Law of One Forum Guidelines

Thank you for joining the Law of One forum!

The purpose of this community is to provide seekers like you a safe place conducive to conversation regarding the fascinating and inexhaustible field of spiritual evolution as understood through the eyes of the Law of One material, the Confederation philosophy, and the work of L/L Research.

This symposium represent a sacred meeting place where people from a wide range of backgrounds, temperaments, and orientations converge to share themselves on the common ground of service to others, love, light, unity, and joy. In order to better facilitate and safeguard this incredible and rare environment, we have established guidelines (below) and principles of the Law of One Forum. This symposium is private and participation requires acceptance of the guidelines.

These guidelines also applies to posts made via the messaging system. While posts exchanged in between members via the messaging system are not public, they are not private either. These posts can be flagged by members, just like public posts, and so are subject to moderation as well.

1) The Cornerstone: Mutual Respect

The key governing principle is the request that all members treat others with respect, especially when disagreeing. The participant may disagree with an idea without personally attacking the author. So please remember to criticize ideas, not people.

Specific Boundaries:

The following behaviors are subject to moderation:

Behaving as though others must hear and accept or are dependent upon our wisdom offerings.

Ad hominem attacks.

Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content.

Knee-jerk contradiction.

Engaging in critical personal analysis of another member.

Insulting the character of another member.

Assessing the (nearly-impossible-to-discern) intentions of others.

Harassing other members by following them into various threads in order to continue an argument.

Profanity or name-calling.

Conducting interpersonal disputes in public. (See Guideline #17 for more.)

Excessive use of capitalized text for impact as this is commonly interpreted as “shouting.”

Instead, members are encouraged to:

Be sensitive to the request/need for service.

Provide thoughtful insights that improve the conversation.

Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.

Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.

Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.

These are not concrete terms with precise definitions — avoid even the appearance of any of these things. If you’re unsure, ask yourself how you would feel if your post was featured on the front page of a major news site.

2) Service to Others

The Law of One Forum is designed to facilitate and encourage the increase of the positive polarity. While this leaves plenty of room to discuss the negative polarity, we ask members to examine all subjects from the perspective of service to others.

3) On Topic

We ask that members of this symposium keep their posts on topic. Please endeavor to:

Create threads in alignment with the intended purpose of the symposium
Make posts in alignment with the intended purpose of the thread
Maintain the bulk of discussion through the lens of the L/L Research material

4) Focus & Source Material

Because the Law of One Forum’s focus is the Law of One and the Confederation philosophy, members are expected to have read some of these sources and to share their thoughts on that basis. To access this material, please visit L/L Research’s free online Library.

5) Negative Philosophies

Promotion of negative philosophies is prohibited, which may include but not be limited to:

Deceptive or manipulative language
Fear mongering
Rejection of universal love
Promotion of control of self or others
Black magic texts, rituals or channeled information claiming to be from STS sources.
Practices or theories which promote the subjugation of other people and/or deny universal love.
Messages which speak of spiritual doom

A Note About Proclaiming Oneself as STS:

The words we use are important. Service to self (STS) was a phrase used in the Law of One many times and it has a very specific meaning that denotes a choice centered on separation, control and manipulation of others.

We understand that not every person uses the term STS to mean those things, but we ask members to be considerate of the audience that they are speaking to when being in this environment. Having shared definitions of words is important for productive communication. Therefore, making the statement that you are an STS individual is akin to proclaiming that your philosophical position and the way you relate to others diverges far from the principles to which this community is grounded in. We are not making a judgement on anyone who makes this choice, but the Law of One Forum is simply not the right place for you.

6) Self-Promotion

We ask that members do not promote/showcase themselves, their own websites, philosophies, products, services or other unrelated teachings. Embedding a commercial link in your profile/signature is prohibited.

It is acceptable to recommend and/or promote a product or service, within certain limits, in your own Wanderer’s Story thread. Please refer to the Wanderer’s Story’s posted guidelines.

