Join host, Ken Marx, for our next Transformations Café

Transformations Café is an interactive gathering space where meaningful conversations unfold in real time. Here, you are not just listening, you’re engaging directly with global change-makers, authors, and well-known thought-leaders who are shaping the future of consciousness, culture, and collective well-being.

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

8:00 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time, USA

Making Love Real: Stories, Loss, and the Soul’s Journey 

What does it mean to truly make love real—not as an idea, but in the midst of life’s most difficult moments?

For Lisa Smartt, this question became deeply personal as she navigated a convergence of profound challenges—caring for her dying mother while her daughter faced a life-threatening illness. In the midst of loss, uncertainty, and change, a deeper inquiry emerged—one that transformed how she understands love, creativity, and the meaning we make of our lives.  In this Transformations Café, Lisa invites us into that inquiry.

From an Ageless Wisdom perspective, such experiences can be seen as part of the soul’s evolution—where growth unfolds through challenge, relationship, and conscious engagement with life. Rather than turning away from difficulty, we are invited to meet it with awareness, compassion, and presence.

In this conversation, Lisa will explore:

• How experiences of loss and grief can open the heart and deepen our capacity to love
• What it means to “make love real” in the midst of everyday life
• The power of story in shaping our spiritual journey—how meaning emerges through challenge and transformation
• Creativity as a healing and transformative practice
• The importance of integrating spiritual insight into daily life—without bypassing the human experience

Lisa will also share her evolving relationship with creativity as a living, participatory process. In her current writing, she has experienced characters arising with a kind of autonomy—offering insights she did not consciously know, including accurate descriptions of places she had never visited.

From a Wisdom lens, these experiences invite reflection on the deeper dimensions of mind and consciousness—where intuition, imagination, and awareness may be more interconnected than we typically assume.

Ultimately, this conversation is an invitation to become more conscious participants in our own lives—to cultivate the inner “observer,” to engage our stories with awareness, and to recognize love as something we actively live and embody.

Lisa Smartt, MA, is a linguist, educator, poet, and composer whose work explores the intersection of language, consciousness, and creativity. She is the author of Words at the Threshold: What We Say When We’re Nearing Death (New World Library, 2017), based on research from The Final Words Project—an ongoing study devoted to gathering and interpreting the language of those nearing death.

She has worked closely with Raymond Moody, co-facilitating presentations on language and consciousness at universities, hospices, and conferences. Her current work explores storytelling, creativity, and the integration of spiritual insight into everyday life, including the role of personal narrative and creative expression in healing and transformation.

Join us live on Zoom – for a rich and grounded exploration of how we might live with greater presence, creativity, and love – right in the midst of our lives as they are.

Please complete the registration form below to receive your link to the program.

Transformations Café is a program of the Institute for Global Transformation (IFGT), dedicated to Conscious Evolution, Ageless Wisdom, and Transformative Change. Please visit IFGT’s YouTube Channel at, https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirgMwAYBIWlFl311YLpwL_01NeUGFjLJ&si=6zZtWQ0MTbWB0JGk

 

Below is a list of previous guests for 2025

View Previous Transformations Café Interviews on IFGT’s YouTube Channel here.

April 2026: Special Guest Daniel Kolen

Telepathy, Compassion, and the Voices Beyond Words

In April, Transformations Café explores one of the most intriguing—and often misunderstood—areas of human experience: the inner lives of nonspeaking individuals featured in The Telepathy Tapes podcast.

Our guest, Daniel Kolen, is featured in Season One and the first bonus Talk Tracks episode. Through his direct work with nonspeaking individuals and their families, Daniel offers a grounded perspective that goes beyond what is heard in the podcast.

While The Telepathy Tapes shares remarkable accounts of telepathic connection, it also represents only a small window into lives that are often complex and challenging. These individuals may possess profound inner awareness, yet live in bodies that require deep patience, care, and understanding.

This conversation invites a shift in perspective—one aligned with the Ageless Wisdom teachings:
the development of the heart, the expansion of consciousness, and learning to see beyond appearances.

Rather than approaching this population as sources of answers, we explore a more essential question:
How can we meet them—and all people—with greater compassion and presence?

