Amherst Initiative
- The Amherst Initiative
- July 29, 2014
We hold that communion and worship are the essential basis of civilized living and loving service.
We treasure the age-long dialog of humans and our super-mortal teachers that arises from this communion of love.
We hold dear the teachings we have received as a result of this dialog and regard them as vital to creating a new era of human relationships on the earth.
We observe that an evolving community of love is the natural result of our ongoing communion of loving relationships of human and divine, and that the teachings we have received are their essential reflection.
We therefore recognize the need to compile, archive, publish, teach, and otherwise freely share this body of teachings according to reasonable editorial and operational standards.
In addition, we recognize the imperative of protecting and preserving this corpus for future generations while also extending this body of work to include related teachings, texts, and revelations.
Because we desire that these gifts of revelation become a sustainable and living legacy, many of us have already created initiatives such as publishing entities and educational, spiritual, and cultural centers that disseminate these truths to the world.
We believe that the diverse community that has arisen for such tasks has now reached maturity sufficient to become a self-regulating and self-identifying network of entities or organizations who are aligned with one another, one that can be constituted by a simple and minimal set of agreements.
While recognizing the beauty of the diversity of our far-flung activities, we also recognize that it is good to deliberate on our common objectives in a spirit of unity and therefore reach for suitable agreements. We believe we can govern ourselves according to such agreements and thereby honor our teachers who have many times implored us to always work for spiritual unity.
We therefore call for a constructive and open dialog to be known as the Amherst Initiative. We declare that the Initiative, however it unfolds, will work in a determined fashion toward this end of reaching lasting agreements for the sake of self- governance.
And we now seek to actualize ourselves as an inclusive community of love that pursues common goals—for the sake of progressing together into the coming ages of light and life.
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