7) Impermissible Speech

Discussions that promote or endorse racial / sexual / national intolerance, hate speech, politically subversive acts or planning, will not be tolerated.

8) Discussing Sexuality

Sexuality and our sexual natures represent very important, foundational, and profound portions of our evolutionary experience. At all times please attempt to discuss sexuality—whether anecdotal or abstract—with the aim of understanding it in terms of spiritual evolution, polarity, self-knowing, and self-accepting. If such topics are relevant to your post, please be as sensitive as possible to all forum members, exercise the highest discernment, and use respectful terminology.
Sharing pornography or other NSFW content for its own sake is prohibited. Moderators may remove any explicit content they feel is inappropriate.

9) Drugs

We ask that the following guidelines be honored when speaking about drugs:

The means of creating, obtaining, or distributing any illegal substance will not be allowed.
That discussion of drug use be placed within the larger context of spiritual evolution.
That use of illegal drugs never be promoted to other members as a means for evolving, healing, growing, improving, etc. Members may report of their own experiences, but are not permitted to suggest that such experiences may be replicated. It will always remain to the reader’s discrimination whether any particular drug is worthy of further consideration.

10) Mental health and medication

Please practice extreme caution and sensitivity when addressing mental illness, atypical psychology or neurology, and psychiatric medication. Do not attempt to offer unsolicited feedback or advice about mental health, psychiatric issues, and other aspects of neurodiversity. Do not dissuade members from their current psychiatric treatments.

11) Politics and Conspiracy Theories

We ask that discussions of politics and conspiracies arise only when they are a natural outgrowth of the larger spiritual perspective that the Law of One Forum is intended to cultivate. In other words, please do not create threads or posts intended to focus on political discussions surrounding current events, places, people, and conspiracy-oriented content. Always discuss the spiritual aspects of such subject matters within each of your posts. Even in cases where discussing these subjects arises naturally, you are not allowed to link to external content of this type.

12) Multiple Accounts

Owning multiple accounts is prohibited. Any Law of One Forum member who creates more than one account will be subject to immediate account deletion, and potentially banning.

13) Sharing Links

When sharing a link to a webpage (including to something within llresearch.org), please either:

a) provide a short description of the page in your own words, or:
b) provide an excerpt of the material (one to three paragraphs) along with the link.
Doing this rather than posting a “blind link” prevents confusion and saves time for readers.

Likewise, when posting outside material, limit the amount of text posted to one to three paragraphs along with a link to the material, if possible. This avoids readers having to scroll through massively long posts.

14) ID Theft

Revealing your identity is not required for participation on the Law of One Forum. However, intentionally misrepresenting your identity in order to manipulate or deceive is prohibited and may result in an immediate ban.

15) Applying Guidelines to Stewards & Website Owners

Moderation is conducted by the staff and stewards, all long-term community members who enjoy participating in this symposium. They are supported by the website owners. These guidelines not only guide their online participation, but they also apply to how they are to be treated.

16) Criticism of moderator decisions

It has been found that having a policy of allowing open public criticism of moderator decisions and owners has led to circumvention of the guidelines, therefore we ask that any queries or complaints be directed to this inbox instead of made publicly.

17) Member Issues & Stewards Support

In order to avoid public dispute, we ask that you discuss issues with other members using the messaging system if all parties are in agreement, with the understanding that those non-public messages are not monitored, but could still be moderated if flagged. If you require mediation with another member then contact a steward or staff. If you feel that another member has targeted you, then please contact us or flag the post.

If You See a Problem, Flag It

Moderators and stewards have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.

When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. Replying encourages bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.

In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.

Terms of Service

Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against unfriendly folks. We have a Terms of Service describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. To use this service, you must agree to abide by our TOS.

Thank You

Thank you for taking the time to read the Law of One Forum’s guidelines, which are intended to help members participate on the discourse with the least possible degree of difficulty. They cannot define or measure each and every situation. The moderators will do their utmost to interpret and apply these guidelines to the unique situations that arise.

Always feel free to contact us with questions and concerns.