The fascinating idea of "darkworker" was introduced by Steve in his Polarization article, grounded in ideas of inflow & outflow he introduced in his Polarity article. The two articles should be treated, for the purposes of discussion, as an organic whole, hence this thread.
First, the links:
I started this thread because I have the idea that this idea that highly aware individuals must be either lightworkers or darkworkers
must be wrong, but it's taken me simply ages to isolate where exactly I think Steve's error lies. I don't want to spend too long analysing exactly what Steve said, but I do want to draw attention to this analogy from
The #1 Mistake People Make When Using the Law of Attraction:
Imagine a battery. It has two terminals which are polar opposites of each other, one positive and one negative. If you hook the battery up to a circuit, electrons will flow in one direction, thereby creating a current.
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Well, the energy you apply to your intentions also has polarity, much like a battery. It can flow one way or the other way.
In making this analogy, Steve is implicitly claiming that highly aware individuals must be manifesting flow consistently and strongly, and that opposite flow "cancels out". This isn't even true for electricity: likely the computer you use uses AC (alternating current) to power itself, and static electricity exhibits very high levels of voltage (lively electrons) with almost no flow (electrical current, measured in amperes).
If we try to pass these electrical models through Steve's analogy, we might come up with two new types of highly aware flow worker:
- The Fireworker, who exhibits large flows in both directions, perhaps rhythmically, or perhaps randomly. The fireworker is perhaps motivated by trying to get the most out of life, embracing love and fear as equally valid sources of experience to as great an extreme as is possible. Oscar Wilde's stock character of "The Aesthete", exemplified by the figure of Dorian Grey before the manifestation of the portrait's power, provides a possible form such a person might take;
- The Stillworker, who avoids the warp-and-woof of giving and taking, seeking enlightenment through transcendence. This appears to be the practice of some Hindi schools, and is pronounced in Zen Buddhism and the Daoist idea of wuwei.
I think that, equipped with these stock characters, one draws rather different lessons from Steve's argument in the Polarity and Polarization articles.