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Sacred Commerce: A Blueprint for a New Humanity
“Yesterday I was clever. I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise. I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
We are entering the Age of Consciousness. Where in times past the pursuit of higher consciousness was restricted to the very few, in the Age of Consciousness it is available to everyone — just as in the Age of Information everything you wanted to know was at your fingertips.
People the world over are moving toward a new spirituality. They are moving away from a narrow definition of humanity centered around religion and nationalism to one that celebrates global citizenship and stewardship. These global citizens are now coming together to co-create a new humanity: a new culture, a new economy, a new ecology, and a new mythology.
Sacred Commerce introduces the concept of the Fourth Bottom Line and explores a new Hero’s Journey that is sourced in Emotional Alchemy, Resonance Causation, Conscious Evolution, and Beauty, Goodness, and Truth — the transformational ingredients necessary to step fully into the Age of Consciousness.
Explore the history and mystery of commerce in this widely anticipated follow-up to Executive EQ, the international best-selling book that introduced and pioneered Emotional Intelligence and the Four Cornerstone Model in the business world.
WORDS OF PRAISE
Sacred Commerce illuminates the beauty of conscious capitalism in its highest essence — as a means to uplift humanity, heal the earth, and manifest beauty through trade. The authors eloquently show us the way of the Merchant Priests of ancient Egypt, encouraging each of us to make our businesses, lives, and transactions matter. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to use their business as a force for good in the world.
— Zhena Muzyka, founder of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea and author of Life by the Cup
At a time in our history when corporations and commerce have gained prominent influence in our governments, it is critical we have a manual like Sacred Commerce to guide that influence towards raising consciousness. It champions the union of archetypal myth and fact, left and right brain, sacred and mundane, and heart and head, leading us to a form of commerce where our perceptions don’t limit us from using it in the most sacred way.
— Lisa Wimberger, author of New Beliefs, New Brain and Neurosculpting
Sacred Commerce is a thought-provoking book that reflects the uncommon vision and creative energy of Ayman Sawaf and Rowan Gabrielle. For more than a decade I have admired their rare blend of energy, goodheartedness, and a deep desire to explore new realms of human capacity and make a difference in the world. This book offers a number of bold new perspectives on work and life.
— Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D., co-author of Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations
Today I am wise. I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
We are entering the Age of Consciousness. Where in times past the pursuit of higher consciousness was restricted to the very few, in the Age of Consciousness it is available to everyone — just as in the Age of Information everything you wanted to know was at your fingertips.
People the world over are moving toward a new spirituality. They are moving away from a narrow definition of humanity centered around religion and nationalism to one that celebrates global citizenship and stewardship. These global citizens are now coming together to co-create a new humanity: a new culture, a new economy, a new ecology, and a new mythology.
Sacred Commerce introduces the concept of the Fourth Bottom Line and explores a new Hero’s Journey that is sourced in Emotional Alchemy, Resonance Causation, Conscious Evolution, and Beauty, Goodness, and Truth — the transformational ingredients necessary to step fully into the Age of Consciousness.
Explore the history and mystery of commerce in this widely anticipated follow-up to Executive EQ, the international best-selling book that introduced and pioneered Emotional Intelligence and the Four Cornerstone Model in the business world.
WORDS OF PRAISE
Sacred Commerce illuminates the beauty of conscious capitalism in its highest essence — as a means to uplift humanity, heal the earth, and manifest beauty through trade. The authors eloquently show us the way of the Merchant Priests of ancient Egypt, encouraging each of us to make our businesses, lives, and transactions matter. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to use their business as a force for good in the world.
— Zhena Muzyka, founder of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea and author of Life by the Cup
At a time in our history when corporations and commerce have gained prominent influence in our governments, it is critical we have a manual like Sacred Commerce to guide that influence towards raising consciousness. It champions the union of archetypal myth and fact, left and right brain, sacred and mundane, and heart and head, leading us to a form of commerce where our perceptions don’t limit us from using it in the most sacred way.
— Lisa Wimberger, author of New Beliefs, New Brain and Neurosculpting
Sacred Commerce is a thought-provoking book that reflects the uncommon vision and creative energy of Ayman Sawaf and Rowan Gabrielle. For more than a decade I have admired their rare blend of energy, goodheartedness, and a deep desire to explore new realms of human capacity and make a difference in the world. This book offers a number of bold new perspectives on work and life.
— Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D., co-author of Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations
173 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 18, 2014
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November 19, 2017
What do you call the New Age these days? If the New Age dawned in the 70’s, then it’s getting pretty long in the tooth, coming up on its semi-centennial, so wouldn’t a new designation almost be a necessity? What if what we consider New Age is actually as old as the pyramids of Egypt, older even, while the ideas contained therein have been rebranded for the modern world? Does that make it less new? Rhetorical questions, yes, but if you want some real answers about how to improve your business and life, read Sacred Commerce, a Blueprint for a New Humanity, by Ayman Sawaf and Rowan Gabrielle.
