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If you've heard of a highly conscious lightworker, you've heard of a highly conscious darkworker, using Steve's terms.
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I think you can be highly conscious and a darkworker. It works the same way for a darkworker as it does for a lightworker just the voyage is different. The only thing that stumps me is that I have never heard of an enlightened darkworker, and what would an enlightened darkworker be like or even a darkworker at the level of peace. I have heard of darkworkers at the level of love, and joy though ex: One of my friends who is at the level of joy, as a darkworker, is extremely happy and I mean extreeeeeeemely. He loves himself and everything he is and does. He never stops smiling. He can talk people into doing what ever he wants; all I can do is stand and watch as he gets someone to bend to his will with ease. It’s incredible, once there was this guy who was extremely stubborn in his belief that terrorists were terrible people. Most people believe that even me and my at the level of joy friend. However, my friend talked to this stubborn guy and at the end of their conversation most of the people in the room were convinced that terrorists weren’t so bad . Then the last line that my joy buddy said was that he still thought terrorists were pretty bad. Talk about power. People meet him and they can sense right away the charisma, power and total joy that exuberates out of him in everything that he does.
He's a highly evolved Light-SelfWorker without a lot of Worldworker love. So probably just above (2) in my model which is SELFWorker Syndrome. THe next step for him would be to realize that true happiness and fullfillment comes for him when helping the world, so as he finishes up his totally SELFLOVE centred path, he'll probably very soon start moving away from WORLD FEAR towards WORLD LOVE and become a totally love polarized lightworker (both Self and World).
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joy buddy! LOL. yes I know someone like that too! although he is not overflowing with joy, he is always smiling and happy.


It stumps me too

what do you mean by dwork at level of love and level of peace? they are not different things, one follows the other. joy=love=peace=one with God=consciousness. No? Its just love of self (dwork) versus love for others and giving (lwork)

Gwad!! this polarization thing has me consumed!! I am going to read all of Steve's posts again, like Kingston suggested.
I've known quite a few poeple like that. Don't take people's extraverted "face" as an indicator of what's going on inside though. My guess is the person is a SELFWorker Syndrome candidate. Just a guess though.
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One major difference is that you cannot be highly conscious and a darkworker at the same time.
So...are you implying I'm NOT highly conscious? What other reasons do you have to think I fall under the Steve-Darkworker model?

This is what confuses me, because my Steve's def I am a darkworker (self-love) but I also strongly care about the rest of the world and its happiness as well, but not until I take care of me first. Plus, with LOA, everyone has the capacity to help themselves without outside assistance.
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I think an enlightened darkworker would be a philsopher like Nietzche, or a magickal practitioner like Aleister Crowley. Other examples would be really powerful people involved in secret societies, that conspiracy theorists refer to as "The Illuminati"

I think its hard to find examples because self help Guru's are more light worker oriented, or at least present themselves that way.

Dark workers that have reached really high levels of esoteric mastery are not primarily interested in showing everyone how they did it.
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So...are you implying I'm NOT highly conscious? What other reasons do you have to think I fall under the Steve-Darkworker model?

This is what confuses me, because my Steve's def I am a darkworker (self-love) but I also strongly care about the rest of the world and its happiness as well, but not until I take care of me first. Plus, with LOA, everyone has the capacity to help themselves without outside assistance.
As you know, under my model you're a "Lightworker".

Even under Steve's model, I would argue that you're a Lightworker, but it's harder to prove since his Model isn't clearly understood by any of us.

You keep thinking that because you care about yourself, it makes you a darkworker. I say that it is when you FEAR yourself that you are a darkworker. Ie. Do you regular thoughts inside your head sound something like: "I hate myself, why did I screw this up again? I need to be tougher! ", " What is the MATTER with me?", "I don't know if I can do this!?", "Why did my parents want me?", "Maybe I should just do the world a favor and off myself." etc.????

