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Lightwork Introduced. What is Lightwork about? What are its aims and origins?

 

Here we describe lightwork, the limited information we have concerning it origins, and what the differences are between lightwork and SoulWork.

 

Lightwork is about moving into the light which is considered the divine. In an overall sense it is believed to take you back home in part of an ascension process - to re-unite you with what you really are. This is loosely described as Christ Consciousness, love, compassion, the God Source.

It focuses on activating light bodies and raising awareness (of the light). It uses energy healing to facilitate this and to transmute or cleanse the shadows, pain, suffering, karma and all that is considered negative.

The aim of lightwork is to bring you fulfilment, joy, inner peace, wholeness, balance, health and the process is considered the next stage in human evolution a movement into higher dimensions a release from pain, suffering, karma, rebirth and death.

You are considered an ego here, and to evolve by this path you must learn to trust in this process and completely surrender to your guides and masters, who are considered well versed in this process and will guide you through it.

Followers of this process call themselves lightworkers, whose job it is to hold the light and basically get others to become connected to the light and become part of the same process. They can be described as missionaries of the light spreading this process here.

The process is described as love, being love. It is often said that "You are love and there is nothing but love."

 

For us Lightwork seems to be a multidimensional version of Christianity in many ways. Lets look at this now:-

Surrendering to God or to the word of God or the representatives of God seems to be one. Priests are the representatives of God in Christianity and various ascended masters and other beings for lightwork. There is a parallel in the hierarchy too. We would ask. Where in this are you responsible for you? Where in this are you facilitated to stand in your own authority so that you can look God in the eye as an equal?

Your not supposed to question the authority held by those that represent God. You are supposed to do what you are told unquestioningly. We would ask. How does this empower you to stand for yourself?

Your sins are wiped away by God during confession, you don't need to do anything else - it is done for you. In lightwork the emphasis of the energies is to take people into love, feeling nice, rather than getting people to look at and take responsibility for themselves. If you don't have to deeply look at what you do, at what you hold within you, then how can you own it. If you don't own something of yourself then you cannot change it. If something else takes this opportunity away from you then what value have you gained for yourself?

[ Here is an example - a lightworker workshop where in 6 hours you get 13 years worth of nice evolution where your part is, it seems to just turn up. Where is the self-exploration? When do you have to make decisions? When do you directly face anything and resolve it yourself? Only when you do this do you own it (own yourself)? Assuming that others are doing this for you is not only a dangerous and misleading assumption, from our perspective this also completely the opposite of self-empowerment. ]

You can pray to God to ask for what you want or in lightwork you can call upon your angel or ascended master to beam you love or to resolve your problems, release you from difficult circumstances and so on. We would say here - feed someone a fish and you feed them for a day - teach someone to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.

If you are good then you will go to heaven within the religious framework. While lightworkers get to go home and or reunite with God or source which seems to us to be just another version of heaven.

We can cautiously agree that if everyone is more loving, cooperates with others, is honest, of integrity, respects others, is compassionate and caring then yes everyone would get on much better and lives would be much improved. However for people to achieve this means that they need to look at what is stopping them from being like this. Assuming you want to partake of this set of beliefs then this requires self-reflection at the very least plus a willingness to make the desired changes. Neither of the approaches described above promotes this. The most you can hope for is a nice overcoat presentation leaving the shadows and deepest scars unknown, untouched and unresolved.

 

Well, here we are going to give you some areas to think about.

Firstly lets us say that our recent investigations of soul level cultures brought us to the realization that what pass for beliefs on this human level are in fact translated or presented here because they are part of the beliefs held by cultures and societies at soul level.

Concepts, beliefs and approaches including god, the divine, spiritual paths, religions, Christianity, philosophies and so on are here not because they have arisen as part of human culture, but because this reality is designed to mirror soul level as best it can and so it does. As above so below. The macrocosm reflects the microcosm.