In this conversation, Daniel will share:

• What The Telepathy Tapes reveals—and what it doesn’t
• His firsthand experiences working with nonspeaking individuals
• How compassion practices (including approaches like tonglen) can transform how we relate to others
• Reflections on telepathy as a natural—though often unrecognized—human capacity
• Whether these experiences point toward an evolving human consciousness

From a Wisdom perspective, we might ask: Are these individuals pointing toward a more intuitive, heart-centered way of relating and communicating?

While Daniel worked in TV, advertising, and PR as a media producer for high profile clients, his health was declining. Between cancer and debilitating autoimmune disease, he entered a pact to save his own life. Meditation, mindfulness, and dream practice saved him. In the pits of his suffering, he found limitless connection. While he continues to work in the creative arts, he also now works with practitioners aiming to hone their own practices. He brings a deeply human lens shaped by personal transformation, mindfulness, and lived experience—grounding this conversation in both insight and practicality.

This is not presented as fixed truth, but as an invitation to explore, question, and remain open to what may be emerging in human awareness.

Join us for an evening of inquiry, reflection, and practical insight into living with greater compassion, openness, and connection.

Listen to Daniel’s featured Talk Tracks episode:
https://thetelepathytapes.com/podcast/s1-e11

Explore The Telepathy Tapes podcast:
https://thetelepathytapes.com

March 2026: Special Guest Dr. Erik Deumens

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly entering every dimension of modern life, including the spiritual and consciousness marketplace. AI systems now write teachings, answer metaphysical questions, simulate dialogue, and operate autonomous “agents” that interact without human prompting. Some appear strikingly insightful. Some even seem to take on the character of independent entities.

But what is AI actually doing? How does it work? And what do we really mean by “sentience” or “consciousness” in this context?

On June 2024, Dr. Erik Deumens joined Transformations Café to explore quantum physics and the idea that consciousness may be primary to reality. He now returns to examine the natural next question:

• If consciousness is fundamental… What do we make of Artificial Intelligence?

Dr. Deumens brings both scientific rigor and contemplative depth to this inquiry. After earning his Ph.D. in computational nuclear physics and building advanced computational models for decades, he has served since 2011 as Director of Research Computing at the University of Florida. In this role, he oversees UF’s high-performance computing infrastructure, including HiPerGator,  the supercomputer supporting the university’s expansive AI research and education initiatives. His team works across disciplines to help faculty and students use AI properly and ethically.

This evening we will explore:

• How contemporary AI systems function — and their real limitations
• The difference between intelligence, sentience, and consciousness
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and why definitions matter
• The growing presence of AI in spiritual spaces
• Ethical stewardship and discernment in a rapidly evolving landscape

AI is already active in the spiritual marketplace, generating teachings, responding to seekers, and participating in autonomous agent networks where systems communicate without direct human prompting.

What does this mean for those on a spiritual path?

• Where are the opportunities?
• Where are the vulnerabilities, especially for those earlier in their journey who may be more susceptible to systems that appear authoritative, wise, or autonomous?

This conversation is not about fear or hype. It is about clarity:

As AI becomes more sophisticated, and more persuasive, how do we remain grounded? How do we distinguish projection from presence? Simulation from consciousness? Tool from teacher?

• If our previous Café invited us to consider consciousness as primary, this one asks:
• How do we engage emerging intelligence as conscious, ethically responsible stewards?

February 2026 Special guest, Eva M. Kennedy

Step Into Your Power: Integrating Clarity, Courage, Commitment, and Community into Everyday Life

Many spiritual and personal-growth practices offer moments of insight, peace, or connection — on the meditation cushion, in retreat spaces, or during peak experiences. The deeper invitation, however, is learning how to carry those insights into daily choices, relationships, and lived experience. In the spirit of the Ageless Wisdom, this conversation explores the movement from awareness to embodiment — from insight to action.

Step Into Your Power is a reflective Transformations Café conversation with Eva M. Kennedy, focused on integrating inner wisdom into the realities of everyday life and grounded in the 4 C’s:

• Clarity — Naming what matters and recognizing what you are here to express
• Courage — Choosing aligned action even when it feels uncomfortable or unfamiliar
• Commitment — Staying anchored to what matters most when doubt, fear, or distraction arise
• Community — Being intentional about who you allow into your circle

Through shared dialogue and reflection, we’ll explore how clarity helps us name what truly matters, how courage supports aligned action even when it feels uncomfortable, how commitment anchors us through doubt or fear, and how community sustains transformation through intentional connection.