If not, I really doubt your a darkworker even under Steve's model. You're still thinking that your SELF Love makes you a darkworker. There's nothing wrong with SELF Love. You're a lightworker in training. You've learned to love yourself to a certain degree and sometimes you love the world too, but your true lightworker power will come when you FULLY love yourself and you FULLY love the world. Until then, you might suffer from slight "Selfworker Syndrome", but that doesn't make you a darkworker.
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Theo, all the examples you named calibrate pretty low, nowhere near enlightened. Nietzche might be in Reason, but that's about as close as you can get (LOC 499 seems to be the limit). The rest seem non-integrous (below LOC 200).

They may have a lot of "power" (force, actually), but that has no bearing on LOC. In fact, it seems to be the case that force corrupts, and absolute force corrupts absolutely

Thanks for keeping up with the thread and answering the questions, Paul

I really want to see Steve either address these points or make another post clarifying what he means. I actually believe he needs to recant certain statements, but maybe I'm just not fully understanding his model. Every day that goes by, more lightworkers are "polarizing" as darkworkers and reaping the consequences -- and the mankind's overall LOC drops with them. Recently it's been calibrated at 203, down from 205, due to the media's disinformation and passing falsehoods for Truth. Any further drops will be absolutely devastating. Any way to contact him about this?

edit: a good idea may be for Steve to find a qualified AK tester to calibrate all his articles/ideas, and/or learn AK-testing himself. He and Erin can easily learn to calibrate, as they both calibrate very high -- over 485 or so, the AK results stabilize and become almost 100% accurate if the question is phrased correctly without any personal bias. I highly recommend him to do so, as the effects on consciousness are non-physical and cannot be seen, and what seems to be accurate on the physical plane can be grossly inaccurate in the Absolute Context of Consciousness.

This should easily show how everything affects LOC, where mistakes are made, where additional areas of growth can be pursued, what is in the highest good for his blog readers/forum members and what isn't, etc. I actually find it amazing that they have not learned to do this yet, with such a handy/useful tool.

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Ethereal,

Are you speaking from the perspective of being enlightened, looking down on Crowley, Nietzche etc?

Its interesting that you don't think anyone polarized to the darkside can become enlightened when once people are enlightened there is no polarization.
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As far as the LOC, it sounds like a lot of people forget its a model that an author mate up.

So really debating about what other people can achive in terms of a model someone else designed, might be pointless.

Pointless for me anyway.
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So...are you implying I'm NOT highly conscious? What other reasons do you have to think I fall under the Steve-Darkworker model?
you could be: see Steve's model you can be a darkworker AND highly conscious.
In Paul's model the two don't go together.

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This is what confuses me, because my Steve's def I am a darkworker (self-love) but I also strongly care about the rest of the world and its happiness as well, but not until I take care of me first.
Maybe this is what Steve means by mixing polarities? Or like Paul said, you could be a lightworker in the making.

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Plus, with LOA, everyone has the capacity to help themselves without outside assistance.
With LOA, you will attract the outside assistance that is needed to fulfill your desire. Or you will be directed or hinted to go to the right source for outside assistance. Thats what I understand from Abraham Hicks. They say that when you need to take action, you will be "told" what action to take.
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As far as the LOC, it sounds like a lot of people forget its a model that an author mate up.

So really debating about what other people can achive in terms of a model someone else designed, might be pointless.

Pointless for me anyway.
I think the author reached those conclusions from his vast experience with different philosophies, meditation and reading. And obviously after careful thought. If we do not understand it, either
1) we are not reading carefully and not contemplating
2) we are misinterpreting or mixing our old beliefs and getting all confused
3) we have not reached the level of consciousness required to understand and accept the model
4) we are not well read and have limited knowledge (Einstein's "problems cannot be solved at the same level of thinking they were created at")

I strongly believe that Steve has made a BIGG point to help us get into the 1% (u know what 1% i'm talkin about right?), we just need to understand it. Accept it. and incorporate it into our lives.
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Theo, all the examples you named calibrate pretty low, nowhere near enlightened. Nietzche might be in Reason, but that's about as close as you can get (LOC 499 seems to be the limit). The rest seem non-integrous (below LOC 200).

