Business Of Spirituality





Shared Piece by Loic Le Meur (Open World Info.)

Consciousness - state of being aware of and responding to ones’ surroundings. A person aware of something and especially of oneself. It’s the quality of being aware. A conscious business is a business that is aware of its impact.

Spiritual - the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. An example of a spiritual business - are you making money by helping people be more concerned by their spirit than their own body?

Most spiritual businesses are concerned with consciousness. The purpose of a spiritual business is generally not to make money but to help others. When the focus is on helping others and it is successful, it attracts abundance and can become a big business, see what Sadhguru does. His team buys ads, records any of his talks, sells the courses and the retreats…

If it helps people or the planet, there is nothing wrong in making money. Money is just energy.

Some people think “spiritual” should never be a business. Yet, people need to have a roof, food, clothes and generally have to generate some revenues unless they live in a monastery or alone in the forest.

I think it’s okay to make money as long as the business creates jobs, treats its team well and does good for people or nature.

The limits of the integrity of conscious or spiritual businesses

There are a few people though who are starting a spiritual business only to make money and are successful at it. It is one of the dangers of our times because it does not feel like the right intention and it can damage people such as the story of John of God.

There are many businesses that will add “organic” to anything just to ride the wave and are destroying the planet in other ways. Amazon.com launched a “conscious” category but contributes in moving daily container ships from China. They are one of the top sources of pollution. Can we trust the integrity of those businesses and human nature to not be greedy?

For profit versus non-profit

I think there is nothing wrong in “doing business” while “doing good” and making a living out of it. I was living for years with my ex-partner Leila Janah and witnessed her hard work for years with her non-profit Samasource.

She finally turned it into a 100% for profit business -sama.com- before sadly leaving us in physical form but Sama, LXMI and her foundation continue. She taught me why making a business was better in her opinion than a non-profit for growth and hiring more people who needed work (in her case in Africa). The main reason was the energy she and her organization were spending fund raising constantly, which slowed down potential growth.

We need to change our habits now

For our own survival and for the planet we cannot live the way we live anymore, we need to change our habits with our own mind, our body and respect the Earth.

I feel a tremendous change going on in the need for conscious businesses. Last time I felt a huge change like this was when I discovered the Internet in 1993. Today we cannot imagine how to live without it.

I think the consciousness revolution is acceleration dramatically changing the way we live. Like the Internet everyone is be impacted. Unlike for the Internet, we must change now to avoid the growth of the “silent killer” -depression and mind sicknesses- and the obvious ecological disaster we are inflicting to the planet and ourselves.

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