What does it mean to be a light-worker? (@TribeSteemUp Bi-Weekly Question)

If you look online, there are many definitions as to what a light worker means. Some claim to be "earth angels" or "indigos", or have "psychic" abilities. There are many beliefs about being from some alleged "spiritual" source or plane that favors them as being special "souls" in some way. But are these things demonstrable? Are they real? Maybe, but maybe it's all made up too.

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I've met some people who claim to be light workers, and they often wear a positivity mask that makes them only look at or deal with the positive they want to acknowledge in the world. Some have beliefs that if you look at the negative, or learn about it, then you focusing on the negative, giving it energy and power to exist, feeding the negative to let make it grow. If only no one looked at, learned or thought about th negative things going on, they would magically disappear. But this isn't how reality works.

In order for the world to truly become a positive place that is reduced in negative manifestations like wrong doings, immorality or evil action, it needs to be faced. In order to face it, it needs to be acknowledged. The negative needs to be seen, understood and then something can be done to stop it from being created, generated or manifested into reality by human actions. Sometimes it's others who create it, and sometimes it's ourselves that are unwittingly creating it. But if no one faces it, then it surely won't go away on it's own when we keep acting in ways that keep it "alive".

Ignoring the negative that is occurring is often done so as to spare ourselves the negative emotional expressions or experiences from recognizing it, such as being mad, angry, hurt, sad, stressed, etc. Feeling negative in ourselves brings us to non-positive emotional states, and that isn't desired by many. Especially those who are focusing on being positive only, like "New Agers" or some of the so-called "spiritually" inclined.

Negative emotions are avoided by many, as they don't want to feel-bad, they just want to feel-good. They are stuck in a pleasure trap, and as such deny the spectrum of human emotional states that act as a signal board or cues to recognize when something isn't right, either with ourselves or with reality. Negative emotions should be allowed to manifest and be recognized in order to help us or the world heal. If we want a real, true, lasting positive world to exist, then we need to face the negative and learn from it to purify, transmute or sublimate it.

When we stop to ignore the negative, we stop being ignorant of it, and can do something about it. It's not to stupor or wallow in the negative, abut to acknowledge it and accept that it exists, not accept that it needs to persist. Facing the negative removed the blissful ignorance of feel-good false perceptions and allows us to see the true condition in it's beauty and horror, light and dark, good and evil.

Without that acceptance of it's existence, we deny, avoid or ignore it's existence, and can't truly do anything about it. We won't know it's there, or how to do anything to resolve it from the root causal source. We have to know and understand evil to realize and create good, instead of being a tool for evil by letting it perpetuate as we try to bury our heads int he sand, close up our eyes and eyes to falsely protect ourselves from having to see what is there.

With respect to accepting the negative, again it's about recognizing it's there, and not rejecting it's existence. Then we can do something to prevent it from existing. If we resist the knowledge or understanding of something existing, then it will only persist due to our inability to do anything about it. Ignoring the negative to not feed it, does just that.

That doesn't mean to simply accept the negative, bad, evil, horror or darkness and let it be. No. That is another "New Age" or pseudo-"spiritual" deception, to think that everything needs to be accepted and not resisted or else it will persist. We need to accept that it exists, not accept that it needs to exist. Not accept that evil needs to exist for good to exist. That's not true.

Thinking that resisting the negatives/wrongs/evils from being created only feeds them, is folly. Resisting and preventing the negative/wrong/evil from being created will not feed it and make it grow. We need to act and react to do something about the problems/negatives, or else they will stay. We need to resist it's continuation to exist, to do something about it continuing to exist so that it can stop existing, to stop the negative, bad, evil, horror or darkness from being in our world.

Some believe they should just accept, and not take action in the world or in themselves to change the condition and make it better. If we don't face our participation in wrong doings or don't confront others on theirs, or don't use the force and energy of our ability to speak, write or act to stand up against those things, then they will keep being created. They will persist, when they don't need to. We need to resist their presence in order for something to change.

The world is as it is because people act to create it into being that way. The conditions of good or bad/evil, of light or dark, or beauty or horror that we collectively create the world to be can be made better or worse. If we ignore the darkness by only focusing on the light, the darkness won't stop being there. Not facing the truth of the darkness allows it to continue and run you over in the end.

So what is a light worker? Light is a symbol of truth, good, justice, morality, love, etc. A light worker is someone who does the work of trying to bring more light into the world by knowing and understanding there is darkness which allows them to act against it, to resist it from being created more.

A light worker works to remove that darkness in themselves and in the world. Then the light will automatically shine brighter because the darkness is being removed. If the darkness, shadow, demon, devil or evil is not removed, then no amount of light or good actions will remove it, as it will still be created by ourselves or others in ignorance of what we're doing.

Looking at Carl Jung's quote on light and darkness, I see it as to reflect how we deal with the shadow, darkness, demon, devil and evil within ourselves and in the world:

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

We have to take down the darkness, brick by brick. That's how we can make a new structure built with light that stand in it's place. The light won't stand erected so long as we let the darkness be built in it's place.

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A light worker does the work of light, love truth, good, justice and morality by making the darkness, evil, injustice and immorality known for others to recognize it and stop it in themselves and in the world as well. Anyone can be a light worker according to how I have defined it to mean here. You don't need to be some "special" "spiritual" being or whatever other beliefs people have. All you need to do is care for truth and moral truth to start you on the way to learning how to bring more moral truth and goodness into the world.

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