Core safeguarding commitments
No private experience, spiritual insight, role, title or claimed revelation gives a person ownership of another person's conscience or body.
Consent remains real
Spiritual language never cancels consent. Intimacy, touch, money, counselling, leadership and confidential disclosure all require clear boundaries.
Children are protected from compelled belief
The Continuance holds a simple standard: You do not have to believe to stay loved. Children must be able to question, refuse and grow without fear of losing family belonging.
Complaints must have somewhere to go
Communities should provide clear, documented routes for raising concerns. Serious allegations should be referred to appropriate safeguarding, legal or professional authorities rather than handled as purely spiritual matters.
Leaders remain accountable
Status does not exempt anyone from scrutiny. The tradition rejects dependency-building, secrecy around abuse and institutional self-protection at the expense of those harmed.