Wow, I just stumbled upon the following video. If you're going to watch it, be advised, this woman might just piss you off. Especially if you are a Lightworker, Starseed, Indigo, Rainbow, Crystal, etc. etc. etc. However, I would caution you before you rush to judgment. Don't listen to what she is saying and immediately take umbrage. Try to look beyond what may appear as an insult and listen more closely. Or, simply skip the video and read on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJq24hc3xX8&feature=related
After watching this, and recognizing that there may be some truth to "there are no accidents", I must have been meant to view it. I am beginning to see myself as a spiritual enigma. I embrace much of the ideology of New Age Spiritualism and the path of the Lightworker. However, I have had my frustrations with many people that I have met on the "path", especially of late.
I have stated previously that my family is going through some of the most difficult times we have ever experienced. It is one shit storm after the next and we are reeling, unable to catch our breath. Each time I claim to have unwavering faith, life has demanded: "Prove it!". I will be the first to admit I can be a mess. I can get depressed, frustrated, angry, indignant, upset, befuddled, bewildered, stupefied and I still eat meat. I lay no claims to having all the answers. I lay no claims to being fully enlightened. Therefore, you will rarely, if ever, hear me spouting off instructions on how people should live their lives.
Hence, the source of my frustration. There are many, many, many Lightworkers who are out there behaving as if they are experts. I sometimes wonder if they are auditioning to be the latest self-help guru on Oprah. They offer unsolicited advice on how I "should" be feeling, how I "should" be handling my current life's challenges. They do it with such ferver making lavish claims that their lives are all roses, unicorns and rainbows. Yet, in the next breath, they are crying a river over the fact that they have a great challenge facing them; stunned and wounded at how people can be so mean.
Andrea Roussouw, the woman in the video, therefore, has a point. Some Lightworkers are, in a sense, operating in a delusion. Especially if they fail to see, admit and own that their own lives are not always a fluffy confection. Or, they are so caught up in the illusion of their own ease of living that they have no authentic framework for compassion. If your life has not presented opportunities to experience what it means to be without food, shelter, clean drinking water, dignity, peace or unconditional love, then you shouldn't insult others by telling them that they can simply "think" all their problems away. Success is a poor teacher. You can only know compassion if you have had to walk the walk not in front of, but beside your fellow man. A friend of mine recently sent me this quote by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross:
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
I couldn't agree more. "Beautiful people do not just happen." The people that cause us to gasp with inspiration are those that have overcome the most egregious adversities. We are more greatly moved and learn life's greatest lessons from those whose light continues to beam and burst through what would make mere mortals weep.
It is true, as the woman in the video states, that if you look at the over abundance of sappy, happy people with their lovely clothing, sitting in front of their high speed computers and thousand dollar video cameras with perfectly coiffed and flowing hair, it can be offensive in the face of people with genuine suffering. Of COURSE you can be all love and light if you are not striving to find your next meal. Of COURSE you can say you have all the secrets of the Universe at your beck and channelling when your very life is not being threatened by war or poverty. Ease of life is not the truest light. This is not the walking the walk of a true master. I believe a true master must not simply sit beneath the Bodi Tree to find truth. Truth and teachable moments are in the grief. Authentic compassion is only forged through making it out of the darkness.
Here is a simple request if you belong to any spectrum of the Lightworker family. Can you please, dear Lightworkers, respect the frustration, anger, hurt and pain of those who are in the depths of difficulty? Can you please give them space and allow them their due? Please don't instruct them on how they should feel. Please don't respond to pain by listing a myriad of gimmicky tricks that you believe can change a person's life like magic. Rather, be there for those in pain. Tell them that you will be there in every possible way as a true Lightworker should, listening with compassion, including them in social gatherings so that they don't slip further into isolation, give them hugs, send them angels, prayers and hope for greater blessings. All these actions will allow someone to know that you walk beside them, not in front of them, sharing the burden of their journey. Thank you.
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