S4 Ep. 261 How People, Places, And Institutions Mold Our Reality

What if thoughts aren’t random at all, but the blueprints that shape our cities, our careers, and our future? We take you on a journey from the formless to the formed, exploring how people, places, and institutions emerge from the steady pressure of ideas turned into action. With a clear-eyed look at faith, creativity, and the rise of AI, we ask how words become worlds—and how to build a legacy that lasts beyond a single lifetime.

We break down a simple framework: people influence places, places attract attention, and attention crystallizes into institutions. Along the way, we connect scripture to modern life, showing how blessings and words function as inheritances that outlive material goods. From the gravity of New York and London to the cultural imprint of icons who became institutions, you’ll hear how reputation compresses proof and why excellence, repeated over time, becomes infrastructure.

We also look ahead. AI is accelerating, space agencies are chasing new forms of energy, and imagination is catching up to the stories we’ve told for decades. Rather than fear technology, we frame creativity as a core part of our design and use “God technology” as a helpful metaphor for a signal you can’t see but can join. The throughline is practical: thought is raw energy, thinking is processing, action is translation, and patience is the system that keeps you aligned with a timeless source. If you had eighty years to prove your blueprint works, what would you build today?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Purpose Of Words
• 3:40 Introducing Random Thoughts
• 6:15 Do Humans Shape The Earth
• 11:20 People, Places, Institutions
• 17:50 From Influence To Institution
• 23:55 Thought As Energy And Action
• 29:20 Mindset, Inheritance, And Words
• 35:05 AI, Future Leaps, And Creation

