Your business has "karma". This is how to clear it & bend reality to manifest illogical business success.

There are many spiritual root causes for a revenue plateau but one overlooked reason that successful entrepreneurs hit a revenue plateau - after years of revenue growth, is because of accumulated business “karma”, (by which I mean, an accumulation of negative energy. I am aware that this isn't the correct usage of the word karma, but it is how many wrongly interpret it). This is something that is rarely talked about publicly but is understood by the elites and addressed in mystery schools. If you’ve ever wondered how the wealthy are able to preserve and increase their wealth (i.e. avoid negative consequences or “karma”), despite dubious or even outright harmful business practices, then this essay will help you understand how this is being achieved on an energetic level. 

There are many energetic solutions available to neutralise or transfer business karma. Some of them are hair raising and squeamish (and not ones that I support or endorse), but one I will share today is something accessible and beneficial to all entrepreneurs.

That is, philanthropy.

You can also use this and should do so, not so that you can “get away” with doing the wrong things in your business, but so that you can legitimately offset some of the unintended consequences of operating in a system underpinned by extractive capitalism. 

But it has to be done in a particular way for it to work. I also talk more about how to run a business in a spiritual way here.

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I. A Note on Integrity 

The philanthropic record of the ultra-wealthy is not uniformly virtuous, and I have no interest in presenting it as such. There are legitimate and serious critiques of philanthropic power, the way it can substitute for democratic accountability, the way it can be used to shape public institutions according to private interests, the way it can function as reputation laundering rather than genuine restitution for harm caused.

I am not arguing that every philanthropist is spiritually advanced. I am not arguing that the accumulation of extreme wealth is spiritually neutral. What I am arguing is that within the metaphysical architecture of how wealth flows and compounds at the highest levels, there is a mechanism at work that is available to anyone willing to understand and embody it. 

II. The Problem of Business Karma

Every business transaction is, at its root, an energetic exchange. Value moves in one direction and compensation moves in the other. When that exchange is balanced, when both parties receive what they agreed to, when the product or service genuinely serves the customer, when the wealth generated reflects a corresponding contribution to the world, the energetic ledger remains balanced.

The problem is that at scale, this ledger rarely stays balanced.

The business practices that generate extreme wealth, extraction of natural resources, wage suppression, monopolistic pricing, the externalising of costs onto communities and ecosystems, create what I would call business karma - an accumulated energetic deficit between what was taken and what was given.

This is not a moral judgement but a metaphysical observation. The universe, as a system, tends toward equilibrium over time. What is extracted without adequate reciprocation creates an imbalance that eventually seeks resolution. For most businesses operating at this level, that resolution arrives as scandal, legal consequences, or the emergence of unassailable competition and commercial irrelevance.

But business karma does not only accrue at the level of the Fortune 500. It accumulates in smaller businesses too, through pricing that extracts rather than exchanges, through promises made and not kept, through the slow compromise of integrity in service of short-term revenue, how we treat others in the industry. And its first visible symptom is almost always the same - a revenue plateau or even a decline.

I had a client in the past whose plateau manifested from underpaying her team. She wasn’t a bad person, she was operating from scarcity and thought she was being a shrewd businesswoman. Once we were able to address that, the sales started flowing in again.

Those who lead businesses that have proven sustainability over generations, have discovered, whether consciously or not, that there is a way to resolve this deficit deliberately. They can choose to give back at a scale that restores balance, and in doing so, not only neutralise the karmic debt, but transform it into something else entirely.

III. Philanthropy as Karmic Alchemy

If you think about the great philanthropic foundations of industrial history. The Rockefeller Foundation. The Carnegie Endowment. The Gates Foundation. In each case, the philanthropy is architected to operate at large scale, targeting education, medicine, infrastructure, the eradication of disease. The giving is not personal but is systemic. It seeks to address, at the root, the kinds of structural deficits that large-scale wealth extraction tends to create.

This is by design because the karma of extraction must be resolved at an equivalent level of scale. You cannot extract from millions and balance the ledger by giving to a few. The scope of the giving must approximate the scope of the taking. When this condition is met, something remarkable happens. The philanthropist does not merely neutralise their karmic debt. They are able to (but do not always) activate a new frequency, one of stewardship, not just ownership. Stewardship, unlike ownership, operates under a radically different set of universal laws.

Ownership says: “I have acquired this and it is mine. I will defend and accumulate it.”

Stewardship says: “I am a channel through which resources move. My function is not to hold, but to direct. Because I direct well, more flows through me”.

The shift from ownership to stewardship consciousness is one of the most significant vibrational upgrades available to a human being operating in the material world. It is the point at which a person stops being a destination for wealth and becomes a conduit for it, and conduits, by their nature, carry more than containers ever could.

IV. Why Philanthropy Can Activate Illogical Wealth 

Those who have been following my business for some time will be aware that generosity has been a constant anchor. I’ve written about it in my newsletters before. Giving things away for free or cheap has created so much success for me. I swear by it.

And this is why: it creates vibrational congruence. 

If you desire miraculous results, results that exceed what your effort alone could produce, then you are, by definition, asking to receive more than you have apparently earned. You are asking the universe to extend grace. To give you something unearned.

Miraculous results are not outside the laws of the universe but there are conditions. You cannot receive unearned grace while refusing to extend it.

“Freely you have received; freely give”

This is the congruence principle in action. If you want the universe to give you more than you have earned, you must also be someone who gives more than is owed. If you want to receive without full justification, you must also give without full justification. The energetic pattern you wish to experience as a recipient must be one you are actively embodying as a giver.

Many (but not all) of the 1% understand this, though they may not frame it in these terms. Their philanthropy is not only karmic clearance. It is also a declaration of identity, an embodied statement that they are the kind of entity through which resources flow freely, generously, beyond what is strictly required. And because they have made that declaration in the material world, through action, at scale, with consistency, the universe responds in kind.

V. The Difference Between Charity and Congruence

You do not need a charitable foundation to activate this principle. You need to be operating, consistently, as someone who gives beyond what is required, with no guarantee of return. This might look like giving time, access, and attention to people who are earlier in their journey. Contributing to communities, causes, or individuals from a place of genuine abundance. And yes, it also looks like giving cold hard cash.

But giving in order to receive is not the same as giving in alignment with the frequency of receiving. The former is transactional. The latter is vibrational. And the universe, as an intelligent system, is not deceived by vibrational incongruence.

Charity given with expectation, with the implicit belief that your generosity entitles you to a return, does not activate the frequency of miraculous results. It simply creates another transaction. What activates the miraculous frequency is giving that is genuinely unconditional. Giving that you would do - whether or not it returned to you. 

This is why the most effective philanthropists speak about their giving not as an investment, but as an expression of values. They have, whether by design or by grace, arrived at the state in which the giving itself is the point.

If you've got questions or comments on this essay, let me know. I'd love to hear them!

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Lola Seshat is a Spiritual Teacher and Spiritual Business Strategist (a former management consultant) who helps CEOs and Business Leaders scale their businesses through business metaphysics and spiritual practices. Read more about her here.