I was reading another LOA coach’s blog the other day, and sort of wondering why I no longer felt resonance with her work. I used to follow this coach pretty religiously, but over time just started to go my own way.
That’s not a problem, of course, but it made me wonder what it was about her that I wasn’t resonating with.
Well I soon found out, because in the post I was reading, she started talking about being a lightworker, how she needs to shine her light in the world, how she’s tired of the darkness in the world, and that she feels we’re in a battle between light and dark.
After I got done cringing, I realized something important about myself that I hadn’t quite put into words:
I’m a darkworker.
I suddenly knew this at the core of my being. If she’s a lightworker, then there’s no other word for me but darkworker.
What on earth is a darkworker? Why would I call myself one?
I’m not here to shine my light. I know that there are no problems in the world, no darkness to fight or overcome, no one to be healed or saved.
Of course, there’s darkness. But this darkness is more like the warm embrace of the night, the mystery of the expansive universe, the infinite potentiality of the unmanifest. It’s the chaos of consciousness, the free will by which we choose our paths.
It’s not the monster under the bed (unless it has to be for a while), or the corruption of society. That sort of imagined darkness is illusory, playing out only in the mind of the lightworker.
I am not here to give myself to the world in some grand, heroic display of self-sacrifice or altruism. I’m not even here to help most people, because most people are too mired in the chains that keep them looking at the shadows on the wall that they’re nowhere close to even fathoming a deeper reality. Such people I leave to their own devices.
I’m here to get what I want out of life. And I’ll leave others to do the same, because I believe in the fundamental Law of Thelema, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” That means I’m under no compunction to make you happy, nor will I try because it’s not my job. I will do exactly and only what I will.
I’m here for joy, for creating, for experiencing everything life has to offer, and I believe—I know—that the Universe will support me in that endeavor because I’m the master of my reality. Demonic forces will bend the fabric of reality to my will, because, in the end, the Universe is here to serve my desires. And yours, too, of course, if you embrace this path.
This is the path of the darkworker. I’m happy to claim that title because there needs to be an alternative to all the talk about lightworkers.
If you’d like to walk this path, too, I think you’d be perfect for my upcoming course, preliminarily called 81 Days to Effortlessness. The path of the darkworker is not about force and opposition, but is instead about intentional effortlessness—working with the Universe and yet allowing it to conform to your desires. It’s a careful balance that can be hard to meet, but in this course, you’ll learn exactly how to do so.
If interested, just reach out and let me know, as the course is not quite launched yet. If you express your interest prior to the official launch of the course when registrations are actually accepted, you’ll get an early bird discount. So, I hope that you’ll join me on this path!
I think we’ve been reading the same post by the same LOA coach. I no longer resonate with the “You’re here to shine your light into the world!” approach either. It feels and sounds more like an obligation than a genuinely joyful thing to do. Moreover, it dismisses the fact that every single one of us is here to do anything and everything we want to do, whether it involves shining our light or embracing our darkness, or something else altogether. I thought this was the core principle of LOA but, I don’t know, somehow it feels like nowadays it’s mainly about being a Lightworker and that you “have to shine your light”.
Hey Gata Negra, thanks so much for your comment!
Yeah I agree, so many people are focusing now on the light, overcoming darkness, etc. They don’t seem to realize that according to the LOA, whatever you push against will just persist and get even stronger. Words like “battle” and “fight” are so resistant, I can’t imagine anyone in the LOA would willingly use them without doing a double take.
There’s room in this world for everyone. Not everyone has to be teachers or healers. I myself am a programmer, and I have a lot of fun doing that. There was a time that I thought this wasn’t “spiritual” enough, but it’s enjoyable, therefore it’s “spiritual” enough for me. 😀
Anyway I appreciate your input.
I think I know which LOA coach you are talking about, and I no longer resonate with her either (hence I’m here lol). The thing that bugs me about her teachings in addition to the whole light is good dark is evil BS, is how she invalidates your desires by saying that you can only have the “feeling” of what you want and not the thing. It is misleading to say you can have “anything” with LOA if you can’t have the thing that you want! Then you have to “justify” wanting what you want as if bargaining with the universe if it is “good enough”…
I understand if things like teleportation and levitation are too far out of most people’s reach, but this coach doesn’t even think people should focus on a desire as mundane and common as “money”? I’ve heard her tell someone to not focus on money but instead focus on the things you want money to get you, and then try to convince that they don’t really want money, but only the things that money can buy. I’m sorry, but having the money in your bank account and the ability to buy whatever it is that you want, is just NOT the same as getting those things in other ways (through gifts etc). Similarly, having everything you want in the material world (relationship, money, success etc) is just NOT the same as meditating on a mountain in the middle of nowhere but feeling the same feelings as the person that has what they want!