(Special Notice: The spirituality found on this website is an open source, personalized and self-created spiritual process. You can always self-select, modify, sequence and use or not use the wisdom and tools you find on this website in the ways that will work best for your current conditions, stage of spiritual development and understanding. We have no rigid dogma that you must believe. We do although have principles for which you are the final authority who decides their truth and usefulness. Encouraging spiritual personalization, experimentation and deciding what is true for you is just one of the many qualities of Evolution Spirituality. Please feel free to take, use, adapt any of the ideas of this new spirituality or the evolutionary science that you find to improve your lifestyle, livelihood, personal spirituality and your local spiritual community.)
In order to have a co-creative place where people can collaborate and cooperate effectively in their search for truth while discovering, creating and personalizing that truth it is necessary to have a safe environment. This safe environment with appropriate boundaries creates the basic social agreements, shared community values and procedural flow and harmony essential to effective learning, creating healthy individual and communities and, it also gracefully manages naturally arising conflicts in facts, ideas and spiritual beliefs in an optimized way.
To help us achieve that spiritually and physically safe optimal environment for learning, collaboration and cooperation for individual and community development we have developed a set of Spiritual Safeguards that we ask all members to learn and use. The Spiritual Safeguards listed below are also supporting adjunct to the Open Source Spirituality core kernel of Universe Spirit.
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