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Originally Posted by Johnny Soporno  I don't worry about labels, since I am unconcerned with how others view me, outside of the very few who have demonstrated that they are qualified (by my standards) to have a valuable opinion. |
A true Lightworker would be concerned with how others viewed him - but mainly in the sense that he would want them to understand him on a more conscious level. In other words, a Lightworker would interest himself in trying to enlighten the perspective of others above and beyond the call of duty.
Within your paradigm, however, you would rebutt that the Lightworker is only doing it for self-interest.
I would counter by arguing that motive is irrelevant - we can never assess anybody's else true motivation (their true subjective intent or even their feeling). What I'm focused on is objective, observable behavior.
Objectively, the Lightworker is more willing to sacrifice his time and resources to enlighten others who are unwilling to enlighten themselves. Perhaps he is addicted to helping others grow consciously and will sacrifice power and physical pleasure for it (i.e. how Steve Pavlina under-monetizes his blog). The Darkworker doesn't go as far, and prefers to only help those who are prepared to immediately liberate themselves, in order to obtain power and/or pleasure from the interaction.
This distinction ends up becoming somewhat meaningless, because then we get stuck trying to draw lines trying to define "selflessness", and we end up playing semantic games rather than coming to any
pragmatic conclusions.
I like the parsimony of your paradigm: altruism and selfishness are synonymous. You have the Jesse seal of approval.