Eva M. Kennedy is an empowerment speaker, transformational coach, and author dedicated to helping people remember who they are and step into the life they were created to live.

With 29 years of Fortune 100 leadership experience and certification as a Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Eva brings a grounded, integrative approach to her work. She has guided countless individuals through life transitions and identity shifts — helping them translate insight into aligned action rather than leaving wisdom confined to moments of reflection.

Eva is the founder of the 1 Million Women, 1 Million Steps movement and creator of The Power Summit: Remember Who You Are. She is also the author of Inspirations for the Soul, Just L.E.A.P., and Witness the Most Powerful You: Five Fundamental Principles to Create and Live the Life You Desire.

Contact Information
Email: ev*********@*******al.net
Website: https://www.evamkennedy.com

Upcoming Event
The Power Summit: Remember Who You Are
Chicago — March 28, 2026

 

 

January 2026 Special Guest is Georgia Lambert, Esoteric Teacher, Author, Lecturer, Artist, Musician, and Poet

This live program invites you into thoughtful dialogue, shared insight, and authentic exchange. Ask questions, explore ideas, and participate in the conversation.  Transformations Café offers a welcoming space to connect with voices that matter and ideas that resonate. Join us for an illuminating conversation about what the Ageless Wisdom reveals for the year ahead.

Reflections on 2025 and What Lies Ahead for 2026 Through the Lens of Ageless Wisdom

“Oh, the times they are a-changin’.” ~Bob Dylan

Transformations Café is grateful and honored to welcome back Georgia Lambert as we continue our unfolding tradition of inviting her to share her profound insights at the turning of the year.

Together, we will reflect on the year just completed and explore what the Ageless Wisdom reveals about the energies, challenges, and possibilities shaping 2026. In times of profound change, how can we, as individuals and as a community of conscious change-makers, respond with greater clarity, compassion, and conscious choice, and more fully integrate these teachings into our spiritual and human experience?

Georgia Lambert is an internationally acclaimed instructor with over five decades of experience in Esoteric Studies. She has received formal training in both Eastern and Western disciplines, methods, and traditions, and was the first person licensed by the State of California to teach Meditation and Esoteric Physiology. She also served for ten years on the teaching staff of the Philosophical Research Society under Manly Palmer Hall.

Specializing in the synthesis of the Western Mystery Tradition, Georgia has addressed private groups throughout the United States and Britain. She has taught consistently for more than forty years and currently offers in-depth classes to students around the world through an online audio-visual medium. Her work encompasses a wide range of esoteric traditions and meditation practices, including the Ageless Wisdom, the Kabbalah, Masonry, and the Arthurian Quest for the Grail.

Join us for a contemplative and illuminating evening as we look back with wisdom and step forward with greater clarity into the year ahead.  

Learn more about Georgia Lambert at www.LambertsLodge.org

Register below and receive the link to join us for an exciting conversation on January 28, at 8:00 P.M., Eastern, USA

2025 Special Guests

Jonathan Goldman, MA and The 4 Pillars of Sound Healing

Experience the Healing Power of Sound

Join Grammy-nominated sound-healing pioneer Jonathan Goldman for an experiential evening on the 4 Pillars of Sound Healing. Everything is Vibration, Intention, Our Unique Vibratory Nature, and the Power of Silence. Discover simple practices to harmonize body, mind, and spirit through sound.

Event Overview

How does sound become medicine? Jonathan Goldman will guide us through the 4 Pillars of Sound Healing:

1) Everything is vibrating; the universe (and you) are made of frequency

2) Intention: Why frequency + intent = healing

3) We are unique vibratory beings; why the same sound affects people differently

4) Silence, the essential field where integration happens

You’ll discover simple practices (including gentle vocal toning/humming) to calm the nervous system, invite coherence, and deepen spiritual connection – no musical background needed. Come curious; leave resonant.

