So, I’ve been gathering more information on the importance of setting boundaries for ourselves with false-light religious leaders who don’t know how to lead or steward others unless those individuals conform to their religion and obey their religious authority.

And while I do have the inherent knowledge about these dynamics on a soul level and have posted about certain things before akin to this topic, this is mainly a post meant as an affirmation to the universe that, even as I continue to learn and grow, I remain committed to protecting my boundaries, honoring my own discernment, and refusing to conform to systems or authorities that do not serve the highest good of my soul.

But these misguided religious figureheads—these are people who believe that their leadership or stewardship abilities are valid outside of their insular religious systems, with many going so far as to measure their effectiveness by how many people they can coerce into compliance with their dogma—rather than by how deeply they’ve cultivated inner wisdom, humility, and genuine ethical maturity in a way that doesn’t require others to submit to their religion or religious authority in order for them to feel validated.

This is exactly why these false-light religious leaders and counterfeit shepherds do not reflect true conscious-based leadership because they themselves are the modern-day embodiments of the scribes and the Pharisees. And that’s exactly why our discernment, boundaries, and spiritual autonomy are non-negotiable when dealing with them.

This becomes even more apparent when we recognize that they do not know how to lead in a universal way that honors the individuality, sovereignty, and psychospiritual path of others outside the narrow confines of their belief system. Instead, they uphold a rigid framework where spiritual awakening, ethicality, inner development, and personal sovereignty is only seen as valid if it mirrors their doctrine. And any questioning of their authority is often framed as rebellion rather than discernment.

And if we don’t draw clear lines in the sand between what constitutes actual healthy leadership styles and leadership styles that even Jesus himself would have condemned as hypocritical, performative, and spiritually oppressive, we risk allowing the same patterns that he—according to his mythology came to dismantle, to continue masquerading around as legitimate expressions of what constitutes healthy, conscious-based leadership.