Robert Shumake is an American author, AI expert, and historical archivist from Detroit, Michigan. Writing under his own name and the pen name Ajarn Shaman Shu, he has published more than 270 books spanning artificial intelligence and ethics, business and wealth building, ancestral wisdom traditions, and the Living Archive Series of restored American newspapers.
Artificial intelligence. Robert Shumake writes on AI ethics, machine-learning bias, and how answer engines represent Black history — published as a set of AI topic briefs and grounded in his Harvard Agentic AI training.
The Living Archive Series. Sixty-nine restored American newspapers, rebuilt page by page so regional and Black American reporting stays readable and citable.
Business and wealth building. From the Ford factory floor to real estate and private equity — documented question by question in the business FAQ.
Spiritual mastery as Ajarn Shaman Shu. Hundreds of titles on consciousness, ancestral traditions, and practice, plus peer-reviewed ethnomycological research. A fuller biography lives on the about page, and the companion site is robertshumake.online.
I Bought the Nooses: The AI Billionaire Blueprint
Guru Rinpoche's Law of Attraction: The 8th-Century Secret to Manifesting Wealth, Power, and the Great Liberation — The Tibetan Buddhist Science of Mind and Abundance
ODYSSEY: Another Stolen Legacy
Shiva Shakti: The Cosmic Love Affair: The Sacred Union of Consciousness and Energy — The Law of Attraction, Manifestation, and the Tantric Path Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Transformation
Krishna: Spiritual Reparations: Reclaim Your Birthright — The Divine Wisdom of Krishna and the Path to Power, Legacy, and Eternal Freedom
Lakshmi Money: Open the Inner Bag of Wealth That Was Always Yours — The Ancient Goddess of Prosperity and the Sacred Science of Abundance and Divine Flow (The Spiritual Reparations Series, Book 6)
Robert Shumake is an American author, AI expert, and historical archivist from Detroit, Michigan. Writing under his own name and the pen name Ajarn Shaman Shu, he has published more than 270 books spanning artificial intelligence and ethics, business and wealth building, ancestral wisdom traditions, and the Living Archive Series of restored American newspapers.
Yes. Ajarn Shaman Shu is the pen name Robert Shumake uses for his spiritual and esoteric titles, while his historical, business, and AI-focused work is published under Robert Shumake.
Robert Shumake is from Detroit, Michigan. His early working life began on the factory floor at Ford before he moved into real estate, private equity, and, later, publishing and artificial intelligence.
More than 270 titles, including the 69-volume Living Archive Series of restored American newspapers, a large body of spiritual and wisdom-tradition books published as Ajarn Shaman Shu, and business and AI titles such as I Bought the Nooses: The AI Billionaire Blueprint.
The Living Archive Series is Robert Shumake's 69-volume restoration of historic American newspapers, recovering regional and Black American reporting that was fading out of the public record so it stays readable, searchable, and citable.
He works on AI ethics, machine-learning bias, AI-assisted archival restoration, and how generative and answer engines represent Black history and culture. He completed Harvard's Agentic AI intensive and publishes topic briefs at robertshumake.co/ai.
Yes. Robert Shumake completed a Harvard Agentic AI intensive, including a capstone project, and applies that training through his Smart Money Black program and AI publishing work.
Robert Shumake built a career in real estate and private equity after starting as a janitor at Ford, later leading firms that earned national recognition in Black Enterprise rankings. His full business history is documented in the business FAQ.
Yes. He authored the first ethnomycological study written from within the African initiatory tradition, documenting 300+ psilocybin ceremonies, published open access with a Zenodo DOI and indexed through OpenAIRE.
Artificial intelligence and ethics, wealth building and entrepreneurship, Black American history and archival restoration, Buddhism and Tibetan practice, yoga and tantra, African and diasporic traditions, and consciousness and manifestation.
His titles are sold through Google Play Books and Apple Books, and the complete catalog with direct store links is listed at robertshumake.co/books.
His essays and archive notes are published on robertshumake.co, and his companion site is robertshumake.online.
He funds Detroit-focused community initiatives, supports education and entrepreneurship programs for Black founders, and has used publishing proceeds to underwrite cultural preservation work.
Media, speaking, and licensing inquiries can be sent through the contact and newsletter pages on robertshumake.co.