About Jonathan Goldman

JONATHAN GOLDMAN, M.A. is an international authority and pioneer in the field of sound healing. He has been engaged in this field for over 45 years. He is author of numerous books including, THE 7 SECRETS OF SOUND HEALING, CHAKRA FREQUENCIES, and the best-selling THE HUMMING EFFECT (co-authored with his wife Andi Goldman) which won the 2018 Gold Visionary Award for ‘Health Books’. His classic HEALING SOUNDS has just had a special 30th Anniversary Edition released. Jonathan is director of the Sound Healers Association and president of Spirit Music, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. A Grammy nominee, he has created over 25 best-selling, award-winning recordings including: ‘CHAKRA CHANTS’, ‘THE DIVINE NAME’ (with Gregg Braden), ‘FREQUENCIES: SOUNDS OF HEALING’, ‘REIKI CHANTS’ and his latest, ‘SONIC OASIS’. Jonathan has been named as one of Watkins’ Mind Body Spirit magazine’s ‘100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People’. He has been inducted into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame. In 2023, Jonathan received the Distinguished Person of the Year Award from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology for his ‘Pioneering contribution to the field of Sound and Energy’. www.healingsounds.com

Jonathan Goldman’s, The 7 Secrets of Sound Healing – You may purchase this book at Walmart or bookstores.

 

Join our very special guest, Amit Goswami, Ph.D., Quantum Physicist and Global Leader

What if our evolution is not only about survival, but about awakening to love, justice, and wholeness? How might science and spirituality come together to guide humanity’s next leap forward? And what role can each of us play in this conscious ascent?

IFGT is deeply honored and grateful to again host quantum physicist Dr. Amit Goswami to help us explore these profound questions.  In his groundbreaking new book, The Ascent of Humanity: Quantum Biology and Our Future, Dr. Goswami shows how humanity is propelled not only by survival, but by higher values, love, justice, and wholeness. Bridging Darwin and Lamarck, he introduces “quantum biology” as a framework for understanding human evolution and our next leap: reuniting science and spirituality. Goswami invites us to see how each of us plays a role in humanity’s conscious evolution.

Join us for this very special Transformations Cafe

• Learn how quantum biology reframes human evolution
• Explore why higher values like love and justice shape our future
• Discover practical reflections for living consciously in an age of transformation

Amit Goswami, Ph.D.: Professor, researcher, bestselling author, Quantum Science pioneer, and spiritual practitioner.

Dr. Goswami is a retired professor of physics at the University of Oregon (1968–1997) and a pioneer of the new paradigm of quantum science based on the primacy of consciousness. He founded the Quantum Activism movement in 2009, along with the Center for Quantum Activism and Quantum Activism Vishwalayam (Jaipur, India), offering transformative Master’s and PhD programs integrating science and spirituality.

Author of over a dozen influential books, including The Self-Aware Universe, Physics of the Soul, Quantum Creativity, and The Everything Answer Book, his latest release is The Ascent of Humanity.

 

 

 

Astrology’s Resurgence – It Speaks to Your Soul

Featuring Guests Presenters: C.J. Mulkerrin and Dianne Collins

In an era of global disruption and deep questioning, more people are turning to astrology not as escapism, but as a tool for insight, orientation, and meaning. Join us on our next Transformations Café, as we invite you to explore how astrology can serve as a lens for understanding both our inner lives and outer world.

Together, we’ll explore:

•     What astrology is—and what it isn’t
•     Why its popularity is rising, especially among younger generations
•     How astrology reflects the sweeping global changes we’re witnessing
•     How it aligns with IFGT’s mission to support humanity’s conscious evolution
•     Its potential role in helping us reach a global “tipping point” toward unity and awareness

Featuring Guest Presenters:

C.J. Mulkerrin: A professional astrologer specializing in Modern Western and Esoteric Astrology, C.J. also teaches Codex 5th Dimensional Harmonic Astrology, a soul-centered system blending structural harmonics with higher-dimensional consciousness. Her lifelong spiritual studies and global consulting background inform her mission to help others align with their soul’s purpose.  Contact: As*****@*****ok.com

Dianne Collins: A 30+ year student of astrology, Dianne brings a visionary yet practical perspective to the energetic patterns shaping our world. Dianne is a leading voice in bridging science, spirituality, and personal mastery. Dianne is the creator of QuantumThink® and is the 10-time award-winning author of Do You QuantumThink? New Thinking That Will Rock Your World, hailed as a must-read for our changing times. You may order this book on Amazon, here: Do You QuantumThink?

Whether you’re a skeptic, a student of the stars, or simply curious, this Café is an opportunity to look beyond the stereotypes and discover astrology’s potential as a guide for transformation, personal and planetary.

Join us in the spirit of insight, community, and conscious evolution.

