The Icarus Syndrome (or Don’t Forget What Your Wings Are For)

By Christopher Buck

Do you remember the story of Icarus in Greek mythology?

Daedalus was the great engineer who had designed the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete to house the Minotaur. He was moved by the love of the Princess Ariadne for Theseus and gave her the secret of the Labyrinth so that Theseus could survive. Enraged, King Minos had Daedalus and his son Icarus imprisoned in a tower. In secret, Daedalus fashioned wings by attaching bird feathers to a frame with wax. They donned the wings and were able to escape the tower and start the long flight back to their homeland. Icarus soon reveled in the glory of his new wings and the power they gave him. Daedalus cried out to his son that the wings were built for a higher purpose than his self-satisfaction. Icarus ignored the teachings of his father and lost in his own ego; flew up to Apollo thinking his wings made him the equal of the Gods. He had forgotten that his wings had a purpose and that his ability to fly was a gift of the Gods. Apollo noticed Icarus as he approached the Sun God’s fiery chariot. The Gods are not merciful with hubris. Scornful of his termidity, Apollo allowed the heat to melt the wax that held the feathers in place on the wings and Icarus plunged to his doom. With tears flowing, Daedalus searched in vain for his son, but all that was left were a few feathers drifting on the ocean’s swells.

The story was told to teach that the Gods did not tolerate excessive pride.

What has happened to real Lightworking?

Plato had it right when he wrote in his great work, The Republic, about Lightworkers and Wayshowers. These were individuals who helped raise the human condition. They did this by not only sharing healing through compassion, but by living their lives as an example for others. The life of a Way-shower was one of service to others.

Somehow the old definition of “Lightworking” has been left by the wayside and is being redefined from one of service to one of self-service. You hear and read it everywhere: “I am working on my own ascension”; “I am Star-Seed”; I am an Indigo”; “I am restructuring my DNA”; “I am released from Fear”; “I am a Teacher of the Light”; “I channel Higher Beings”; “I am this”, “I am that”, “I”, “I”, “I”…

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