They may have a lot of "power" (force, actually), but that has no bearing on LOC. In fact, it seems to be the case that force corrupts, and absolute force corrupts absolutely

Thanks for keeping up with the thread and answering the questions, Paul

I really want to see Steve either address these points or make another post clarifying what he means. I actually believe he needs to recant certain statements, but maybe I'm just not fully understanding his model. Every day that goes by, more lightworkers are "polarizing" as darkworkers and reaping the consequences -- and the mankind's overall LOC drops with them. Recently it's been calibrated at 203, down from 205, due to the media's disinformation and passing falsehoods for Truth. Any further drops will be absolutely devastating. Any way to contact him about this?

edit: a good idea may be for Steve to find a qualified AK tester to calibrate all his articles/ideas, and/or learn AK-testing himself. He and Erin can easily learn to calibrate, as they both calibrate very high -- over 485 or so, the AK results stabilize and become almost 100% accurate if the question is phrased correctly without any personal bias. I highly recommend him to do so, as the effects on consciousness are non-physical and cannot be seen, and what seems to be accurate on the physical plane can be grossly inaccurate in the Absolute Context of Consciousness.

This should easily show how everything affects LOC, where mistakes are made, where additional areas of growth can be pursued, what is in the highest good for his blog readers/forum members and what isn't, etc. I actually find it amazing that they have not learned to do this yet, with such a handy/useful tool.
There are a few people on these forums who are still using the term "Darkworker" to actually mean the path of SELF Love in my model, which is NOT a Darkworker in my books but rather a Lightworker 'in the making'. I am no longer going to try to correct them or try to help them understand the difference between that and what I consider a true "Darkworker" who is actually SELF Fear and WORLD Fear polarized in my model. I've spent almost a month on this topic and my conclusions are in my article on my blog. If anyone wants answer they aren't getting from Steve's articles, maybe mine can shed some light on the subject.

However, I'm sorry but I no longer have time to debate or defend Steve's model, especially since he's given up debating/defending it too, so if people feel that they are "Darkworkers" in Steve's model and it makes sense for them, that's great.

The only advice I'll give to those who are still seeking answers is that NO PATH that has it's roots firmly rooted in FEAR and develops further and deeper FEAR will reach a state of enlightenment. I'm not enlightened, and I don't know all the answers, but that to me is just pure no-brainer common sense. Why anyone would want to DEVELOP fear or SPREAD fear energy is beyond me. It's hard enough trying to overcome the fears we already have, why would anyone want to develop new ones? If you're not afraid of heights, why would you put energy into developing a fear of heights? That's kind of insane in my mind.

I'll conclude with this:
(1) To the lightworkers in training like Starlet and a few others in here: Don't mistake the SELF Love path with the path of the Darkworker. Don't let someone talk you into polarizing in the direction of fear, it doesn't make sense. You can LOVE yourself and create ANYTHING and EVERYTHING your heart desires without having to resort to fear.

(2) To anyone on here that is a true darkworker under my model, meaning SELF FEAR and WORLD FEAR motivated: I love you anyways.

(3) If anyone wants to ask my questions relating polarization after reading my model, you can contact me via my blog. I'll be glad to help out.

(4) To Ethereal: I like your ideas and energy. Lets chat privately some time. I'll be busy for the next short while moving to my new place, but I"ll be back after that. Wouldn't it be cool if all the lightworkers on here united towards one cause that truly changed the world? That'd be awesome.

Thanks everyone helping me get clear on who I am and which way I want to polarize. Much appreciated.
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As far as the LOC, it sounds like a lot of people forget its a model that an author mate up.

So really debating about what other people can achive in terms of a model someone else designed, might be pointless.

Pointless for me anyway.
Level of consciousness are not someone's model. Maybe that Steve wrote his take on it and many in this forum are absorbing that description.

