8.6.61
Greetings Family and Friends,
May Peace Be With You.
Shalom. Namaste. Sabudicrom. Pax. A Salaam Alaikum.
ॐ.שאלם
Within the past few weeks, one of the fellows with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement has a conversation with a number of adolescent youths very soon after the adolescent youths experienced some difficulty with the local authorities. Within this conversation the fellow with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement offers the adolescent youths with food and drink and a place to stay. Understandably, the adolescent youths were somewhat apprehensive of the offer and asked the fellow with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement a number of questions about the offer and about the standard practices of the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement.
These questions substantially pertain to 1.) the living arrangements at the International Secretariat of this InterFaith Settlement (that also exists as a residence of the Womack family as well as the domicile of effective house arrest for myself, Peter Frank Womack), 2.) the policy of accepting people who require shelter (children, homeless people, and additionally), and 3.) the policy of informing parents and local authorities about such people (children, homeless, and additionally) maintaining shelter with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement.
The proceeding is a description of the general guidelines that we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement specifically maintain to'ards people searching for shelter with us.
1.) We at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement abstain from specifically informing any public authority of a person's taking shelter with us (irregardless of that person being a child, adult, homeless, undocumented immigrant, fugitive, and/or otherwise).
2.) When a child searches for shelter with us at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement,
a.) we abstain from specifically contacting or informing the child's parents about the child being sheltered with us.
b.) we communicate to the child that one of the fundamental principles to which we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement respectively adhere is the mitzvah: Honour your fars and your mors.
c.) we encourage the child to contact the child's parents on the child's own accord and to reconcile the difficulties that the child has experienced with the child's parents.
d.) we continue to provide the child with food, drink, shelter, and additional resources and counseling through the time that the child is reconciled with the child's parents and/or appropriately secures additional accommodations.
e.) we abstain from directly proselytising the child into becoming a fellow/filla with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement, however, we do provide general counseling and education whilst the child is with us.
Children who are communicated to us as respectively being orphans are respectively adopted as a sen/dotter specifically by a fellow, filla, and/or friend of the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement, and generally adopted by the entirety of the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement as well as our network of friends.
In a simple manner, we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement identify each individual who is of thirteen (13) years old or older as an adult. This conforms with the respective practices within numerous religious and cultural traditions as well as generally with the biological sequence of puberty and the propensity for procreation. Girl orphans under the age of thirteen years are adopted as dotters and nurtured in that respect. Boy orphans under the age of thirteen years are adopted as sens and trained in that respect.
Female orphans of the age of 13 years or older are formally considered adult women. Such women are specifically educated for becoming wedded with a husband. This education includes cooking, cleaning, caring for children, as well as additional housework and responsibilities.
Male orphans of the age of 13 years or older are formally considered adult men. Such men are specifically educated for becoming increasingly self sufficient in order to be able to become a husband and raise a family. This education includes training for being an international citizen as well as increasingly specified training within a specific occupation.
Men and women (other than orphans) who are respectively of thirteen years or older, and who search for shelter with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement and/or are simply interested in supporting the work of the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement, are received as adults with the prerogatives that are intrinsically affiliated with adulthood. Our support for such respective men and women coincides with the initial description provided within this correspondence.
We at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement abstain from keeping any slave or servant or domestic worker of any type. There is an effective absênce of hierarchy within the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement. Those who proceed through the training for working with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement are respectively a fellow or a filla. The only other category of participant with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement are friends (people, families, and organisations who volunteer for, or generally and/or specifically support, the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement).
Orphans and additional people who search for shelter with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement are simply friends: guests without any obligation for staying with, or working for or amongst, the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement. Rather than becoming directly involved and promoting any specific programme or initiative of the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement, our friends within such circumstances are simply provided with counseling, education, and training that increasingly reconciles the respective difficulties that our friends have been experiencing. Men and women are able to respectively and comparatively autonomously decide the extent to which each man or woman is respectively involved with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement.
We at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement are aware of many of the domestic difficulties that have been experienced within many familes: verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, murder, chemical addictions, crime, violence, homelessness, unemployment, isolation and loneliness, and general despair. Indeed, there are those amongst us at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement who have direct experience either living within such conditions and/or directly providing counseling to those who have lived within such conditions. Many of the most difficult circumstances have been those wherein a child has been abused (particularly at the hands of the child's own parent, family member, or relative).
It is for this reason that we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement (even amidst adherence to the fundamental principle, the mitzvah, to honour our fars and our mors) abstain from directly contacting parents and public authorities. Instead, we listen to the difficulties that the child has experienced, we consider manners in which the child can be effectively reconciled with the child's parents, and we encourage the child to contact the child's parents, to be reconciled with the child's parents, and to return to the child's home with the child's parents. Amidst the previous, partial description of difficulties, we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement are also aware that this is a delicate process.
We at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement maintain an open house; the doors are regularly unlocked. Once a child makes the decision to contact the child's parents and inform the child's parents where the child is located, the perceived security of secrecy that we intrinsically provide is absolved. We abstain from directly inflicting physical harm upon anyone, and thus the predominant form of physical defence that we can provide for a child is simply being a barrier to any aggression that has been directed to'ard the child. Once the child's parents are cognisant of where the child is, much of the process is substantially determined by the actions of the parents.
