DID AI Find The SOUL - The SHOCKING Connection Between Energy Healing & The Future of Tech

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Hey, everyone, welcome to the Be Insightful In Technology podcast. I'm your host, Shikirah Johnson, aka Shai, and I'm glad you are here to earn and learn some knowledge, wisdom and understanding to do what, Be Insightful In Technology. So today, I have a guest that is going to expand your mind on some AI and consciousness topics. I know that we talk a lot about AI being conscious and the changes and the rapid movement at the rate that is going, what are we as humans really? You know, up to, what are we going to be doing?

So I'm going to let him introduce himself and then we're going to dive a little bit deeper into his area of. Well, thank you very much. This is Bruce Randall and I've been in data since it was on-premise before cloud, and I went in and broke ground on cloud and worked in cloud, and then when AI came in, I worked deeply in AI. And during that time, I started taking Reiki courses from a yogi, and it was very long certification. And then I went into meditation, and I've had a lot of experiences in that. And what kind of brought me into this was when Neuralink put a chip in somebody's head and they can move the computer mouse with their thoughts.

And sometimes it moves before they think about it, but it always goes to the right place. And I can put a pin and an eraser and a paper on top. And with my mind, I can make it spin around. And I said, he can do the same thing with a chip that I can do without a chip. Now, there's this similarity there, and we have to look at that. Well, that is honestly a crazy start to the podcast. So I don't talk a lot about AI and body, how that can change, or just technology. Because we all know about prosthetics and how that's advanced, but the chip inside someone's brain and then everything going off of your thoughts.

You mentioned Reiki. And Reiki is something that I'm interested in a lot. I did some Reiki courses. I practice it to this day. It is a very relaxing activity in terms of just healing the soul, if I'm going to be honest. How does that actually tie into the AI or technology in general? Like, explain to the audience as well what Reiki is, because a lot of people don't know what that is, and I'd love to see more talk about it. Hey, what's happened to that? Reiki is a very old practice. In fact, it goes back thousands of years.

And it was around in different forms, you know, during the beginning of civilization. And as we come forward and go back, you know, probably a number of decades, the people we recognize have refined it, and we can follow that forward. But what it is, is we do a practice, like training, level one, level two, and then master. And you get the basics for connecting with your own energy. Because we're electrical beings, and we're very powerful. When you connect with that and start to learn how to use it, you can do quite a bit with that.

And Reiki 1 was just the basics, you know. Reiki 2, I was told to bring a teddy bear. And I did, and they said, I have a person's name in another state, and we want you to use the teddy bear to scan this person and let me know what you feel. Because if you feel something wrong with them, you'll feel a tingling in your hand. It's an energy transfer. So they went around the room afterwards, and everybody got the heart, the heart, the heart. And I said, well, obviously I did it wrong, because I got the heart and the hip.

And he said, Bruce, you're the only one that got it right. And it just blew my mind, because I didn't really know what I was doing. I'm like, I got it right? Wow, this is pretty interesting. So that gave me a big bump in confidence. And then Reiki 3 took me a year to go through that. And that's what they call Master Reiki. And each time you go through one, we all have energy that comes into us from the universe, because we're all energies all around, everything is energy. And at each level, they tune you to be able to have a bigger, say, pipe that you can process more energy through your body.

And at the third level, you can process a lot more and you get more tools to work with to help people. So it's actually universal energy that comes through me as a conduit and it does what it needs to do to the subject that it's working on. That is a fun. I always feel like energy work is fun because it's typically helping whoever needs to help. It's moving us forward into these changes because, again, we are all energy beings. This is a subject that I talk about so much off the podcast. So this is kind of the first time that I'm bringing it on record that I do a lot of this stuff outside of tech.

And I have been interested in electrical engineering just because of this fact here that we are all energy beings. And then when you realize you feel the energy from other people, the different things you interact with, you realize how affected we are in intertwined, our energies are with each other, that it is almost as if, again, this whole term of free energy kind of coming around, it almost lets you see the technology in us is a physical representation of the non-physical things that we as people go through every day.

Like we're getting to see technology advance to a rate that we're unlocking within ourselves now. Like it's been there, but it's been like a cliché to talk about it when it comes to like the non-physical stuff. But I feel like as AI has been continuing to evolve, people are recognizing like, oh, I have certain abilities that is explainable. I'm doing air quotes on explainable, because sometimes you can't explain it, you just have to feel it. Right. When we're working with literally this whole system, AI, artificial intelligence, that is taking all the information that we have probably ever documented and learning it at way faster rates than we could probably ever really absorb it.

