The Path of Soul-Based Leadership - Part 3
I support leaders to connect to the power of their spirit, download their soul purpose, and pioneer it in the world.
In this work, I’m constantly amazed by the intelligence of the process that people move through. It's like I get to see the magic of how life works and it has always been such an affirmation to me of the loving intelligence behind our paths.
Over this 3-part series of articles, I want to share a few pieces on how I witness this path unfold for people, pretty much uniformly.
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Part 3
In the first two pieces I wrote on this I focussed on a leader’s initial download of what it means for them to step forward into soul-based leadership, and then on the personal healing and cleaning up processes that moves them through. This current piece will focus on what happens once the leader has moved through the muddiest parts of their healing journey and come out on the other side.
This piece may push your edges. It’s gonna take the path of leadership into territory you might not get it goes into. You might find this stuff incredulous, wacky, or too far out.
Good. May that be a testament to the majesty of the path, and how far it goes.
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A ‘leader’ in meteorology is a stream of plasma in a storm that channels lightning.
I love that definition of leadership and power. It turns me on. It connects me to the truth that real power and real leadership come from being plugged into the electric life in our core rather than formal positions of authority.
I have power because I’m the boss – nope.
I have power because I’m the manager – nope.
I have power because I have opened to the truth that in my core I am the power of the One Life that is vibrating through everything – f*ck yes.
Increasingly, as the being successfully navigates their healing journey and steps more and more deeply into their soul, their expression of purpose starts to become ‘charged’.
They start to go radioactive. They start to transmit. The voltage pouring through them increases and more and more they become a sun. What I mean by that is they become a stable fire of light, vision, inspiration and purpose activation in others, and groups gather around them to be part of landing what is coming through that leader. Through this process, they increasingly unfold the full capacity of who they are as a soul and mature in their service to the world. As a leader, they initiate some particular contribution to our collective evolution that comes from their embodied alignment with their soul purpose – a business, organisation, project or movement. They learn the lessons of integrating teamwork, money and manifestation with purpose, integrity and alignment. They lean into their soul-based leadership so fully they become fully expressed.
This is like the soul breathing itself out fully into the world. That’s a thing. An accomplishment available to all of us. And some beings have done it.
And when that exhalation has been completed, and they have truly landed what their purpose was to manifest in the world, something else starts to happen.
Now, the soul does a 180. It turns its focus away from the world and into its own core. It reorients from the outer world to its own deeper nature – to spirit.
Yep, I know – the difference between soul and spirit might be unclear to a bunch of people. But there is a difference. As soul you are a journeying spiritual being on the path into ever greater light, love and service. As spirit you are a pulse of the One.
When the reorientation away from the outer world where the leader has landed their purpose and back into their core happens, the soul starts to breath in. It starts to inhale from its spirit-core the reality it finds there.
This reality is different to that of the soul. Rather than being based in light, illumination and big vision, spirit is dark. If we can liken our soul to our sun-self, which has the instinct to just shine unconditionally in service of the whole, spirit is like our black hole self. Spirit is the electric darkness of our deepest centre where our sense of individuality, even as a soul, collapses as it crosses the event horizon into the identity of the One.
When a leader has this 180 of the soul happen in their being, so that their soul turns away from the outer world and is focussed inward, inhaling the dark light of spirit from their black hole core, it might look like they’re no longer so interested in service. It might look like they’ve lost interest in being involved in the evolution of humanity.
And yet, the power flowing through them becomes vastly greater. While soul-based leadership promises the transformation of our collective systems and our relationship with the earth, the emergence of leaders anchored even deeper, in the power of their spirit-core, promises the transfiguration of our collective identity, and the lightning strike that there was only ever One, and we are the ecstatic power, love and creativity of that One.
Why?
Because the dark light of spirit is the essence of power. Just as a black hole massively warps the space and time around it, when the dark light of spirit is online in a being it ignites the fire of divine purpose in everything in their field. That means in every being, every animal, every plant, every cell, every stone, and in their nations, communities, projects, teams, and families.
Such beings are those who have completed the journey of being ‘someone’, and are now letting themselves ‘go dark’. They are surrendering into the dimensionless, selfless, dark light current of the One in their own black hole nature, and are learning the lesson that True Power isn’t sourced in the fulfilment of identity, but in the surrender of it.
As they cross the event horizon into identification as the One and its radiation of pure power, they become increasingly invisible as leaders. They are no longer focussed on vision, collaboration, dialogue, or action. Rather, their focus is simply dying into the dark light, and yet their power grows greater than those who’s leadership is more obvious to see.
This marks a culmination in the path of leadership. It is one that extends all the way from the first downloads of soul purpose that give the inspiration to really step into one’s leadership, through the necessary healing journey that forces them to address issues of commitment, trauma, sovereignty, community, relationships and money, to the leader becoming fully expressed as the sun that they are, and then going dark as they open to their spirit-core deeper than soul.
At each stage of the way, what I have witnessed is that there is an incredible intelligence at work. I share this piece in homage to that intelligence, which is, as I mentioned at the beginning, such an ever-present affirmation to me of the loving intelligence and purpose at the heart of life.