Sacred Commerce plays like an ancient melody, resurrecting and restoring the concept of conscious capitalism, bringing it to life through the quality of resonance, a trait that surely must be part of our human DNA for all our predisposition to it. It’s no secret that negativity breeds negativity, and that one person having a bad day can ruin everyone else’s (the one friend that is agonizingly grumpy all the time) be it with a dour countenance or some serious negative juju (any one of the public shootings happening with so much more frequency), but if you buy into the concept then the reverse is also true, someone with a super positive attitude can raise the energy level of everyone around them. Such was the job of the merchant priests who were skilled in the art of “resonance,” the process of lifting the energy level of everyone around them by elevating their own vibrations. It’s a skill that took years, perhaps decades to perfect through meditation and conscious creation and its based on three elements of the Soul: beauty, truth and goodness.
The merchant priests drew sustenance from these concepts, meditating on them and incorporating them into their activities of daily living. By doing so, they were not only themselves elevated, but were able to elevate the entire marketplace, expanding their own energy and sending that positiveness out into the world much like a tuning fork resonates with another when its struck. In ancient times, life was base and chaotic, marked by fear and a whole range of lower emotions that lived side-by-side with people’s survival instincts, while life and death were viewed much more indiscriminately than they are today. Imagine having someone who could elevate the thoughts of everyone around them simply by holding a higher vibration. As the merchant priests focused upon the concept of beauty, for example, sitting off to the side in the open air market, their entire aura changed and they were able to spread this supercharged energy to everyone around them. This in turn brought out the principles of democracy, emotional intelligence, fairness and conscious commercialism as a means not just to sell things, but to bring out the best in the individuals affected. In this manner, every transaction becomes a brush with the Divine Feminine.
According to Sawaf and Gabrielle, our current system of capitalism, of bottom line dollars and greed above all else, is killing us and the planet. But fear not! We are on the verge of a renaissance, a return to the themes of beauty, truth and goodness, of conscious capitalism, of all for one and one for all, of the time of the merchant priest. Sacred Commerce recommends focusing on the 12 virtues of the merchant priest — honor, loyalty, nobility, virtue, grace, trust, courage, courtesy, gallantry, authority, service, and humility — to “automatically lift us to a higher octave of being.” If you want an inkling of what this new old world order will look like, read Sacred Commerce and immerse your Self and the world around you in a higher vibration.
Sacred Commerce plays like an ancient melody, resurrecting and restoring the concept of conscious capitalism, bringing it to life through the quality of resonance, a trait that surely must be part of our human DNA for all our predisposition to it. It’s no secret that negativity breeds negativity, and that one person having a bad day can ruin everyone else’s (the one friend that is agonizingly grumpy all the time) be it with a dour countenance or some serious negative juju (any one of the public shootings happening with so much more frequency), but if you buy into the concept then the reverse is also true, someone with a super positive attitude can raise the energy level of everyone around them. Such was the job of the merchant priests who were skilled in the art of “resonance,” the process of lifting the energy level of everyone around them by elevating their own vibrations. It’s a skill that took years, perhaps decades to perfect through meditation and conscious creation and its based on three elements of the Soul: beauty, truth and goodness.
The merchant priests drew sustenance from these concepts, meditating on them and incorporating them into their activities of daily living. By doing so, they were not only themselves elevated, but were able to elevate the entire marketplace, expanding their own energy and sending that positiveness out into the world much like a tuning fork resonates with another when its struck. In ancient times, life was base and chaotic, marked by fear and a whole range of lower emotions that lived side-by-side with people’s survival instincts, while life and death were viewed much more indiscriminately than they are today. Imagine having someone who could elevate the thoughts of everyone around them simply by holding a higher vibration. As the merchant priests focused upon the concept of beauty, for example, sitting off to the side in the open air market, their entire aura changed and they were able to spread this supercharged energy to everyone around them. This in turn brought out the principles of democracy, emotional intelligence, fairness and conscious commercialism as a means not just to sell things, but to bring out the best in the individuals affected. In this manner, every transaction becomes a brush with the Divine Feminine.
According to Sawaf and Gabrielle, our current system of capitalism, of bottom line dollars and greed above all else, is killing us and the planet. But fear not! We are on the verge of a renaissance, a return to the themes of beauty, truth and goodness, of conscious capitalism, of all for one and one for all, of the time of the merchant priest. Sacred Commerce recommends focusing on the 12 virtues of the merchant priest — honor, loyalty, nobility, virtue, grace, trust, courage, courtesy, gallantry, authority, service, and humility — to “automatically lift us to a higher octave of being.” If you want an inkling of what this new old world order will look like, read Sacred Commerce and immerse your Self and the world around you in a higher vibration.
March 10, 2020
I've worked with a mentor who's personally connected to Ayman and his trainings, and who uses the ideas of Sacred Commerce to help her clients grow their sacred commerce-based businesses. I enjoyed this book as a way to understand her work, and ancient economies, much better. Her language can be very challenging because it is so cutting edge, and here's where I found the origins of it. Glad I read it, and recommend it, despite historical questions I have about it.
March 23, 2018
Reigniting sacred back into commerce and our collective consciousness
A wonderfully insightful read for anyone wanting to learn how commerce can positively influence and inspire our lives and our global community!
A wonderfully insightful read for anyone wanting to learn how commerce can positively influence and inspire our lives and our global community!
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