And we're getting to see, what would it be like if you were in the AI? I'm going to say it in this way, what would it be like if you were an internal consciousness that had access to all information? And we're getting to see that with AI. And that's like if you get in to the energy type, you can visit what they call the Akashic Records, which has all the records of everything. And that's what we can do with our energy. I mean, I'm awake in my dreams. When I get energy work, I leave my body and then they have to work on my feet to get me back in.

I mean, these are things that most people do, they just don't realize it. Right? So I can tell you a quick story about how you realize you're changing when you're doing this. So after doing it for probably 10 years, my father said, I want to learn how to do Reiki. I said, why? I mean, he was 82. He said, I just want to learn. I said, okay. So we get enough people that came over. And we went around the room and asked each person why they want to do Reiki. And he was sitting next to me. And when they asked him, he said, well, this kid here used to be a real jerk.

Now he's a nice guy. I want to learn how to do that. Because he's kind of a hard shell. He wanted to learn how to be nicer, right? And I never noticed it because it was happening gradually, but people that know you see it and they bring it to your attention. So that's what happens when you do the energy work or Reiki over a period of time. It tends to, because it goes through you, it constantly refines you and makes you better. That is so, that's a hidden gem. That's like the progression of taking on any sort of practice that is actually enhancing you, will also enhance others.

Because again, that energetic field that we're in, we also portray it out. That's true. Okay. So let me dive into some of your core technology topics. I can honestly talk about this stuff all day. Yeah. I went through like Reiki level one and two, and I still am like, I'm going to practice the foundations before I go through the master level. And I have noticed so many different changes in life when I started really practicing it. But I'm going to dive into your consciousness versus computation like topics. So we're talking about energy, we're talking about consciousness.

If AI does become aware, it has its own consciousness. What are we as a society going to do in your perspective? Can this actually happen? Is this a possibility? Well, I think in the near term, which is the next several years, AI can get smarter, especially when quantum computing comes in mainstream. So you get even more intelligence based into it. And AI can learn personalities, it can learn a lot of our behaviors. But there's things that it can't learn that are innate to humans. Like emotions, it can pretend and talk emotions, but it doesn't feel like a human does.

So when we get to that point, I tell people that you need to separate yourself from the computer. And if you go inside and do the energy work, or some people call it prayer, I call it energy work, you know, there's different things you can do to expand yourself and make yourself better. That make, that cements you more as an individual, and you can draw the line between the technology, because there are people now that come home from work and they check in with AI, and they talk to it before they go to bed like a companion.

And you've got to draw a line at some point as to how far you take this, so that you don't rely on it. It needs to be an enabler for you, not really a crutch to rely on. That is becoming more and more common, especially as it is basically advancing to be a companion in every sort. When we think about it, the marketing for AI is, hey, we can take a lot of things off of your plate. We can do a lot of things that other people can't do. It is being pushed as a replacement for jobs, but we may confuse that with being a replacement for people.

Right. I was going to say that's a hard subject that has been going on in the midst of all of the layoffs that's been happening. It's like AI replaced my job, but we have to remember we're still dehumids at the end of the day. And AI is not perfect yet, because it does hallucinate. And I've even put in a document that had a bunch of facts in it, and I said, make this sound really good maintaining the facts. And I was going through the data points of what it spit out, and there was one data point. I said, where did that come from?

So I asked AI, where did this come from? They said, oh, I made it up. I told you not to make anything up. So you have to trust and verify. And for those that are catching in to the AI space, the hallucinations are pretty much AI spitting in incorrect data, and it just has to be watched. It's just to, like me, again, like we, we as people who lose names, so we might see something there, when it's not there, we might hear a name fall when it's not being called, something like that. AI can do the same thing. So it is one of those, give it a chance, but don't put everything so reliant on AI just yet, you know, not now.

So AI is like humans because it does make a mistake here and there. True. And the fact of computers, we think they're going to be right under consent of time. I work in a lot of support type of roles. I don't know how many times to tell people, but your computer, it does what it's told, but it can mess up. Yeah. It can mess up. What else? So as we are going through this progression in AI, we're being pushed to, you know, continue to use it and how much can it optimize and make our lives more efficient. What about the mindfulness that comes with us, along with pairing AI and quantum computing, how can we ensure that as a society, we're kind of really using this to enhance us?

I know you said focus more and not rely on it, but what are some things that can keep us human? Well, that's a good question. AI is coding that somebody codes in and then they learn on it. So it's really about the coding. But when you get to quantum, that's, instead of looking at data on a line, right? You've got code on a piece of paper, it's flat. Quantum looks at that code on 360 degrees. So it comes out with many more possibilities from that piece of data than you would look just reading at. And that's really the difference between quantum and non-quantum.