In simple terms it mirrors soul level realities so that the soul (or ALL THAT YOU ARE) can be helped to change by the conscious experience and proactive movements made by the soul fragment in this reality here. This requires that the soul fragment let go of all beliefs and all types of limits to become at one with ALL THAT IT IS to make such changes within the soul at soul level. You then, no matter what you think or feel or believe are not insignificant in any way at all. On the contrary, you have the potential to sit in the driving seat of your soul, take it through itself and then way beyond into completely uncharted terrain. YOU are your souls hope to help it evolve. If you are here as a human now then it is because your soul is stuck, lost, traumatized and or misguided in some way and you have the potential and the opportunity to move it on.

So, as part of this soul facilitation process, you are placed into lives and situations here that are as similar as possible with regards what your soul has experienced at soul level. You are helped to do this because this reality is designed to help you more easily see yourself and can through this amplification and repetition be aware of the patterns you are caught up in and the limiting beliefs you hold to (AS A SOUL) and so on.

In this life now, during this phase or earths cycle we are all being presented with everything that we hold to that is a limitation within ALL THAT WE ARE. This is done to allow us to re-live our soul limits as intensely as possible to help us understand what it is our souls desperately need to change and move on from. This is what we are all doing here. So, no matter what you are doing or how good you think it is or how spiritual you feel you are, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, it is  actually part of YOUR limitation, and is not part of the solution for YOU at this TIME.

We have found that for 49 out of 50 people, their life as a human this time reflects the main components of their life as a soul at the highest soul levels. In particular and significantly your childhood here strongly parallels your soul childhood. This is because this phase now is presenting you with as much information as it can about your soul to facilitate a wake up call and an exploration of ALL THAT YOU ARE so that you can move yourself and your soul beyond debilitating limitations.

Soul environments are much more flowing and in the moment than here and they have a much reduced capacity to mirror and present the soul with itself making it difficult for a soul to see what it is like. This does not help a soul to see what it needs to change or to increase lets say its wholeness.

Identifying and moving beyond the limits of your soul self is very hard to do, as you are moved into areas that ALL THAT YOU ARE has absolutely no experience of. This movement is counter intuitive, counter feeling and therefore often very uncomfortable. If you feel that you are becoming yourself, are stepping into yourself or that you are actually authentically being yourself then you are still within what you know and are still living your limits. This is so no matter which path you are part of or what masters you work for or how connected you feel to god or the divine or even how good you feel.

Here on earth, we are told that humans are not very evolved, that there are many more spiritual levels, higher energies and beings. Well we have found soul levels to be very like here in terms of interactions, limitations, feelings, beliefs. Many soul level environments themselves may be indescribable in human terms but relationships are relationships and limitations are limitations which ever level they are from. One myth we would like to shatter is the use of the term "higher" to mean more evolved when all it really means is a different environment and energy presentation. So, for example your higher self is no more advanced than you. We found out recently that higher selves are soul fragments that have a cut down specification compared to you (as a soul fragment) and they hold less information of your complete soul than you do. (This is done so that the higher self can be dedicated to supporting without having the distracting limitations that you have).

Contrary to what is presented here. In terms of what your soul is like on higher levels, you are neither more nor less evolved than your soul. You are neither more nor less spiritual than your soul and you are neither better nor worse than your soul. You have as a minimum the same potential capacity as your Higher Self (and often more). The only thing stopping you from equaling it and surpassing it is YOU, your beliefs, your lack of confidence, your insistence that you stay small and tethered to what is outside and NOT of yourself. Your insistence on giving others authority, power and command over YOURSELF. Your insistence on not taking responsibility for YOU, for ALL OF YOU. As long as you assume you are small, as long as you assume you have no power, as long as you assume you have no say then what exactly is YOUR reality going to create FOR YOU?

So, on higher levels your soul may be feeling small in terms of the concept is has of god, it may be waiting for some almighty being to come and save it, or more evolved beings to come so that it may follow them. Loops within loops within loops. Is it not time to get out of them?

 

We very recently came into contact with Sananda at soul level. To be honest when we started exploring this line I was somewhat "sceptical" - oh god not ascended masters again? It therefore came as a little eye opener to find a very open Being, focused and enquiring. Nothing like the ascended master lightworkers access at soul fragment levels.

