Dear Reader.

Are you feeling just sick about what is going on in the world?

Me too.

And here's my take on the root causes of the polycrises unfolding right now.

I'll share it here with the request that you test it through your own experience:

Our economy arises from the investments of our life energy that each of make each day through our work.

It's that simple. And, ugh.

And with the dominant systems accelerating the erosion of life, instead of giving advice about how to change your career, or "make a difference," I've been asking more radical questions like:

• What IS work? What ISN'T work?
• Who decided that difference?
• And who decided what work is valuable, and what isn't?
• What are all the effects of these often invisible "given"s that drive most of our careers?
• Does all that actually align with how life works? Or the world you want to live in?
• Do you see new connections now about why these polycrises are unfolding? How are they tied to dominant conceptions of work?
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(Here's the link to an article where I take you deeper into this. It's my friend link so it's not behind a paywall. It invites you into reflection, because you wouldn’t expect to get to enlightenment by skimming text about meditation… you simply take up the practice of showing up on the cushion and observing the mind. The exercise I offer in the article invites you to daylight the subtle or perhaps unconscious forces that dictate where you are putting your life energy.)

That inquiry can feel heavy. But I conclude that article with a different question.

The one below.

I share it here in full graphic gorgeousness, because I hope it opens up something for you to move out of the reactive fear responses we naturally feel when systems are destabilizing, and connects you to your inner knowing - that you want to invest your energy into processes and systems that center LIFE.

Cuz, what's the purpose of life, anyway?​
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Isn't it to express your fullest Essence and develop yourself in service to all that you care about?

Deep caring for yourself, your Beloveds, our living Earth (all of them, all at once, always!) is Beauty, embodied.

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​Shouldn't Beauty be core to your / our work in the world?

In the coming weeks, I'll be inviting you into deeper reflection, further exploring what this koan or mantra brings alive in you.
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But for now, I’d treasure co-sensing with you... what comes alive in you when you read and reflect on these questions?

• Hit reply and let me know. I respond!
• And/or please forward this to someone who you think would value joining in this inquiry.

There are some posts related to this on my social accounts below, too. The icon on the right connects you to my BlueSky account, I trying to leave Meta over time.

Love, Karryn

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