About the Massive Updating and Knowledge Transfer Still Taking Place From the Old Universe Spirit Website to this New Way of the Universe Website
This description of the Way of the Universe is designed to show how the Universe Spirit nonprofit organization is evolving. We are far from done with this evolution. The Way of the Universe philosophy is a new philosophy born in the 21st century to help address 21st-century problems. It is our new name for many, but not all, of the objectives we pursued on our old UniverseSpirit.org website over the last 24 years.
This new name better reflects our efforts to develop a universal, rational, and practical philosophy. This name also helps distinguish ourselves from the many negative associations that come from appearing anything like a traditional religion, any new-age type of spirituality, or even from our own decades of efforts to create a universal meta-spirituality that would unite humanity.
It may take at least another 6-12 months to transfer and upgrade 24 years of work (about 1,000 pages) from our old Universe Spirit website to this new one. During this massive transfer process, every page is under review, in construction, and being updated. We need to fix broken links, add new insights, remove outdated materials that no longer align with our philosophy-based approach, update language, and revise grammar and spelling to bring our older materials up to date and align with our new Way of the Universe philosophical framing.
Some links on this site during construction will still point to our old website until we complete the large-scale transfer. If the home page of our old site displays a random error message and you can't view the entire site, click the refresh button; the old site will appear. To return to our new website from the old one, click the Back button or the Way of the Universe link at the top of the old home page. (The disappearing old website bug is very random, and we're still working on finding the cause and fixing it.)
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, in many ways, contain the most time-proven, recurring patterns of successful and sustainable action found within the 14.2 billion-year-old evolution of the universe.
The principles of Progressive Evolution are, in fact, the most time-proven "Way of the Universe." They are the deepest recurring patterns of life-affirming, successful, and sustainable action found within the 14.2 billion-year-old evolution of the universe.
If you have not done so, click here to review a brief overview of the "Way of the Universe."
Introduction to Progressive Evolution
The essential Principles of progressive evolution also serve as the theoretical underpinnings of the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview and the Universe Principles. The good news is you do not need to understand all of the complex science behind progressive evolution to get the benefits of the Universe Evolutionary Worldview and of the Universe Principles. That said, the following will take you deeper into the principles of Progressive Evolution.
Progressive Evolution is the Next Logical Step Beyond Darwin's version of evolution, version 1.0, and the later E.O. Wilson's New Synthesis of the Theory of Evolution, version 1.5.
Our nonprofit organization has been a leader in speaking out about this breakthrough and its ramifications for the progressive directionality of evolution as a whole-universe system. On this website, you will find much current information about Progressive Evolution, specifically the progressive directionality, values, goals, and even the "end of evolution" possibilities for universe evolution.
You will also find an open dialogue about what it means for the future of humanity, individual human purpose and identity, and for improving and evolving our governments, economies, societies, religions, and our deteriorating climate and environment. The principles of progressive evolution are even behind the critically important emergence of the Universe Evolutionary worldview.
The principles of progressive evolution were partly discovered when a new methodology for analyzing complex adaptive systems, dialectical Metasystemic Thinking, was developed.
The principles and processes of progressive evolution are an essential part of the foundation of the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview and of all the powerful tools derived from it, such as the Universe Principles. Understanding the principles of Progressive Evolution will give you a super-effective tool for creating sustainable individual and group success.
What are the directions of and in Progressive Evolution?
The following is a summary of the nearly unstoppable meta-processes, levels, and steps of the core progressive directionality of evolution. (These meta-processes are also known as the core reoccurring meta-patterns, meta-principles, "products," "interests," or intrinsic "values" of universe-scale evolution.)
Please don't worry if you don't understand every core direction of progressive evolution listed below. It will be covered again later in simpler forms and fully illustrated images. What is essential to understand is that the following actions are the core actions that evolution continually repeats and supports to forward the continuous development of life in the universe!
There is a lot of complex, advanced science behind why these meta-processes below are the many facets and the overall progressive directionality of universe evolution, which you do not need to fully understand now. While reading the following, if it seems too complex at this time or you get lost, skip to the following core action or process.
