Patterns of Abuse: Thirteen Warning Signals to be Cautious Of From Sacred Circles, Organizations or Women’s Groups

Excerpt from Yoni Shakti: A Woman’s Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra

A great warning checklist for any Sacred Circle or events that you may regularly attend:

• Disrespect for any other way
• Elitism and contingent flattery
• Secret teachings
• Inequitable energy exchange/inaccessibility
• Isolation of dissidents
• Inner Circles and power struggles
• Discipline, coercion and punishment
• Unsustainable imbalances
• Ridicule, shame and silencing
• No boundaries, no consent
• Prejudice and hypocrisy
• Omniscience, surveillance and omnipotence
• Abdication of personal responsibility
• Spiritual bypass: sex, harming and transcendence

All the answers are already inside of you

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