Transitions
Bookplace Author Events
Author Events are held at Transitions Bookplace, 1000 W. North Avenue, Chicago, 312.951.READ. Events begin at 7pm unless indicated otherwise stated. Author events take place in the cafe, while ongoing groups meet at various locations throughout the store. These events are FREE unless otherwise stated.
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Readings by Rayma
Every Monday and Wednesday 6-9 PM
Using
Archangel
or Tarot Cards, Rayma will help you understand your personality as well as the challenging areas in your life within 15 or 60 minute increments. $25-15 min, $50-30 min, $65-45 min, $80-1 hour. Rayma will be unavailable on Wednesday, May 7th.
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Ehryck Gilmore
The Law of Attraction 101
Thursday, May 1st
7 PM
We all have desires for greater fulfillment in life. From careers to relationships to complete success, we hold these dreams in our heart’s secret space. We have all heard of the power of attraction, but in this amazing session, as seen in NEWSWEEK, author Ehryck Gilmore will show you that the power of your own thoughts will unlock all of your dreams.
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Andrew Sadock
Voice Of The Soul: Call To Action
Thursday, May 1st
7 PM
This workshop will revolve around three books entitled; Call to Action, Conscious Relationship, and Encyclopedia of the Tao: A-to-Z. This workshop will inspire you to reveal your unique life purpose and life service via enhanced dreams, intuition, synchronicity and miracles show ancient perspectives and technology to create harmonious relations.
www.andrewsadock.com
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Taylor Wilshire
The Book of Mom
Friday, May 2nd
7 PM
In her second novel, author Taylor Wilshire poses the question that every mom asks at one time or another… Is there room for me in Mommy? With humor and raw honesty, she goes in search of the answer to this question in a story that is both entertaining and enlightening. Join us with Wilshire for an inspirational and thought provoking evening, and discover a story that embraces the core of motherhood today.
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Lena Salonikas
Abraham Reading & Discussion Group
Sunday, May 4th at 2 PM
(ongoing discussion group 1st Sunday of each month at
2 pm
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Join Lena Salonikas to read and discuss the works of Abraham (as channeled by Esther and Jerry Hicks) including The Law of Attraction, Ask and It Is Given, and The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent. |
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Therese Crowley
Seventh Sense: A Different Way to See
Monday, May 5th
7 PM
Join us with Therese and discover a positive message about tuning into practical spirituality. Nationally known for her extensive broadcast background, Therese has a unique, trust-but-verify approach to living life and exploring how the mystic and the scientific coexist and align, through her own hard-core experience of having prescient dreams of news events and people. A Certified Intuitive Energy Healer, Therese explains that “There is a voice inside you that knows” …and in order to clear the channel of inspirations: “don’t think, listen.” She guides people to explore and define the energy they feel; and, to tune into a natural-born creativity and the gifts of the senses.
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Andrew Pek and Jeannie McGlade
Stimulated: Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work
Tuesday, May 6th
7 PM
The daily drone can sap the spark of the most creative personality; this sparse, saccharine manual offers a few easy steps to revive creativity and incorporate inspiration into a daily routine. Pek and McGlade posit that the need to create is a basic human urge that is "not only an evolutionary imperative, but a spiritual one," capable of mitigating everyday stresses that can lead to burnout. Citing examples of people who have pursued creative satisfaction and attained material success, such as Nike cofounder Bill Bowerman, the authors on Tuesday May 6th will demonstrate the importance and the rewards of maintaining creative thought processes. Pek and McGlade, a married couple, are very earnest about their program, a series of five habits that can access creative potential: scouting, cultivating, playing, venturing, and harvesting. This is an event you don’t want to miss.
CANCELLED
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Charlie & Maggie Wilkins
Power of Now Discussion/Mediation Group.
Tuesday, May 6th
7 PM
(ongoing discussion group - usually will meet 1st Tuesday of each month @ 7pm) Charlie & Maggie will help you become in tune with yourself and the present by the power of living in the now.
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Lori Lovens
Chicago Jet Journey Expansion Team
Tuesday, May 6th
7 PM
Join us as we discuss the teachings of James Arthur Ray on how to create wealth and harmony in all areas of our lives Financially, Relationally, Mentally, Physically and Spiritually.