"If a complex adaptive system continually repeats something over great lengths of time, it is reasonable to treat that repeated item as something that the system values, is important to or that optimizes the system, or that somehow is (or has become) an essential part of the system's overall success and sustainability -- if the system was a living thing you could even call it the system’s self-interests. Universe evolution has consistently recurring core patterns, some of which have been repeating themselves successfully since the Big Bang almost 13.8 billion years ago. Knowing, aligning with, and using these time-proven, consistently recurring core patterns of progressive evolution will greatly enhance and optimize your personal and group success." Lawrence Wollersheim
The Core Progressive Directionality and Meta-patterns of Universe Evolution
As you read the following generalized progressive directions found within the universe's evolution, try to imagine how you have personally witnessed or experienced the many progressive directional universe patterns occurring as described below. Keep in mind that progressive evolution does not take place in every part or whole system within the universe, but in general, there is a continuous and expanding progressive directional pattern and trend manifesting in many individual parts and systems within the universe.
The following are the progressive directional meta-patterns found within universe evolution:
Continuous release of universe potentials and potentiality (for a created or evolved universe thing to --- become what it can.) This continuous release or realization of potential births continuous evolutionary change (experimentation)
Which then births,
Expanding complexity and diversity,
(In some ways, all of the other progressive levels below can be seen as the unpacking of the previous level of emerged universe complexity into newer levels of progressing, expanding complexity and diversity. Expanding complexity, like all expanding or maintaining things in the universe, requires expanding or maintaining energy exchanges),
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually creates... (Parts here is meant as things, not necessarily locations.)
Expanding novelty (creative mutation and innovation again requiring more energy exchanges)
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding growth, productivity (or reproductively), and/or expansion (again requiring more energy exchanges)
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding self-awareness and self-reflectiveness of the relevant exterior and interior environment present, past, and future (even through future modeling capabilities, through expanding use of technology, and prediction skills) within both the parts of the whole and within the whole itself as a collective union,
(This self-awareness [consciousness] includes expanding levels of awareness of others, the planet, the universe, and even that Great Mystery that is the origin of our universe.)
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding self-organization, autopoiesis (which also includes self-discipline and self-responsibility), which again requires more energy exchanges (For more on self-organization principles, click here.)
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding full-consequence capture, full accountability (which requires expanding levels of full transparency for all parts of a whole and the wholes themselves.
In one way or another, evolution eventually and invariably always enforces increasing levels of consequence capture upon any parts or wholes that do not learn, adapt, "cooperate," or create fair energy exchange and progressively evolve. High and expanding levels of transparency and accountability are critical to enacting full 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.
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding learning resulting in skill/ability, knowledge, and intelligence,
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding adaptability (choice, freedom, flexibility, or control of the environment for some parts and wholes in either adjusting to the environment or changing the environment)
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually also emerges...
Expanding robustness, redundancies, and reserves of and in the parts and unions,
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding or alternating periods of compression and/or centralization,
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding integration, harmony, and resultant order resulting in new synergies (which again, like all of the above in one way or another, requires more energy exchanges)
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding cooperation, which aligns and effectively manages and balances the often competing self-interest tensions of all of the individual parts of the whole with the overall health and well-being of the whole as a whole system and union (which again requires more energy exchanges, which appropriately and fairly share and balance the needs of parts and wholes (the cooperators,) for energy and resources to most importantly satisfy the second law of thermodynamics, but also to keep the cooperators sharing in the benefits of cooperation wanting to continue to cooperate,)
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding or new cooperative wholes (unions) of greater scale (which again requires more energy exchanges)
Which then, as a consequence of this new or expanding cooperation, creates...
Expanding interdependence (by parts and wholes, which then also loops back upon the parts and the whole (union) to further motivate greater cooperation because of the expanded interdependence and expanding interconnectedness)
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Additional expanding robustness, redundancies, and reserves of and in the parts and unions because of the enhanced cooperativeness,
Which then, in some parts and unions within the universe, eventually emerges...
