principles in your life or in the groups to which you belong. If you are using them, figure out how to apply them more. If you are not applying them, figure out how you can. Then, watch your positive, proactive evolution unfold!

Applying these critical principles of life success and sustainability will take some self-discipline.

3. Remember in your practice that the Right Attitudes are the discriminating and wise spirit from which you apply all of the Universe Principles of Right Action in a balanced way. The right action and right attitude equal right results! You can do the correct thing with the wrong attitude, and the correct thing will produce wrong results. Always apply the action principles from the perspective of the attitude principles!

(Click here to go to the short forms of the Universe Principles of Right Action and Right Attitude. They are easier to read and practice regularly in this form.)

If you have not yet reviewed the success-empowering Universe Principles of Right Action, click here.

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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.) 

The Universe Principles of Right Attitudes and the Human Virtues

In one way or another, the universe principles of sustainability and the value interests of progressive evolution also embrace most of the key human virtues. 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 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 bit creative, but it will not be hard to see that our key human virtues have deeper roots and are more complex than our current or ancient spiritual traditions. Our ancestors also saw, although incompletely, what successfully adaptive individual and group behavior to numerous environments looked like, and they tried to teach these adaptive behaviors to their children as human virtues.

How the Universe Principles of Right Attitude Relate to Justice and Energy Management

The Universe Principles of Right Attitude relate to justice and energy more indirectly than the Universe Principles of Right Action. When seen as a collection, particularly when you look at the Universe Principles of Right Attitude, you will see the themes of non-resistance to what is and acceptance of what is and seeing that "isness" in the light of the whole system's evolutionary process over the whole of evolution. Those attitudes promote non-resistance to what is and acceptance of what is helping to create flow. In energy terms, resistance reduces energy flow and efficiency and vice versa.

In terms of justice, the Universe Principles of Right Attitude, seeing the oneness and union of the whole universe system, reduces the feelings of complete separation from the "other" (us versus them) that most often makes creating or maintaining justice more difficult. Justice, the essential foundation of all sustainable and prosperous social interaction, will improve dramatically as more individuals realize they are already physically embedded in one universal union. Once learned from that new attitude of ultimate union and oneness, all kinds of new wise cooperation and positive interactions are now possible and seen as wise.

The physics of attitude

"The universe is the arc to which all lines must conform." the French evolutionary scientist Teilhard De Chardin

An important principle discovered in physics is that the inherent qualities or potentialities of the space field in which an action takes place can powerfully affect and condition the action itself and the results of any action within that particular kind of space field. This powerful principle is often called the "the field of space conditions any action within that space field" principle. 

This principle also implies that a space field's inherent qualities and potentialities (attributes/values) have a partial but still primal importance in relation to any actions taking place within that space field. Concerning this principle, it is essential to recognize that the universe IS the master quantum and macro space field that conditions all actions and all results within ALL sub-fields taking place within it. The best way to think about the mass of actions and results within the universe is from a systems perspective, and the dominant system for viewing the universe is progressive evolution.

Our current sciences have now described many of the macro and more subtle quantum and result-conditioning qualities, attributes, and values of the universe's master space field, including, in some cases, how those field qualities affect the processes and results of "things" acting within the space field of the master universe. Those result-conditioning space qualities, attributes, and field values are manifest in both agency-promoting (Right Actions and attitudes for the part) and communion-promoting (Right Actions and Attitudes for the whole/union) modes.

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 Universe Principles of Right Action.

Click here for the advanced Universe Principles Right Actions materials.

Click here for the advanced Universe Principles Right Attitudes materials.