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Governance

Room to grow.
Standards to hold.

Ethosism needs to develop without confusing a local interpretation with an accepted principle. These standards keep the texts, practices, language, and community use accountable to one another.

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Areas of responsibility

Know what
is being changed.

A change to a study group’s practice has a different scope from a change to the published texts. Make that scope explicit.

Canon
Source texts in books/ and the core Ethos chapters.
Practice
Worksheets, scripts, session formats, and applied guides.
Language
Ethra specs, corpus, lexicon, dictionary, style, and governance files.
Publication
Website, print outputs, release packets, and handoff evidence.
Local use
Study groups, households, facilitators, and institutions applying the material.

Change status

Make the status clear.

Draft
Private or early work, not relied on publicly.
Proposed
Ready for review against canon, evidence, and practice use.
Experimental
Usable in bounded trials with clear review criteria.
Accepted
Incorporated into the relevant source of truth.
Deprecated
Retained for history but no longer recommended.
Rejected
Reviewed and declined with reasons.

Questions for review

Does this improve
how we live?

  1. Does this make reality easier to see?
  2. Does this clarify duty rather than hide it?
  3. Does this reduce avoidable harm?
  4. Does this improve repair when harm occurs?
  5. Does this preserve memory across time?
  6. Does this resist personality cults, coercion, and vague self-help drift?

Facilitator boundaries

Lead a practice.
Respect the person.

Facilitators may host study, practice, service, and repair sessions. They may not claim binding doctrine, require confession, sell spiritual authority, override professional care, or use the group to create dependence. Their duty is to keep interpretation grounded in the text, participation voluntary, and escalation honest when a matter exceeds the group’s competence.

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