Under all the activities and goals of EME lie values that will determine how those activities and goals will be pursued:* to promote a respect and reverence for all life
* to harmonize human endeavors with the basic rhythms
and patterns of nature
* to encourage styles of living that honor the uniqueness of
each individual.
To explicate how these values apply to everyday life and how they may be exemplified in our various activities, several specific ideals are explained below.
Justice
1. to protect and succor children from the moment of their
conception, especially through quality hands-on parenting
2. to foster a society that protects the weak from the strong
3. to avoid gratuitous violence and minimize the frequency and
severity of necessary (such as to obtain food) violence
4. to promote forms of justice that satisfy victims and that
offer redemption to wrongdoers
5. to resist incursions into personal freedom for victimless
crimes and enforced conformity to social norms (as from
antidrug, forced treatment, zoning, and licensing laws)
Care
for the Animal and Spiritual Needs
of
All People, Especially Children
1. to give care and protection above all others to the
young child and mother for child and maternal well-being
2. to call for the highest standards of motherhood according
to the best models of mammalian maternal/child bonding,
attachment-style parenting, and courageous nurturing
3. to reawaken people to the natural values of young playful
motherhood, natural childbirth, and exclusive breastfeeding
4. to affirm wholesome animalness and sensuality
5. to provide for means of dignified self-support and
participation in society for those who are impaired from
meeting the conventional standards of productivity because
of age, health, temperament, values or eccentricity
Health, Truth and Stewardship
1. to exemplify responsible and sensitive stewardship; to
protect the land from physical, chemical and aesthetic
abuses
2. to seek out holistic, creative and synergistic solutions to
the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health
challenges of all people and of the earth
3. to work with evolutionary means of progress by promoting
the ideal of diverse social experiments out of which truths
will emerge with time
4. to be open to ongoing spiritual and intellectual revelation
as another means of discovering new truths
5. to exuberantly cherish the life and integrity of both
spirit and materiality.
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