Welcome to the website of the German ZEIS Institute for Ecological Education. We focus on researching and communicating fundamental laws of nature within ecological structures. These laws can be easily identified by applying empirical methodology according to the standards of physics. The fact that they have nevertheless been excluded from the “premier league” of the natural sciences has psychological reasons, which we are also investigating.
Empirical methodology is ideally suited to determine regularities in living matter and its ecological structures. As in other areas of physics, it is about defined objects and the systems they form. Macrophysics can be used to identify important physical laws within the interactions of different life forms. And microphysics allows us to recognize the uncontrollable complexities of all genomes and organisms that arise from the properties of the element carbon. This could significantly broaden and deepen physics and the knowledge of humanity as a whole. However, there is a catch: such empirical reflections on living matter not only reveal the mentioned laws of nature. They also show that agricultural methods involving artificial selection and permanent control over plants and animals run counter to these orders and cannot function sustainably.
Historically, the problem has been perceived subliminally. But instead of confronting it and seeking ways to mitigate it, a variety of mechanisms of repression have developed. These were already present in ancient religions and philosophies and ultimately had a decisive influence on the categorizations and priorities in the natural sciences. While larger contexts of animate matter remained in vague categories such as philosophy, the disciplines of biology and ecology developed to focus on details. But although these disciplines undoubtedly deal with phenomena of the physical world that can be explained physically, they were not understood as areas of physics, so that empirical methodology was hardly applied. Today, large parts of biology are under the influence of the agricultural industry, and leading scientists often argue as if they were defenders of that industry. As a result of all this, agricultural methods have been blindly intensified. And while this pushes each new generation of human children deeper and deeper into an evolutionary dead end, they are taught a worldview that is severely mutilated and distorted in relation to reality.
Our information is not based on ideology, nor are there any links to any organisation. Instead, the solid foundation of knowledge that we pass on was laid by our founder through practical experience. He discovered it while spending several years far away from civilisation, feeding himself by hunting and gathering free-living organisms. More on this is to be found in the section: Background.
To get a first concrete impression of what the natural laws laws in our topic are all about and how real and solid they are, here is a brief introduction in the form of a simple question:
Have you ever seen or heard of an example where, outside the influence of human civilisation, one species of vertebrate, be it birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles or fish, is permanently under the control of another? No, you will not find such an example, whether you look in the scientific studies of the 70,000 known vertebrate species or search for yourself in nature. Such a thing does not exist in the Earth’s ecosystem because it does not function sustainably. Subjugation and control between individuals of different species can, on average, only last for a very small part of their lifespan, but never be permanent.
Vertebrates are only particularly suitable for a brief introduction. As they are the most complex organisms, the relevant natural laws are particularly easy to recognise in their interactions. In fact, however, even among all other life forms in all biological kingdoms, there is no real example of a relationship between different species in which one species is under the permanent control of the other for the primary benefit of the latter. Not even among microorganisms or viruses can such relations be found, although theoretically there are many ways in which this could arise, for example through horizontal gene transfer or viral infection of the germ lines of the hosts.
Now you may be thinking, ‘Wait a minute, aren’t there ants that keep aphids as slaves? Aren’t there viruses that invade their host’s genome and then manipulate it over generations?’ These questions, as well as those concerning many other similar claims circulating in civilisation, can simply be answered with ‘no’. The aphids are not really kept, but rather they themselves are the initiators of a symbiosis that is millions of years old and beneficial to both sides. And the viral information within the host’s lineage can only be neutral or beneficial to the host – otherwise, in the unmanageable complexity of the ecosystem, it would quickly be eliminated by natural selection.
On this website, we have compiled some summary explanations on our topic, and there are also some further clarifications on such misinterpretations that are circulating in civilisation. We have divided the information into the following sections, each of which is assigned a keyword:
Further detailed information can also be found on our central ZEIS Insitute website in German language. There is also a magazine section included. However, the latter largely deals with local issues related to the consequences of a lack of environmental education in Europe. We have also recently set up a ‘Magazine’ section here on the English website. In perspective, this section is intended to observe current changes in the USA, for example, where since the beginning of 2025 the door has been opened to the most destructive methods of intensive agriculture. It is foreseeable that this development will have drastic repercussions on other continents and will significantly accelerate the pace towards the end of the already well-advanced evolutionary impasse.