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 wrongd...