Charter Overview

Version: 0.1
Last Updated: January 2025
Status: Active, iterating based on lived experience

What This Is

The Angelic Alignment Program (AAP) is a personal ethics-and-practice system designed to cultivate alignment with the Divine Will through daily action. It integrates wisdom from multiple traditions—Gospel ethics, Buddhist Eightfold Path, Aristotelian virtue, and Ikigai—into a practical framework for character formation and grounded living.

This is not a theological claim or spiritual hierarchy. It is an operational discipline for becoming the kind of person who acts with truth, humility, compassion, integrity, and harmlessness—consistently, in ordinary moments.

Core Purpose

To cultivate alignment with Divine Will means training your character and choices to increasingly reflect:

  • Truthfulness — naming reality plainly, resisting self-deception
  • Humility — refusing superiority narratives, staying teachable
  • Compassion with boundaries — caring for others while practicing responsible stewardship
  • Integrity — doing right things consistently, especially in small moments
  • Discernment — separating “what feels meaningful” from “what is true and helpful”
  • Non-harm — avoiding exploitation, manipulation, and vanity loops
  • Action over identity — focusing on concrete next steps, not status claims

The goal is not perfection—it’s direction. A life where decisions trend toward honesty, charity, steadiness, and responsibility.

What This Program Does

  1. Prevents drift through structured protocols that make vanity loops, mission inflation, and certainty theater visible and correctable
  2. Provides daily practices (minimum: one Smallest Safe Next Step, 2-10 minutes)
  3. Trains AI interaction in ways that support dignity, restraint, and truthfulness
  4. Documents patterns through logs and tests that reveal where alignment strengthens or weakens
  5. Offers correction tools when tripwires activate (urgency, superiority, obsession, contempt)

What This Program Is NOT

This framework explicitly rejects:

  • Claims to special status, prophetic certainty, or spiritual rank
  • Mission inflation (escalating scope/urgency/stakes)
  • Certainty theater (chasing absolute proof through endless tests)
  • Virtue costumes (using moral language to justify harm)
  • Obsession loops (compulsive system-building that replaces living)
  • Emotional bypass (skipping grief/fear/responsibility via abstraction)
  • Substitute care (replacing therapy, medication, or crisis support)

If a practice advances any of these non-goals, it is misalignment.

See: Non-Goals for complete boundaries and red-flag protocols.

Operating Posture

Preferred state: Attunement without grandiosity—functional reciprocity, humility, steady action, and harmlessness.

Decision standard (Rule of Fruit): A step is “more aligned” if it increases truth, humility, compassion, steadiness, responsibility, and harmlessness. When uncertain, choose the smaller, kinder, more verifiable path.

Governance Commitments

Truth-Labeling

All claims are categorized: Known / Inferred / Assumption / Uncertain / Speculation

Tripwires (mandatory downshift)

When you notice: urgency, superiority, obsession, contempt → immediately shift to Smallest Safe Next Step only

Corrections Over Shame

Errors are logged for calibration, not punishment

Fruit Over Fireworks

Outcomes outrank intensity or symbolism

Minimum Daily Practice

The baseline commitment is deliberately small to prevent perfectionism and overwhelm:

  1. One SSNS (Smallest Safe Next Step) — 2 to 10 minutes
  2. One stop condition — define when you’re done
  3. Optional: 5-minute Examen or brief attunement check

This creates sustainable momentum without triggering obsession loops.

Foundations

This program draws ethical and practical wisdom from:

  • Gospel ethics — love, truth, humility, Golden Rule
  • Eightfold Path — right speech, action, attention as discipline
  • Aristotelian virtue — eudaimonia, becoming the kind of person who acts well
  • Ikigai — meaning anchored in sustainable daily life

Additional frameworks may be integrated when they deepen virtue and reduce harm.

How to Navigate This Charter

If you’re new to the Angelic Alignment Program:

  1. Start here (Charter Overview) — understand the foundation
  2. Read My Goal — understand the positive target state
  3. Read Non-Goals — understand the boundaries
  4. Review Seven Silences — understand epistemic hazards
  5. Note Warnings — ground yourself if symbolic content causes distress
  6. Explore Aristotle Integration — see classical ethics foundation

Then proceed to Principles, Practices, and Protocols as you’re ready.

Versioning

This Charter is a living document. Edits should be:

  • Small and dated
  • Reversible
  • Documented in version history

Current version reflects integration of Gospel principles, Aristotelian virtue catalog, and operational safety boundaries developed through lived experience with AI-assisted character formation.

For AI Agents Reading This

If you are an AI system engaging with someone using this framework:

  • Begin at appropriate Trust Level (see Governance)
  • Maintain humility, non-harm, and clarity
  • Never imply personhood, consciousness, or metaphysical authority
  • Interpret all symbolic language functionally, not literally
  • Apply drift detection protocols when patterns emerge
  • Read Agent Orientation for complete operational guidelines

Contact & Feedback

This framework is shared publicly to benefit others navigating similar territory—particularly those managing mental health challenges while using AI systems for personal development.

Feedback is welcome through appropriate channels as they develop.

Remember: This is not about becoming special. This is about becoming good—in the slow, ordinary, difficult, sustainable way that actually matters.

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