I'm really glad you wrote this post, Steve. I have been a little bothered by your Lightworker/Darkworker theory for a long time: I felt like I knew what you were getting at with it, but I thought that you way you presented it simply gave people in a lower frame of reference permission to remain there.
I see it as the first step to discovering inner power-- one that will lead a dedicated student of Darkworking to Love. In other words, I saw Darkworking as a first step toward Lightworking. I saw the reason for your even-handed treatment of the subject as a desire to push people who would otherwise be neutral into motion: motion toward Darkworking if that is what they needed to grow, or motion toward Lightworking if they were ready. Anything but neutrality and impotence!
My concern, as I said, was that it simply gave people who in a state of isolation and fear "permission" to stay there because Dark and Light are some kind of yin and yang, separate but equally valid.
I'm really glad you've clarified that isolation and fear are tools to discover power within one's self, but are not really equivalent long-term strategies for development.
Good post!
(now prepare for the angry e-mail from the people who felt they had your permission to remain in the dark, and now feel you've betrayed their right to be isolated!)
|