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Andrew Sadock
Voice Of The Soul: Call To Action
Thursday, May 8th
7 PM
This workshop will revolve around three books entitled; Call to Action, Conscious Relationship, and Encyclopedia of the Tao: A-to-Z. This workshop will inspire you to reveal your unique life purpose and life service via enhanced dreams, intuition, synchronicity and miracles show ancient perspectives and technology to create harmonious relations.
www.andrewsadock.com
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Film For Thought
The Voice
Saturday, May 10th
8 PM
What is THE VOICE?! Discover how science is demonstrating the power of the mind. Quantum physics, science and spirituality are merging into The Unified Field, a conscious field that could explain the experience of the enlightenment of the ages providing scientific proof of Oneness! The VOICE explores mystical experiences of ordinary and extraordinary people of all religions and non-religions, scientific revolutions and breakthroughs! See what science is discovering about the human aura? New technology takes you there! See what researchers are discovering about the auras of subatomic particles, atoms, DNA, plants, animals, humans to the aura of the earth and to the aura of the cosmic beyond!
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Joanne Papin
Socrates Cafe
Sunday, May 11th 10 AM
(ongoing discussion group meets 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month)
Join us for a discussion group based on Socrates Cafe by Christopher Phillips. If you are willing to question anything in an effort to become more virtuous, more enlightened, and more self-aware, this group's for you.
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Earth Spiritualists of Chicago
Healing Circle
Sunday, May 11th 1:30 PM
(ongoing discussion group meets 2nd Sunday of each month)
Whether you’ve had years of experiences or you are brand new to the idea of spiritual healing, come connect with us. From 1:30 to 2:15 pm, you’ll learn the Basic Energy Healing: Meditation, Sensing Energy & Diagnosis of the Energy Body, Channeling & Directing Healing Energy, Purification, Protection, & Ethics. Then from 2:30 to 3:30 pm, those with healing training or gifts in energy healing, Reiki, lying of hands can connect together and work on their practice. And for the closure, from 3:30 to 4:00 pm, you’ll perform a group ritual to direct healing energy to those not present.
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Michelle Knight
IPEC Coaching Seminar
Tuesday, May 13th 7 PM
Join us for this free iPEC Coaching Seminar to find out why professional coaching is one of the fastest growing occupations in America today! Change the way you view your professional & personal life. Discover how the coaching process empowers lives, how coaching differs from therapy, consulting, and mentoring, how coaching uses a holistic approach, Why coaches are in such demand at this time, what type of training you need to become a coach. |
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Robert Johnson & Karen Poulson
Heart-Rhythm Meditiation
Tuesday, May 13th 7 PM
(ongoing discussion group meets 2nd Tuesday of each month)
Join us for an introduction to Heart Rhythm meditation based on the Sufi-derived principles in Puran Bair's book, Living from the Heart. Learn how to create energy, clarity, peace, joy, and inner power. For more details, contact Robert (708) 524-4687, or Karen (773) 528-3839. |
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Kat Hibbard
Bullets: Growing Up in the Crossfire
Wednesday, May 14th
7 PM
Join us with Kat Hibbard as she shares the traumatic events of her violent childhood in her new book, Bullets: Growing up in the Crossfire. This evening she will show you how she was able to break the cycle of violence, the impact fighting between parents have on children, how teachers and community members can identify and reach out to abused children, how abuse survivors can learn to forgive, and the healing power of faith and spirituality. |
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Lynne McTaggart
The Intention Experiment
Thursday, May 15th
7 PM
Join us with Lynne McTaggart bestselling author of The Field and The Intention Experiment for a groundbreaking exploration of the art and science of intention which will involve you as a participant in personal and collective experiments to help to focus your life, heal your body and possibly even transform the planet.
In her talk you will discover exactly what intention is and how it differs from simple wishing, the latest evidence on how thoughts can affect the physical world, which is more powerful: negative or positive intention, how elite athletes win sports competitions through intention and the techniques they use, and if there is such a thing as praying to change your past.
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Andrew Sadock
Voice Of The Soul: Call To Action
Thursday, May 15th
7 PM
This workshop will revolve around three books entitled; Call to Action, Conscious Relationship, and Encyclopedia of the Tao: A-to-Z. This workshop will inspire you to reveal your unique life purpose and life service via enhanced dreams, intuition, synchronicity and miracles show ancient perspectives and technology to create harmonious relations.
www.andrewsadock.com
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Roberto Sanchez
The Way Of Meditation
Friday, May 16th
7 PM
(ongoing discussion group meets 3rd Friday of each month)
Join us for a reading group focusing on the well-tested steps to enlightenment used in the Himalayan Buddhist path. We'll discuss How to Meditate by Kathleen McDonald. |
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Karen Daughtry & Darlene Nelson
Discovering Reiki as a Family
Saturday, May 17th 10:30 AM
Join us for a special afternoon class that is filled with energetic excitement! Kids, we encourage you to bring your parents and we will, in return, teach you methods of meditation along with concepts of energy work and reiki.