Expanding control over the environment for individuals and cooperative unions (that also are in harmony with the principles of universe evolution), resulting in expanding sustainability for the cooperating parts and wholes, which again requires more energy exchanges (in part because of the increased cooperation between and by the parts and the wholes [unions])
Which then, at some developmental level of progressive evolution and only in some human parts within the universe, eventually results in...
Expanding reflection by those human self-reflective parts upon the total universe environment and the universe's complete evolutionary processes and systems (including the Universe's Big Bang origin.) This creates a new "whole universe consciousness" in those parts of the universe. In a way, the universe becomes conscious of itself through its parts.
And finally,
There is a possible transcendence of universe parts or whole unions.
At the "end" of the universe's spiraling ever larger and more complex evolutionary developmental processes lies the potential for some form of transcendence for some of the parts or wholes (unions) into completely new things (or, at the theoretical end of the universe, potentiality all the universe parts as a whole union transcending to something new.)
This then potentially restarts a new spiral of progressive evolution at a new level, where, once again, the continuous creative release of new potentials and potentiality (for the newly evolved or created thing to become and realize what it can become). This continuous release or realization of new potential then, once again, births continuous change, which births increasing... (through most of the cycle/spiral of development described above.)
If transcendence did not occur in the universe's parts or whole unions for any reason (including failed experiments, retrogressions, collapses, and extinctions), then the universe's evolutionary process wastes nothing of that which has reached the limits of its existence, growth, or the developmental potential release cycle. It then recycles all those resources and parts or whole unions back into evolution to be used in new creativity. (Collapses serve necessary evolutionary purposes in removing what would not learn and adapting to create new space and materials for new evolutionary experiments.)
(If you are a tech and detail person, you can go here, you can see the many qualifiers and footnotes relating to this quick overview list of evolution's core meta-processes and direction.)
When one aligns their life activities with the core directionality of evolution itself, one's life will be far more successful. Moreover, if you look carefully at the above progressive directionality of evolution, you will also see that the values and virtues admired by enlightened and well-educated individuals are what human history began with.
The Good News of Progressive Evolution
The discovery and principles of progressive evolution offer humanity critical new tools and a practical and realistic hope that Humanity can resolve the rapidly escalating 12 global crises and avert a Great Global Collapse, which could potentially bring about a Great Global Rebirth.)
Suppose the world keeps going the way it is now. In that case, humanity will likely eventually experience a Great Global Rebirth. Unfortunately, it will likely only occur after a Great Global Collapse. Even if humanity can't save itself in time and experiences a Great Global Collapse, the principles of progressive evolution will help whatever survives learn from the experience and build a better future.
More about Progressive Evolution and its potential for dramatically improving the world
The principles of progressive evolution are complex. We have provided the following links to help you go as deep as you would like to prove to yourself that the Progressive Evolution principles are not only valuable but also incredibly powerful for creating a life-affirming success and a healthy, sustainable, dynamic balance within and between individuals and groups.
Most of the following materials have been difficulty-rated to make it easier for you to explore progressive evolution. B is the starting level, I is the intermediate level, and A is the advanced level. Some of these links will still take you to our old website during the upgrade. If you find materials on the old website, they are still valid, but have not been fully upgraded to our new site. (Many of the links below are still found on our old website and are in the process of being upgraded.)
What is the great news and evolutionary hope provided by the Universe Evolutionary Worldview and Progressive Evolution Principles? (B)
What is the Highest Evolutionary Life Purpose of the Individual and Humanity? (B)
What is Progressive Evolution's Greatest Commitment for Us to Consider (B) (I)
What is the Progressive Evolutionary Impulse and Evolution's Prime Directive? (B)
Why is Progressive Evolution's Genesis Information Important to Every Individual? (I)
What are the four basics of Progressive Evolutionary Enlightenment? (I)
What is an Evolutioneer? Why Are They Important for a Better Future? (I)
What is The Highest Objective Purpose of Life and a Progressive Evolutioneers Greatest Commitment
What are the Four Basic Attitudes/Actions of Progressive Evolutioneers
What is Expected from Progressive Evolutioneers and Universe Evolutionary Worldview Practitioners?
What is Progressive Evolution Universe Consciousness, and how do I create it? (I)
What is the Definition of Evolution Science and Evolutionary Science? (B)
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