I Am With You: The Earth Wants to Speak with Us

By Sten Linnander

In 1996, during a ceremony as part of his spiritual-shamanic training in Arizona, Sten Linnander unexpectedly experienced the Earth speaking to him in a clear, unequivocal voice, asking him to go up on a mountain and “speak normally” to it. Thus began a three-month series of communications between the author and the Earth. It then took Sten fifteen years to overcome his doubts and skepticism, both about the statements made by the Earth and how they would be received by the public. But now, having re-established the same clear connection he had then, Sten fulfills his promise to the Earth with the publication of this book.

We hear an Earth that speaks of itself as sentient, conscious and alive, in intimate contact with humans, wishing nothing more than to be seen, felt and communicated with. I Am With You describes the Earth and human beings as having a joint goal: “Allowing and combining freedom and intimacy.” The Earth also says it is a sexual being that comes up to meet and blend with our energies every time we get aroused, creative or exuberant.

I Am With You suggests that human beings are partners with the Earth, slowly waking up to the larger parts of ourselves that are constantly interacting and communicating with the Earth. It invites us to cooperate with the Earth as a living, conscious being, and presents a vision of true cooperation that will leave no area untouched. It proposes we build a technical device so that the Earth can communicate with us in our own language, making it possible to show us everything that has transpired on Earth. This would bring humanity closer together and allow us to begin to sense, from within, who we are and who the Earth is.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sten Linnander
• Release date: Mar 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463188927

Sten Linnander

I was born on July 4th, 1950 outside of Stockholm, Sweden, to a father who was an internationally active judge and legal advisor to the governments of various developing countries and a mother who became an early activist against the practices of female circumcision in Africa and elsewhere. At the age of six, I traveled with my family to Kabul, Afghanistan, where I spent my first 2 1⁄2 school years in an international school. After returning briefly to Sweden, we spent 3 1⁄2 years in Kathmandu, Nepal, where I continued my schooling, first at a Nepalese Jesuit school, and then at the American Lincoln School of Kathmandu. This early exposure to different cultures made a great impression on me, and ever since I have seen myself more as a citizen of the Earth than of any specific country. Having returned to Sweden, I graduated from high school, did my military service and studied physics, mathematics and geophysics at the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University. I graduated with a B.Sc. in Physics and Geophysics from Stockholm University in 1974. I spent two years working at the Swedish State Institute for Building Research as author of manuals for architectural computer programs, and co-authored a book about Swedish building research in Third World countries. In 1976 I left Sweden, and have not lived there since. Feeling unfulfilled with my life in Sweden, and fairly "stuck" personally, I went to visit a radical community in Austria, which had developed a communitarian lifestyle of their own, with an emphasis on artistic expression, daily spontaneous theater, and art. I ended up staying there for 3 years, and left because I disagreed with many of the structures that had been created there. I then spent 3 years in the United States, patenting and marketing new technologies and inventions in the areas of oil recycling, cleaning of oily waste water, and cleaning of air and gas. After that, in 1983, I joined an experimental social model in Germany. My main work there was as the head of a "free university", organizing visits by internationally acknowledged researchers and innovators from the social, scientific, and spiritual areas. In 1990 I and two friends of mine founded the German non-profit organization "Aktion Perestroika", which I headed for 3 years. We organized aid programs and the transfer of technological know-how, and carried out a number of projects in the areas of ecology, medicine, and city administration in the former Soviet Union. From 1994 to 2002 I spent most of my time in Arizona in the United States. There, I studied Native American shamanism and established and ran the non-profit research organization Future Link Foundation, Inc. Since then I have been living in Germany and have been working to prepare the project for the worldwide marketing and distribution of live images of the Earth. During the last 15 years I have also been working as a freelance translator for translation agencies in Switzerland and Germany, as well as for other companies, institutions and individuals. I am married and live in Frankfurt, Germany.

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I AM WITH YOU

The Earth Wants to Talk with Us

by Sten Linnander

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Second Edition

Copyright © 2012 by Sten Linnander

ISBN 978-0-463188-92-7

Notes regarding the Second Edition:

This revised edition contains numerous alterations, deletions and additions throughout the book that were made as it was being translated into German, mainly in order to further clarify some of the terms and concepts used in the quotes from the Earth. No statement by the Earth was changed in any way ― only my commentary.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I – How It All Came About

Chapter 1 - Who Am I, the Author?

Chapter 2 - About My Communication with the Earth

PART II – The Earth Speaks

Chapter 3 - Preface

Chapter 4 - Overview, History and Outlook

Chapter 5 - The Human Being in Relationship to the Earth

Chapter 6 - The Earth and Its Energetic Structure

Chapter 7 - The Coming Changes and a Vision of True Cooperation

Chapter 8 - Awakening Unconscious Parts of You through Direct Interaction and Lovemaking

PART III – It Is Up to Us

Chapter 9 - Subsequent Developments

Chapter 10 - A Sentient, Conscious, Communicating Earth?

Chapter 11 - Final Words by the Earth

Acknowledgements

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I would like to thank the following people for their generous help in making this book a reality:

My wife, Karin, who gave me invaluable help and support in the initial phase of writing this book by insisting on calling a spade a spade and not settling for vague formulations.

Virginia (Gigi) Coyle, for her empathic clarity of mind and heart, and for her feedback, allowing me to see the little things that matter.

Julio Lambing, who enthusiastically supported my endeavor and whose untiring intellectual rigor and historical and cultural insights helped me avoid several pitfalls and encouraged me to make several important additions.

Stefan Steinhäuser, for his support during the early stages of this book, guiding me with his professional skills, knowledge and feedback.

Stephen Davis, who provided enormous help with proofreading and designing and implementing the complicated process of turning my manuscript into a published book.