We were accessing this soul level Sananda in a past time when Cris had a connection to this Being. This energy was concerned about why things at soul level were not changing? Why was there so much suffering, pain, misunderstanding, confusion and a lack of interest in evolution and growth (NOTE - This is at soul level - it has nothing to do with here, nor does it have anything to do with ascended masters).

There was / is a group of soul level beings that are concerned with trying to change this of which the Soul level Sananda is one. Part of the outcome of that concern was the commissioning of Earth.

We see Earth as designed to put people / beings / souls more in touch with themselves, to help them see who they are, to amplify imbalances, to present limits that help focus attention on the self. Karma is a means to keep throwing the soul fragment back on itself - to amplify what is held in the soul fragment here that represents the soul. The game then is to not try and escape Karma but to use it to the best advantage. Like for example, seeing what it is presenting you with and then do something about it.

Earth was engineered to provide a long cycle of phases to help soul fragments gain the experience and understanding required to eventually help the soul itself change (as there seems to be problems in doing this at soul level).

The soul fragment (the bit that is YOU here from your soul) would hold the parameters of the soul but reflect, mirror and amplify these to help the soul fragment (YOU here) understand itself and in so doing then automatically have a deeper understanding of the soul than the soul does. A soul fragment is used as it is dispensable, it can die, it is much easier (despite what you think) to transmute trauma, suffering and pain here. So, that what happens to it here will not greatly impact or traumatize the soul further.

Here you do not have a direct connection with your soul. Part of the parameters of this reality is that you are sealed off, isolated. Most of the time, your soul here does not have access to you and you don't have access to it. You are a soul fragment. This is a cut down version of the complete soul representing about 100,000th of what the soul is. The best analogy is that you are like a conscious probe working in deep cover within an artificial environment on behalf of the soul to facilitate it in the ultimate mission to help the soul itself evolve. In this artificial reality, you live out the same dramas as your soul, you suffer the same traumas, you play out the same solutions, you take on the same beliefs and the same attitudes you are born in similar environments, you have parents with similar attitudes as your soul parents, you re-experience what your soul has experienced through out its history. You are trained to act your soul, to understand (either consciously or not) what your soul does, what solutions it chooses to difficult circumstances and why. What survival strategies to traumatic and difficult situations it falls back on. You then become a repository of high quality, amplified information of what your soul is like, what it avoids, what beliefs it holds to and why. In a phase such as we are having now you have the opportunity to reconnect with "ALL THAT YOUR SOUL IS". You expand beyond the limits of this artificial reality and begin to link to, integrate with and become ALL THAT YOU ARE as a preliminary to changing ALL THAT YOU ARE.

So, during one phase of the cycle (strangely enough, this life now) it is possible for the soul fragment to progressively re-connect with ALL THAT IT IS (All that makes up YOU everywhere). As it re-connects and merges with the higher soul forms and aspects it can then choose to use this human form and situations in this life now to change the patterns of the soul by changing them here. Thus helping the soul to move on from its limitations, restrictions, beliefs and traumas. The soul fragment must in fact be in charge of this process.

For us, the ultimate possibility of the planetary process happening now is about evolving your complete soul. It requires that you find ALL OF YOURSELF. To do this effectively requires that you make ABSOLUTELY NO ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHO YOU ARE. It requires that you drop ALL BELIEFS so that you can go beyond them, and to let go of ALL TRUTHS so that you can get to a TRUTH THAT IS DEEPER.

As in all good movies there are goodies and badies. So, currently there are a number of problems.

  • The first is that this whole environment is designed to amplify and mirror the soul level experience and so whatever is keeping people (read beings / souls) distracted at soul level is happening here too. Since it was not identified at soul level a solution could not be worked into the design and incorporated here. So the same factor is at work here too.

