Limits on the behaviors of participants and facilitators are to be made clear and agreed upon in advance of any session. Appropriate customs of confidentiality are to be established and honored. Spiritual guides shall assist with only those practices for which they are qualified by personal experience and by training or education. Spiritual guides shall strive to be aware of how their own belief systems, values, needs, and limitations affect their work. To help safeguard against the harmful consequences of personal and organizational ambition, spiritual communities are usually better allowed to grow through attraction rather than active promotion.
Spiritual practices are to be conducted in the spirit of service.
Spiritual guides shall strive to accommodate participants without regard to their ability to pay or make donations. Spiritual guides shall practice openness and respect towards people whose beliefs are in apparent contradiction to their own. Each guide shall seek the counsel of other guides to help ensure the wholesomeness of his or her practices and shall offer counsel when there is need. This draft for public comment was released 17 October 1998. USA Permission is hereby given to reprint this Code, provided that the text is reproduced complete and verbatim, including the CSP contact information, copyright, and this notice of limited permission to reprint.