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:12

Hello there. Welcome to the World Cafe Podcast. This podcast has been designed. We created content that centers on the power of words. Can we really do anything without speaking? Can we really do anything without the agency of words? Yes, that is what this podcast is all about. And I am your host, Amakri Isui, your neighborhood word trader. I believe in the power of words, for it is the unit of creation. I trade in words to profit my world. Hi. You're wondering what I'm doing, right? I'm staring. You think I want to hypnotize you? I know. I'm not going to do that. How are you? Has it been beautiful? The camera is lost, looking at my face, and I'm also staring into the lens. You know, like I'm here again. I love it when I come into this space to share with you. You know, like exchange some ideas with you. What am I going to be doing today? I guess you're wondering. I know you've been following, I know you've been listening, and yeah, somehow I also know you've been gaining from this conversation. Well, I want to do what I call random thoughts today. Is do we have anything like random or being random? You know, the human mind, when we can comprehend certain things, we come up with certain terminologies to describe our experience. So random. That's what I've come to do today. All right. All right. The other day I was having an exchange with my wife. We're talking, and I called her attention to something like, do you think the earth, the earth, that warehouses all of us as it were, shape shifts as a result of our experiences here. What do I mean? You know, when you look at the scripture from the book of Genesis, yes, I'm never ashamed of telling you this. I'm a Christian, and everything about me stems from the word of God, the Bible, my conviction, my faith, my experience. I try to see the world through the lens of scriptures. And he says, in the beginning, you know, the earth was without form and was void. The Spirit of God moved and humans came along the line of creation. This is my thought. It was without form and it was void. But when God moved, that thing that was without form and was void all of a sudden started taking shape. Is it possible or is it a possibility that we as humans here on earth are thoughts, things we do, our aspirations and our desires shapes the earth? Like influences the earth, brings about this morphology. If you understand what I mean by that, that's a change, physical change transforming the earth. And she said she was like, it's a possibility. So most of the thoughts we have are strong desires in realizing them, bringing them into, should I say, reality, the earth responds, so it shapes the earth. Yes, that's where I want to begin from. So three things I've come to see or observe that defines the earth. Three things. One human beings, two places, three institutions, and these three things are somewhat interconnected. Yes, they are connected. I'm going to explain what I mean by that. But let me take you into a movie scene for those of us who love movies and you've seen the Marvel Universe, the Avenger series, and all of that. There's this particular scene when Doctor Strange was telling the other Avengers about the temples. The way they shot the scene was like, okay, the Chicago Temple, the New York Temple, the UK temple as London. Now, when you look at all those places mentioned, you come to realize that these are power centers of the world, financially speaking. The New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, uh, sorry, UK Stock Exchange. If you go to Asia, you see things like the Singapore or Taiwan. And if you come to Africa, you hear things like Lagos, Johannesburg. Now, these are places, what are they known for? They are known for commercial enterprise, you know, commercial activities. And where you have commercial activities, you see the coming together of people in their numbers. So, what are they coming together to do? Exchanging ideas and all of this exchange that goes on transforms or changes the face of the earth. People, imagine a barren land, a virgin land, untouched. There is no human activity there. Just imagine what it would look like. Maybe green, luscious, beautiful. Then the minute humans or a man steps in to that place, his thoughts, his desires and aspirations begin to transform the place. It begins to transform the place. Now, imagine when that man or woman, as the case may be, meets with another group. They form a community. Yeah, they form a community. And in forming this community, they come to like create rules of engagement for themselves that governs all what they do. And they create what I call it this unique brand that whoever sees it would want to be part of it. That's why you see people tell you, like, I would love to meet that person. Why do you want to meet that person? He or she has developed a certain level of capacity, capability to like dominate, because that is what man was created for to dominate. He's a prince who has been given the authority or who has been given the mandate of dominance. So actualizing this, whoever is yet to get to that level sees, oh, I like what that person is doing. You will join forces with the person, and people begin to like flow to that person. So that individual have come to realize his or her potential institutions. In my observation, also I've come to see that when people influence these places, they end up creating an institution or they end up becoming an institution. I'll give you an example of what I mean. Michael Jackson. A lot of us know Michael Jackson, yes, of the Jackson 5. Now, he harnessed so much of his potential, his capability to the point that he transcended that point of influence in a place, he became an institution. Like people started building things around him. You also come to see that when people want to gain credibility, they want to become or they want to have this sense of air around them. They look for institutions that are reputable. Oh, I attended Oxford University, or I attended Harvard, or Cambridge, or they are just schools, aren't they? Or they are just institutions, aren't they? No, but somehow they were housed experiences of excellence that people are drawn to them. Yes, literally, people are drawn to them. Because when you drop that name or when you drop that line, a Harvard trained, a job, a John Hopkins trained, it is like the doors are opened unto you. But it goes to underscore that thought of we shape the earth. Yes, we do, we shape the earth. We bring about this transformation, and I think that's why, even in Jesus' prayer, when he was teaching us to pray, he said, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Yeah, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So, what is it like in heaven? What does it look like in heaven? More or less, trying to open our minds' eyes to see, and when we see it, we bring it here on earth, we pull it down, we we come to have this technology, if I must use that word, creating this pathway, creating this channel of pulling down heaven's thought here on earth. Yep. So people, places, and institution. See the life of Jacob, for example, the story of Jacob when he was when he left his father's house and was running away from his brother. You know what happened to him along the way? He encountered God. Look at what he said when in that place. He said, I never knew where I was laying down. Is the house of God, Bethel? You know, in that scripture he says that angels were descending and ascending, not ascending and descending. So it was like a portal opened to him. And he got so much from that experience that if you check his life and journey, that experience, those things he got began to transform everywhere he went to. He came up with amazing ideas in animal husbandry and what have you. That is it. That's why