Hate those "Read my Profile!" test questions, but please do not send me "I need a comfortable place to crush, looks like you like helping travelers" templates. I'm just gonna send you a song in that case.

I'm not looking for "answer these questions, tell me why i should host you". Just be genuine about your request please considering why are you doing what you are going (why are you even writing to me)

UPDATED MISSION
Investigating unconditional love, finding my true ever-changing self, searching for a school where i can study theater, art history, writing, ethnobotany, psychedelics, metaphysics, and psychology.

ABOUT ME

I change what I can, and try to accept what I cannot. I pee where I can as well.

Things that have had a huge affect on my life are;
silent meditation retreats, neuroscience, nude drawing, acceptance, trying not to identify things as "good" or "bad", Buddha, right questions (just identified something as "right/good" uups), curiosity, metal work, theater, psychedelics, trees, whales, and wise, loving friends.

PHILOSOPHY

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
-Rumi

Pure love has no lust.
Lust is the craving of the senses,
and pure love is
the expression of the soul.

"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found."
Pema Chödrön

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I don't have the mission to support all the Couchsurfers (I used to have), because of the invention of time that goes back to 1500 BC. Time is important, and I want to expand both my and your consciousness through meaningful, loving, humorous conversations and activities. I respect your time, and I expect the same from you. Yes there are some expectations in unconditional love too.

Interests

Metal Art, 5-Rhythm Dance, Nude Drawing, Gardening, Neuroscience, Watercolor painting, Woodburning, Sending/Collecting Postcards, Vipassana, Combat sports (muay thai, krav maga), Sailing, Long road trips, Lindy Hop, Collecting rocks, Listening to Antique Shop owners' stories

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC:
Alice Coltrane, Radiohead, Sade, Koop, Hooverphonic, Wax Tailor, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Royksopp, Feist, Chris Isaak, Nightmares on Wax, Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Zero 7.

MOVIES:
Inner World Outer Worlds, City of God, Life of BRIAN, Heaven Can Wait (1943 fantasy-comedy with Gene Tierney), Grave of the Fireflies, Almost Famous, Mulholland Drive, Celine and Julie Go Boating (3hr long movie), Dogville, Irreversible, Pan's Labyrinth, All That Jazz (down to watch it for the 3rd time), I'm No Angel (1933, Mae West), Love Streams (1984, Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes), A Woman Under the Influence.

BOOKS:
Death with Interruptions, The Blind Owl, Sophie's World, Les Miserables, Essays by Montaigne, The Myth of Sisyphus.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being in silence at a meditation retreat for 6 days, and experiencing the most profound connection with myself and 90 other people.

Being a canvasser for Greenpeace and giving almost half of the population in New York high fives!

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
Meditation techniques
Qi Gong
Neuroscience, & neuroplasticity (the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections all the time: which can be a positive or a negative thing)
Somatic Body Movements
Wood-burning
Nutrition: Guts & Psychology (how the flora of our gut affect our brain: literally can create a brain fog, autism, ADD, etc.)
Recipes from Colombia, El Salvador, India, Turkey

Learn:
Art
Science
Play an instrument
Spanish
Vegetarian recipes
Yoga
Weird facts

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories
Epsom salts
Herbal teas
Art supplies
Plant seeds

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Turkey, United States