The Future of Consciousness: Spirituality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Vishen Lahkiani
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today, Michael welcomes Vishen Lakhiani. Vishen is an inspirational keynote speaker, educational activist, three-time New York Times bestselling author, and one of the leading minds in self-improvement and human consciousness. As the founder and CEO of Mindvalley, the foremost provider of online education for personal growth, he has created a platform that includes a variety of highly esteemed health and wellness applications. Vishen’s mind-training techniques have been widely used and endorsed by professional athletes across major sports leagues including the NBA, NFL, and US Open Tennis, proving their effectiveness in optimizing human performance at the highest level. Today, Vishen is focused on advancing the Mindvalley platform through cutting-edge AI technology and machine learning solutions to make it the most sophisticated learning platform in the world.
Highlights from Michael and Vishen’s conversation include:
-Vishen’s early career struggles in Silicon Valley, his personal growth journey and founding Mindvalley, and how he discovered the Silva Method
-A deep dive into the Silva Method’s teachings on intuition, healing, and accessing altered states of consciousness for optimal living
-Why Vishen views AI as an extension of our consciousness and a tool for human connection and evolution
-How emotional depth and personal stories still define meaningful communication, even with AI assistance
-Concerns over using AI in weaponry and calling for the elevation of human consciousness alongside tech
-A look into Mindvalley’s vision of personalized education that taps into one’s life purpose, using AI
-An optimistic discussion on global progress, media bias, and two books Vishen has found helpful in shifting fear-based thinking, and much more!
Finally, Michael offers a brief guided meditation on everything working together for our good.
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| 0:00.0 | You see, AI is fed. Large language models are literally fed by our writing. |
| 0:05.3 | By us, yes. |
| 0:05.8 | I can go to a large language model and I can say, write like, turn this email, write this email as if it was written by Vishan Makiani. |
| 0:13.1 | Right. |
| 0:14.0 | And the AI could do that because Vishn Machiani's work is within this human colossus. |
| 0:20.2 | So AI isn't as scary as we make it out to be. |
| 0:22.6 | Yes, there are things about AI that can be scary. |
| 0:26.6 | We'll come to that in the moment. |
| 0:27.6 | But AI is basically us. |
| 0:29.6 | It is a collective of us. |
| 0:32.6 | We are as much a part of AI. |
| 0:34.6 | It is not a separate thing. |
| 0:36.6 | It is us. It is our a separate thing. It is us. |
| 0:38.9 | It is our combined brains, a combined art, |
| 0:41.1 | a combined writings, a combined music. |
| 0:43.3 | That is what produces AI. |
| 0:45.8 | AI is bridging our collective knowledge. |
| 0:49.6 | Peace and Riches' blessings. |
| 0:50.9 | I am Michael B. Beckwith, the host of Take Back Your Mind Podcast. I am your host. |
| 1:28.3 | Michael B. Beck with the founder of the Agapa International Spiritual Center. |
| 1:32.3 | And every week I get to have great conversations with individuals in their own way, have taken back their mind and based on the energy that has been enhanced by that, |
| 1:43.3 | they're touching millions of people around the world, changing lives. |
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