ANDRE LAMBERT

Andre A. Lambert, Ph.D., is a retired U.S. Air Force Major, ordained minister, spiritual director, and interdisciplinary scholar. His work combines contemplative traditions, trauma-informed practice, and organizational leadership.

Lambert holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, a Master of Liberal Arts from Texas Christian University, and a Bachelor of Science from Excelsior University. He is completing a second doctorate in Organizational Leadership, where his research supports the Seven-Stage Developmental Framework featured in this book.

With over twenty-five years of experience, Lambert has worked with individuals from diverse spiritual backgrounds, integrating comparative mysticism, contemplative neuroscience, developmental psychology, and research on spiritual emergence.

He has collaborated with institutions such as the Emerging Sciences Foundation, the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, and various transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies researchers.

Lambert is President of Christ Church Divinity School, a nonprofit dedicated to trauma-informed spiritual formation, chaplaincy training, and interdisciplinary scholarship. He is also the Founder of Living Epistle Publications, LLC.

With over thirty years of military and government experience, Lambert’s leadership and defense analysis background enrich his integration of spiritual formation with organizational systems.

He resides in Grand Prairie, Texas, with his family.