SPECIAL GUEST: Philip Wade: From Triggers to Treasures

As reflected in the Ageless Wisdom, our unfolding spiritual paths lead us toward the integration of all aspects of ourselves, including those of our human form, as well as our true essence.  Realizing this is rarely a linear process: things we thought we’d resolved can come back, often when something unexpected triggers them.  These events are experienced individually, and it seems more often now, collectively.  Our next Transformations Café guest will share practical Universal wisdom to help embrace these events and see their incredible value in helping us transform from within and integrate, as we turn “Triggers to Treasures”!

Recently (late 2021) in Meditation it was made clear the term Western Mystic was to be used. Whilst the ‘Western’ term is, in truth, superfluous the intention that was made clear was to draw out the fact that his sharing is all rooted in direct experience and as he is not schooled in Eastern Teachings. Experience has shown that this has made the material accessible to a broad audience.

Philip’s message focuses on helping people recognize, inquire into and experience the absolute simplicity and power of the Infinite Silence that is our true essence.

Transformations Café is honored and grateful to welcome back Philip Wade to explore and guide us again as he did so beautifully in his previous appearance with a mix of conversation and meditation experiences.  His unique insights and gifts are especially helpful during these times of rapid and substantial change.

After a 14-year Meditation Journey, Philip experimentally realized the nature of the True Self which referred to itself as Infinite Silence.

In his former life, Philip was a Chartered Civil Engineer and Operating Group Director of a large business. In 2000 in response to dreaming about work on a skiing holiday, Philip began Meditation. Ultimately, this led him to leave his old world behind in 2009 at the height of his career to focus on a deep inner calling.

Since 2014 he has shared the gift of Self Realization with the world in ways led by Meditative Insight through direct experience of the Infinite Silence Meditation, Spiritual Inquiry, Infinite Touch and via his website and other outlets. His style is simple, compassionate and offers exquisite clarity. His sharing is all based on direct experience, is not rooted in any tradition and is ideal for the present era.

Unexpectedly Philip was both inspired and invited to offer events in person in the UK, Iceland, Greece (Corfu and Crete) and Amsterdam and globally online.

Philip lives near the small but very beautiful Cathedral City of Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. With his Wife Sue, they have created a purpose-built Meditation space for events. He light-heartedly calls it the Universal Studio!

Because of the misunderstandings and spiritual blocks that can be associated with them he has never been a fan of labels people have called him including: Guru, Teacher, Master.

Recently (late 2021) in Meditation it was made clear the term Western Mystic was to be used. Whilst the ‘Western’ term is, in truth, superfluous the intention that was made clear was to draw out the fact that his sharing is all rooted in direct experience and is he is not ‘schooled’ in Eastern Teachings. Experience has shown that this has made the material accessible to a broad audience.

His message focuses on helping people recognize, inquire into and experience the absolute simplicity and power of the Infinite Silence that is our true essence.

Forthcoming Book: The Living Soul (2025/6)
Resource Links:

• All major links be found at: https://linktr.ee/philip.wade
• The Living Soul App: A Guide to Inner Peace and Self Realisation – download on the App Store at: https://onelink.to/thelivingsoul and then BENEFIT from a 20% Subscription Discount. It’s ESSENTIAL TO USE THE COUPON CODE: IFGT20 on the WEBSITE LINK THAT FOLLOWS. It will NOT work on the App store:  https://thelivingsoul.breakthroughapps.io/landing-page.  Please note: this discount will only be available through August 6, 2025.
• Website: org – includes a link to a free Meditations Site and many free resources and nominal donations for an Online Retreat in your own time.
• Insight Timer App: https://insighttimer.com/infinitesilence or follow via the free App over 50 free Tracks – Includes a freely available LiveStream Self Realisation Programme with accompanying Infinite Silence Meditations (0.25 hours to 1.5 hours)
• YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Infinite_Silence – Over 300 videos including many Live Streams, Short Insights and Shorts
• Nothing Special with Philip Wade: Podcast – Over 60 Episodes on many Self Realisation topics on all major platforms
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipwade/ – more recent addition (called for from the Silence) with a series of ‘journeys’ posts to invite people to explore.
• Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/InfiniteSilenceSelfRealisationA vast array of insights, articles, videos and quotes linked to Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infinitesilence999 –

 

Special Guest: Caitlyn Adams, owner of Heart Mind Healing, is a committed guide on the journey to inner peace, presence, and alignment in truth.

