Community · Eireya — The Way of Stillwater

📦 Three Circles of Community

🏞️ Local Grounds
The basic unit — highly self-governing under one shared minimum charter of rights

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🌐 Regional Assemblies
Coordination and mediation between communities — with no power to command downward

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⚖️ The Council of Streams
Guardian of the eternal core and central scriptures — representatives of all five streams serving a single seven-year term

🛡️ Protection of Rights

An independent Court of Stream Rights accepts complaints without requiring local leaders’ permission, may order temporary safeguards, publishes its decisions, and can withdraw the Eireya name from communities that violate rights systematically.

🧑‍🏫 The Listeners

What a Listener trains in

Three disciplines: mediation of conflict, the fundamentals of psychology and behaviour, and the history of how religions have failed — learning from every tradition’s mistakes is a required study.

What a Listener may never hold

No power to absolve sins. No personal donations. No legal privilege. A Listener has one duty — to listen and to build bridges. Every Listener is audited by their community each year, and may be recalled by a 60% vote.

🕊️ Principled Neutrality

Neutral toward identity, party, state, and the contest for power — never neutral toward harm, deception, or the denial of rights:

Never hold state power — a follower may enter politics, but must set aside the role of Listener while in office.
Never accept money from any state or any military — cutting off the roots of capture.
Never declare war or become an instrument of propaganda — but save lives, preserve facts, open safe ground, and condemn rights violations by one standard for every side.
Never proselytize by pressure — Eireya grows by example alone. Ask, and you will be answered; seek, and you will be taught.

💸 Deliberately Poor

🧢 The Asset Cap

No level of Eireya may hold more than three years of operating costs. Surplus flows to animal welfare, education, and disaster relief. This high-level rule may be reviewed only when evidence shows that its mechanism no longer serves its purpose.

🚫 Nothing Sacred Is for Sale

No selling of merit, office, or blessing — every rite is free, always. Income comes only from anonymous voluntary giving (so influence cannot be bought) and mediation services offered at what each can afford.