I Celebrate the Lightworker

Is there a new profession under the Sun?

From ancient callings through long history converging this day,

I celebrate a new calling today, a calling evolutionary & noble,

of the highest Ideal—

A calling going out to all who taste the taste of Light divine,

who now in your hearts dedicate yourselves lifelong

to be workers of Light divine.

The Lightworker I celebrate, you I envision before me—

For your effort, in your own individual way, cupping your hand to taste

the taste of Light divine,

you are honored as you face the challenge of this day,

you no longer guess & hedge & slink back to conventional codes of security.

What courage this compact you make with Self to bring the gift of Light

to this planet, in this decadent, declining, material-shackled, Postmodern chapter

of our history—

You, the Lightworker, with passionate aspiration, you bring the Vision of a New Age

before the disillusioned, disoriented, media-drunken masses fed daily

on confusion

You, the Lightworker, engaged in inner labor without a guarantee of outer reward,

you dedicate yourself to the soul labor of self-transformation

You, the Lightworker, willing to step into the cruel & callous & cynical,

sharp-toothed-&-clawed social arena

You, the Lightworker, guiding Light into the body with hands of etheric healing energy,

clearing & opening auras & chakras, healing nerves & muscles & bones,

you draw energy down into tissue & even cell

You, the Lightworker, listening with Light & talking with Light, casting Light

into shadowy & tenebrous corridors & recesses of self, you counsel & support

& encourage others on the Path

You, the Lightworker, focusing Light through cards, numbers, colors & crystals,

planets & signs, you skilled yourself at seeing into Time

You, the Lightworker, medium of Light, channeling Light in hushed rooms,

clairvoyant with Light outside the limitations of our 3rd-dimensional continuum,

you help others to peer into the Larger Self

You, the Lightworker, schooled in the Light of wisdom traditions taken to heart,

now the itinerant teacher sharing the honey of Light

You, the Lightworker, embodying Light in works of visionary art, you revitalize

our profane milieu with Spirit, you are herald of the Mythos of the New Age

dispensation

You, the Lightworker, wanderer of worlds, incarnate from elsewhere, you realize

after such struggle & acceptance of your struggle why you are here,

what Mission on this planet among planets in all the far-flung star systems

& galaxies & other dimensions

You, the Lightworker, in contact with Other Intelligence, you face unjust ridicule

yet prepare our people for the inevitable encounter, you grope with new concepts

to wrench us from their time-is-up established paradigms, shifting us into new

consciousness, inviting the agents of our evolution to draw nearer

The New Age calls you, worker of Light—

Herald, harbinger, guide, beacon, healer, transformer,

teacher & visionary—

You see the veils of separation & ignorance, of mental perception,

falling away,

you share Light to help make Earth whole, to help birth New Being—

I celebrate you, Lightworker, at this threshold of a New Millennium!

I celebrate all of you, Lightworkers, who open doors

into the New Millennium!

1998