Sacred Business, Conscious Capitalism, Enlightened Entrepreneur

There’s no doubt in my eyes that a fundamental shift is happening within the world. Both on a personal and on an economic level. The foundations of our existence are being rocked and shaken to their core. Everything we knew and held to be true is no longer. And we now find ourselves in a gray area. A middle point. Lost and wandering. Desperate for some form of stability.

I know that on an individual level these forces for change have been working for some time now. It just seems that there intensity has increased of the last few years. Our lives being violently tossed about and we’re have been left to put together the pieces, hoping that what we create is a life worth living. Something that can not only inspire ourselves, the people around us and all the world.

This same force is now tearing through the business community. Ripping apart old outdated models of commerce and business structure. What was once standard practice is no longer finding acceptance of benefit within this new and emerging world.

So what can a person do?

What are your options if your an employee or business owner? What can you do if your planning to start a company in these turbulent times?

The Blueprint for the Sacred Business, Conscious Capitalism, Enlightened Entrepreneur Movement

These coming pages will help to lay down a blueprint for the new world of business that’s emerging. A map of sorts to help people navigate themselves to a new shore of prosperity.

In Buddhism the first “step” of Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path is called samyag-drsti in Sanskrit, and is usually translated as Right Understanding but a truer meaning, closer to the heart of the matter, and these times were in need more heart, would be more to the liking of Perfect Vision

Perfect Vision
This first step is something that is transformative on an individual level. It may come suddenly light a flash of insight or it may happen gradually over a number of years or a lifetime.

Sometimes it occurs because of deep anguish that washes over us because of a tragic loss. We then go off searching for deeping meaning and purpose in life. And for others it may come from a meditative experience or being fully present to some form of immense beauty like a sunset or a walk through a huge and ancient forest.

In any case the final results are usually the same.

We finally arrive at a point where we are perfect a new and life changing vision of the world and our lives.

We awaken to a new paradigm.

We’re given a glimpse of a world where we’re a part of an interconnected web of life. Where we see that the actions, thoughts, and words we do and use effect the whole. We see that the world is the way it is because we have made it so. A sense of awe and rapture begins to penetrate our existence.

And ultimately we begin to change because this experience feels more real than the lives we were living before that point.

The Canadian psychologist Richard M. Bucke, in his book “Cosmic Consciousness” 1902, describes this experience as a transpersonal mode of consciousness, an awareness of the universal mind and one’s unity with it.  Individuals develop a deep awareness of the life and order in the universe.

An individual who has and lives within this new world is often described as ‘Enlightened’ and such a person is also said to have a sense of immortality, not of attaining it but of already having it.

Burke believed that this new conscious was the next stage of human evolution.

He believe that during the course of humanity’s evolutionary development there are three forms of consciousness.

* Simple Consciousness, our instinctual consciousness.
* Self Consciousness, that self-awareness that allows a human to realize himself as a distinct entity.

* Cosmic Consciousness, a new developing faculty at the pinnacle of our evolution.

Bucke outlines the evolutionary struggle on our planet which has produced self-consciousness and then describes the appearance of a new species that possesses cosmic consciousness, a consciousness that expands to become one with all. Bucke theorizes that, with increasing frequency, persons like Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, Walt Whitman and others are making their appearance on our planet and by their teaching are helping to transform life on this planet.

This evolutionary process continues up until today. Bucke studied the lives of these persons that had attained this new found awareness and found common characteristics such as:

* intuitive understanding
* elevated moral stature
* loss of sense of sin
* intellectual illumination
* sense of immortality
* no fear of death

* definite moment or period of transformation

“The person who passes through this experience will learn in the few minutes, or even moments, of its continuance more than in months or years of study, and he will learn much that no study every taught or can teach. Especially does he obtain such a conception of *the whole*…Along with moral elevation and intellectual illumination comes what must be called, for want of a better term, a sense of immortality.”

From his book he describes how those he interviewed had experienced the state:

“Like a flash there is presented to his consciousness a clear conception (a vision) in outline of the meaning and drift of the universe..He sees and knows that the cosmos…is in fact…in very truth a living presence. He sees that instead of men being, as it were, patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance, they are in reality specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life. He sees that the life which is in man is as immortal as God is; that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all; that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love, and that the happiness of every individual is in the long run absolutely certain.”

The New Consciousness & Business

As we will explore over the next little while, collectively we can see that these changes are happening at an ever increasing pace. Our next step is to anchor into our lives, every aspect of them, a new way of “doing business”, one that respects all the aspects of life, and inspires us all to do better.

A new Blueprint that generations can be proud of and build upon. Because if we don’t this world of ours will ultimately be torn apart, us included.

Ian

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