Volume 1 - Part 3: LOTT - Backbiting Before Backstabbing
VOLUME 1 - PART 3:
The Cost of Looking Away
CPTSD Side Effect Alert
“Many victims of backbiting, betrayal, and abandonment suffer from silent CPTSD—a trauma response created by consistent invalidation, group neglect, and spiritual isolation. Looking away is never neutral—it becomes a form of energetic consent to evil.”
WHEN SILENCE ISN’T SACRED
There is a sacred kind of silence…
And then, there is the kind that lets evil thrive.
When backbiting, slander, or betrayal unfold in plain sight, many people look away—not because they don’t see, but because they don’t want to be seen standing against it. This “innocent” silence becomes a ritual of complicity. In spiritual warfare, neutrality is a myth. The moment you witness harm and choose not to act, you become part of the ritual. You lend your energy—consciously or not—to the outcome.
“They didn’t swing the sword— but they steadied the hand of the one who did.”
SPIRITUAL BYSTANDER KARMA
In many sacred texts, passivity in the face of wrongdoing carries weight:
- Bible (Proverbs 24:11–12): "Rescue those being led away to death... if you say, 'We knew nothing about this,' does not He who weighs the heart perceive it?"
- Qur’an (5:2): “Help one another in righteousness and piety, and do not help one another in sin and aggression.”
- Torah (Leviticus 19:16): “Do not stand idly by while your neighbor’s blood is shed.”
These are not metaphors. They are warnings. Not just to evildoers—but to watchers.
THE FENCE-SITTERS
Neutrality is a comfort for the spiritually untested. Fence-sitters avoid confrontation under the mask of “nonjudgment.” But judgment isn’t the problem—discernment is the requirement. Many times, those who observe wrongdoing but remain quiet end up
protecting abusers by default. They:
- Silence the victim through emotional distance
- Pretend not to know the truth
- Keep their image clean by staying in the middle
This doesn’t just delay justice—it feeds the oppressor.
GROOMED TO OBSERVE, NOT TO ACT
Society grooms people to stay out of things that don’t “concern” them. But what if that very grooming was part of the system of spiritual suppression?
The bystander is conditioned to believe:
- “I don’t want to get involved.”
- “It’s not my place.”
- “I don’t know all the details.”
- “They’ll work it out eventually.”
But silence is not spiritual neutrality. It is a soul agreement. And every soul agreement has consequences.
WHEN SPIRITUAL ACCOUNTABILITY ARRIVES…
The day comes when everyone who looked away must answer—not to the victim, but to The Most High.
When that moment arrives:
- Will you be remembered as the one who spoke?
- Or the one who kept your connections intact while someone else’s life burned?
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