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 We need to fix broken links, add new insights, remove outdated materials that no longer align with our philosophy-based approach, update language, and revise grammar and spelling to bring our older materials up to date and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!
(Special Notice of 2.23.2026: We are currently redoing the courses and working to find a new online learning software system to better meet the many upgrades in our mission and educational materials that were first implemented in January of 2021 and to deal with the usage surge from remote learners due to the Covid 19 surge.
These are major upgrades that may take us until late 2023 or early 2024 to complete. We apologize for this delay in accessing our older and new online courses. Feel free to review the following pages while we work on getting our new systems operational.
To be sure you are notified when the Universe College courses go back online, please click the Subscribe link at the top of the page to receive our updates.)
Getting Started at Universe College Online
The Universe College is an "Open Access" learning environment designed to maximize your learning potential and help you create sustainable livelihoods and lifestyles and a better world. The college's courses are informed by the Universe Evolutionary Worldview, which is based on the most current evolution science.
Open access simply means that you donate whatever you think the course is worth after you after done with it. We've found that the open access and open-source model allows us to offer most of our classes in an open-access format, leaving you free to decide how (and to what degree) to contribute in return to the Universe College, according to the value you have found in what you've learned. Whether that's by volunteering, donating, tutoring, or sharing the information with others by teaching is totally up to you. Based on evolutionary science, we believe that applying the principle of fair exchange of value in an “open access” manner will help us maintain a high level of integrity in each class that we offer and ultimately empower you while maintaining the sustainability of Universe College for future students.
Don't forget to check back often! We're always expanding our classes, and we're laboriously collaborating with partners and volunteers to open up more of our courses. We also love feedback! If there's anything you'd like to share with us about how we can improve your user experience, please let us know! You can email us at manage@universecollege.org
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