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Overview

  • 32 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 52, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • Freelance writer / editor / journalist
  • Degree, books, films, travel, life
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Digital Nomad in Thailand

ABOUT ME

I love thoughtful, witty, open, connecting conversation with people who can both think and feel ... and I try and offer the same.

PHILOSOPHY

Live in the moment with faith in the future and the understanding "that we're all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively" (in the words of comedian Bill Hicks).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting at the moment

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed in Australia and NZ in 2005-6. Made friends, been part of the family, felt at home, and eventually realised my hosts were getting something from it, too. Since then I've hosted in UK, Mexico and Thailand, but enjoyed it just as much.

Interests

Open and fun people, creativity/writing, stuff filed under consciousness and spirituality.

In 2012, I published a novel, Human+, and had a podcast for a while in which I interviewed people in subjects mainly connected to human potential.

Currently involved in the crypto/web3/DeFi sphere, mainly as a copywriter.

  • writing
  • books
  • guitar
  • backpacking
  • business
  • journalism
  • medicine
  • healing
  • cryptocurrency

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Pixies, Cardiacs, Beck, Air, Blue States, Kinobe, Zero 7 ...

Films: Blade Runner, Groundhog Day, Being John Malkovich, Millers Crossing; -- David Lynch, Woody Allen ...

TV: Succession

Books: pop science books, Colin Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson, Jack Kerouac, Milan Kundera ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Couldn't pick one, so....

Back when I was younger and less responsible, with three backpacker friends, I scammed a 5-star penthouse suite in a Sydney hotel, with bridge and opera house view, and access to the roof to film sunset and sunrise.

Lived at a permaculture commune in Andalusian countryside.

Vipassana meditation retreats.

Full moon party on shrooms, Koh Pha Ngan.

Learning Thai massage in jungle near Chiang Mai.

Medicine ceremonies & MDMA psychotherapy.

Crypto ICO.

Teach, Learn, Share

Act as (basic!) guide; philosophy and consciousness chats; fun!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Some local knowledge

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom

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