How will life go on after the collapse of the globalised political and economic systems? How will it survive the large-scale disruption of our planet's ecological and climatic systems? And what will become of the immense systems of belief, love and thinking as they start to shake within?The answer to these questions has to persist in the face of so many failed attempts in the past. The world stands on the brink of an abyss.The youth from Cairo to London, from Greece to Chile, from Rothschild Avenue, Tel Aviv to Wall Street, New York are looking for new ways out of the crisis. If the mass protest and revolt movements rising up all over the world today intend to gain revolutionary power and take off together, if life is to win over violence and war, we need a direction, an image, an idea of what might be our common goal.This book offers an idea of how a future worth living could be. It was written and published more than thirty years ago in Germany and we believe that its time has now come. We left it in the political context in which it was written. Through this we want to show that names change, yet the underlying problems remain the same... until we discover how to solve them. How this can be achieved is what this book is all about. It is more relevant today than ever.

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 fulfils 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. About the author: Sten Linnander grew up in Sweden, Afghanistan and Nepal, and later earned a degree in physics and geophysics from the University of Stockholm. Dividing his time between Arizona and Germany, he is currently engaged in research into the fluid self-organization in nature. His quest in life is to understand how we can reconnect with the living world around us and take our rightful place as conscious participants in its evolution.