What kind of texts would represent the ones you are looking for, Dave? I know I haven't seen books with the title "Lightworker" emblazoned upon them, but there have been many books written about aiding humanity in some shape or form. I liked Jane Goodall's "Harvest for Hope" or Gore's "An Inconvient Truth." I also have a lot of books by educators striving to make a difference. Autobiographies that address the courage and the human spirit, like "Stolen Lives" by Malkia Oufkir, or "A Child Called it" by Dave Pelzer, are also great. And fiction books can have a lightworker bent as well. Madeleine L'Engle is one of my favorite authors, even though I am not Christian.
But anyway, I never really thought of lightworking as consciousness-raising. It is interesting to me to see it framed this way. I've always thought of it as doing what my very being tells me it's important to do. My thing is working with urban youth, trying to enable them to find their paths and become productive citizens.
But it does certainly take courage. I've had my share of job-changes. I leave because each one leaves me with a better idea of what I need to do, what my values are, and how to go about it. It used to seem to me that I was crazy for chasing something other than the status quo (and many times it still does, I guess) but then I think about what I'm working for...and I realized that that's the only way to go. So if that puts in the same boat as other lightworkers, then I'm glad to sail that ship.  |