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Denise E. Willams and Laura Hoffman
Love Is Here to Stay
Saturday, May 17th
8
PM
Denise Willams and Laura Hoffman will be creating a story about discovered love with unexpected moments of synchronicity, intuition & whimsy. These serendiptous unfoldings are threaded together with vocal & piano renditions of music from the 1940's. Please come and enjoy the musical alliance between Denise E. Williams, vocalist, & Laura A. Hoffman, pianist. $20.00
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Baha’i Discussion Group Talk
Overcoming Racism: The Most Vital & Challenging Issue
Sunday, May 18th
3:30
PM
Rita Starr believes that healing communities of all traces of prejudice and racism will bring not only greater purity of heart and wisdom to its individual members but will lead to the healing of the nation and of the world. Drawing on the teachings of the Baha'i Faith, one of whose basic teachings is the elimination of all forms of prejudice, as well as her own personal journey of healing from childhood trauma, Ms. Starr will share with us strategies and understandings to initiate the transformative process that will enable us to eliminate our own personal prejudices.
Rita Starr is committed to helping individuals overcome prejudice. In 30 years of research, program design, and test marketing, she has trained facilitators and educated over 120,000 people from
Florida
to
Alaska
. She has analyzed prejudice and oppression from a systems perspective and addresses the emotional healing often required by both victims and perpetrators of prejudice. The founder of Healing Our Nation Network, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to building a network of individuals committed to overcoming prejudice in the
United States
and providing diversity training, Ms. Starr is currently seeking funding to establish a national network to overcome racism.
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Susan Spriggs
The Work of Byron Katie Group Inquiry Circle
Tuesday, May 20th
7 PM
(ongoing discussion group meets 3rd Tuesday of each month)
Join Susan Spriggs and occasional co-facilitators to learn a powerful, revolutionary process originally created by Byron Katie called The Work. Jumpstart your “law of attraction” process The Work paves the way. Regarding The Work, Eckhart Tolle says: “You have the tool ; Now use it!” We’ll explore FOUR questions that can transform everyday negativity into peaceful and loving connections.We welcome you to visit our monthly gathering, and learn about a process which has helped a multitude of people find profound joy and meaning in their lives. What do you have to lose?
To learn more today, check out Byron Katie’s videos at www.thework.com.
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Guy Spiro
Astrological and Cultural Roots of the New Age
Wednesday, May 21st
7 PM
Guy Spiro talks about the past few ages up through the present, making clear just what all of this is really about. “Ages are specific time periods with main themes that inform the religions, philosophies, and the ways that societies evolve. The stories in the Old Testament, starting with Abraham, running through Moses, and leading through the teachings of Jesus at the last age change, are deeply imbedded in our cultural DNA.”
In The New Age Revealed, Guy Spiro demonstrates that there is nothing going on the world that cannot be better understood within the context of the age change context of the age change.
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Kenneth Trainor
We Dare To Say
Thursday, May 22nd
7 PM
Do you feel like you could pen volumes, but every time you sit down to write you can’t find the words to begin? Join us with author Kenneth Trainor who asks us to do nothing more than begin with our own lives, our own loves, and dare to say what is in our hearts. Forget about the challenges of facing a blank page. Trainor provides inspirational prompts and striking lines of Scripture to spark even the most blocked, would-be journal keeper. Ponder metaphysical, philosophical and theological subjects, like the meaning of happiness, destiny, life-sentences, free will, true wisdom, and how best to praise God. |
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Andrew Sadock
Voice Of The Soul: Call To Action
Thursday, May 22nd
7 PM
This workshop will revolve around three books entitled; Call to Action, Conscious Relationship, and Encyclopedia of the Tao: A-to-Z. This workshop will inspire you to reveal your unique life purpose and life service via enhanced dreams, intuition, synchronicity and miracles show ancient perspectives and technology to create harmonious relations.
www.andrewsadock.com
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Carla Brown
Introduction to the Transcendental Meditation Technique
Friday, May 23rd 7 PM
The Transcendental Meditation technique is a simple, natural procedure to contact your inner reservoir of creativity, energy and intelligence on a daily basis.
