In the reoccurring deepest patterns of the 14 billion years of successful evolutionary process and progress you can see the most basic patterns and laws for success that every individual, family, organization, corporation, nation, system or thing must sooner or later acknowledge and follow --- if that grouping or thing wishes to survive and/or thrive. Evolution “is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses and all systems must bow… Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.” Pierre Teilhard De Chardin...  Explore these deep evolutinary success patterns in this article and test how your life can improve!

Have you been o­n o­ne or, do you know someone in an authoritarian religion? Do you feel that something was very wrong with this form of religion? The following is o­ne of two chapters that we have been given permission to republish from John Heron's great new book Participatory Spirituality: A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. It is a great read for anyone who has been harmed by authoritarian religion or who seeks to know what healthy forms of religion would look like…