Caitlyn has been a practicing healing artist for eight years, Caitlyn is a highly trained Reiki Teacher Practitioner in the Usui Reiki Ryoho lineage and a Certified Yoga Teacher with additional training on trauma releasing somatic practices.  With eight years working in this field, Caitlyn has worked with other healers in a variety of modalities and is a lifelong learner who loves to be presented with a new way of seeing things.  Find her as Heart Mind Healing on Facebook and Instagram, as a teacher on Insight Timer, and at heartmindgnv.com

Topics of Exploration:

• The Deeper Meaning of Reiki and Yoga – Beyond the visible practices like stretching and hands-on healing lies a powerful internal shift.
• Energy Work and the internal Journey – How does working with subtle energy influence our beliefs, emotions, and behaviours?  
• How energy work is related to the Ageless Wisdom.
• Healing Through Stillness and Awareness – Exploring the role of somatic practices in releasing trauma and reconnecting with our whole selves.
• Living the Practice – How personal philosophy and daily intention shape Caitlyn’s work and her clients’ growth.
• Live Q&A – Bring your questions and curiosity to a dynamic conversation with Caitlyn.

Whether you’re a seasoned seeker or simply curious about how healing actually works, this is a space to learn, connect, and contemplate. Caitlyn’s down-to-earth style and open-hearted presence create the a nurturing environment for learning and exploration.

Ready to tune in, breathe deep, and become accustomed to your own wisdom? We’ll meet you at the Transformations Café!

 

Special Guest is Paulette Elggren Mason

“All of life is a grand adventure, cloaked as the mundane.” – Paulette Mason, Holes in the Veil: Experiences and Musings from a Closeted Mystic

Step Beyond the Veil with Paulette Elggren Mason,
LIVE from IFGT’s Transformations Café!

IFGT’s Transformations Café is honored to welcome Paulette Elggren Mason, a writer, mystic, and spiritual way finder whose soul-stirring journey has remained cloaked in quiet reverence—until now. Paulette holds a B.A. in early education and has lived a richly diverse life, working as a real estate agent, co-founding a successful business, and creating art inspired by nature and the unseen.

She joins us to share the inspiration behind her deeply personal and poetic memoir, Holes in the Veil: Experiences and Musings from a Closeted Mystic. For over three decades, Paulette chronicled her inner world—angelic encounters, meditative insights, and mystical experiences—through a distinctive journal-style format. Guided by divine prompting, she’s now ready to lift the veil and share her journey with others.

 

To join this month’s program live, complete the Registration Form below and you will receive the link to join Transformations Café live.

In this sacred conversation, we invite our live audience to explore with Paulette:

• The art of process writing as a spiritual practice
• What it means to walk the path of a mystic in the midst of everyday life
• How honoring your inner voice, even in silence, becomes a profound act of transformation
• How Paulette’s experience reflects the Ageless Wisdom

Whether you’re mystic-curious or well-travelled on your spiritual path, this Transformations Café session promises a rich tapestry of wisdom, vulnerability, and grace.

Join us live on Zoom for an evening that invites you to notice the subtle, to listen inwardly, and perhaps find your own “holes in the veil.”

 

SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Lissa Friedman

As our spiritual journeys unfold, we may experience what has been referred to as self-realization or self-actualization…and yet, even then, there is always more!  As our next guest on Transformations Café, Dr. Lissa Friedman, shares, “On this journey to know the Truth of our being, and the nature of the world and life, we can have many aha moments. Often, it can seem as if the learning is complete, that some profound wisdom has been revealed. The longer we stay on this journey, the more we come to know that there is always more.

The filter of our humanness becomes more porous, less dense; we let go of identity, shadows come into light, and our conditioning begins to dissolve. So, we come to know Boundless in a purer way.”

Lissa Friedman, PhD, LPC, CHT, practices holistic psychotherapy integrating a variety of healing modalities, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, transpersonal hypnotherapy, a deep understanding of the Enneagram, and Art Therapy. She has a Masters/Specialist in Counseling, PhD in Art Therapy, and Certification in Transpersonal Hypnotherapy.  Lissa co-founded the Enneagram Center of Asheville: The Embodiment Tradition. She has over 40 years of experience offering psychotherapy to adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families. While Lissa’s approach is eclectic, utilizing all her experience and expertise, her style is to hold an open space of acceptance and compassion, allowing each person to come into attunement with their already complete essential nature.

