About the Massive Updating and Knowledge Transfer Still Taking Place From this Our Old Universe Spirit Website to Our New Universe Spirit 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 for what we are teaching better reflects our efforts to develop a universal, rational, and practical philosophy. This name also helps distinguish us from the many negative associations that come from appearing anything like a traditional religion, a new-age 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 We need to fix broken links, add new insights, remove outdated materials that no longer align with our philosophy-based approach, update language, and revise grammar and spelling to bring our older materials up to date and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 will still point to our old website during construction 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.)
If you see this image in the book sections of our old site, it means most likely the pages below have not yet been updated and transferred to our new site. If you click the under-construction image above, it will also take you to our new website.
The copy below in this book is still only on our old website!
Introduction
Do you consider yourself progressive? Do you want to increase your fitness, adaptability, and control of your environments? If so, we hope you’ll continue along the progressive path, and a great way to do so is to learn about the biggest principles (meta-principles) of progressive evolution within the universe.
When you understand the meta-principles of progressive evolution (what we call Evolution 2.0) you will understand the success and sustainability secrets of life and life's most important prime directives. You will also understand the universe's "best practices" and its optimal "operating system"!
The universe has been evolving for about 13.8 billion years. We now have the scientific ability to look back over its whole scale of time in order to assess where it’s been and where it’s going. When we do so, we find a series of recurring evolutionary meta-patterns that clearly have worked very well for life in the universe. We say that these principles are working because the Universe has continued using them all this time as it has moved in the direction of greater complexity, creativity, and awareness (consciousness).
So it’s time we really got even more progressive in our lives and align ourselves with the deep meta-patterns of success and sustainability that the universe has demonstrated and proven so well for us. If we do so, we will not only make our own lives far better, we can also collectively figure out how to put an end to the catastrophic climate destabilization (human-caused global warming) and the planet's many other meta-challenges that are now occurring. Otherwise, humanity may end up following the alternative meta-pattern of universe evolution: destructive creation --- the breakdown and recycling of all non-learning, maladaptive and non-cooperative parts of an evolving whole, a group, or a system.
"Change is always certain in evolution but, progress is not! Any part within evolution that does not move in alignment with the universe's deep evolutionary meta-patterns will eventually be broken down and recycled." Lawrence Wollersheim
In spite of evolution having sporadic, random, and punctuated periods of equilibrium, extinction, retrogression, failed experiments, dead ends, and what looks like meandering, in general, the dominant trend of evolution is that it is going somewhere, and the general direction of evolution is in fact --progressive! As you continue reading, you will discover both the meta-principles and the practical uses for what we now understand about progressive evolution and why understanding the progressive evolution of Evolution 2.0 is so important to our future. In addition to helping you personally live better and helping some of today's biggest global challenges, the meta-patterns of evolution can also be used to create new, evolutionary, universal ethics and morality (meta-ethics and meta-morality) that will allow us all to cooperate better based on common values objectively disclosed by science.
"The greatest discovery in the history of science was rational scientific methodology itself. It allowed for the second greatest discovery, which was the discovery of evolution. The third greatest discovery in the history of science will eventually be widely recognized; it is that evolution is, in fact, progressive. Some day, it will be commonly understood that evolution has an overall, underlying, and definite directionality in spite of its many meanderings, retrogressions, failed experiments, dead ends, and extinctions." Lawrence Wollersheim
To keep learning more about the many new or unique features and qualities of Progressive Evolution, keep clicking the links to the left or right at the bottom of each page of this online booklet. At any time you can click the UP link as well. It will take you to the first page of this online booklet, where at the bottom of that page you will find a link to every page in this booklet.
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