Last Updated 1.14.25.

What is the Way of the Universe?

The Way of the Universe is a pathway and collection of practices to help you better align your decisions and actions with the universe's oldest and most time-proven success patterns.

These life-affirming and live-evolving practices help you align your life with the progressive, unstoppable "Great Flow of the Universe." 

On this website, you will quickly learn and practice the universe's deepest and most time-proven success patterns. As you do, your life will become significantly more successful, sustainable, and happier. There are also many other good reasons why you would want to learn the Way of the Universe practices. Please continue reading below. 

The Way of the Universe also Introduces a Powerful New Worldview

The "Way of the Universe" embraces the recent emergence of a new worldview! A worldview is defined as the most fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society, encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge and point of view.

There have been only five new worldviews in the history of human evolution. A new worldview significantly expands humanity's view of life, existence, and processes. Whenever a new worldview emerges, there is great potential for major personal and societal shifts and improvement. Every past new worldview began a major transition, advanced human knowledge, and transcended the previous worldviews.

Today's new worldview is called the Universe Evolutionary Worldview. Few would disagree that our world is experiencing continuous, accelerating global crises fueled by our growing technological capabilities. The new Universe Evolutionary Worldview embraced within the Way of the Universe offers individuals and humanity the needed new tools, knowledge, and the realistic hope essential to sustain the resolution of humanity's 12 worsening global crises and to create a better future for all.

Having the new tools and knowledge of this new worldview, if spread worldwide, might very well prevent humanity from destroying itself over the next few decades. 

The Way of the Universe can also be thought of as a new philosophy for all of humanity.

The "Way of the Universe" will help you create a personalized life philosophy that reflects recent major scientific advances and discoveries about the universe. In addition to understanding that the Way of the Universe reflects a new worldview, one also should understand what a philosophy is and what are the latest essential scientific advances dramatically reframing our fundamental understanding of evolution and our world. 

Philosophy is defined as:

1. The study of the foundational nature of reality and existence, and

2. the theory or attitude held by a person or organization that acts as a guiding principle for behavior.

Philosophy is not an academic pursuit only for professors and the rich. It is the most essential activity every individual must actively engage in to create a good life.

Henry David Thoreau wisely said, "Philosophy helps us solve life's problems, not only theoretically but practically." Therefore, it stands to reason that everyone should actively engage in a lifelong, intentional learning process about the nature of reality and existence. This ongoing process will then naturally and logically improve the effectiveness and results of their guiding principles of behavior.

The Way of the Universe truly IS a new philosophy of life for the 21st century and beyond and much more. Exploring it means learning ground-breaking new scientific information about the nature and reality of existence, specifically:

1. new discoveries about how the universe creates, maintains, transforms, and sustains life and our environment,

2. how the universe successfully and consistently does the above over great periods, and,

3. how the successful long-term repeated patterns of the universe's 13.7 billion years of evolution create a new set of universal principles for guiding individual and collective behavior.

Many people already have a Way of Life or find one as they age. However, this process is haphazard, random, or restricted, creating unnecessary, painful, and costly mistakes. Thus, much of humanity has never found a highly effective science-grounded philosophy or way of life.

Having a practical and effective philosophy of life that more accurately reflects reality is the difference between living a mostly healthy and prosperous life that you have chosen and living a life mainly chosen, controlled, or directed by natural and human external forces that you did not select. While some painful and costly mistakes are necessary to redirect us when we're not paying attention, many life mistakes can be avoided if one has an accurate, reality-reflecting philosophy of life.

The Way of the Universe exists to fix this widespread life philosophy deficiency. A little additional history below will help explain the value of this new, universe-reflecting, reality-based philosophy for your life.

Recent scientific breakthroughs are reframing our understanding of evolution and our world 

The Way of the Universe differs from past philosophies in that while it embraces a new worldview that includes the best of the past philosophies; it also transcends them by including recent relevant scientific discoveries. By adding critical scientific breakthroughs, you can significantly strengthen, realign, or correct the weaknesses and flaws of previous philosophies. The following will help clarify.

In almost every culture and era, philosophers and the wisest individuals have declared that by carefully studying the universe, one will discover The Way, one's proper place, purpose, identity, and how to live successfully with others. In the past, groups like the Stoics of ancient Greece and the Taoists of ancient China were leaders in this process, intensely studying the universe through direct observation.

They made significant good but very location, time, and instrument-limited observations. But, even as limited as those Universe observations were, the old "Way of the Universe" wisdom has successfully guided the lives of billions of individuals in Eastern and Western cultures to this day.

Unfortunately, the wisest individuals of the past did not have the modern instruments or computational power we have today. The Way of the Universe goes far beyond what the Stoics, Taoists, and other wise individuals observed about the nature and reality of the universe.

The Way of the Universe's major upgrade is due to the discoveries made using modern tools and analysis methods, *computers, massive telescopes, and other new technologies). Using these modern tools and analysis methodologies, we can now look back at the universe from its beginning and observe its complete evolution over 13.7 billion years.

These new universe discoveries have significantly expanded and qualified our understanding of our place in the universe, our purpose in life, our identity, and the optimal way to live successfully with others. Today, the wisdom of studying the universe and exploring its most universal, time-tested patterns and principles to enhance one's existing philosophy of life holds more truth for a better life and a better world than ever before.

The science-grounded Way of the Universe found on this website also has been consciously designed to be:

a. universal,

b. non-denominational,

c. culturally neutral, and 

d. non-gender-biased.

