Did I get your attention with that title?
Lightworkers are devoted to serve others, so Steve’s blog said. Now to be a lightworker that isn’t sick (lightworker’s syndrome), the lightworker must take care of him/her-self to be able to give to others. To be a really devoted to others, one must first be devoted to one’s self or you have nothing to give. Noone can give something they don’t already have and are able to give to themselves – basic psychology.
Like a student learning a martial art will start off having to be devoted to one’s self to get a handle of the art/movement/ideas. That may be called being a darkworker. Eventually, as the learning becomes more experienced, the giving can begin by teaching or sharing or just participating such that newbies are seeing good form. The darkworker is becoming a lightworker now, but still is doing the darkworker stuff by keeping his/her training going.
Or like being in higher education, at first one must be absorbed and in service of one’s self while learning. There’s no way to use the knowledge/skill or teach someone else while learning it. Once one has gained enough knowledge/skill, then you go out and either teach it or use it – both of which are an expasion of the focusing of giving to include others.
The darkworking, to me, looks like an incubation period that grows into possible lightworking.
I also thought of it this way
– a lightworker is devoted to serve others and that devotion is really the lightworker’s realization that everyone else deserves the same regard he/she gives to him/her-self because others are parts of the whole. We are all one - so being devoted to serve others is really being devoted to serve one’s expanded self (that includes everything). If the motivation of a lightworker is to give to others – I think there still exists, in the lightworker, the same motivation towards his/her self. The giving to others includes the self as one of the others.
For those that ”get it” does that fit?
If a darkworker is motivated to help someone out of wanting to receiving "being helpful" accolades for the personal self, then this motivation of being self serving actually can create actions that touch others – which is starting to expand the experience. I mean, if one does things that are helpful for others (how ever motivated) then one will start to see the others as part of themselves and start feeling the motivation as for all involved, instead of just the self.
A seed starts off as a darkworker and takes and takes then starts to grow and eventually adds the lightworker part and gives tons back in the form of fruit or wood or beauty or pollen, etc… Interesting, the seed is actually in the dark when it first starts and is in the light when infull bloom.