Gloria "Light" Lucia Alba

Family Members: Marc Gingold, Life Partner, caregiver 

Alicia Marie DaSilva, Daughter

I've written mini-series, screenplays, three novels, two non-fiction books and, numerous articles all in support of women's empowerment and of women playing a greater, meaningful, significant role in shaping and guiding our global civilization, but I never thought I would be writing an obituary, especially for the one person on Earth I love more than life itself.

I met Lucia Gloria Alba–who I've always called Light, because she was not only the light of my life, but she radiated light out into the world and to everyone she came in contact with–when she opened the door to a house in Santa Monica to which I had been invited in 1981, when we were both 41 years old. Lucia and I were born in the same year, on the fifth day of the month, five months apart.

The moment I saw her, she owned my heart and that love despite all the ups and downs, all the turmoil and drama of life, has not diminished even one iota.

Lucia and I have tread a different path than most people. It was a path with no footsteps to follow, like walking in virgin snow when all you can see in the horizon is a blanket of white. We never knew where it was going to take us, we simply trusted in a Higher Power that is beyond the human mind's ability to comprehend. We've been our own teacher and student in this journey, this process of attaining a more evolved state of being, of connecting with that part of us that is one with Divine Intelligence, the love that crated us and the love to which we return to when our time in this world is over.

In the forty three years that we have been together, we have only been physically apart a total of about six weeks, other than that we have been together 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and we never ever tired of being together. We had our tiffs. Brilliant people are not the easiest people to live with–and Lucia was not only brilliant, she was the wisest person I have had the privilege to know or have heard about, and we are both strong willed individuals. But the love never diminished no matter how upset we were with one another.

Lucia was a highly evolved spiritual/metaphysical teacher who would probably scoff and shake her head and laugh at me if I called her an enlightened master, but she was. Not only was she my best friend, my companion, my lover, my family, my everything, she was my teacher. I learned early on that she was wiser than me and funniest person I have ever known. Every positive change in my life, from becoming a better writer, to losing my fear of swimming in the ocean or even in a swimming pool, to losing my shyness to the point of being able to walk up to any stranger and begin a conversation, to evolving metaphysically, are all due to my beloved.

Not only was Lucia highly evolved metaphysically, she was a gifted artist, a poet, a writer. She was also one of the most beautiful women I have ever met or have ever seen. Her beauty did not diminish as she aged. She was even beautiful in death.

When people asked me what I did for a living, I replied that Lucia was my career, my full time job. We also worked together as a team to help other people. Iin essence we were catalysts for positive change. Over the years we've made a positive difference in the lives of people that came to us and that we opened our hearts to.

We used our ability to “see” with laser-like insight into human behavior to assist a broad cross section of individuals in a relatively short term process leading to life altering changes–in managing and mastering stress, in manifesting loving relationships, or freeing themselves of abusive, toxic relationships, in healing childhood trauma, , in changing careers, in releasing creativity, in dealing with eating and drinking disorders, in transforming anger, in finding inner peace and satisfaction in their lives, and in simply feeling good about themselves, in feeling empowered, and for some, the attainment of a more evolved state of living and simply being. What all these individuals had in common, is that without exception, the organic naturally occurring processes they engaged in with us brought about positive, sometimes dramatic changes in their lives.

Death will not part us. Lucia is stuck with me for all eternity and beyond eternity, if there is a beyond. I ask people not to feel sad for me because I feel like the most blessed, the most privileged person on Earth to have had 43 years day and night together with this remarkable women who owns my heart forever and ever.

Lucia leaves us with this message.

Opening the heart to love and freeing ourselves from our primal minds is how the human race can finally evolve and live in peace and harmony with all of life and this magnificent planet that is our home in the vastness of space.

Be with Divine Mother sweetness. We will continue our journey when it is my time to leave this old body back on Earth and join you in that vast, unfathomable unknown.