  • A second is that this is potentially one of the most powerful places in all of creation to initiate change. It is possible here to take the reins of ALL THAT YOU ARE and free this from every single restriction, limit, pattern, trauma and so on. You have the possibility to see what it (your soul) cannot and to push it forward into unheard of places. This is a worrying fact for various powerful soul cultures and it is in their interests to confuse this process to prevent it from happening. We can confirm that we can change our soul and make huge movements on other levels through the support, understanding and empowerment we generate through our human form here and it is very difficult if not impossible beyond a certain level for this to be stopped on any level.

We can say that at this time there is a strong possibility that no matter how well respected or for how long they have existed all spiritual paths, religions, approaches are nothing more than a re-experience of the LIMITS you must understand before you can move YOUR SOUL beyond them.

We understand that many will feel that we are being negative, or demeaning, or belittling or even arrogant by what we say here. On the other hand if we don't present what we know then we are not offering others (you) the opportunity to consider this information and with it the opportunity to look at things differently. It may be that our perceptions are wrong, however if they are not then should not those who could step more deeply into themselves as a result of what we know have the opportunity to do so.

 

Lightwork we feel may be at best a difficult and limited compromise, an attempt to salvage something from difficult circumstances. It is promoting what are considered good values, cooperation, love, compassion and so on, which are all admirable. Unfortunately the means by which this is being achieved is the equivalent of putting new bandages over filthy and festering sores. Yes you can give a good presentation but anyone looking deeply enough will not be fooled and over time what is hidden will fester and develop into something even more difficult to address. For us, your negativity, your areas of insecurity, your illusions, your fears and so on are the openings and portals to get to a deeper you. They are not areas to avoid, suppress or transmute - they are too important for the possibilities that they offer you and YOU are too important to miss this opportunity.

Many who have deeply engrained and difficult issues have found lightwork approaches to be totally ineffective as a means to resolve these. We can confirm this too. For us, we consider our deepest traumas and limitations gifts as they kept us alert and made us aware of what was just dealing with the surface but was not going deep enough to resolve the causes. In other words those here with the deepest and most difficult issues are at an advantage, those with less are quite simply not going to see the point of going deeper.

We would say beware of all magic wand approaches. They are nothing more than the energy equivalent of modern drugs, except their debilitating side effects will probably not appear until it is too late. If something is done to you and you are not part of a process, if you are not deeply touching yourself and realizing / feeling what is being touched then what value is that change to you? We understand that it can take years to make deep and lasting changes particularly when these changes are being made on behalf of your complete soul within ALL THAT YOU ARE. Changes of this magnitude are not trivial, your soul is vast, it is highly complex, it is holographic it contains all parts in all parts.

We have recently come across soul cultures that are masters at the caring / good presentation who are behind the scenes basically f**king everyone. Starting wars, creating disputes between worlds, manipulating situations - even killing and kidnapping souls to make sure that their own interests and way of life is maintained. They are seasoned diplomats and are well respected at these high levels. (Souls are immortal. When not subject to fatal circumstances they will go on for ever - they can however be killed).

For us it now seems evident that many souls / beings are living and taking things at face value. The missing factor on all levels we feel is innocence, naiveté and gullibility. Where people / beings / souls live by an assumption that others are doing their best and have others best interests at heart. This causes them to be taken in by those not living to these values but who are merely giving a good presentation that they are.

I have to say that although I have been aware of deep and effective manipulation within our societies here. I proceeded without taking much notice. It came as a shock to find the same happening at soul level. Seems pretty obvious that this should be the case now, but you know sometimes it takes a while to catch on. So, conspiracies abound at all levels - even at the highest soul levels. Hence it is reflected here - except and particularly at this time it is more pervasive here simply because there is too much at stake.

 

It seems that lots of people still think that what we are doing is lightwork, however, we left lightwork behind a long time ago now (read about this). We are not strangers to moving on and leaving behind respected approaches and associated friends (an example). So, here we present the very major differences as we see them between Lightwork and SoulWork.


LIGHTWORK: Lightwork says that it moves people into their true selves, and that their true selves are divine, love and light. Anything else is considered the opposite and negative. Lightwork says that the soul is perfect, a prefect representation of god and that god is love and that you are nothing but love.

