From "The Seed Question" - Transformation

[Jim Metzner]

Since this seems to be the first message posted to this newly re-formed group this year, the first question should be "do you read me?" Sort of like an (old school) short wave broadcast. Assuming that the message is being received by other sentient beings, here's the real question:

In the first video of the Gita Class (part two), "The Seed Question", Ravi quotes a passage from the Rg Veda: "Unless the knowledge transforms the knower, it is ignorance".  The key word appears to be "transforms".  One assumes and hopes this transformation is on the path of evolution, a refining of what "I am", a movement in the direction towards something higher. I ask because there seems to be plenty of evidence of what I call ignorance that's quite capable of transforming people in another direction.  The phenomenon of  "Fake News" for example.  So what is meant by transformation and is it possible to face this question from my own experience, as opposed to referring to definitions and my inner thesaurus of what others have said?