General Disclaimer: The information and practices described in this site are the result of years of study and dedication to the understanding of the risks involved. These descriptions are provided for purposes of information only. Actually trying to practice anything described in this site would almost certainly lead to injury, perhaps even serious injury or death. We strongly advise against it.
Disclaimer Regarding Somafera Groups and Forums: As we have been in existence for many years now, we have spawned a number of offshoots, so there is more than one somafera group in existence. We cannot vouch for the information or people on the others. One was formed by a group of Asatruar having no connection to the organization that we started. Another is actually a group of "Sith Lords" who have been passing off our training techniques as their own. A third is formed of dancers and other artists with no connection to us. A fourth is in France, and was formed by French speakers we were in contact with, and has our full support.
Still another was, unfortunately, formed by trolls. Certain members joined the forum we have for the discussion and development of somafera, and under the guise of helping us to move the forum and websites to better locations, stole all of the threads and kept us out of the forum they created, giving them the appearance of being legitimate. They also registered the somafera.org domain to themselves, so that we could not use it. This group, the one associated with somafera.org, are not legitimate, and we do not vouch in any way whatever for the information contained on their sites or forum, including anything supposedly written by us. The only legitimate somafera forums started by the people who coined the term and did all the pioneering research are the ones linked to from this page.
In time we expect still other groups to arise. To differentiate ourselves from them we here place the principles that our organization is based on:
We disagree with the concept of strict hierarchies and organization. We see the group here, known as the Pack, as a collection of alphas, a meeting of equals. We have no ranks, no badges, no collection of jolly pirate nicknames based on post numbers or accomplishments. We do not have bylaws, bills of rights, or rules. These are things needed by people who are bad at getting along with others, and who have nothing better to do with their time than try to regulate them. We do not have an authoritative administrator or leader. Nobody gives orders to anybody. We are very selective about membership, and expect everyone that we accept to be mature enough to keep the frith.
In general, we try to have important matters settled by group decision. However, this is not a democracy, strictly speaking. It is instead a meritocracy. In other words, members here have authority over decisions in direct proportion to the amount of responsibility they shoulder. For example, if a meeting of the Pack is set up, then decisions like meeting place, itinerary, and so forth are primarily made by the people who have done the work, paid for the meeting hall, and so forth. I (Wayland) am formally the moderator on these forums, but I will only step in to act as such as a last choice, when a tie breaker is needed or some emergency arises that cannot wait for a full vote.