Concerning Ritual and Ceremony

1 Ritual is deliberate symbolic action.

2 Ceremony commemorateth, sustaineth, or gathereth.

3 The Society may use chant, silence, movement, bowls, music, cards, fireless symbols, stories, howling, grounding, and other lawful forms.

4 Participation shall be voluntary.

5 A ritual shall not manufacture a false medical promise.

6 A participant shall not owe the ritual a revelation.

7 No leader shall declare another person's emotion proof of doctrine.

8 No person shall be touched without appropriate consent.

9 No surprise renunciation shall be extracted from a child or adult.

10 Words spoken in unison need not imply thoughts held in unison.

11 The experience remaineth the participant's.

1 Consider what thou eatest.

2 Consider what thou buyest.

3 Consider also what thou hearest.

4 Consider what thou watchest.

5 Consider what light surroundeth thee.

6 Consider what messages thou repeatest.

7 For attention is also consumed.

8 Quality may be care.

9 Price is not holiness.

10 Excellent sound should invite attention, not demand endurance.

11 Silence may nourish one observer and distress another.

12 Therefore provide choice where practicable.

13 The person who controlleth sound and light controlleth part of another's environment; let this be treated as responsibility.