Christina von Dreien was not yet 18 when her books became bestsellers and her lectures sold out. Born in 2001 in a small Swiss mountain village, she now reaches an audience on YouTube that runs into the hundreds of thousands. Her message comes down to three words: Freedom, Truth, Love.
Origin: Toggenburg and a twin sister
Christina Meier came into the world in 2001 as a premature baby – together with her twin sister Elena. Elena passed away a few weeks after the birth; in Christina's and Bernadette's words she "went into the light" at that time. Christina herself survived and grew up in Dreien, a part of the municipality of Mosnang in the Toggenburg region of Eastern Switzerland – hence the name she uses publicly: "von Dreien" (of Dreien).
Christina describes that the bond with Elena has not been broken since. For her, Elena has remained a spiritual companion who supports her work on Earth from the other side. The title of the first book in the series – "Zwillinge als Licht geboren" (Twins Born as Light) – carries exactly this double meaning.
Christina has been going her own way for a long time. Today she has her own team around her, organises her lectures and online formats independently, and acts separately from her family – even though the public introduction to her early story initially came through her mother's books.
The books
The "Christina" series is published by the Swiss Govinda Verlag. The first two volumes are written by Bernadette von Dreien, a naturopath and former top athlete:
- Vol. 1 – "Zwillinge als Licht geboren" (Twins Born as Light): the circumstances of the birth, Elena going into the light a few weeks later, childhood and youth up to the age of 16.
- Vol. 2 – "Die Vision des Guten" (The Vision of the Good): the end of school and the beginning of public work; Christina's inner pictures of the future of the world.
The following volumes of the series were written with a co-author:
- Vol. 3 – "Bewusstsein schafft Frieden" (Consciousness Creates Peace): continuation up to spring 2018. Here the central idea is articulated: peace is a consequence of consciousness – not primarily of political structure, not primarily of negotiation.
- Vol. 4 – "Am Ende ist alles gut" (In the End All Is Well): focus on the year 2020 and the world situation at that time.
The most recent book in the series Christina wrote herself:
- Vol. 5 – "Der Ungehorsam der Liebe" (The Disobedience of Love): present world conditions and their background – in her own voice.
Alongside the series Christina has published a standalone work: "Christinas Herzbotschaften: 99 kurze Inspirationen" (99 Short Inspirations) – short texts from her own pen, without the biographical framework of the series.
The series has been on the bestseller lists in the German-speaking world continuously since its publication.
"Consciousness creates peace."
Her message: Freedom, Truth, Love
If you had to pin Christina down on what her work is actually about, she answers herself with three words – freedom, truth, and love – and with a sentence from her website: "I am here to support people in achieving expanded consciousness."
In her language that means concretely:
- Freedom: inner freedom from fear, from external control, from a narrowing onto purely materialist worldviews.
- Truth: the willingness to look behind conventions – in everyday matters as much as in the big questions.
- Love: as the driving force behind everything that supports life. "The revolution of love" is one of her recurring formulas.
Consciousness as a receiver
A central point in her teaching is her view of consciousness itself: it does not arise in the brain, Christina says. The brain is a receiver, not a producer. She explains this position particularly clearly in a short audio piece – anyone who wants to go deeper will find a separate piece on it here:
Christina von Dreien: Does our consciousness arise in the brain?
The same thesis – the filter or receiver model – has been formulated for decades by academic voices such as the near-death researcher Jeffrey Long, the cardiologist Pim van Lommel, and the neurologist Wilfried Kuhn. Christina does not formulate this as a scientific hypothesis but out of her own perception – yet the statement itself is the same.
Reach: a young generation, large stages
Her first book appeared when she was 16; by 17 her lecture halls were sold out. Today her YouTube videos regularly reach six- to seven-digit view counts. Her website christinavondreien.com brings together books, lectures, audio pieces and event dates.
What is unusual about this reach: it is carried by a generation that grew up with the internet and social media, and at the same time looks for spiritual substance. Christina hits a nerve there – and she does so in a language that almost completely avoids academic vocabulary.
In the picture of the "star children"
In the spiritual scene Christina is often placed as a prominent example of a "Crystal Child". The term comes from the New Age tradition of so-called star children: Indigo children (from the 1970s) are seen there as pioneers, Crystal children (from the 1990s/2000s) as gentler, sensitive peace-bringers who come into the world with an already-opened consciousness.
Some voices go a step further and speak of Christina as a "Diamond Child" – an image for particular clarity and steadfastness, just as a diamond is hard and at the same time refracts light. What is implied: not only perception, but active transmission.
This attribution is not a self-description by Christina, but it says something about what very many people see in her – someone with unusually clear perception and unusually clear language, already very young.
A voice of a new generation
Unlike the classical mediums of the British Spiritualism school (Paul Meek, Pascal Voggenhuber) or representatives of the old Alpine tradition (Sam Hess), Christina von Dreien brings something new: she sees herself as part of a generation of young people with expanded consciousness who do not grow into an existing school or tradition but search for their own language for their experience.
This view carries much of what Christina conveys: a spiritual development of humanity in which the younger generation plays its own role.
Why Christina von Dreien deserves attention
- Language: clear, simple, without esoteric jargon and without academic distance. She speaks in a way that even a fourteen-year-old listener can follow.
- Core idea: "Consciousness creates peace" links the very personal practice (inner work) with a larger perspective (global responsibility).
- Reach: she reaches an audience that traditional media and books hardly reach any more – giving the topic of consciousness a new platform.
- Continuity: three books, regular new contributions, her own website. The work is documented and accessible.
Christina von Dreien is not a classical evidence medium and not a researcher. She is a young voice who, in a time that is difficult for spirituality, finds words that many people can understand. That alone makes her work worth reading and listening to.