we're here. You, people, places, institutions. Like I told you, I came to do some random thoughts with you today. You know that thought, think and grow rich. It was a book written by Norman Vicent Peel. And somewhere in the scriptures it says, as a man thinketh. The first time I came across that thought or that line was in my teen, when I was a teenager, as in I was cleaning my dad's room, and my in course of cleaning his room, I saw the book. And I looked at it, think and grow rich. And I was like, really? You just think and grow rich? If it's just think or thinking and growing rich, or think and grow rich, as the case may be, then we will have a lot of rich people on the earth. But I came to look at it again. Think and grow rich. It's like saying your thoughts create this energy that drives you to do. Yes, that is what brings in the wealth, or should I say, the riches. So that's how I see it. Our thoughts are so powerful, very powerful, that they practically drive us when we act on them. So it's not enough just to just sit down and fantasize, as it were, but when you have those thoughts, they become pure energy, raw energy. Yes, energy like electricity that fuels every action that we take. No wonder scripture says that as a man thinketh, so he is, so he becomes, or so he will be. So beyond just thinking, or beyond just having the thought, you must think. Because you know that thinking or having a thought and thinking are two different things. It's like saying raw material and processing the raw material, the thought comes that you ponder, you think, you process, and that's how I see it. Yeah, that's how I see it. That's how the world from my eyes, that's how I see the world. It all begins from that spark of thought, and as we dwell on them, what happens? Boom. A whole world is revealed to us, a whole world is, should I say, unveiled to us? Now, do you know one thing that separates the rich or the wealthy? I'm not talking about cash, money, no, beyond that, those who are wealthy in their mind, wealthy in their acts, their deeds. Do you know what separates the poor from the wealthy? I guess you just answered it. The way they process thoughts, the way they think, the way they think. Now let me let me let me bring you in on something. Come closer. You know that Jacob, Esau, Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, all of them, none of them, none got a physical inheritance. I stand to be corrected. Go check it. Abraham. What did he bequeath to Isaac? I don't think it was the physical. What did Isaac bequeath to Esau? Jacob. What did Jacob bequeath to his children? Now let me tell you. They laid hands on them and they spoke words. They gave them thoughts. Yes, like transmitted thoughts. And they caught it. They caught the thought. They literally caught the thought and started engaging with the thought. They started engaging with the thoughts. And in course of engaging with the thoughts, they came in contact with divinity. And what happened? You know what happened today. We're talking about them. So the best thing that anybody can give to you beautiful thoughts, powerful thoughts, amazing thoughts. And we know where thoughts reside, our mind. And there is nothing as powerful as the mind. Our freedom. Our slavery all begins from our minds. How free you are and how bound you are starts from your mind. I told you I came to do some random thoughts with you today. So the other day I was thinking, I was thinking the other day about the generation we're in today, like 2023, going forward. And I was like, okay, 2023 has been, or rather, this dispensation that heightened in 2023, the AI craze. Yes, artificial intelligence craze. And everything AI, AI, AI. You look at the progression of our lives from the analog into the digital space. Now the digital space is being pushed, even maybe the spiritual, if you understand what I mean by that, the way we're moving. So I asked myself, in the next 80 years, if the world still exists, what is it going to look like? What would cameras look like in 80 years from now? What would television, transportation? What would buildings look like? What would it look like? And I was like, okay, for all of us who are under 40 in 80 years' time, we'll be like maybe hundred, or we won't be here. So all those who are under 10 or 10 teenage, under 20 in 80 years' time. So more or less, we're creating foundation now for the future. Everything we are doing. And I see it not like as if I'm uh prophesying or predicting, but we're going to see a quantum leap in our living standard, and I'm going to tell you why. Quantum leap, tremendous change, tremendous change. You hear even NASA probing into the unknown, this you know, checking asteroids and all of that. And it's like, why would you spend so much money probing into the outer space, checking on asteroids and all of that? Where getting the phase where we want to harness the raw energy of the universe. That's where we're getting to. Hasn't to harness the raw energy of the universe. What do I mean by that? Again, I take you to another movie, The Transformers. If you don't mind me, I love watching movies, good movies. When you watch The Transformers, I think that's uh the fallen. When we're talking about the fallen, one of the episodes of the Transformers, the Fallen. And was it the Fallen? No, not the Fallen, the one before the Fallen, when uh Optimus Prime and uh Sentinel Prime when they brought him back to life, and we're talking about pillars, you know, these pillars. And when NASA got in touch with him and they were asking him, What are you talking about? Pillars, what are these pillars? He said, These pillars defy your laws of physics, they transport, they help us transport universes or universe across the cosmos of time. Actually, the NASA representative said, Are you talking about teleportation? So that's where we're going. Is it scary? No, for me it's not scary. Why is it not scary? Because that's what that's what God expects of us. Why would you say that? Why would you say God expects that of us? Let me let you in on a secret. We were created in his image after his likeness and form. Do you know what God likes? He loves creating things, he gives God joy to create. That's why we call him the creator. So we also are his offspring. The life of God flows in us. So that's why. So the other day, I was discussing with my leader, yes, in church. I was discussing with one of my leaders. I work with teenagers, so and I mentioned something. People, a lot of us look at technology as something evil. And I smiled and I said, if only we can appreciate and understand when God opens us up to his technology. God has a technology, an amazing technology. You know, when you read the book of Revelation and you see how John the Revelator, his experience and his encounter, in today's language, we say the kind of technology John was using can only be provided by Jehovah. The way he described his experience, things he saw, if we want to like recreate them today, like in a movie, what will you use to do with technology? So I overheard Dr. Foy. One day he was talking about the God technology. I smiled to myself and I laughed. I said, I'm not eluding this thought after all. He was talking about the God technology, God AI. He referred to the Holy Spirit as the God AI. I call my word for AI is not artificial intelligence. I call it the Alpha Intelligence. That's the way I see it. Yes, that's the way I see it. So when he was talking about the God technology, God AI, the Wi-Fi of God, I smiled. Because if you look at the way the Holy Spirit works, it's like a Wi-Fi. You don't see it, you can't touch it. But the effect is amazing. Turn on the Wi-Fi, and we all connect to the Wi-Fi. The Bluetooth technology goes through walls and concrete walls and what have you. That is us decoding what has been encoded in us.

