This is a snippet from a newsletter I get.
Attention lightworkers—or anyone else who has awakened!
SPECIAL NOTE TO LIGHTWORKERS: Yes, the journey has been very difficult. Yes, it has taken a heavy toll on many of us. The last year or two have been especially brutal. The days of April and May this year, 2008, usher in energies that are very destructive in one way or another. People close to us are checking out. Maybe we aren't as healthy, rich, or successful (or sane) as others all around us. That is not because we have done anything wrong. It is not just “bad karma” or bad judgment. It is not “bad” anything.
We are the shock troops presiding over the crumbling of the Old World and its materialistic values and the subsequent New World that must come if the planet and humanity are to survive. Don't judge yourselves by the old standards. You placed your soul mission above those old values whether you were consciously aware of it or not. The shift in our consciousness to facilitate the shift in the collective unconscious is the only hope for us all if we are to resolve the World Mess, as I call it.
Maybe Eckhart Tolle summarizes it best:
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful
for the evolution of your consciousness.”