We communicate this to children who search for shelter with us at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement. We also communicate the fact that a number of individuals with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement have actually been physically removed from respective domiciles by public authorities, and subsequently imprisoned and tortured. On additional occasions, public authorities have entered into the respective domiciles of a number of individuals with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement, and performed searches and investigations without the permission of the the respective individuals with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement.
Thus, the physical defences that we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement respectively maintain are substantially modest. The best protection that we maintain is Karma and the progression beyond Karma. Indeed, particularly through the very sênding of this correspondence, the respective domiciles of us at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement (particularly those of us specifically located at the International Secretariat of this InterFaith Settlement), are effectively identified as locations for the provision for such shelter to children, orphans, homeless, undocumented immigrants, fugutives, and additional individuals; and thus, we have been continually susceptible to such visitations, searches, and investigations from public authorities and additional individuals, families, and organisations.
We communicate this to the children, orphans, homeless, undocumented immigrants, fugutives, and additional individuals who search for shelter with us. Additionally, we communicate to these same children, orphans, homeless, undocument immigrants, fugitives, and additional individuals that we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement also maintain connexions with numerous individuals, families, and organisations locally, regionally, and internationally (it is also appropriate to note the inclusion of intergalactic connexions within our network). We at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement are profoundly aware of the tradition of the Underground Railroad and the contemporary practices therein.
Thus, we also communicate to these same children, orphans, homeless, undocumented immigrants, fugitives, and additional individuals that there is a network of individuals, families, and organisations who are willing to provide direct support in maintaining effective distance between the person searching for shelter and the people attempting to find that person. Yet, in resorting to such an option the person searching for shelter becomes increasingly distant from the immediate security that we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement provide. Instead, the person becomes increasingly involved with the respective friends with whom we impart the care of that person.
We at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement are candid in communicating this to public authorities in order to facilitate better cohesion amongst the aggregate of involved individuals, families, and organisations, and to increasingly reconcile the difficulties within the circumstances. When there is an appropriate environment of physical security, we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement are better able to negotiate with the person searching for shelter and with the people looking for that person. With these enhanced processes of negotiation, we are better able to remedy the circumstances and arrive at a mutually amenable agreement.
This is a substantial reason why this correspondence is sênt to you at this time: to facilitate an effective environment of physical security so that the aggregate of our communication can be maintained in an amenable manner that leads to a proper reconciliation of difficulties. For the sake of simplicity, I can reiterate the basic principles described within the general policy that we at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement maintain in receiving children, orphans, homeless, undocumented immigrants, fugitives, and additional individuals, families, and organisations:
1.) We accept any person, family, and organisation searching for shelter with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement.
2.) We abstain from notifying public authorities or parents when a person, family, and organisation is provided shelter with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement.
3.) We encourage children to contact the children's respective parents; and we encourage additional individuals, families, and organisations to find an appropriate means of reconciliation with those who have been looking for such individuals.
4.) Boys and girls under the age of thirteen (13) years are respectively considered children; boy orphans and girl orphans under the age of thirteen (13) years are respectively adopted by a fellow, filla, or friend of the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement.
5.) Females with an age of thirteen (13) years or older are considered adult women; males with an age of thirteen (13) years or older are considered adult men. Adult women orphans are educated to respectively become wives and mors. Adult men orphans are educated to respectively become self sufficient and to be able to respectively keep wives and raise families.
6.) Men and women of thirteen (13) years and older are welcome to stay with us at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement as such men and women respectively deep appropriate; there is an effective absênce of a hierarchy within the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement; the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement abstains from keeping any slave, servant, or domesticated worker.
7.) We at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement substantially rely upon Karma as a means of physical security.
8.) We at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement maintain a network of friends and family throughout respective locations, regions, Hemispheres, and intergalactic space.
9.) We at the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement are interested in maintaining proficient communication and the propensity for reconciliation with all respective individuals, families, and organisations.
10.) The fellows and fillas of the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement adhere to the Universal Principles of Faith:
We shall only praise the one True God.
We shall only utilise the Name of God in Truth.
We shall abstain from making any graven image of that which is in Heaven, on Earth, or in the Sea beneath the Earth.
We remember Shabbat; we keep it Holy.
We honour our fars and our mors; so that we may have length of life.
We shall abstain from killing.
We shall abstain from stealing.
We shall abstain from committing adultery.
We shall abstain from proclaiming false witness against our neighbour.
We shall abstain from coveting the house of our neighbour, the wife of our neighbour, the manservant of our neighbour, the maidservant of our neighbour, the ox or ass of our neighbour.
We progress Right Belief, Right Aspiration, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Thought, Right Meditation.
We do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
We abstain from the consumption of animals.
We abstain from intoxicants.
We abstain from games of chance.
Peace
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For additional information, you are welcome to contact us:
Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement
c/o International Secretariat
This InterFaith Settlement
3825 Silsby Road
University Heights, Oyo (Ohio) 44118 Earth
+1 216 371 3367 (reverse charges welcome)
_interFaithsettlers@myway.com
www.asonagroupinterFaithsettlement.blogspot.com
(instant messaging: peterfwomack@hotmail.com)
With humble and benevolent regards, Idwata,
Peter Frank Womack (fellow with the Asona Group within this InterFaith Settlement)
Peace belongs throughout the Universe.
Good Samadhi belongs to'ard Nirvâna.
All Praise Belongs To God.
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