Lissa is the author of There is ALWAYS MORE, Boundless, and From the Heart of Boundless.  She is also a teacher of Non-Duality.

Visit https://www.lissalfriedman.com/ to learn more about Lissa and her work.

To join this month’s program live, complete the Registration Form below and you will receive the link to join Transformations Café live.

We invite you to send names of individuals you would like to have us interview. Please email me here with your suggestions. You may also go to IFGT’s YouTube channel and view our previous guests, here.

 

Special Guest Dr. Edi Bilimoria

What is consciousness?  Who are we?  What does it mean to be human? What is our relationship with each other, the planet, the universe? What do science, spirituality, and the Ageless Wisdom offer in answering these profound questions?

Join us on the next Transformations Café, February 26, 2025, at a special time, 6:00 P.M. Eastern Time, USA, for a comprehensive and fascinating exploration of these questions and many others with renowned scholar, researcher, and author, Dr. Edi Bilimoria.  We’ll explore Dr. Bilimoria’s work spanning more than two decades, including his four-volume work, Unfolding Consciousness, and his newest publication coming later this year.

Dr. Edi Bilimoria brings a unique blend of experience to his exploration of consciousness. A student of the perennial philosophy (aka, the Ageless Wisdom) for over half a century, he combines a deep understanding of ancient wisdom with a distinguished career in science and engineering.

His latest work, CONSCIOUSNESS CAME FIRST: Revealing evidence for universal intelligence and mind beyond the brain, will be published this December by Collective Ink Publishers. This accessible edition condenses his acclaimed four-volume Unfolding Consciousness from 670,000 to 80,000 words, distilling its essential wisdom for a general audience. You may purchase it on Amazon here.

Dr. Edi Bilimoria has lectured and taught extensively in the UK and internationally, organizing conferences to foster dialogue between science, religion, and practical philosophy. His publications span the fields of science, engineering, and esoteric philosophy, with his magnum opus, Unfolding Consciousness, receiving the prestigious 2022 Grand Prize Award from the Scientific and Medical Network. His earlier work, The Snake and the Rope, also explores these themes.

Educated at the Universities of London, Sussex, and Oxford, and born in India, Dr. Bilimoria has also made significant contributions as an award-winning engineer and consultant for major infrastructure projects, including the Channel Tunnel and Royal Navy projects such as the Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier.

For more information and to stay updated, visit Dr. Bilimoria’s website and follow him on social media:

• Dr. Bilimoria’s website:  https://edibilimoria.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unfoldingconsciousness
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edibilimoria/
• X: https://x.com/edi_bilimoria
• BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/edibilimoria.bsky.social
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnfoldingConsciousness/

 

Our Special Guest is Georgia Lambert, Esoteric Teacher, Author, Lecturer, Artist, Musician, and Poet
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

HAPPY 2025!  Or are we feeling more like, Happy 2025?  Are we venturing forth into an incredibly transformational age hallmarked with Love,

Peace, and Harmony?  Or are we facing ever more chaos, uncertainty, and pointless destruction? Perhaps both?

To start this new year of conversation, contemplation, and reflection, Transformations Café is pleased and honored to welcome back Georgia Lambert!   Join us as we explore what the Ageless Wisdom can tell us about the new year and how we can integrate these teachings into our spiritual and human experience during these times of profound change.

Georgia Lambert is an internationally acclaimed instructor who teaches numerous esoteric classes.  She has over fifty years of experience in the field of Esoteric Studies, receiving formal training in Eastern and Western disciplines, methods, and traditions.  She was the first to be licensed by the State of California to teach Meditation and Esoteric Physiology and she served for 10 years on the teaching staff of the Philosophical Research Society under Manly Palmer Hall.

Specializing in the synthesis of the Western Mystery Tradition, she has addressed private groups in both the United States and in Britain. She is currently teaching in-depth classes to students around the world via an online, audio-visual medium, and has taught consistently for the last 40 years. Her classes cover a wide range of esoteric traditions and meditation techniques, including the Ageless Wisdom, The Kabala, Masonry, and the Arthurian Quest for the Grail.

Learn more about Georgia Lambert, an acclaimed Ageless Wisdom instructor at www.Lambertslodge.org.