Brief Bio
Is it so important to know who I am? I am really just no-one. Done. It is MUCH more important to know yourself and what you love to do in life.
Thank you for taking the time to visit this web-site. My birthname, given to me by my wonderful parents is Gabriele Angelo Ciminelli, but most people call me Gab, or GC, or C. You can call me anything you like, really.
I don’t associate myself with any “label” but in order to help you understand a little more about how I express myself, I’ll choose the word “philosophy” - but not the philosophy you are probably thinking about. The original meaning of that word is, “love of truth” and after spending about 50 years on this planet, searching, learning, experiencing, inquiring, teaching, coaching, parenting, and so forth, it has gradually occurred to me that truth has no path and cannot come from another. In addition, I have no way of proving I exist and realizing that illusion has been profound.
Why I write
Have you ever wondered what "Silence" is and what it has to do with mind, body, health and vitality?
After my mother passed away when I was 21, I went looking for answers. I've travelled and lived mostly throughout Asia for 20+ years, learning various meditation techniques, talking to Zen teachers (particularly here in Japan). Nearly joined a monastery (two actually) as well. I moved from one religion to another, one philosophy to another. I've read books from many famous and non-famous authors looking for happiness and meaning of life, love, enlightenment. I became a Mindfulness teacher and a student of SIYLI.
𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐎 𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐈𝐋. None of them could give me what I was looking for. I gave up in frustration.
But it wasn't until 2022 when something physically happened to me that forced me to see the pointlessness in all of this. Despite all of my efforts to uncover the unknown in vain, I really can’t explain what my body went through on its own accord. It happened again in 2024.
It tore “me” (my mind) to pieces - everything I thought I was: destroyed overnight. Everything I thought was true was anything but. Mind truly is myth - there is really nothing here. Everything I looked for was just a blanket trying to put out a fire. All of what we do is adding to the incredible beauty that is already there.
Silence is definitely not what you 'think'. It’s not the emptiness between two sounds, or the void, or the nothing. Those are inventions of thought. It is something rather quite extraordinary.
I wrote three books about it and how "thinking" illudes you and pulls you into so many directions it is causing you stress, frustration, and loneliness. The book challenges you to 'dance' with your own mind (or rather, go to 'war' with it!) to see if you can uncover the magic of silence you already have access to.
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About Gab
Gab is an author, speaker and facilitator. His deep fascination for religion and philosophy since he was a young boy eventually brought him to Asia to learn various forms of meditation. However, after 20 years of practicing, he gave up on what he calls "the propaganda of modern-day meditation" which had not brought him any closer to understanding life. In 2022, Gab reported experiencing a strange phenomenon that suspended his body into an alternate state. "The best I could describe it is when you are caught in a field in the middle of a lightening storm and everywhere I tried to run, the lightening struck the top of my head, over and over again. My brain felt like it was zapped to pieces. The next thing I knew was that my body was trembling for weeks, my speech was startled, and I needed to write".
This experience immediately prompted him to withdraw any associations with religions, communities, and politics, or follow any philosophies, and allow the body to respond in its own way without a "me" confusing it. His manuscripts, books, blog posts, and podcasts are not based on any philosophies or previous knowledge and therefore speak to any audience.
"There is too much talk of spiritual nonsense, divine ways to create a life you love, promises of mindset changes, gurus who think they have answers, purpose-driven bs, propaganda, end of suffering, love, compassion, non-duality... All of it is noise, period. There is nothing to do here on this planet and nothing to be. We have made a mockery out of our own existence which seeks the need for a purpose because it is completely lost. It thinks it's better than a cockroach and that is the biggest joke."
Gab’s philosophy:
To continually dismantle any established belief systems and habits and encouraging individuals to question deeply ingrained ideas about the self, consciousness, and spiritual growth.