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Overview

  • 7 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Spanish
  • 67, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Translator - Interpreter - English-French
  • I'm an eternal student, there's not a day when I am not l...
  • From New York City, USA, until the age of 24
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Totally surrender to the suchness of this moment.

ABOUT ME

As a Gemini I need to strike a balance between a very outgoing, sociable, communicative side, on the one hand, and a much more inwardly-orientated, meditative, spiritual aspect.

PHILOSOPHY

One love, one heart, the truth of unity, the unity of truths. Life is a path, a sacred school where each of us has his or her own specific curriculum, but which is nevertheless always a path from the illusion of separation - source of pain and suffering - to the truth and beauty of all-pervading unity - source of liberation. This cannot be grasped by the mind, though, and is not some far-away goal, somewhere out there in some future time... We are not the mind, which is just a "time-machine", useful for dealing with the illusions of past and future, but which should remain a servant and not be the small tyrant it can easily become when we mistakenly and unconsciously identify with this "mind-based sense of self". "Who we are is inseperabale from the present moment", another doorway to sensing our profound nature is focusing on the body to merge into Being. The teachings of Eckhart Tolle have been very useful for me recently, he has brought together the essence of everything I've always been searching for through all my psychospiritual endeavours... But he's not the only one ... especially considering that each of us is a manifestation of the One, each and every encounter is sacred and can be an opportunity to progress towards the realization of the sacred - making this a better world, simply put!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I joined CS in April, 2008. I can host couch surfers occasionally. I find it a great opportunity to make friends from all over the world, notably by attending social CS events.
I yet have to be hosted through CS.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

When I was doing a lot of biodanza, I regularly used to host people in Paris and get hosted during my visits to London or Brussels. It's always been a pleasure, I love this communal lifestyle, at least for a limited time period, say 3-4 days or so. Of course we all had the love of biodanza in common, which is very much related to the free hugs, but in a much more involved collective setting, a transformative group experience, source of profound happiness ... hard to explain with words, what the Founder - Rolando Toro - calls "vivencias" intense present moment experiences.

Interests

Movies, litterature, spirituality, meditation, massage, tai chi, rebirthing, biodanza, political ecology, ufology, free energy (Nikolas Tesla), "alter-mondialisme", world peace and unity, holistic, body-mind-spirit, intentional communities.

  • beauty
  • perfumes
  • meditation
  • movies
  • magic
  • ecology

Music, Movies, and Books

I don't know where to start, very eclectic that's for sure, I'll try to start a list some time... well, just last night (April 2, 2008), I saw "Deux soeurs pour un roi" - (what's the English title?) - it was really truly moving, a very beautiful movie, based on a real historical story...
I have TONS of Books at my place, I've always been a lot into reading, maybe less in recent years...
As a Translator, books is (a bit) "the name of my business", since I've already translated something like 25 of them already!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, China, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, United States

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