Spiritual Bullying

I recently experienced a situation where I was indirectly involved in a spiritual healing practice. During my nearly year-long experience, I was learned some amazing lessons relative to my own gifts, one which included an uncomfortable realization that even amongst the so-called healing leaders, there is very much alive the practice of spiritual bullying and hypocrisy.

What is Spiritual Bullying?

When someone authentically expresses who they are with honesty, integrity an their unique gift and personal truth without bringing harm or negative energy to another, we are aligned with our authentic spirituality.

This might include simple practices of isolated prayer and meditation or more ceremonial practices where we gather in groups and manifest a healing circle.

It can involve tools such as crystals, divination cards, books, plant medicines, altars, songs and even specific rituals that call into action a particular energy to help, heal and guide.

Spirituality spans along the lines of simplistic or traditional all the way to a more complicated and in-depth practices.

It’s diversity is as great as the shapes, colors and personalities of the human race!

Spiritual bullying is when a person or group is operating within this realm of soulful humanity, doing what they do, and along comes another individual or group of individuals whose primary agenda is anything but respect and understanding!

Without the emotional maturity necessary to live their own peace, this opposing group may:

💥Tell them they are wrong or in error

💥Try to influence them differently

💥Assign labels to them directly

💥Attempt to shame them with sarcasm, name calling and hate

💥Jump on a conversation, bringing hate and challenges to their practice

💥Looking for backdoor methods to bring them down

Take for instance this common scenario.

You believe in a specific religion and you practice this religion. You follow it’s codes, rituals and practices to the ‘T’. You dress the dress. Sing the songs. Pray the parayers. Kneel, confess and even sacrifice your own need for nourishment through harsh practices such as fasting.

You read the Bible daily and live by the scripture as authentically as you can. You are genuinely happy practicing this religion and it shows!

Your family life is strong and moral. You are abundant, healthy and genuinely loving and compassionate. Life is amazing and you are authentically living your dream!!!!

But then one day, someone else came along and TOLD YOU directly you were lost! They began TELLING you that you weren’t doing enough and that you were practicing half-ass. That you actually had to be perform things ‘this way’ or else it wasn’t right.

This is spiritual bullying.

I’m not going to discuss any deeper beyond being told you are doing wrong or the very treacherous path that follows, as some people actually try to discredit others for their beliefs through gossip or worse, physical bullying!

I’m going to stay in the act of spiritual bullying.

Spiritual bullying typically doesn’t occur as much with mainstream religious practices, especially if they are part of a well-known, generally accepted practice and have a pre-approved doctrine at its core.

For example, you don’t see a huge amount of Buddhists degrading Abrahamic-based religions, even though the opposite is highly prevalent.

Many people from vastly different ‘practices’ can use the same tool, such as the Bible, and yet have very different practices as well.

Personally, I was raised Southern Baptist as a little girl and had no voice in my own understanding of spirituality. I listened to pretentious white women and powerful white men in suits gossip about how the other church in town was a ‘cult’ or talking about ‘those people’, referring to the darker-skinned folks in their segregated section up top.

It was wrong at its core, and as an innocent little girl, I knew this!

Once I was old enough to rebel and call bullshit on the back-masking, the album burning gatherings as well as the retreats where we were forced into watching movies that were intended to SCARE us into compliance on controversial topics like abortion, I shed the religious coat of brainwashed righteousness and began to seek my own spiritual path.

A long path of soul-searching that landed me at the most peaceful and aligned of places within my heart.

Listening to a podcast just last night, I heard a man who was speaking about spirituality and a journey of ‘no materialism’, quoting from his religious doctrine and proclaiming one way as the ONLY way....

Only this way is the way

His presence was one of vanity.

A big “dog-n-pony” show, using grandeous accolades towards the shallow aspects of his very vain spouse, other men of questionable rapport who agreed with him and outright omitting any respect towards other women who were also part of the panel.

Talk about ego!

Not to mention, he actually placed Odinism, or the practice of Asatru, which follows the old ways of nature and healing into the same category with Satanism, which is practiced by the dark side, even within one of the most popular religious institutions in Rome and across the globe today!

Spiritual bullying! 🤔

When I am asked questions about my authenticity, spiritual bullying by others has actually caused me to stay silent

It has caused me to avoiding speak truth, but rather just live truth and express truth in my talents and gifts.

It has caused me to put up even higher boundaries and to outright cut out of my present like those who believe superiority on their spiritual path....especially if they attempt to convert me.

I will not be spiritually bullied

In the spiritual realm of shamanism, energy healing, reiki, meditation, yoga practices, crystal healing, metaphysical, astral work, soul healing, auric work, plant medicine ceremonies, spiritual journeying, spiritual alignment, authenticity, chakra work, self-power reacclaimation, psychic work etc., there is not only an obvious bullying present from external groups and individuals, but something I’ve never noticed before....bullying from within the spiritual practice.

If a soulful question is asked, you are at a higher likelihood of being assaulted and bullied IF YOU ANSWER with confidence and knowing. Period

Spiritual bullying!!!

How you choose to react to the bullying, well it is your choice and really dependent upon your natal chart influences and the level or degree to which you are literally FED UP with being bullied.

Often times, when someone has been bullied and silent for a long time and they have had it, they will react in such a polar opposite manner that it’s serves as a discharge for all the pent-up frustration and oppression. You see this with many groups or movements who are tired and refuse to take it anymore!

Speaking up for yourself will more often than not elicit further bullying and even the practice of gang bullying or group bullying, where others will join in the ‘cause’ to humiliate, undermine, discredit and abuse the believer who speaks in truth.

An older woman said it the other day....

spirituality is a sacred journey

For me, it’s akin to the sacred intimate bond between husband and wife! Break the bond, you break the trust and the relationship is often destined to crumble or exist on a shaky foundation.

To be told one is wrong or labeled as being aligned with bad just because it’s their personal journey makes the person doing the telling a spiritual bully.

I’m sure you don’t embrace having your daughter teased because she is morbidly obese, skeleton-like skinny or reclusive.

I’m sure you don’t embrace the popular kids taking your intelligent and introverted son’s money or throwing his backpack in the trash and laughing about it, leaving you to have to purchase new supplies.

I’m sure you don’t appreciate the way your so-called friend makes fun of a frumpy or other non-pleasant physical aspect of a person who is doing no harm.

So why then embrace doing the same thing to a person who doesn’t want to hike in a certain part of the country or who doesn’t believe that a prophet is their savior?

Why criticize someone who doesn’t embrace the killing of animals for food or whose beliefs want those sweet baby chickens free from physical harm?

It’s not funny. It’s not about humor.

It’s genuinely an attempt to elevate yourSELF to a position of superiority, using whatever emotionally charged tools you have.

The hypocrisy in listening to the guy last night and his highly materialistic show-boating vain wife reminded me that even the most perceived spiritually aligned folks are living a lie of illusion.

Hiding some deeper, darker secret behind their quest for superiority.

Their ego drives their practice. Their hate fuels their healing practice. Their arrogance and vanity are literally there for attention, while their message and it’s truth is absolutely LOST to those who might genuinely benefit.

I said it earlier....

Don’t criticize people because they are doing things their way for themselves and for their lifestyle and their circle.

If you ask a question, be human, be a mature man or woman, enough to keep your mouth shut and respect the answer they give. If you don’t ask a question or they attempt to impose their beliefs onto your statement of truth, they are spiritual bullies.