Well, the clarification helps Steve - thanks - but I guess I'll need the new post because I still don't quite get it.
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You are presented with an opportunity. If you take the opportunity, you will harm others while improving your own situation. Do you take it?
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By that logic, if I have a few hours to kill after work, and I choose to spend them selfishly , i.e. meditiating and doing yoga - versus spending them selflessly, i.e. going out to work in a soup kitchen or a community project - then I'm being a darkworker. And that I don't agree with. Or rather, I can agree with it - that someone who focuses on self is a darkworker (or some label - darkworker is starting to become to synonymous with 'evil' for me to to keep using it, methinks) - but I don't agree it's "bad".
Logically, any opportunity not spent helping means you are "not helping". Any money you spend on yourself is money that a poor person is not getting. Nearly any action you take is harming someone, in some way, somewhere. How do you resolve that? your quote below says:
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"Lightworker" to me does not mean harming yourself, it means refusing to harm others just to benefit yourself. Everyone in this world is constantly presented with this choice: they perceive two roads. One road seems to hurt others while helping themself. One road doesn't hurt others. If you make the same choice each time for a long time, you are polarizing.
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...and I agree: every act for self is an act that is not-others. Are selfish acts evil? What about eating? What about competition?
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But in this article the theme is to rise up against the darkworkers because they're poisoning the body. So how can you still have the old view of the darkworker (one who can still reach enlightenment) if you're talking about rising up against them for the good of humanity. How can we raise our consciousness if we're fighting with one another (lightworkers vs darkworkers)? and how can they reach enlightenment if they're killing off the rest of the body for their own sake?
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yeah - that's sort of my question too. I guess Steve's working on it.