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If you are interested in how evolution applies to spirituality and/or societal change, you are invited to participate in this wiki. Diverse people have different perspectives on evolution and its relevance. Ideally this wiki will come to represent the whole evolutionary movement, including those who find meaning in evolution but don't assign it spiritual significance.

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Here you can learn about evolutionary science, share resources, discuss all aspects of evolutionary spirituality and what it has to do with improving conditions in the real world.

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Where this wiki came from

This wiki was founded by a group of evolutionaries who find in the Great Story of evolution inspiration and guidance to transform their lives and world in positive ways. This gives them a particular evolutionary perspective -- an engaged evolutionary spirituality -- which is reflected in many of these wiki pages.

Note on preserving pages

When there is an expert consensus on a wiki page of particular importance to the founders of this wiki, they will preserve that special version onto a non-wiki page on EvolutionarySpirituality.org. They invite you to visit. The relevant page on this wiki will then be free to continue to evolve through further edits.

If you are part of a network with a different evolutionary perspective than the Great Story, the founders of this wiki encourage you to use it in the same way they do, preserving your favorite versions of these wiki pages elsewhere, for the use of your network.

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excerpt from Evolutionary Buddhism page.

There are strong parallels between Buddhism and The Great Story.

• The largest whole is seen as beyond and embracing all polarities, including existence and nonexistence, spirit and matter, mind and body, nature and culture. In Buddhist terms, this is Buddha Mind in its aspects of formlessness and form.

• The world of phenomena is a seamless process from which we can discern subsystems such as galaxies, solar systems, the Earth, individuals and so on. This is the view of the whole (Absolute). From the view of the parts, we can say that the world is radically interconnected (Relative).

• The world of phenomena is flux, always new, different, fresh.

• Everything within the world of phenomena has infinite causes and infinite effects.

• From the view of the largest whole (Absolute), there is only the doing and no individual or separate doer within this whole. From the view of the parts (Relative), there is the appearance of a doer - although radically interconnected with the larger whole.

And there are aspects of the Great Story which appear compatible with Buddhism.

• The universe is evolving towards greater complexity.

• Humans are the universe becoming aware of itself.

(See the entire Evolutionary Buddhism page.)

About once a week a wiki user will choose a page they really like from this wiki and post here a short excerpt from it, with a link to the whole page. If no regular user does this, a steward or administrator will.