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    Friend of Gaia
    Friend of Gaia
    Friend of Gaia
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    Friend of Gaia

    By Cristóbal Ambiente

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    Mother Nature desperately needs our help. Will you answer her call?

    Friend of Gaia introduces you to this loving being who wants to connect with us and help us, even as we continue to make choices that hurt her. Gaia is not only the name given to the first goddess of Ancient Greece...it is also the name of the very real living spirit of the Earth. Yes, Gaia is very much alive. It is upon Gaia’s body that we live our lives and make our mark. Gaia’s Earth is designed to seamlessly meet our every imaginable need as well as the needs of all other loving beings that call the Earth home.

    However, this beautiful and elegant self-regulating system is failing quickly. Where we would usually see the Earth self-correct, we are instead seeing the whole system becoming increasingly less-able to cope with the extreme strain placed on the Earth...by our own hands. As climate change and other global threats intensify, Gaia turns to us and asks that we use our free will to protect her Earth...before we destroy everything that she holds dear. Will you accept her call? Will you awaken from your slumber and be a friend of Gaia, at the very moment she needs us the most?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMindful Services, LLC
    Release dateSep 22, 2018
    ISBN9780463090206
    Friend of Gaia
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    Cristóbal Ambiente

    Cristóbal Ambiente is an environmentalist and spiritual seeker from the beautiful Appalachian Mountains. He has been an outspoken advocate for Mother Nature since the age of three. He is particularly critical of agencies, organizations, and institutions that claim to protect the environment and yet so often actively work against the Earth's best interest. Cristóbal has studied environmental issues in graduate school and worked on environmental projects in several states. These experiences led him to the realization that national and international leadership has very little chance of solving the major global environmental problems that threaten the survival of every species -- including ours. We should assume that no one is coming to save us and that no one will do our work for us. The sooner we take responsibility for ourselves, the better. Cristóbal strongly believes that environmental stewardship and advocacy are the responsibilities of every human alive on the planet today. It's up to us to help Gaia and save the Earth from the destruction that is otherwise now inevitable.

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      Friend of Gaia - Cristóbal Ambiente

      Friend of Gaia

      We’re more connected than you think

      Cristóbal Ambiente

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction

      WHO IS GAIA?

      Gaia Throughout the Ages

      Gaia and Religion

      Gaia Hypothesis and Science

      HOW CAN WE HELP GAIA?

      Connecting with Gaia

      What’s next for Gaia?

      Now that you know, what will you do?

      Further Reading

      Copyright © 2018 by Cristóbal Ambiente.

      All rights reserved except as follows. Minimal quotes from this text may be used in other print or digital publications provided that the book title and author’s name are cited. Otherwise, no part of this book’s text may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from the publisher (permissions@mindfulservices.org).

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      Mindful Services, LLC

      DISCLAIMER: The author and publisher hold zero liability for your use of this book and the information within.

      Foreword

      I have about a dozen other projects going on as I write this. However, I’m setting everything aside for now to focus fully on this project because it’s that important. I’m usually the kind of person to juggle multiple writing projects all the while knowing full-well that not all of them will make it to the finish line (trusting the Universe will push that the right ones through). This book is different. It really must make it to the finish line…and as quickly as possible.

      I could start out by telling you that our planet is in crisis. I could rattle off (and provide citations off the top of my head) lots of facts and figures about the sad state of our environment, the major global environmental threats, and the possible solutions. I’m not going to do that — not exactly, anyway. If you’re paying attention, you already know the deal with our environment. Chances are you care a lot about the Earth. I doubt you would have opened this book otherwise.

      Instead I’m going to share my story with you and explain the very real connection that I (and probably you) feel to Mother Earth (affectionately known to many – including me – as Gaia). I’ve always cared a lot about the planet, but until recently I didn’t understand why I — and some others — care so deeply about Gaia while many people would just as soon blow her body up (literally…i.e., MTR). It would be wrong to give myself credit for the realization as it came from none other than nature herself, during a long walk on a very beautiful woodland trail.

      However, despite my upbringing during which I was taught to respect the environment, I have spent most of my life relatively detached from Gaia. Some of the same forces that may have been at work in your life caused me to deny my spiritual connection to the Earth (among other things) for my first 30 years of life. Fundamental religion, dirty politics, separation from nature, and – yes – even modern science are the major contemporary forces that prevented me from seeking the conscious connection with Gaia that is rightly mine – and yours! There’s no denying who we are, no matter how we may try. (It catches up with us in one lifetime or another.) But why should we? It’s our divine right. I’m grateful that who I am and how I connect to Gaia has emerged in this lifetime, just as it can for you.

      In this book, I hope to appeal to your inner senses and awaken the divine wisdom already within you so that you can realize on a deeper level who you really are and why you’re really here (at this particular time in the grand Earth experiment). Much of what we were told and have learned about the Earth is wrong and very misguided. I choose to believe (largely for my own sanity) that the people in our lives who taught us many of these things didn’t do so maliciously and that they were truly doing the best they could. For me, any other conclusion just breeds bitterness. There are, however, other forces at work actively working against our environmental awakening. We’ll get to those later.

      However, before we dive right in, I’m sure you’re curious about the title of this book. As we will explore more in the coming pages, I’m not the biggest fan of labels (except when blending essential oils…or storing leftovers). Yet the urge I have felt over the years to define myself is — I believe — common for most of us.

      The misfits and wanderers (I say so lovingly) among us sometimes believe that a simple label will help us connect with and understand deeper truths about ourselves. In some cases, that’s true. But more often, defining labels actually cause us to impose artificial limits on ourselves. Now in my fourth decade of life and having tried on many labels, I have only stumbled upon one label that fits: friend of Gaia. This simple phrase strolled into my head along with an impressively complete outline of this book as I was taking that long walk outdoors I referenced earlier. As soon as I processed it, I knew that it just felt right. This is a label I can really get behind.

      Maybe by the end of this book, after you see what I mean, you’ll consider yourself a friend of Gaia, too.

      Introduction

      (or, Why am I here?)

      I am here for one big purpose. Everything in my life that brings me true fulfillment relates back to this reason for being. Several decades ago in Earth time, mere milliseconds in the grand scheme of the Universe, I agreed to be born and live a life on Earth. Whether I volunteered or had to be talked into it, I’m not sure. (If spirit-me is anything like physical 3rd dimensional-me, it probably took some strong convincing.) In any case, there were many reasons I chose to come here, but the deal maker, as it were, was this: an unmissable opportunity to help Gaia and all that she nurtures.

      Lest this story go down the wrong path, there is nothing particularly special or unique about my story as compared with the vast majority of souls living life on Earth at this particular time in human history. (To claim otherwise would be a misuse of ego.) There are billions of

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