SOULWORK: If this is true then what happens if you ask to be put into your true self rather than assuming that you are love (or light)? Well, after our awakening experience we asked for just this and we were, lets say quite focused and determined about it and we also made no assumptions about what we would find. As a result we can categorically say that your true self is not just light nor is it just love, and your soul is by no stretch of the imagination perfect - far from it in fact.


LIGHTWORK: Uses energies and activations to move you into the light and love. You rely on others to facilitate this. You are not encouraged to be responsible for you. You don't get to stand in your own authority or take a commanding role in the process.

SOULWORK: You use energies and activations to move into yourself, to explore who you are and what (if anything) is holding you back, what is tying you to limiting ways of being and limiting truths and beliefs. We then confront these and work with these. This requires a very deep love for ones self, to not only see and feel what pain, hurt, control, insecurity and so on that you hold within you but to then go on and deal with it proactively.


LIGHTWORK: The energies and approaches are about taking you into love, positive ness and away from pain, negative emotions and negative ness. When lightworkers start to feel uncomfortable, negative or have things arising which are painful, traumatic, difficult or considered negative then energies are activated and approaches used to cleanse these from their energy field or transmute them into something else without deeply touching it. Any obvious approach when ones basic assumptions are wrong. That is if you are convinced that you are just love and nothing else then anything that is not love is therefore not of you and should be cleansed or removed from you.

SOULWORK: SoulWork energies and approaches makes only one judgment with regards what is positive and what is negative. Positive is what promotes an open movement into oneself to facilitate freedom from all limits and a deeper level of truth (understanding). Negative is what is taking you away from yourself. Areas of uncomfortable ness, pain, difficult life situations are not turned away from but are used for what they are! As portal entry points to reach their origins so that they may be dealt with not by trying to magic them away, but by understanding how they are influencing you and then using various approaches to resolve them. This for the most part often involves feeling them (feeling yourself) and the eventual outcome of this can be to help your COMPLETE SOUL respond in a new way - TO GIVE ALL OF YOURSELF A NEW CHOICE.


LIGHTWORK: Lightworkers assume that they are here with a light mission, that their part is to help this process on earth and that they are part of a special team that is fronting this process. There primary role is then to spread the light and all that this entails.

SOULWORK: Has a primary focus of self exploration, to resolve personal limits, restrictions and traumas as it understands that you cannot take anyone where you have not or dare not go yourself. It does not conform to a particular set of beliefs but questions them ALL as only a deeper truth can emerge by doing this. The only mission is to free yourself from all limits, restrictions, traumas, conditioning within ALL THAT YOU ARE. Any other mission is very definitely part of the limitation and is NOT part of the solution AT THIS TIME.


LIGHTWORK: Has approaches and energies (divine, universal and cosmic rays and energies) that target energy bodies, balance chakras, release negativity and cleanse or transmute anything that is considered unbalanced (not of love and light). A very few of these energies comprehensively cover even soul fragment levels. None even begin to touch soul levels where 99% of ALL THAT YOU ARE resides.

SOULWORK: Takes you progressively into yourself into ALL THAT YOU ARE with no restrictions. It highlights all limits, restrictions, blockages and blocks, it reveals faulty, limiting and disabling belief systems, ideas, models, truths, knowings and so on. It reveals deep conditioning. It works on these directly at whatever level is necessary, particularly to reach the true origins of the challenge.


LIGHTWORK: Tries to keep you in balance by adjusting your chakras, your energy bodies and so on. Balance for lightwork is about being in the light and projecting love. An approach that focuses on keeping things in balance is an approach that is avoiding change, that does not want to look at things deeply, but that despite what it says is keeping things hidden. Change that arises without dealing with a corresponding imbalance is a change that does not have any value, that has not been earned and is not owned or understood. Even the Tao, an ancient book of wisdom presents chaos and imbalance as a gift to be welcomed as then change is a potential and a new level of "something" is possible.

