Just a point I'd like to make: Some people have taken up the example of the Buddha as a pure lightworker. Please understand that isn't entirely true. After achieving enlightenment, he was a lightworker certainly, but not necessarily before. If you read the scriptures carefully (or at least fairly accurate translations) you'll find that Prince Gautama did not decide to follow renunciation out of any ideal of helping humanity. He did it because some sights that he saw made him realize that the life he was living wasn't going to live forever. Also remember that Gautama was initially a Hindu and was probably well-acquainted with ideas of rebirth and karma. Essentially he realized that pain was unavoidable, if not in this life, then in the next. He went into meditation because he quite simply wanted out. It is said he wanted to find salvation, but it is NOT said that he wanted to find it to help other people. I think Buddha may have had selfish leanings before enlightenment, even bordering on darkworking. After all he did leave his family and kingdom for a very personal objective.
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