CURRENT MISSION

Single-handedly creating heaven on earth... with a little help from my friends

ABOUT ME

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PHILOSOPHY

It seems to me that everyone I meet has something to teach me, and I them. Sadly we live lives in such a hurry that this lesson is often missed. I have resolved to live life slower, and more deliberately, that I may learn and share more from my experiences.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I believe in the power of individuals, and of taking ownership of the way you want the world to be.
I know that us humans can, and soon will, live in a way that celebrates life and consciousness, in harmony with one another, and with nature.
This year I started planting vegetables in public places, impromptu community gardens if you will. People are encouraged to water and weed the patches, and everyone is welcome to take some of the harvest. The idea is that the earth gives us everything we need to survive, if we will but allow it.
I like to do what I can and enjoy the idea of paying it forward, or better just giving. When I was in Brisbane I used to go and sit by the train station and make free pancakes for passers by. It was a great way to meet people, make them smile and maybe even inspire them to give onwards too. It made me feel good too, knowing I had worked for the greater good.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

After failing to get into Glastonbury festival last year (09) a friend and I ended up hitching a lift to Bristol with a chap who advised us where we could stay that night and gave us a lot of other information about where to go in Bristol. The next day we went to a park he recommended and met lots of fantastic, friendly people. Some of these guys invited us back to their place that night, where we then stayed.
The next day one of our new friends gave us a lift back to the park on her way to work, where we spent the day, before I realised I had left my phone at these guys' house.
We couldn't get through on any of their phones, and couldn't find their house. We were stood on the street, poring over a map, and I think it was getting dark, when a voice calls out, "do you guys need some help?". Hanging out of her front window was the nicest stranger I have ever met! She invited us in, let us use her phone, fed us, helped us with directions, and even said we could stay there that night! I got through to our previous hosts, collected my phone, got some wine and pizza and we spent the night and much of the next day with her and we have never forgotten her wonderful kindness to two complete strangers.

Interests

My prime interest at the moment is the transformation in human consciousness that is happening now, in the nick of time. The change in our psychology towards ourselves, each other, the planet and our spirituality that stops the destruction of Earth. I have a great interest in how it manifests, and the part I, and you, play in this transformation.
That said I'll listen to anyone talk about most anything!

• glastonbury
• festivals
• wine
• traveling
• socializing
• psychology
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

The Celestine Prophecy,
Way of the peaceful warrior,
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Eric Clapton,
Bob Marley,
Bob Dylan,
Queen,
Meatloaf,
The Who,
The Beatles,
The Rolling Stones,
Status Quo,
The Verve,
Adam Ant,
Billy Joel,
The Darkness,
Elton John,
The Kooks!,
Pink Floyd!

A Beautiful Mind,
The Matrix,
The Princess Bride,
Naked Gun,
Airplane,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I climbed to Uhuru Peak at the top of mount Kilimanjaro when I was 16. To go on this trip I had to get together £3,125 when I was 15.

Teach, Learn, Share

Let us assume that free will exists, and we have agency over our actions.

To be able to 'do good' we must be able to 'do evil', otherwise we just 'do'. This is illustrated in the Yin/Yang - one cannot exist without the other.

Only when we accept we have the capacity for both, and the ability to choose will we be able to look upon the 'bad' actions of our ancestors and decide to live in a 'good' way.