Among the topics the MUM panel will discuss are:
- The sucess of Consciousness-Based Education
- Related Discoveries in modern physics
- Success stories from around the world (and at home)
- Upcoming events
- The new dynamism brought to the MUM campus brought by film director David Lynch with Dr. John Hagelin.
Carla Brown, Ed.D. teaches the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Transcendental Meditation program throughout Chicagoland. She will discuss the research signature of the technique: how a simple mental technique can transform the neurophysiology and biochemistry to improve everyday life. She will also discuss secrets for creating peace, a topic related to her doctoral dissertation from Harvard University.
Call 847-562-9104 for more information.
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Ingrid Perlongo
The Chicago Taoism Meet-Up Group
Saturday, May 24th 2 PM
(ongoing discussion group meets 4th Saturday of every month)
Join Ingrid Perlongo of the Chicago Taoism Meetup Group to discuss classic texts such as the Tao Te Ching, as well as contemporary favorites like The Tao of Pooh.
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Film For Thought
Into The Wild
Saturday, May 24th
7:30
PM
A young man leaves his middle class existence in pursuit of freedom from relationships and obligation. Giving up his home, family, all possessions but the few he carried on his back and donating all his savings to charity Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) embarks on a journey throughout
America
. His eventual aim is to travel into
Alaska
, into the wild, to spend time with nature, with ‘real’ existence, away from the trappings of the modern world.
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Joanne Papin
Socrates Cafe
Sunday, May 25th 10 AM
(ongoing discussion group meets 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month)
Join us for a discussion group based on Socrates Cafe by Christopher Phillips. If you are willing to question anything in an effort to become more virtuous, more enlightened, and more self-aware, this group's for you.
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Mirabai Starr
Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom
Wednesday, May 28th
7 PM
Every spiritual tradition has its share of renowned figures the great saints, mystics, and visionaries who inform our own search for divine connections. Join us with Mirabai Starr, editor of this new series, and enter into the presence of beacons of human enlightenment, whose universal wisdom speaks to seekers everywhere across the boundaries of faith and culture.
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James Van Praagh
Ghost Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About The Other Side
Thursday, May 29th
7 PM
Everyone loves a good ghost story. Perhaps the human fascination with the supernatural stems from the fact that most of us, at some point in our lives, have experienced something we couldn’t quite explain. From a very young age James Van Praagh was aware of a dimension that most of us cannot see, and he has dedicated his life to explaining it to the rest of us. Ghosts Amoung Us takes us on an incredible journey into the spirit world that brings to light one of our greatest mysteries what happens to us after we die? $20 Members, $25 NonMembers
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Andrew Sadock
Voice Of The Soul: Call To Action
Thursday, May 29th
7 PM
This workshop will revolve around three books entitled; Call to Action, Conscious Relationship, and Encyclopedia of the Tao: A-to-Z. This workshop will inspire you to reveal your unique life purpose and life service via enhanced dreams, intuition, synchronicity and miracles show ancient perspectives and technology to create harmonious relations.
www.andrewsadock.com
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Lawrence
Weinstein
Grammar for the Soul
Friday, May 30th
7 PM
How does grammar affect your well-being? That’s the question Lawrence Weinstein will be addressing here at Transitions Bookplace when he talks about his new book, Grammar for the Soul. Weinstein takes an altogether new angle on the hundreds of grammatical decisions each of us makes daily without thinking: he describes how those decisions affect us, the people who make them. “Grammar,” says Weinstein “turns out to have uses beyond clear communication. Managed wisely, it can accelerate personal growth.” Join us and discover surprising connections between elements of grammar and human attributes that most of us would like to possess connections, for example, between use of the “double-barreled” punctuation mark, the colon, and assertiveness, between use of passive constructions like “my hand is guided” and creativity, between us of the first-person pronoun (“I”) and heightened awareness.
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Dr Elsbeth Meuth & Freddy Zental Weaver
Tantra Lounge
Friday, May 30th 7:30 PM
Come join Tantra Lounge, an evening for couples and individuals, and learn how a woman can tap into and reawaken her luscious feminine energy, how a man can be grounded in his manhood and open in his heart, and how a couple can create fulfillment, joy and pleasure in their relationship and life.
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Russ Harris
The Happiness Trap
Saturday, May 31st
7 PM
Join us with Harris for an exploration of the six key techniques of ACT that have been proven effective in helping individuals to handle painful feelings more effective in helping individuals to handle painful feelings more effectively; escape the grip of self-defeating habits, including addiction; rise above fears, doubts, and insecurities; and create a richer and more meaningful life. |
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