To you all I express my deep gratitude.

Introduction

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For many people, the idea that the Earth is alive, sentient and conscious is nothing new; it is simply a fact. Others regard it as a fairy tale.

Many cultures prior to ours held the belief that the Earth is in some sense alive. This is also true of certain cultures today. Ask any Native American medicine man or aborigine chief, for example, and many of them will claim the Earth is not only alive, but consciously interacting with humans. They say this not only because it is part of the belief system in which they were raised, but because of experiences they have had personally.

If we knew the Earth upon which we are walking is a living, sentient being, we would tread on it with a different attitude. If we also knew the Earth can see us, that it is with us and we can communicate with this being, we would establish a strong sense of care and respect toward the Earth. This kind of awareness, and acting in communication with the Earth, would have immediate healing effects on both the planet and the human being.

In the 1970s James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis introduced the Gaia Theory,¹ which – although it does not go so far as to state that the Earth is a living, conscious being – shows that in many regards the Earth is a self-regulating system, exhibiting behaviors similar to those of a living system. But they stopped short of regarding it as having any kind of consciousness: I am not thinking in an animistic way, of a planet with sentience.² However, today a great many people are doing just that. The modern world view seems to be moving slowly toward the possibility that the Earth might in a sense be regarded as truly alive.

One of the few people, who have taken seriously the idea of the Earth being not only sentient and conscious, but also able and willing to communicate with humans, is the author John Lamb Lash. He regards the assertion that the Earth is sentient not as a matter to be accepted on belief or rejected because of its unscientific nature; instead, he sees it as a proposition to be tested. He goes on to say, Our view of Gaia will stall out in blind speculation unless we can allow that she can communicate with us in language as we know it. Unless this is possible, we will never be able to confirm that she is sentient in the same way animals are, and we ourselves are.³

This is precisely what this book is about. It is an account of the personal experiences I have had communicating with the Earth from within. It describes how these communications came about and includes transcripts of a series of conversations I had with the Earth back in 1996, interspersed with more recent material, as well as my own comments and thoughts about what I received.

Taking the communications I received at face value, the Earth is saying that it is alive and desiring to contact us all consciously, both individually and collectively. It goes so far as to propose building a device with which the Earth can communicate with us in our own language. It is also saying that we humans are the determiners of any communication between us and the Earth, i.e. that it will only occur if we are open to this possibility and actively seek this contact. This book, then, is like a ring signal from the Earth waiting for us to pick up the phone.

1. In Greek mythology Gaia is the personified Earth and one of the primordial deities.

2. See James Lovelock, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine, Gaia Books, 1991, p. 31.

3. John Lamb Lash, Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006, p. 335.

PART I

How It All Came About

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Chapter 1

Who Am I, the Author?

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I feel that anyone reading a book about communicating with the Earth has a right to first know a bit about the person who engaged in these communications.

But when we describe who we are, we rarely manage to get across more than a very one-sided view, leaving out large core areas that govern our lives. Also, what we have chosen to do with our lives is often (but not always) a poor reflection of who we truly are. An added structural difficulty stems from the fact that we do not really know who we are.

So I have chosen to first provide a brief chronology of my life, followed by a description of my quest through life, seen in retrospect.

A Brief Biography

I was born in 1950, the third child of a long-established Swedish family. My father was a judge who spent many years in Africa and Asia as a legal advisor to various foreign governments, and my mother was a senior secretary and teacher who later devoted her life to the fight against female genital mutilation in Africa and other parts of the world.

I spent my first six years in Sweden. Then our family moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, for two and a half years, where I began my education in an English-speaking international school. After another year in Sweden, we traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal, where we stayed for three and a half years. There I first attended a Jesuit school for Nepalese children and then an American school.

Back in Sweden I finished high school and went on to study physics and geophysics, graduating from the University of Stockholm in 1975. A year and a half later, I left Sweden and joined a radical community in Austria. I was to stay there for three years.

Upon leaving the community, I spent the next three years mostly in the United States, acquiring patents and marketing new inventions for cleaning oily waste water and other ecologically-oriented technologies on behalf of a German inventor.

After that I took a leading role in the development of a social experiment in Germany, working mainly with various aspects of consciousness research. I was the head of a Free University, organizing visits by internationally acknowledged researchers and innovators from the social, scientific, and spiritual areas. I stayed with this project for eleven years.

In 1989 I co-founded and led a German non-profit organization, which organized aid programs and technological transfer, and carried out a number of small-scale model projects in the areas of ecology, medicine, and city administration in the former Soviet Union. We also worked to promote an international project for the protection of the Arctic, which was sponsored by the Association of Cities of Northwest Russia.

In 1992 I began studying the spiritual-shamanic teachings of the Sweet Medicine Sundance Path, an eclectic synthesis of the knowledge of medicine men and women of the Americas and Australia that also incorporates modern scientific and psychological insights. I would continue on this Path until 2010.

In 1994 I moved to Arizona to focus more deeply on these studies, and during the next eight years I also worked extensively with Energy Synthesis, a theory of fluid self-organization in nature developed by the late industrial designer and artist Alfred Wakeman. I also established a non-profit research organization and initiated a project to prepare for the worldwide distribution of live high-resolution images of the entire Earth, taken from a satellite that has yet to be launched.

Since 2002 I have been living and working in Frankfurt, Germany, continuing my work with the live images of the Earth and developing and running further experiments relating to Energy Synthesis. To make a living, I have for the last fifteen years been working as a translator from German to English for companies and individuals.

I am married to my beloved wife Karin, whom I first met in 1983. We became a couple the following year and were married in 1988. She has been the greatest critic of my work and has at the same time helped me bring it down to earth as much as possible. Above all,