Intro to Alchemical Business and Entrepreneurship Blog
The Alchemical Business and Entrepreneurship Blog explore the application of the Global Alchemy Template to the arena Business and Entrepreneurship. Since this arena is one of the systems that shape our interactions with each other and the environment it is an exploration of Systems Alchemy; the first to get its own blog.
Business and Entrepreneurship is so honored in being first, in part due to it being an major aspect of Alchemical Wealth Building which is part of the core Alchemical Hero Training because it is considered an essential training for Global Alchemists or any Heart Centered Visionary. There are only a few other specific explorations of Systems Alchemy that have parts in the core training. This is because few other systems are so pervasive that every Alchemical Hero/Global Alchemist or visionary will have to interact with it to express their visionary intent. On a personal level I am exploring as one of the first activities of the Project Global Alchemy Bootstrap Experiment because it is so critical for the Bootstrap Process. In short the various projects and experiments are fueled by money, and I need money in order to be able to devote my time to them and Business is the most pervasive outer relative phenomena mechanism directing its flow.
It is this pervasiveness of Businesses influence on all other systems that forms the other reason for its early attention as a specific systems alchemy exploration. While all of our human systems are integrally connected and thus influence each other Business has become a dominant system influence in all other systems. The main reason, for example, that we aren’t already using renewable energy far more then we currently are is directly due to the influence of business. Business exerts itself in politics, sports, entertainment, medicine/health care, education, ‘the arts’, technological developments, the military, international affairs, agriculture, social culture etc. and while business does make valuable contributions by and large the weight of the influence to date has become largely negative.
This negative influence of Business and Capitalism is not an indication of an inherent flaw in Business, but rather, in the paradigm that has been shaping and driving its current style of expression and activity. (See Intro to Systems Alchemy Blog for more on the Paradigm factor)
Because of its pervasive influence the potential for business to be positive influence in the transformation of all the other systems surpasses what its negative influence has been to date. All that is needed is a shift in the paradigm that we use as the basis for our business models and activities.
I am not , by any means, the only one who has noticed the need for a new paradigm of business or the vast potential for global transformation that new paradigm business offers. Many have given voice to such ideas. Some of the phrases used to describe these new paradigm business ideas include Conscious Business, Conscious Capitalism, Compassionate Business, Compassionate Capitalism, Conscious Business, Spiritual Business, Spiritual Capitalism, Heart Centered Business, and Integral Business
Alchemical Business and Entrepreneurship is allied with these ideas and completely congruent with their intention to see business as a positive force on the global stage, however as an expression of the Global Alchemy Template, it has nuances not explicitly expressed in any other new paradigm modeling I am aware of (though some seem to come very close, and I wouldn’t be at all surprise but quite happy to discover such that someone else has explicitly express these nuances in their own modeling)
As an expression of the Global Alchemy Template, Alchemical Business (and Entrepreneurship) and this blog are concerned with:
- Accomplishing the two sublime aims of Absolute Freedom and inexhaustible Benefit (Another way of expressing the Principle of the Core Intention.)
- Completely integrating what ever form of Business Activity one is engaged with spiritual practice focused on the goal of alchemy
- Creating financial, material, and temporal resource bases to support transformational projects – included in the class of transformational projects is individual spiritual /transformational practice.
- The development and marketing of products and services that are transformational in and of themselves. Transformational products and services are any products and services that support the transformation, empowerment and/or healing of individuals and/or support the transformation of the world and/or any of its component structures into a world of empowered individuals living in harmony with each other and the world implementing sustainable methods, technology and social and business structures.
- Creating business, entrepreneurial, and wealth building strategies and structures that are themselves transformational and empowering to every one that is effected by or involved with them. For example creating advertising that has a beneficial impact on everyone exposed to it whether or not they buy the product or service advertised.
- Pursuant to creating the temporal resource base for Transformational Projects, to do business in a way that consumes minimal amount of time from any given individual. In other words creating a new much smaller standard for amount of time invested in pursuing a living to an average of less than 20 hours a week. Thus freeing people to pursue transformational project in general and most importantly personal transformational practice in specific
As the are concerned with overlapping areas Alchemical Business& Entrepreneurship and Alchemical Wealth Building have similar focuses of attention, However Alchemical Business& Entrepreneurship is more focused on the system itself and Alchemical Wealth Building on the individual who is using Alchemical Business& Entrepreneurship as one his/her wealth building strategies. (There are other wealth building strategies but I have chosen to initially focus on business and entrepreneurship, both because it more integral with the rest of the Project Global Alchemy Bootstrap Experiment and because of the critical role Business can play in the needed Global Transformation).