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Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 29:37

I told you. That's what I came to do with you. Don't be scared. We don't have to be scared. No, we don't have to be. We need to wake up to the realities that are coming. We don't have to run away. You know, talk our heads. No, that I think it's time for us to engage divinity. It's time for us to like engage divinity and understand how divinity works with and for humanity. Random thoughts. Okay. The other day, this thought hit me. We walk with God. He's not in time. He's not in time. We are in time. We walk with him. Now I ask myself, how do you, how can you comprehend or understand him who does not live in time or he's not limited by time. He's not held by time. How do you walk with such a personality, an entity, such a being? You know what came to my mind? Patience. That's why he gave us patience. Extreme patience. You must be patient. You must practice patience if you want to get results with God. That was what came to me. So that thing you're doing today, and it feels like there's no result. Patience is what you need. Patience. Because the one you are working with does not exist in time. He doesn't exist in time. He's not subject to the laws of our physics. So we must practice patience. Because with patience or through patience, kingdoms are built. Like they say, room was not built in one day. I love it when I come into this space. I love it. If I tell you that I had something scripted down to share with you, nah, I just told myself I need to do what I call random thoughts with you today. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful. Now before I leave you, I'll go through this. Ask yourself as you're listening and looking at me. Eighty years from now, what would my life be? What would my life be? I leave you with that thought. You were not just you're not just here by chance. No, you're not. You were designed for a purpose, for a reason, and you were kept in time by this time for a reason. But you know what? You need to go look for it, you need to go search for it. Because it gives God joy to conceal things. It is the glory of a king to unearth them. Your glory is ahead of you, waiting for you. My name is Amakri. Amakri Isoboye. Awesome time it has been with you on the World Cafe Podcast today. Thank you for being there. You can catch me up on my social media handles: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram, all at Amakri Isoboye. Also, you can get copies of my books at Cocktail of Words, The Color of Words, my HRO Notebook, and Hoker's Focus on God on Amazon and Rovin Height Online bookstores. You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel at the same address at Amakri Isobaye. I'd love to hear from you and how this podcast has impacted you. You can leave me a message at my email address, Amakri Garibaldi at gmail.com. That is A-M-A-C-H R E E G A R I B A L D I. Yes, till I come your way again. Bye for now.