Shai Tubali, Ph.D., is a leading authority in the field of self-development and self-empowerment. In his writings and teachings, he skillfully combines psychology, philosophy, Yogic traditions and Eastern thought and practices, into powerful processes of inner transformation.

One of his most active methods of guidance are his numerous books, which have appeared internationally for the past two decades in five languages and have been published by major publishers. His most prominent writings have been awarded in the United States and in Israel and others have become best-sellers, inspiring many thousands on their inner journeys of mental, emotional and spiritual transformation.


Dr Shai Tubali

The One Quality of Mind No Machine Can Imitate: Jiddu Krishnamurti on How Not to Be Like AI

"If a machine can take over everything you can do, and do it better, then what is a human being. What are you?"

Jiddu Krishnamurti asked this question in 1980, at a time when artificial intelligence was only a new idea. He was eighty five, yet he understood that one day machines might perform many parts of the mind we call human. The shock in his question is simple. If a machine can do all your thinking work, what remains that is truly yours.

Krishnamurti did not fear technology. He was looking at a deeper truth. We already meet life in a mechanical way.

The Mind That Thinks Like a Machine

Krishnamurti believed that before machines ever imitate us, we already imitate them. The brain records everything. It stores memories, thoughts, beliefs, and emotional reactions. Then thought uses this stored material to meet each moment. Thought remembers, compares, reacts, and plans. It works inside what is already known. It is always old.

So we live today through yesterday. Even our dreams of the future use the same recorded material. This is why he said that thought has no real intelligence in it. It is helpful for skills and daily needs, yet it cannot see something fresh. It repeats.

This repetition is what we call “me.”

Why AI Is Always the Past

From this view, AI is a perfect mirror of the mind. It is trained on the full record of human knowledge. It can summarize and combine ideas, but all of it comes from what has been collected. Even when it feels creative, it works with the past.

AI belongs to who we were, not to who we may become.

Philosopher Shannon Vallor describes AI as a mirror that reflects only history. It predicts you by extending your patterns forward. Anything new inside you that has no data trail stays invisible. The mirror cannot see your change.

A Mind That Can Never Be Programmed

Krishnamurti offered a very different path for the human mind. He asked if a person can use knowledge when needed, but not live through memory in a psychological way. He described a mind that lets everything end at night, “as if dying at the end of the day.” The next morning, it wakes with no heavy center. It does not meet the world through the past. It meets it directly.

This brings a different kind of intelligence. It feels light and alive. It has freshness. It discovers itself while living. The sense of self is not a fixed story. It is something changing all the time.

This is the one quality no machine can imitate.
A mind that is ever new.

Your Turning Point

AI will master everything built from memory.
Your real future begins where memory does not lead.

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New interview: Chakras, Consciousness, and Personal Transformation
Watch the full interview on ‪@changeyourmindwithkris‬
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AI is evolving at lightning speed — but can we evolve our consciousness just as fast?

This November 14–15, Shai Tubali will join visionary leaders like Deepak Chopra, Gregg Braden, and Matt & Joy Kahn at the First Global Summit for AI & Conscious Living:

Soulful Productivity – Harnessing AI Without Losing Yourself

Together, they’ll explore how to let technology serve life — not replace it.

How to stay rooted in presence, creativity, and peace in an age of acceleration.
And how to remain deeply human in an increasingly artificial world.

🧘‍♂️ Shai’s contribution, airing Saturday, November 15, explores “AI for Awakening: How Technology Can Deepen Human Sovereignty.”

In his talk, he invites us to see AI not as an enemy of consciousness, but as a mirror — one that challenges us to awaken a higher intelligence within ourselves.

This 2-day online event is completely free, hosted by Humanity’s Team.

You’ll walk away with grounded tools, clarity, and inspiration for using AI consciously — as a force that amplifies wisdom, not distraction.

✨ Join Shai and thousands worldwide for this timely conversation:
👉 www.humanitysteam.org/ai-summit?shaitubali

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New article on ‪@bigthink‬ :
5 great thinkers who rejected their own ideas
bigthink.com/thinking/5-great-thinkers-who-rejecte…

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Why We All Killed Gandhi: Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Unsparing Truth



On the evening of January 30, 1948, Jiddu Krishnamurti was in Bombay, sitting with a small group at Ratansi Morarji’s house. Pupul Jayakar was there, along with friends. The atmosphere was intimate, almost domestic, until the telephone rang.



Achyut Patwardhan returned from the call pale, his voice trembling:
“Gandhi has been assassinated.”



The room fell silent. Krishnamurti became very still, yet keenly aware of each face, as if listening to their unspoken reactions.



Then a question arose at once: was the assassin Hindu or Muslim? The answer mattered – because it would decide who bled next.



When it was revealed that Gandhi had been killed by a Brahmin from Poona, riots broke out. Nehru’s anguished voice came over the radio, the whole nation stunned, paralyzed. For a brief moment, India looked inward.



The Question After Death



On February 1, Krishnamurti faced a hushed audience. Someone asked what seemed the most natural question of all:
“What are the real causes of Gandhi’s untimely death?”



His reply shattered the air.



“The real cause lies in you. The real cause is you. Because you are communal, you encourage division – through property, through caste, through ideology, through religion. When you call yourself a Hindu, a Muslim, a Parsee, or anything else, conflict is inevitable.”



The Mirror of Division




Imagine it: a grief-stricken people, desperate to mourn their saint, suddenly told they were complicit. While others searched for one man to blame, Krishnamurti turned the mirror back on every listener. Division, he said, begins inside us. And as long as we cultivate it, violence will endlessly sprout.



For him, even nonviolence as an ideal was illusion. What mattered was perceiving the fact of violence, seeing its root in our daily divisions, and ending it in the immediacy of awareness – not someday, but now.



One War, Many Masks



Seventy-seven years later, his words pierce as sharply as ever. We call ourselves American and Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian, Muslim and Jew, Democrat and Republican – and still wonder why the world burns. Each side insists it represents justice. Each side brands the other evil. Yet both spring from the same seed: the mind that divides.

There are no wars, Krishnamurti insisted. There is only one war, changing its form.



As long as we meet reality with division, the reflection will be more blood. Ideas and symbols will continue to kill, while human beings keep paying the price.



The Unfinished Lesson



Krishnamurti’s voice was not meant to console. It was a wound laid bare. The truth he offered was merciless: Gandhi’s death was not only the act of one man. It was the flowering of the divisions we all nurture.

And until those divisions end in us, the same war will continue without pause – only its names will change.

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LIVE with Shai Tubali - starting in 10 minutes
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Healing Societal Trauma & Exploring Consciousness in the Age of AI with Dr. Shai Tubali

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New article 🗞️
What if we’re alone? The philosophical paradox of a lifeless cosmos
bigthink.com/thinking/what-if-were-alone-the-philo…

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