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'''Yoism''' claims to be the world's first [[open-source]] [[religion]]. According to the Yoans, people's beliefs must be consistent with their own experience and with their own sense of what is [[right]], and this is the only viable path toward [[Truth]]. Yoan beliefs are not based on received [[wisdom]], such as from long-dead [[patriarch]]s. Rather, Yoan beliefs are based on the consensus of the Yoan community in a continually updated, open-source ''Book of Yo''.

Yoans build their [[community|communities]] on an open-source process of consensus, striving to express what everyone in the community finds to comport with their experience, scientific data, and the aspirations of the community.  From this consensus on scientific and open-source truth, Yoans strive to improve their world. Yoans state several goals in which they are united:  world-wide justice, environmental sanity, and healthier communities.  From these goals, Yoans hope that humanity will achieve a status of sustainability within the worldwide [[ecosystem]].

The name Yoism refers to the community dedicated to the worship and study of [[Yo]], a place-holder, a symbol for a person's experience of divinity.

==External Links==
* Yoism website: http://www.yoism.org/
* [http://www.yoism.org/document.php?id=opensource_index Book of Yo]
* [http://www.yoism.org/document.php?id=pronounnote A note about the pronoun "yo"]

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'''Yo''', in [[Yoism]], refers to god, reality, the universe.

Yoans (that is, followers of Yoism) claim that Yo is a place-holder name that stands for the [[universe]] and everything within the universe, the trees and bugs and animals, the rocks and rivers, the stars and [[galaxies]]. Yoans say that they know that what "Yo" stands for exists, as evidenced in feelings, thoughts, and experience. Yoans claim that the experience of Yo gives comfort and strength.

References, from the official Yo Website

* The Name: [http://www.yoism.org/document.php?id=name Yo] 
* Is Yo a [http://www.yoism.org/document.php?id=faq_index#organizedreligion religion]?