To worry when My friend says she's a light worker??

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Name changed, but frequent poster.

Close friend of mine has started a fbook group and invited me in. In this group she has started doing videos and appears to have a number of followers now. In this group and in videos she claims to speak to spirit guides (including princess diana!!) and calls herself a light worker

I have never heard her talk of any of this before. We live a far distance apart so granted, most interaction between us is virtual so it is fair to say, I don't know all that's going on with her and don't claim to. She's just never mentioned anything like this before. We speak weekly, sometimes more.

This area is something I know nothing about, and I'm worried by the videos.

Is this a real thing?

She's deluded or a con artist.

Is this a real thing?

Yeah, course it is :)

Why don’t you just ask her about it?
Perhaps it’s because you don’t seem open minded, or understand that people are fluid, everything is always changing, therefore people grow, change and adapt.
Perhaps see this as supporting your friend on a new venture in her life

Is she using this group to build some kind of business? Like doing 'readings' and so on?

It's a con, preying on the idiots of society.

I would not support a friend who was selling themselves as a medium.

I would find it easier to believe (for want of a better word) in someone who was a life long member of a spiritualist church

Commercial mediums are confidence tricksters (see many, many exposes of working techniques) though it is possibly that your friend has herself been a victim here

I’d stand clear, say you do not share her new faith, shut down any discussion of it, but try to stay in though for when it all comes tumbling down

If she's genuine, she'll hear about your concerns from her spirit guide.

Perhaps it’s because you don’t seem open minded...Perhaps see this as supporting your friend on a new venture in her life

Is exercising any moral judgement at all 'not open minded'? If the friend was harming people through violence instead, would that be equally ok?

She's deluded or a con artist.

This. Of course she's not being guided by Princess Diana. She either genuinely believes that she is, in which case she's probably struggling quite badly with her mental health or just a bit thick, very gullible and lacking in critical thinking. Or she's none of that, and has come up with a scam to get other people to pay for her "lightness".

I thought a light worker meant someone who only does a bit of light work, here or there, nothing too strenuous... I was thinking yeah I am too and there’s nothing to be worried about! 😂

Looked it up on Google and it seems that if you voice any negative thoughts, she will probably think you are a "darkworker". Though, as she only ever spreads light, she would presumably not say so.

It's always people like princess Diana who "guide" deluded people mediums, isn't it? It's never some random old girl who died in a workhouse circa 1902.

Perhaps it’s because you don’t seem open minded

Ha ha ha. Perhaps you're right to raise this and be concerned, OP, because you are neither deluded or a charlatan.

Why do people who believe in wacky woo bollocks always call themselves 'open-minded' when in reality, they're blind to anything that doesn't fit their own conspiracy? Open-minded my arse. Hilarious.

The brief history is that after breaking up with her long term gf she started meditation and this seemed to really help her.

She met some new people through this and from what I understand undertook some sort of regression therapy. This is what she told me, but we never really spoke beyond that.

Then comes this Facebook group where her and some friends talk amongst themselves about what their guides are saying. I gather she is planning to go on some courses to extend her knowledge and skills
She talks about"rising" a lot!

Before this, she was quite pragmatic and not spiritual In the least.

It's a very different turn of events.

Sounds a bit culty maybe to me?

My first instinct is it's a load of bollocks. But wanted to get some more opinions before I raised this point of view with her

(Of course is be much more subtle with her than that. )

She sounds deluded. Not someone I’d personally be friends with. 😂

They're talking to Ghandi tonight

Sounds a bit out of the blue.
But if you are concerned, do some research to make sure she isn't a victim or being coerced into anything.
Other than that.. she has had regression therapy. She has found something to help herself.. to find peace. Leave her too it.

I wouldn't even say anything, just quietly leave the group. Simple.

It's not uncommon. It's a way for people to think they're special, being an empath or a light worker. Same as the whole twin flames BS.

Has this started since lockdown?

I'd be wondering if her MH has been affected by the break up and now the solitude of lockdown has made her turn more 'inwards' and she's forming communication of a different sort (and, IMHO, largely imaginary) because she's lonely and looking for a place in life.

Because she can't turn outwards, she's turning inwards. And the imagination can be a powerful thing, especially if it's not tempered with a good dose of reality now and again.

Carry on talking to her, but skirt over all matters of the light. If she wants to see you as a dark person, then just agree to disagree.

I thought your post was a spelling mistake for night worker!

Keep your distance. I had an acquaintance who began with fire-walking, started talking about spiritual gurus and then phoned me up asking for £8,000 as part of a pyramid scheme.

Then comes this Facebook group where her and some friends talk amongst themselves about what their guides are saying. I gather she is planning to go on some courses to extend her knowledge and skills

Very culty. I would be worried about her. It's like MLM - prey on people at their most vulnerable, promise them a bright future, hook them in with love bombing and friendship, start bleeding them dry for cash while branding everyone else who raises doubts as "negative".