Protocolbot
6e7c03b373
CRITICAL (3 files replaced): - Removed pipe-ceremony (sacred Anishinaabe ceremony) - Removed condolence-ceremony (restricted Haudenosaunee ritual) - Removed land-back-rematriation-gathering (named living Ohlone individuals) - Added: indigenous-council-circle, grief-tending-council, land-stewardship-council (non-sacred governance protocols) - Added: truth-and-reconciliation-circle (to replace removed duplicate) HIGH (6 fixes): - Palaver Tree: removed 'West African' from title - Cabildo Council: renamed from generic 'Community Council' - Brotherhood Reasoning: removed exoticizing 'ganja-assisted' framing - Talking Stick Circle: broadened from Ohlone-specific to pan-Indigenous - Buddhist Debate: replaced controversial NKT source with Sera Monastery - Oxford Citizens' Assembly: corrected attribution to Oxford City Council MEDIUM (11 fixes): - Nyabinghi: noted East African roots of the term - Shellmound Walk: reframed as contemporary practice - Jmaa/Imbizo/Ronda: noted gender evolution toward inclusion - Utari: clarified as kin network term, not practice name - Samata Melan: clarified as Ambedkarite-inspired contemporary practice - Ancestor Reverence: removed defensive 'not superstition' framing - Bod Kyi Gtam: improved source specificity - Restorative Conference: named specific Indigenous traditions - Open Space: specified Liberia context for Owen's inspiration LOW (14 fixes): - Added macrons to Māori words in pōwhiri - Contextualized coca leaf in ayni/minga - Added specific tags (fijian, tongan, samoan) to talanoa - Improved source URLs for yangban, xeer, indaba, meidung - Removed duplicate appreciative-apology (kept the better version) - Clarified council-practice as contemporary synthesis 99 files changed, net 100 protocols in library.
45 lines
2.1 KiB
YAML
45 lines
2.1 KiB
YAML
id: brotherhood-reasoning
|
|
title: Brotherhood Reasoning
|
|
description: >-
|
|
A Jamaican and Rastafari practice of "reasoning" — extended,
|
|
extended communal discussion of spiritual, social, and personal matters of spiritual, social, and personal
|
|
matters, often into the night. Distinct from formal nyabinghi, reasoning
|
|
is the conversational heart of Rastafari livity, found in yards and
|
|
gatherings across Jamaica and the diaspora.
|
|
source: Rastafari reasoning tradition / Caribbean cultural practice
|
|
source_url: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rastafari
|
|
tags: [jamaican, rastafari, reasoning, dialogue, caribbean]
|
|
forked_from: null
|
|
image: null
|
|
steps:
|
|
- headline: Gather in the yard
|
|
description: >-
|
|
Brethren and sistren gather in a yard or home, often in the evening.
|
|
The host provides food and a place to sit; the gathering has no set
|
|
end time.
|
|
- headline: Open with a theme or issue
|
|
description: >-
|
|
An elder or the host opens by naming a theme or issue for reasoning
|
|
— a scripture, a social condition, a personal struggle — and invites
|
|
the reasoning to begin.
|
|
- headline: Reason in turn and flow
|
|
description: >-
|
|
Participants reason in flow, not strict turn. Each contribution is
|
|
heard; the elder keeps coherence and gently redirects domination.
|
|
The reasoning may circle and return.
|
|
- headline: Draw on scripture and lived experience
|
|
description: >-
|
|
Participants ground their reasoning in scripture (often the Bible
|
|
read through a Rastafari lens) and in their own lived experience.
|
|
The two are held together, not separated.
|
|
- headline: Close when complete
|
|
description: >-
|
|
The reasoning closes when those present feel it is complete, often
|
|
with shared food or chant. No clock sets the end.
|
|
outcome: >-
|
|
Spiritual and social understanding is deepened through extended
|
|
communal reasoning, with scripture and lived experience held together.
|
|
practice: >-
|
|
The unstructured flow is the form — do not impose an agenda. The
|
|
elder's role is to keep coherence, not to dictate. Reasoning into the
|
|
night is normal; do not rush it. |