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Overview

  • 12 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Catalan, Valencian, English, Spanish; learning French, Hindi, Portuguese, Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Researcher, Enterpreneur. Environmental and social solutions
  • Degree in biotechnology. Biomedicine PhD
  • From Barcelona
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Live as if i was to die tomorrow and learn as if i was to live forever

ABOUT ME

Calm and hurryless.
I prefer free time than money.
After many studies, and degrees, i became aware of the dangers of specialitzation, and alienation of nature. Now i'm trying to reverse this process, and become the child i used to be again, that which used to relate with people extremely sincerely, and wished to learn from every moment.

PHILOSOPHY

Live as if I was to die tomorrow and learn as if I was to live forever

Think in complexity, live in simplicity
Global thinking for local solutions

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfing with local people has always been the best way for me to taste a country, get to know the best places and have a first hand experience of the ongoing situation.

Interests

Plenty of them, I enjoy learning new things. Specially those which help us to get an holistic approach to live.
Travelling, Permaculture, Sustainable living, facilitation, Life in Community, Medicinal herbs, philosphy of science. History.

Art, music and sharing beautiful experiences with people.
I like writting articles and poetry, and I enjoy cooking very much.

  • arts
  • culture
  • poetry
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • vegetarian
  • traveling
  • music
  • surfing
  • history
  • science
  • gastronomy

Music, Movies, and Books

Indian clasical music, ethnic music (african, greek..),new age, trance, trip-hop. My fauvorite groups could be Ravi shankar, Tosca, Rokia Traoré, Ali Farka Touré, Thievery corporation, Nitin Sawhney, Morcheeba, Autechre, Philip Glass, baka beyond....

Books: Eric Fromm, F. Pessoa, Benedetti, Ken Wilber, Paul Hawken, Masanobu Fukuoka, R. Panikkar, Kabir, Khalil Gibran, Krishanmurti, Dhamapada, Bhagavadgita, Osho... Philosphy of science, Permaculture, history of religions, ethnology, antropphology, bioethics, biotechnology, sutainability

Movies: Akira Kurosawa (many films of him), Cidade de Deus, Brazil, Pi, Instinct, Martin (Hache), Kundun, and I specilly like documentaries: The corporation, Voces contra la globalización, The crying camel, powaqqatsi,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Be in Kanyakumary and watch the sun rise over the indic ocean and at the same time, see the full moon set in de Arabic sea, in a cosmic dance over the surface of water.

See the Thar desert flooded.

Contemplate nature taking over civilitzation in the ruins of Angkor

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach spanish and catalan, as well as some permaculture tips.
Some Spanish history for begginers, and Catalan culture.
Mediterranean and vegetarian cooking.

I'm eager to learn anything offered and wishing to share a good time. I love to learn about cooking from other countries.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Cambodia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Laos, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Spain, United States

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