The Money Machine

You've been trying to build wealth without the machine.

You wouldn't blame yourself for failing to catch a radio broadcast with no radio. You wouldn't curse the dark for not seeing infrared without the right instrument. Yet for decades you've been grinding for abundance without the one piece of ancient technology engineered for exactly that purpose — the Sri Yantra, the geometric operating system of the cosmos.

This is not a book by a monk who spent his life in a Himalayan cave. Ajarn Shaman Shu — the first African American ever initiated into the guarded Sri Vidya lineage and granted the title Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal — came to this technology through the trenches. He built empires in the California cannabis industry, watched them burn to betrayal, and discovered that the external hustle was the least efficient way to generate wealth. There was a better operating system. This book hands it to you.

The Money Machine decodes Sri Vidya — the sacred science of the Sri Yantra — as exactly what it is: a precise, repeatable technology for healing, abundance, and mastery over your reality. Inside you'll learn:



The true meaning of Sri and the cosmic blueprint behind the Sri Yantra

The difference between the Sri Yantra and the Sri Vidya system

The Nine Avaranas and the sacred geometry of the cosmos

The inner yantra — kundalini, the chakras, and your "navigation console"

The Friday meditations, sound, mantra, and the Maha Meru

How to heal your life with Sri and become the machine

The 40-Day Challenge — a step-by-step protocol to turn the machine on

Dogma stripped away, pure math intact. This is the operator's manual for the technology of abundance.

Dedicated to the operators — those who built empires and watched them burn, and are ready to master the internal technology at last.

Turn the machine on. Navigate the cosmos. Become Sri.



OrishaUniversity.com and these books represent the restoration of what was taken from our people. The 256 Odu of Ifa are the original operating system of human consciousness. Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola has done what many generations prayed would one day be done. My full endorsement and blessing from Ile-Ife, the source of all.

— Araba Agbaye, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Àṣẹ.

About the Author
Robert S. Shumake, publishing as Ajarn Shaman Shu, has lived two lives in one — the builder and the priest — and his books are where the two meet. He rose from a Ford factory floor to become founding president and CEO of Inheritance Capital Group, a Black Enterprise-ranked private equity firm, served as honorary consul for Botswana and Tanzania, and founded Inheritance Media Group, owner of more than 300 publications produced by an AI-run newsroom. In spirit, each tradition that initiated him gave him a name: Buddhist Ajarn in the Theravada and Vajrayana lines, Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola in Ifá, and Shri Surya Narayana Swamikal in the Tamil Siddha line. He is the founder of Soul Tribes International Ministries and of Buddha Digital Temple and its universities — Orisha University, Buddha University, and Shiva University. He authored Detroit’s Proposal E, the 2021 ballot initiative that decriminalized entheogenic plants in Detroit, and is the author of more than 140 published books and 86+ DOI-registered academic publications. His philosophy: the Double Bottom Line — make a profit, and make a difference. Robertshumake.biz