A dynamic, empowered new way of living is waiting for you!

How to get started learning and practicing the Way of the Universe

Our non-profit organization and its website are here to help you live a better, more sustainable, and more successful life. 

To begin, we recommend reading the materials in the order given from easiest to more difficult steps: 

Step 1: Click here to read about the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview. (It is an easy and exciting read, and it is the framing for much of what you will discover on this website.)

Step 2. Most of us do not need to know everything about the science behind why something is true and works. For those of you who want an easy, fast start without lots of science reading, start by exploring and testing the Universe Principles. They are designed from the science-grounded principles of Progressive Evolution to help you create and test the optimal actions and attitudes for a prosperous, healthy, ethical, and sustainable life. (They are practical daily action and attitude guides you can begin immediately and are by far the easiest way to get started for most people.) 

The Universe Principles are essential to a good life because, directly or indirectly, 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.

Once you start practicing the Universe Principles, you will prove this powerful claim to yourself.

Click here to start using the Universe Principles of right attitude and right action to dramatically improve your life.

Step 3. If you are a science person who also wants to know everything behind why something is true or works, also read about the breakthrough discoveries of Progressive Evolution. 

The core concepts of progressive evolution are pretty simple:

1. Evolution is going somewhere.

2. Evolution is moving in progressive ways, and evolution is making progress.

3. If you know and align with the many directions of progressive evolution's success patterns, your life will be significantly better in many areas, no matter how good it is already.

Why is it so urgent to spread the Way of the Universe and it's new worldwide?

Albert Einstein said that "the consciousness that creates the problem will not be the consciousness that will solve the problem." Humanity has 12 rapidly worsening global crises. that have been created by our current collective human consciousness. It is now time to move beyond the national and global consciousness that created these 12 global crises to a far larger universe consciousness that will be the consciousness capable of solving these deadly global crises. 

Unfortunately, humanity's 12 worsening global crises are on a trajectory that will soon cause a Great Global Collapse.

To prevent widespread global collapse, humanity must manage these 12 crises far better than it currently is. The Way of the Universe and its new "thrive and survive" worldview are critical because they can slow the rapid acceleration of the world's 12 major globalized crises. Their rationality, science-grounding, and effectiveness can facilitate more people working wisely, adaptively, and together on these common crises.

(Click here to learn more about humanity's 12 worsening global crises. This page describes these crises and links to other pages discussing possible and practical solutions to humanity's biggest challenge. These adaptive crisis solutions align well with this website's Way of the Universe principles and materials.)

A Summary of the Way of the Universe's Great News

1. The most essential thing to know now is that everything within the new Way of the Universe is based upon, follows, or is derived from the most time-proven, reoccurring patterns of successful and sustainable action in the universe's 13.7 billion-year-old evolution. These patterns of success and sustainability in the universe's time-tested evolutionary actions act to naturally upgrade individual and group principles, values, identities, and daily action and attitude guides. 

2. The great news is that the Way of the Universe is also a "thrive and survive" philosophy that has arrived just in time to help manage and prepare for the escalating consequences of the climate change emergency, multiplying and amplifying humanity's 11 other global crises. If we do not act immediately, climate change will accelerate and worsen most of our 11 other global crises, rapidly pushing humanity toward unavoidable global catastrophes and highly possible mass extinction over the next few decades. (The climate change emergency and the 11 other global crises are described in detail on this page.) 

As you will soon discover, the Way of the Universe offers tools, new knowledge, and a realistic and practical hope that we can resolve humanity's 12 global crises if we use this new knowledge and its new tools. Even if humanity fails to successfully manage the climate change emergency and its 11 other global crises, the new Way of the Universe will be a powerful tool to prepare for and adapt to the coming global disasters and catastrophes. More importantly, after we finally make it through the coming hard times, humanity will be empowered with the necessary knowledge and new tools to build a better world.

3. If you are of a spiritual nature, there is also an area within the Way of the Universe that we call Universe Spirituality. It is not a religion, but it does provide a science-grounded and evolutionary principle-based spiritual philosophy from which you can create your own healthy, ethical, and wise, personalized spirituality.

To explore the Universe Spirituality philosophy area of the Way of the Universe, click here.

What You Should Know About the Current Evolution Taking Place at Universe Spirit

The above description of the Way of the Universe (below) is designed to provide a tiny taste of how the Universe Spirit nonprofit organization is evolving. We are far from done with this evolution.

We estimate it will take 6-12 months to transfer 20 years of our work (about 1,000 pages) from our old Universe Spirit website to this new one. During this massive transfer process, every page is under construction and updating.

We have to fix broken links, add updated language, and delete and edit grammar and spelling to bring our older materials up to date and in alignment with our new Way of the Universe theme and framing. 

Some links will still take you to our old website until we complete the transfer. If our old site home page gives you a random error message and you can't see our old website, click your refresh button, and the old website will appear. To return to our new website from our old one, click your Back button or click on the Way of the Universe link at the top of our old home page. 

Final Note

Please remember that, like all good things in life, understanding our materials and becoming a practitioner of the "Way of the Universe " will require study, effort, and a time investment. With your diligent efforts, you can experience the tremendous rewards and benefits of living in alignment with the Universe's near-unlimited flow of life and energy, which is found in the Universe Principles of right behavior and right attitude and in the principles of Progressive Evolution.