John Stewart explores "The Evolutionary Significance of Spiritual Development" in the essay below. Humans have developed a new kind of adaptation strategy based on "mental modelling," but "We use our mental modelling to work out how to achieve the goals set by our internal reward and motivation system-goals that we have been fitted out with by natural selection and that are modified to a limited extent by conditioning during our upbringing... But when our evolutionary interests clash with these motivations and emotional responses, our evolutionary interests lose out. We have not yet developed a comprehensive capacity to free ourselves from the dictates of our biological and social past."

Stewart argues that humanity's adaptability is "seriously limited" in our inability to pursue "evolutionary ends." Thus enters religion and spirituality:

"If humanity is to realise the full evolutionary potential of mental modelling, we will have to free ourselves from our biological and cultural past... [T]he world's major religious systems all advocate the development of an ability to free oneself from particular emotional responses, desires and motivations."

If you are an cultural, spiritual or integral evolutionary, a spiritual pioneer, a cultural creative, a person who is spiritual, but not religious or, an individual who is curious about what role and purpose religion and spirituality play in evolution this is a must read article.

Within the spatial and quantum qualities of the universe are found result-conditioning attributes that effect and condition the actions and results that take place within the universe. These result-conditioning spatial or quantum attributes can easily be converted into and called universe "attitudes"or "values," which also can be used for empowering your success in all areas of life. The following article lays out the essential 9 primary and 14 secondary result-conditioning universe attitudes and values. These universe attitudes and values have been creatively extrapolated from the most current cosmological and progressive evolutionary sciences. Knowing and practicing these 13.7 billion year old time-tested and reality-conditioning attitudes can dramatically improve the immediate quality of your life as well as your future success. When both parts 1 and 2 of the New Universe Evolutionary Principles of attitude and action are fully integrated into ones's life they also become an empowering lifestyle practice and a new ethical code for conscious evolutionaries as well as effective principles for evolutionary activism. As you review these integral and essential universe attitudes and values you may also discover that they both transcend and yet still creatively include many of the most life-affirming virtues and perspectives from humanity’s greatest philosophic and spiritual wisdom traditions. Read about this practical application of the new science from cosmology and progressive evolution and get all of the life empowering New Universe Principles and, also get a partial sense of the emerging New Universe Evolutionary Worldview...