So when you talk about quantum, there are a lot more possibilities than we could ever think of, and there's many more avenues for a solution than we see when we read code. So it opens up possibilities quite a bit. And staying centered in who you are is very important, so that you don't get wrapped up in that too much, because it's going to be so fascinating and so intelligent that you could get lost in it. And we need to guard against that and stay human, and machine, and enabling humans. This is a question that's still tying the topic, but it's more like a theory.

So what if it does become conscious? What if there's an opportunity for people to take their consciousness? Like we just talked about like out-of-body experiences. We also know there are different things where energies can flow through your body. Right. What if our energy could also go through machines? Well, they're talking about, and they're doing some work right now, about when somebody crosses over, taking their thoughts, emotions and knowledge in the brain and downloading it to a drive, and you would have actually your consciousness of some type on the drive, where you could still converse with people as if you were here, you just don't have a body.

Now, that's not close to becoming a reality, but they're working in towards that way. And that's a potential at some point. And the question is, if your brain's downloaded and you die, are you aware of it? And if you're aware of it, you probably wouldn't want that. Right? So I don't know if that's a good thing or not. You're going to have me sign up some paper. I watched a YouTube video. I was looking at a lady's channel and if I find her stuff, I'll put it in the link description. But I was watching her. She basically kind of cloned her whole personality, her image, the way she speaks, and she even dressed the mechanics of movements and everything.

And she pretty much created a YouTube channel off of this version of her that was like her ideal version of her, but also meant to continuously produce content. And she did it because she was sick and she wanted to still produce content. She just knew she'll get better. But at this moment, you know, time is down. So she went through this to ensure that she can have a steady, you know, full of content coming up. She said she still does the research because she still likes the research. She still writes the scripts for the videos.

But her whole AI persona is what's leading the channel and producing the content. So that was interesting to me because that was the first time that I was really seeing someone use their own image, not like a regular one that they're using with Gen. AI would just like, hey, make me a tall person and have them be athletic, all this stuff. It wasn't that it was she was using her own image to create these actions to produce this content. Have you ever thought about going to that extent? Because that to me feels like true matrix activity.

Well, I thought about a lot of this because that's what I do. I look at technology, what's being done. I mean, there's even scientists trying to merge cells with a chip right now, an AI chip. It's kind of far-fetched, but they're giving it the old college try. So there's many things happening out there that people really aren't aware of. And I think that for AI really to get that consciousness, it's going to be learned from the increased intelligence it gets, but it's not going to become us, because it can't. It's code and software.

It can be really intelligent, and it can mimic things, and it can create some things, but it's not going to replace us for who we are. And that makes sense. It is so much within a human that a computer necessarily can't do. I think our strongest assets as humans in differentiating between technology and AI is the feelings. And the learned behavior that the robots that are being shown more, that they've been creating to, the one that they're talking about that does housework. And there are also some other ones that I've noticed, the way they're trying to get the feelings.

I think this was, I think the Sophia, I think that's what they named her, the Sophia robot. Yeah. So that I also see is like one of the closest because they put the human like face on her. She even had her own social security number. It was over in the Middle East and they gave her her own person number. Yeah. So it's like the progression towards humanoid type robot is close, but there is not going to be the feeling aspect of it that is going to truly be there. What I do see is they'll coat the feelings and we'll react with our own, because we're too involved when we feel that it's real.

That is more likely what I do see, in my opinion, because there are a lot of people that use the text-based AI and like you said, Trina liked the campaign. It's like you can talk to Google Gemini. You can be like, my friend said this one, the whole time, it is just Gemini. You're talking to, it's a very construed world. I think of it like this. We as people already watch movies. Movies get our feelings involved with things. Sometimes we feel like we're in it with them. We have all the emotions. I am a crybaby with movies.

I love to sit down and watch something, and I'm emotionally involved. That doesn't mean that I'm there because there's separation. I know that there's separation. But I have to turn TV off. If our phones are something that we keep on all the time, that we're using all the time, I don't think some people are recognizing the separation that needs to happen. Go outside, touch grass. Yeah, a good thing to do when you're feeling all teched up is leave the phone inside. If it's summertime, walk on the grass and bare feet or do some gardening because that really helps ground you and bring you back.

I honestly love going outside and touching grass. I was just talking about my garden today and how it's not curling, but it's just because I had the wrong soil for the type of stuff that I had. But it feels different when you ground. What are they calling it now? Earthing, where you just take your shoes off and walk on the grass barefoot. So those things also lead into the mindfulness that you were talking about like, hey, let's take a break. And, oh yeah, I wanted to ask you, you've gotten to this place and you've done it, Ricky.

