Gossip is a dark spell

How unspoken wounds, jealousy, and ego can turn spiritual circles into battlegrounds

I’ve witnessed something over and over again, both as a teacher holding sacred space, as a student learning daily about my imperfections, and as a human being trying (imperfectly) to walk this path with integrity. Strangers rarely inflict the deepest wounds. They come from inside the circles we trusted most.

From students, colleagues, friends, even family, and sometimes even so-called spiritual allies. They speak in the language of light: “Archangels,” “Mary-Magdeleine,” “Christ consciousness,” “truth-telling,” “unity,” “authenticity.” But beneath that glow, they wield the subtle weapon of gossip not for healing, but for control, for validation, for a sense of belonging.

I’ve seen people who claim to walk in the name of love or Christ consciousness use gossip as a sacred-sounding form of exile. Ironically, even the very Bible they may reference names gossip as the tongue of Satan, but shadow often dresses itself in the same robes it claims to transcend. And the harm it causes runs far deeper than most are willing to speak about.

This essay is one I’ve resisted writing for a LONG time because it names the uncomfortable truth many of us face when we dare to step into leadership or sacred work. It’s not the betrayals themselves that destroy us, it’s the dark spells cast through gossip, jealousy, and unhealed projection that fracture what could have been holy.

If you’ve walked this path long enough, you’ve likely felt it too. The heartbreak of losing someone you trusted. The confusion of hearing your name twisted into stories you barely recognize. The ache of watching a once-beautiful circle slowly unravel from within. And if you’ve held space for others, you’ve probably witnessed how quickly unspoken wounds turn into projections, how easily jealousy disguises itself as righteousness, and how fragile sacred communities can become when gossip is allowed to brew in the shadows.

In the full essay below, I walk into these difficult but necessary territories:

🔥 How gossip becomes spiritual warfare, not just emotional harm
🧿 How jealousy hides unmet grief, unspoken wounds, and hunger to be seen
⚔️ How betrayal inside spiritual communities strikes our oldest survival fears
🌪 The ancient nervous system terror of exile still alive in our bones
🕸 How spiritual breaches open doors for entities that feed on division
🧹 How protection work includes not only outer clearing but deep inner purification
🧭 The long discipline of repairing rupture with true integrity and sacred guidance
🕯 How love, when fully embodied, becomes the ultimate field of protection

If you’re serious about walking this path of sacred work, whether as a healer, space holder, leader, or student, this is part of the unspoken curriculum. This is where many turn away. And yet, this is where some of the most potent initiations live.

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