Welcome to the website of the ZEIS Institute for Ecological Education. We focus on investigating and communicating largely unexplored laws of nature within ecological structures by applying the standards of empirical physics. The fact that these laws have so far been largely excluded from the ‘premier league’ of natural sciences has psychological reasons, which we also analyse.
Empirical methodology is ideal for identifying previously largely unexplored natural laws in living matter and its ecological structures. As in other areas of physics, it deals with physical objects and the systems they form. With its recognition as macro-physics, systemic laws of nature become visible in the interactions of different species. And micro-physics allows us to explore their central parameter, namely the uncontrollable complexities of living matter arising from the properties of the element carbon. This could significantly expand the natural sciences and general human knowledge. However, there is a catch: such reflections according to the standards of physics not only reveal unexplored laws of nature. They also reveal that agricultural methods involving artificial selection and permanent control over plants and animals run counter to these laws and cannot function sustainably. Life forms only remain stable if they undergo selection for their own benefit. (s. ⟶ Evolution)
Historically, the problem has been latently perceived. But instead of facing up to it and seeking ways to defuse it, a variety of mechanisms of repression have developed. They shaped religions and philosophies and have had a significant influence on the natural sciences. Larger contexts of animate matter remained in vague categories such as philosophy. Biology and ecology did develop as disciplines focused on details, but even these were not integrated into empirical physics. Today, large parts of biology are under the influence of the agricultural industry, and leading scientists often argue like defense attorneys for the same. As a result of all this, agricultural methods were blindly intensified. This led to a population explosion and extensive ecological destruction. As the stability of cultivated organisms inevitably declines, they increasingly require support such as pesticides, medicines, fertilisers, water and more. And while human children get pushed deeper and deeper into an evolutionary dead end, they are being taught a distorted worldview and left to their fate.
This website contains detailed explanations of our subject matter. We have divided the key points into the sections listed below, which can also be accessed via the main menu. The menu item “Background” is also important. It explains that our institute is guaranteed to have no ideological or esoteric affiliations and no connections to any organizations. Instead, the foundation was built on the founder’s many years of practical experience in nature. The sections listed below introduce the three main sections of our topic, which deal with life and evolution as part of physics. Each section is assigned a keyword:
The following two additional sections deal with important topics that are generally even less associated with physics, but are in fact based on it or, on closer inspection, form a direct part of it:
Note: As a part of the repression mechanisms, there are many misleading distortions of ecological interactions circulating in the public, a number of which are clarified directly in the individual sections. As examples, it is claimed that some ants keep aphids and milk them, as humans do with cows today, that other ant species practice agriculture and cultivate fungi, as humans do with crops, or that virus sequences in host genomes manipulate them over generations. In reality, aphids are the initiators of mutualistic relationships and deliberately attract ants. The alleged cultivation of fungi is a million-year-old obligate symbiosis without mutual breeding selection, which only superficially resembles our agricultural methods. And viral remnants in germ lines, on the other hand, are not active viruses and can only be neutral or beneficial to the organism—otherwise, they would have disappeared long ago through natural selection. Such circulating misinterpretations are like tools of the aforementioned subconscious repression mechanisms to hide the unnaturalness of agricultural methods.
We launched the ZEIS funding program in February 2024. You can find out more about this under the menu item. Some support has already been provided and a number of promising approaches are in the pipeline. In general, we conduct research into possible solutions to defuse the situation that has arisen as a result of the repression of important natural laws. Under the menu item “Solution Concepts,” we present the essence of this work and, at least in theory, possible ways to quickly and orderly defuse the situation and reverse the evolutionary dead end.
The institute has its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. For ten years now, we have been publishing the ZEIS Magazine on our German website (www.zeis-institut.de), featuring numerous articles and interviews. Some translated articles can already be found under the menu item „Magazine“ which will be expanded in the near future.