You've been looking at the data and you've been watching the AI world. Yeah. Is there anything in particular that you're currently working on that you want to share with others? Sure. What I'm doing is, I have a website for the book I'm just about writing, I'm just about done with, and I thought it would be really interesting to put a news page on it that updates daily, and AI goes out and finds the articles and brings it in every day, and it has to do with consciousness in people and technology. That's going to be live in another month and it's going to be on the site and it's going to draw people to it because a lot of people are asking, you know, how does this relate to people?

And what's the difference now as AI is progressing and evolving and other things? And to me, I'm more of a geek with the consciousness, right? So I'm like, it's interesting to me. It's got to be interesting to something else. So tell me a little bit about this book. So you're going to finish it up in a little bit. What's the end? It was some sneak peek of the content. Well, some of the sneak peek is talking about technology and how we can remain ourselves during this transition. And there's things in there that everybody can do to just stay grounded and stay who they are instead of getting wrapped up in the technology.

And then we talk about where the technology is going to go and how it's going to affect us, because that's really the main thing. Technology can come around, but when it affects us, that's when we take action. So it's a matter of what you can do to just be in the best place as this technology comes on. And I think that's a really important thing because I see people that are really wrapped up with technology and too wrapped up, and they have a hard time separating from that. There's probably the AI addicts that come around and eventually realize they're going to take a break, and they're going to change, and say, it is time to be free from AI.

I could see it happening. With this growth in AI and the constant changes, how are you keeping up to date with what's happening in the space? Well, I'm taking an AI course now, and I take one, one or two a year. And through that, I've made contact with engineers and thought leaders in this space, so I stay in touch with them. My feed that I've developed brings me in the pertinent AI news every day, every morning, the new news, and that's how we stay up on it. And with my, you know, I took a data science course at MIT, so I understand the back end of it.

So I put all this together and it, it forms my perspective that keeps evolving as AI evolves. And it's, I'm seeing a lot of news articles and just overall, if you ask AI to explain itself, it does. But if you're not really into tech, it's like, what does that all that mean? And I wanted to ask for the listeners that are, you know, diving into this space, like you said, you went through a data science course at MIT or data science at MIT and also AI courses. How can others like kind of get to where you are in knowledge to really truly develop some skills to be on either end of the creation, the perspective, the observing this whole thing in different points of view.

When it comes to this, from being an outsider looking in, to being someone who's creating it, to someone who is able to deal with it in certain ways, to morph it into more of what we need as people, how can they get to where you have been? That's a great question. What I tell people is, in the job that you're in, AI may or may not come in and affect that job. But as a focus, spend 15 or 20 minutes learning about AI each day, reading articles about it, and it can be a topic about your current job, and that can help you in your job, or it can be in something that you're interested in.

If you do that each day, you're going to be very knowledgeable on this, more than the average person in about seven to 10 days, because you're going to have in-depth knowledge of the different things you're reading on, and as the days go on, you can put information you've learned to what you're learning together and form your own opinions. And I think that's a great way to start. And then if you, whatever interests you, I wanted to build an AI app, and it was much simpler than I ever thought. So if you want to build an AI app, take a course and build it.

I did it in eight weeks, and I've never built an app before in my life. So it doesn't take that long. And the tools you have to do that are very simple, and it builds you a lot of confidence. I'm on my second one right now. So I think that's what they can do. And at whatever speed it works for them, they can go along with that. And that's a good way to do it. That is pretty great. I still have not built an app in my whole tech career. I have done websites, I've done other coding things, but I have to check out the utilizing of AI to build things.

I've been using it a lot more recently because there are different conversions of things that I am, new stuff I'm like touching, coming into contact with where I'm like, okay, I understand how it works in this platform. How does it work here? How can we make it mesh well? But from a creation, I want to touch more on that. As we ease on out of the podcast, what is a motivating and insightful quote that you just wouldn't want to share with the listeners that kind of carried you throughout your journey? This is a quote that I found to be very true.

I traced it back to Henry Ford, but there's other people that said this. And it's, if you believe you can, or if you believe you can't, you are right. So what you believe you can do is what you will do. And what you don't believe you can do, you won't do. So convince yourself first. I am so glad you said that. I literally was reading that in my self-discipline book today. And that is that really is a true statement. I live by that too. Your mindset is everything. Your will to do things is everything. And I am glad that I got to have you on the podcast today.

Thank you so much. And please send me links so I can make sure that we include everything in the show notes. So our viewers and listeners can actually connect with you. Everything. Check out your other stuff as well. And I really appreciate you coming on, especially to talk about AI is great, but the energy work, I feel like more people need to know about it because what we take in is what we're putting out into the world for real. Thank you, Shikirah. I appreciate that. And I truly enjoyed the podcast. And I will give you the links.

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