'Lightworker ' arrogance

The energies are running strongly through me today and I feel the need to confront something which I see here on the website. I joined the website when it was known as 'World of Souls' and more than anything I feel it was a community of people who were together to help themselves to heal and be in joy. When the website changed to 'lightworkers' I feel it attracted a new breed who were at least as interested in saving the world as they were in saving themselves.

What I want to confront here is the idea that we can know what our purpose is in life, the idea that we know what we are here for. I also want to confront how useful it is to achieving joy, peace and harmony, to believe that we know what our purpose is. Firstly, how can we possibly know for certain what our purpose if? Yes you may have been told by spirit, or through a channelling, or through an intuitive, or it might just be a 'knowing' in your heart. But it is impossible to know for certain that it is true, no matter how reliable your source. Even if you believe your knowing came from God him/herself, how can you possibly know that the information is absolutely true? Yes we can say that we are an aspect of God and the universe, but we are not the totality, and to say that we KNOW what our purpose in life is, is to say that we are the totality. This, to me, is arrogance.

What is even more arrogant than saying that you know what your purpose in life is, is saying that you know your purpose is to help with the shift. To help with the ascension. However, if it is possible to be able to help with the shift, then by definition, it is also possible to be able to hinder the shift in some way. Which to me is just crazy. It implies that you have some control over whether the shift will happen or not! It implies that you are the totality that is God and the universe, and it implies that you have control over God and the universe. It implies that without you fulfilling your 'divine purpose' the shift wouldnt happen. Lightworker arrogance!

But lets just pretend for a minute that it is possible to either help or hinder the shift. How can you possibly know what form that help should take? How can you know that sending love and light to someone is helping or hindering? How can you possibly know that joining in with a global meditation is helping or hindering? How can you possibly know that actively trying to raise the vibration of the planet is helping or hindering? You cannot know what is in the highest interest of the universe. Believing you are someone who is helping with the shift rather than hindering the shift is the equivalent of saying that you know what is in the universe's highest interest. I am NOT saying that it is 'wrong' to do healing work, to send love etc...What Im saying is that doing these things from a position of believing it is your purpose to do so is very different to doing it from a position of surrender. And doing healing work believing that your work is somehow more important to the shift than the guy who works in the supermarket, is again, lightworker arrogance!

There is an even more important point here that I want to make though. Believing that you know what your purpose is in life ruins your joy, it ruins your ability to surrender, it ruins your ability to live each moment spontaneously, it ruins your ability to live in the 'Now'. How so? Well, when you believe you know what your purpose is, it directs your decision making. Your perceived purpose tells you how to behave. In order to be in joy and at ease, to live each moment spontaneously and live in the 'Now', you have to surrender your decision making to the universal flow. You cannot do this if you believe you know your purpose.

Maybe you believe you need a purpose, or need to give yourself a purpose. I really do understand where the need to do this comes from, I have been there myself. Ultimately though it comes from fear. It comes from fear that without a purpose you are nothing. It comes from the fear that without a purpose you wont exist. It comes from a fear that without a purpose you wont know what to 'do'. It comes from a fear that without a purpose you will die. Releasing the need for purpose was possibly the scariest thing I ever did. It was the equivalent of jumping off a cliff not knowing whether I could fly. The crucial words here are 'not knowing'. In surrender, not only do we let go of 'knowing' our purpose, we let go of 'knowing' anything. The joy and the ease is in the 'Not-knowing'. The Not-knowing leaves us open to ALL possibilities, and when we are open to all possibilities we dont limit or restrict the universe. We are free.

Yours in joy,
Andrew