I wonder if going to sleep is a change in level of consciousness.

I do now it's possible to feel consciousness or one's awareness from a expanded perspective - and feelings are different, they are more temporary- ther really is less suffering and ease/peace.

Also, many authors say that there is oneness - guess it's the monism vien.

Hopefully all my goals also include reaising my consciousness, so undertsanding LOC, or even trying to understand someone else's model, is fruitful for me. Especially when one can find commonality, and see a model fit how one might have already thought or belived.

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There are a few people on these forums who are still using the term "Darkworker" to actually mean the path of SELF Love in my model, which is NOT a Darkworker in my books but rather a Lightworker 'in the making'.
Assuming that we are discussing Steve's post in the thread: " Darkworkers, Lightworkers, and Levels of Consciousness (Blog)"........

Steve said in this post: A darkworker experiences unconditional love by recognizing that s/he is God, adopting a life of service to self.

Glad you know which way to polarize, that is most important
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Assuming that we are discussing Steve's post in the thread: " Darkworkers, Lightworkers, and Levels of Consciousness (Blog)"........

Steve said in this post: A darkworker experiences unconditional love by recognizing that s/he is God, adopting a life of service to self.
Are all these points what makes up Steve's idea of polarity?: (It's sort of like, guess what I'm talking about with these clues)

1) dark and light both can become enlightened
2) there's a sydrome to both
3) others don't suffer from positive (healthy) dark or light workers
4) polarization is more effective at motivating than not polarizing
5) darkworkers are not becoming lightworkers (not a subset of lightworkers)
6) dark/light polarization is not the same axis as LOC.
7) polarity is a characterization of motivation, not the goal but why you want the end result of the goal
8) big goals respond better to polarization, or even need polarization to come about
9) mixing polarities limits efforts to achive goals
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God I hope people don't start thinking because I say I am a Darkworker suddenly I am to be patronized and told about the light of God and what not. Glad we nipped that in the bud to be honest.
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God I hope people don't start thinking because I say I am a Darkworker suddenly I am to be patronized and told about the light of God and what not. Glad we nipped that in the bud to be honest.
I have already had that happen when I started telling the religious recruitment groups that hang around the mall that I was Wiccan and wore a pentacle around my neck. You learn to ignore it after a while.
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One question for you. Your description of darkworkers "not trusting", like the contract thing with having "outs" and such all makes sense. Assuming that's the energy of darkworker, do you agree with Steve that darkworkers can attain enlightenment if they pursue that path completely?
I wouldn't presume to speak for a darkworker. I have always been slightly more polarized to helping others than to helping myself. This has caused lightworker syndrome more than once, and since I didn't know what to do about it I ended up slinking back into the non-polarized area. So I wouldn't call myself polarized yet, but that's definitely the direction in which my tendencies lie. Generating and using that power is a skill I have, albeit at a low level.

I'm not a darkworker, and I don't understand them. I mean, I can discuss intellectually, but I don't feel the darkworker power inside me, and can't relate to polarizing in that direction. Therefore, given that I have almost no idea what goes on in their souls, I'm not going to claim to have knowledge about what they can and cannot achieve. It would be like me discussing the pros and cons of social customs in Zimbabwe - since I have absolutely no knowledge of field, it cannot be anything but arrogance for me to pass judgment or reach conclusions about it, and a citizen of Zimbabwe would be fully justified in being angry with me if I tried it.

That being said, I can conceive of a situation where a darkworker could be enlightened. A while back I suggested Richard Rahl from the Sword of Truth series as a more effective example of a fictional darkworker. If this comparison is valid, then I would have to argue that Richard could be enlightened (although I'm not sure that he is now.)

Give me an actual, honest-to-God darkworker -- someone who's actually polarized in that direction and achieved things with that power -- let me talk to this person for a few weeks, get to know them, how they view the world, how they think and feel -- and I'll tell you whether I think they can be enlightened or not. Until that time, I'm not going to impose my opinions on the world and call them facts.
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