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Availability, formats, reading order and how to reach me — plus 362 further questions on lineage, philanthropy, business, healing and the public record.
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Robert Shumake on Artificial Intelligence
How Robert Shumake applies AI to archival restoration, cultural memory and lineage education — and what he argues about bias in training data.
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Identity, Lineage & Practice
One hundred questions on Ajarn Shaman Shu: names, family, initiations in Ifá and Òrìṣà, Thai Buddhist practice, the Tamil Siddhar tradition, the digital religious institutions, and the public record.
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Philanthropy & Community Work
One hundred questions on Robert S. Shumake's philanthropy: Detroit's Red Carpet Backyard BBQ, the Shumake Family and Friends Foundation, scholarships, the Ebony Foundation, international humanitarian work, and Sacred Study Beyond Walls.
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Business & Career
One hundred questions on Robert Shumake's business career: the Ford years, his first real estate deal, the Black Enterprise BE100s ranking, politics and fundraising, the 2008 crash, Kilimanjaro and Climbing Your Inner Mountain.
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Healing, Ayurveda & the Body-Spirit Teaching
Forty questions on the body-spirit teaching, Ayurveda, the tridosha system, credentials and scope: religious and educational instruction in traditional healing systems, and what it is not.
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The Public Record
The legal record concerning Robert Shumake (Bobby Shumake Japhia): the SEC civil enforcement action, the 2024 federal indictment, the 2023 order setting aside prior Michigan convictions, and what the court record does and does not show.
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Where the catalog lives and how to get a copy today.
Formats & reading
What you receive when you buy, and how to read it.
Series & reading order
How the collections fit together and where to start.
Getting in touch
Reaching Robert for questions, press or permissions.
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