SOULWORK: Recognizes that a balance will be achieved in itself if all unbalanced areas are revealed, worked on and resolved. Re-balancing is only required when chronic imbalances are not being addressed and dealt with appropriately. Imbalances are also a product of change, when limits, restrictions, blocks and so on in the form of traumas, faulty beliefs, embedded conditioning begin to be exposed within ALL THAT YOU ARE. Their emergence creates a temporary, chronic imbalance as you are offered the possibility to re-experience this state to resolve it completely.

We are also considering that a true state of balance is not balance (or stasis) but a rhythm between balance and imbalance. Like the waves of the ocean, they are in constant movement. Life is about developing the skills and qualities to dance well to this continuously changing rhythm, and like the ocean, the world in unpredictable, so having the skills to weather the occasional unexpected storm helps. If an attempt is made to control this rhythm by forcing an artificial  state of balance then areas of life become avoided, blocked off and or hidden. Life then becomes half lived, restricted, limited, some of what life presents becomes feared and for some a limited fantasy is preferable. The nature of creation is that it will try and expose and express imbalanced, suppressed or hidden areas in a different way so that you are offered the opportunity to re-balance inside.

[ Nature will give you good examples. Rivers in Germany were straightened in a short sighted attempt to reduce sedimentation and prevent flooding. But the nature of rivers is to wiggle and if they cannot there is more sedimentation and flooding. In other words suppressed rivers try and wriggle, they want to flow again and maintain their own natural balance. ]

So, what you don't like, what you fear in life, what you don't want or don't find easy to express or feel are pointing to areas of imbalance within you. These limits stress reality which then responds by expressing them in different forms, disease for example, or emotional limitations or outbursts, restrictions in relationships or as an extreme it will be presented in the external environment.

The imbalances of either "there is nothing but hate" or "there is nothing but love" will force creation to respond by presenting what you will not address inside of you in extreme ways on the outside. In other words, if you wont open and accept all that you hold inside of yourself then the environment will present you with these on the outside. Hence there is more violence, rage, hate, disrespect now than 10 years ago. When you deal with what you consider negativity within you by trying to cleanse it away or transmute it into something else you are in effect avoiding and denying part of WHAT YOU ARE. If you take this to an extreme then you will require more powerful means to suppress these areas as the process on earth amplifies in an attempt to help you address them and BE WHO YOU ARE. Only by truly BEING WHO YOU ARE can you really change WHO YOU ARE into something more truly balanced.

[ Why is it said that God makes no judgments about and does not identify with what is right or wrong, good or bad and yet in the name of God humans do just this and then try and make themselves into the false image of the God that they have just created (Oh!! and then try and persuade others to do the same). God is love - we are love. If this is true? Then why is it so obviously not? ]


LIGHTWORK: Requires a complete trust of your guidance and makes the assumption that lightwork guidance is divine, represents God and is therefore all knowing.

SOULWORK: Helps you to trust yourself, and takes you on a journey that requires you surrender to yourself. Guidance is recognized to be limited, often working to their own beliefs (as we all do), promote certain agendas (as we all do) and are specialized (as we all are). It therefore asks openly not for specific beings but for the best to achieve a certain outcome, that can also take us beyond what we already know and who are wanting to do the same.


LIGHTWORK: Asks that you surrender to the light process, become active representatives of that process and do not question it.

SOULWORK: Asks that you surrender to yourself, are active in your own process and are willing to question your most fundamental beliefs and assumptions about absolutely everything.


LIGHTWORK: Gives lip service to empowerment. Empowerment in lightworker terms is being part of the process facilitated by lightwork.

SOULWORK: Is about the empowerment of each individual through the unfolding process of self understanding that comes when you face and change yourself. It encourages self enquiry, self responsibility and self authority. Self authority emerges as you understand that you create your own reality and have resolved enough within you to begin to do this consciously. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU CREATE - NOT GOD, AND NOT ANY OTHERS.

 

There is an opportunity being presented here at this time. It is certainly worth making the effort!!

 


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