Important Universal principles of spiritual wisdom for additional use as guiding values in the global spiritual commons are also objectively found within the provable deepest patterns of evolution. These principles are the fact and rationality of science pointing to and integrating with the wisdom and values found within our heritage of global religion and spirituality. This is because these deepest patterns of our 13 billion year successful evolution:
- reflect the purposes of the very Origin of evolution,
- demonstrate how the Origin of evolution involves itself into, through and with the natural laws and processes of evolution, and
- show us how we can be better, more virtuous co-creators with Ultimate Reality in evolution by understanding, using and flowing with the deep natural patterns of evolution (see below).
Most of these deep patterns below can also be related directly to one or more of the various human virtues (the fruits and the community validity tests of authentic spirituality) that have been forwarded by philosophers and religions since the beginning of time. As you read these try to mentally note down which human virtues you think most of these deep patterns embodies. Some of the deep patterns below do not parallel existing human virtues as we have classically know them. These particular deep patterns are the new seeds for the virtues and values needed for our evolving future.
In its deepest patterns and principles our 13 billion year evolution appears to be moving towards creating or upholding the following:
a.) Expanding diversity and novelty (with a potential towards a theoretical exhaustion of all possibilities for more novelty and diversity.)
b.) Expanding complexity (with a potential towards a theoretical exhaustion of all possibilities for more complexity.)
c.) Expanding adaptation/mutation (towards a theoretical exhaustion of all possibilities of more adaptation/mutation.) Adaptation/mutation being defined as the potential to change/evolve/adapt/mutate to contingencies based on new conditions. Expanding diversity, novelty, complexity, adaptation and/or mutation from a limited field of view/perspective within the evolutionary system and can create the appearance form this limited perspective of chance, randomness, chaos or even whim.
d.) Expanding energy exchanges and/or transfers (towards a theoretical exhaustion of all possibilities of more energy exchanges and/or transfers.) Every item in bold in this section, directly or indirectly needs exchanges or transfers of energy for expanding or to become more. Exchanges or transfers of energy can be in the form of increasing energy flow, decreasing or dispersal of energy flow or the creation of dynamic energy equilibriums or static energy fields. (Dynamic equilibriums can be the relationships between individual parts, sub systems of the whole and, the whole of evolution itself. These relationships are composed of, and maintained by, appropriate and balancing (needed, fair and just) spiraling energy exchanges between the individual parts, the sub systems of the whole and, the whole of evolution itself. Dynamic equilibriums allow for the continuous spiraling and expanding of the energy exchanges needed to adjust to existing and new forms of diversity, novelty, complexity, mutation and adaptation within the overall equilibrium’s individual parts and sub systems and, within the tolerances for the existence and sustainability of the whole equilibrium. Static energy fields are conditions where energy is in a minimal state of flow or dispersal and collects in an area as stored energy.)
e.) All of which moves the individual parts and sub systems of evolution in a spiraling expansion toward:
- more dynamic equilibriums of expanding order, integration and harmony being established within individual parts and sub systems,
- more self organization/autonomy/consciousness/freedom for more individual parts and sub systems, which is counter-balanced by the pull of more interdependency and interdependencies with even more complex larger systems seeking to establish their own dynamic equilibrium and integration of expanding order and harmony, toward
- all individual parts, sub systems and the whole seeking to last for more time (more sustainability) for more individual parts and more individual sub systems within the new larger system, moving theoretically towards the whole evolutionary system seeking an integration of all parts and sub systems into a unified sustainable dynamic equilibrium of the highest possible level of order and harmony for itself.)
An important sub-part to the spiraling process of creating more individual part and sub system self organization/autonomy comes about through more educational experiences in which the individual parts or sub systems through some form of trial and error have the potential to experience more conflict than is comfortable or more pleasure and/or the relief of the discomfort (the inherent cause and effect rewards or punishments of their actions/choices,) which appears to educate/teach/evolve the individual parts or sub systems toward more adaptability by developing more intelligence/awareness and in some organisms like humankind, more self consciousness.
- An additional inherent, but subtle deep pattern and principle of our 13 billion year successful evolution is more transparency. If an individual part or sub system of evolution looks at and experiences evolution with the correct means (intelligence/awareness/self consciousness and/or the proper tools) there are no secrets being kept by evolution. Evolution is continually revealing to more and more "lookers" exactly what is going on, how to optimally work with its deepest patterns and principles and, exactly where it is going.
For more information on the developing ideas of Evolutionary Spirituality and the Great Story, click here. Be sure to go all the way through the links to the bottom of the page because this page contains a great and inspiring summation of the implications of the Great Story of evolution as well as many other ways to use the wisdom of the core of Evolutionary Spirituality.