As I’ve done soul frag reintegration and gotten better at “downloading” the info they come back with without losing it, I’m under the impression that a lot of deja-vu is caused by things that mobile aspects have witnessed already, and possibly that the deja vu itself has been some sort of arranged rendezvous point. But yeah, those “groundhog day” events are definitely a trip!

Michelle,

I like for discussion here to be as open as is productive and beneficial, so my TMI-limits are probably pretty extensive within reason, lol. Very cool; I can just imagine (no, not like *that*, ahem) you two looking at the clock, shrugging and going “leeet’s do the time warp agaaaain!” (…and where the hell is that music coming from?)

Thanks for sharing, both of ya!

I have also experienced some of the things you mentioned such as having an experience and then a short time later, having the same experience. I always just attributed the sensation I felt in my body to deja vu. However, as I got older, I started to remember where and when the original experience occurred. Very hard to explain, but what on the surface looks like glimpses of the future are really moments of clarity where I am aware of the “Now”.

C. S. Lewis made a distinction between selfishness (which he saw as natural) and self-centeredness, which he saw as evil. He wrote that even altruistic motives would be corrupted by self-centeredness, since the view reality upon which the altruism was based would be warped and clouded by the person’s self-centered interpretation of all evidence.

G. K. Chesterton wrote that love is not blind, but it is bound. We must love everyone because of their potential, but not stop loving them because of their faults. I believe he called it a pragmatic universal patriotism, but a patriotism to our fellow man, not to a country…and not a blind patriotism either.

I also recently heard someone say that God makes holy everything He touches, but the same cannot be said of us. So a Christian’s only job is to love God and love others; making someone else holy is way above the pay grade of a mere Christian.

The bulk of your comment is mostly subjective and not something I can comment much on in much the same way I don’t get into debate with sects of Christians, who believe mutually exclusive things, all wanting to be recognized as the “rightful” holders of the term. Labels and the groups who hold them are dynamic and evolving; this article should be seen as a snapshot of some of the most prominent. If I tried to split hairs, I’d be here all night… and wouldn’t irritate nearly as many people enough to respond. As I found when doing research for this article, the most prominent and visible people calling themselves lightworkers and attempting to define what it means to be one, espouse these views, and when most people raise objections to lightworker-dom, these are the points that usually get raised. I don’t claim complete originality in this regard, and linked to more material making similar objections that I found synchronistically as I was developing my own. It’s a bit like, if you don’t agree with being represented by the Pope, you may want to find something to call yourself other than “Catholic.” Not saying it’s “right” or that the lightworkers are quite the same sort of centralized institution, but that’s how the popular consciousness works.

Another point I’d make is that while there may be few individuals who completely fit the portrayal I laid out — there are probably a lot more who hold at least some of these views as subconscious programming, just as I found very stereotypically toxic programming from belief systems I don’t even hold anymore, operating and affecting my experience subconsciously. That stuff can be notoriously persistent and hard to get rid of, and shaking it up in people who may not realize they still hold it in some form, is one of the aims of my writing style.

This, I did want to address:

“And as far as chakras….well, that’s something that’s only important if it means something to YOU. If you have no interest in chakras, it’s true…..they don’t exist. Just as if you have no interest in meditation, there is no ’still point.’ It only matters to those it matters to.”

Going to extremes of subjectivity is another one I could have included, and don’t condone myself. I myself had a lot of issues I tried various things to address over about ten years. They resolved only when I discovered: 1. chakras exist objectively, 2. mine had what could be considered “mechanical” problems that needed to be figured out and fixed, and 3. addressed them as such. In that way a lot of things were resolved in a matter of days in many cases. This was enough to convince me that chakras aren’t just a mental construct that are there if you believe in them and aren’t if you don’t — they’re the etheric equivalent of and interconnected with physical organs, with objective functions, specific ways they’re meant to function, and specific parameters that need to be maintained to keep them in good health. Likewise, when I took up meditation I realized that meditative stillness was an objectively verifiable state that I had already experienced in other ways. Subjectivity is all well and good, but so are moderation and balance, says I.

You should write that “Bible”; it’d make for some good satire, which I definitely approve of also.

A lightworker, in my experience and my work (massage therapist) is someone who is tapped in to a higher source (spirit, God, what have you…) for the purposes of helping others heal. It has nothing to do with dogma, converting others to my way of thinking, supressing or getting rid of the ego, “Goddess energy”, unicorns, passivity, denying darkness, or any of the other things you mentioned.

In fact, I AGREE with most of what you said about those things……I just feel the term “Lightworker’ is FAR too general a thing to pidgeon-hole this stereotype. Yes, I’m sure there are those who say they are lightworkers that espouse the often absurd ‘new age’ virtues you have mentioned, but that does not mean that ALL lightworkers share those opinions.

My experience with lightworkers has been far different; in fact, the work I have done, in my own healing and learning to help others, has included delving IN to shadow, to learn from the dark, to incorporate; to use the ego as a TOOL, a door of introspection that may lead to self-mastery. And no…not everyone is a lightworker. And as far as chakras….well, that’s something that’s only important if it means something to YOU. If you have no interest in chakras, it’s true…..they don’t exist. Just as if you have no interest in meditation, there is no ’still point.’ It only matters to those it matters to.

So I guess it’s unfortunate that these new-agers have embittered your views of “lightworkers’, because it’s just not true that they’re all flakes. There is no ‘Lightworkers Bible” that contains a list of philosophies and beliefs one must abide by to be a ‘Lightworker.” I almost want to write one as a joke in response to your essay….Chapter 1: Killing the Ego . Chapter 2: The Goddess Path-The Only Road to the Light. etc etc….