CURRENT MISSION

To seek and promote states of vigorous lucidity through hosting and surfing the couches of lovely people.

ABOUT ME

I'm extremely interested in philosophy and culture, fascinated by consciousness, and is on what appears to be a life-long journey to merge art, science, and spirituality into a cohesively fluxing, irrationally rational worldview.

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PHILOSOPHY

A few succinct points:

-WWJD
- One should have a periodic reassessment of values
- Have a sense of humor
- Travel (I know that doesn't need to be stated on this site)
- Stay humble. Eventually life will scare and/or force you to be anyways

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting and being hosted.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've been hosting in Telluride, CO for the past four months and it's been amazing.

Interests

Broadly speaking: adventure, new landscapes, film, music, art, books, soccer, tennis, travel, comedy, philosophy, psychology, science, space, podcasts, human development, languages, the ocean, inspiring people, dogs...

More specifically: Getting into long discussions about seemingly trivial things to search for hidden gems of wisdom- e.g. A discussion that began with "We're eating pizza now, I wonder who else is eating pizza right now?" turned into a realization that anyone who has ever eaten pizza at any moment in their life was and always will be eating pizza right now. Even now as I type this, we're all eating pizza. Let me explain. This will be somewhat lengthy so stop reading here if you're not interested in my interest.

Okay...so when you hear a plane, do you ever have trouble spotting it in the sky? If you look up where the sound seems to be coming from, the plane is no longer there. That's because it takes time for the sound waves to reach you, and by the time they do, the plane has moved on. So, in a sense, you are "hearing back in time," because the sound you hear is the sound of the plane several seconds ago, not the sound of the plane now. When you do spot the plane, you are actually seeing it as it was a tiny fraction of a second ago because just as sound waves take time to travel, so do light waves. Now, nothing can travel faster than light, but as fast as it is, light still needs time to get anywhere, whether it's across a room, across the span of atmosphere beneath an airplane, or across a big part of the universe.

Thus, the speed of light is an important variable in producing the subjective experience of perceiving events "now". When you look up at the sun (and I don't advocate you do that for more than a second assuming you're wearing sunglasses), you're not looking at the sun as it is at that moment. You see it how it was approx. 8 minutes (depending on the solstice) before. Because it takes light 8 minutes to reach the earth from the sun, any activity on the sun's surface would only be experienced or brought into our awareness 8 minutes later. If we managed to develop super heat resistant suits that allowed astronauts to swim in the sun's lava (bare with that ridiculousness for the sake of argument) and said astronauts were to spontaneously perform an 8 minute act of synchronized swimming, by the end of their performance, the people of Earth would just then be experiencing the first moments of that glorious cosmic spectacle.

Okay... so let's say you ate pizza a month ago. Now, on any planet, star, or moon that's hangs on the cusp of the radius a light-month away from earth, you eating pizza would just now happen on those celestial bodies.

Lets say you ate pizza 5 years ago. If there were intelligent life forms looking at earth right now through a powerful telescope on a planet 5 light years away, the Earth they would see would involve you eating pizza, right...now.

That papa johns you ordered 10 years ago? That's happening right now on Planet X, 10 light years away from here. Their hypothetical civilization is looking down at this very moment, while you're reading this, thinking "oh look, they ordered pizza to celebrate the discovery of touch screens".

Because we know there are galaxies billions of light years away, the events and entire evolution of our planet are being stretched out across the vast universe! Ad infinitum! Life forms from neighboring star systems would have just now discovered that we finally invented the wheel. And a few star systems closer just now became aware that Obama was elected president. Maybe a few star systems in a galaxy wayyy further up yonder can see what really went down with the dinosaurs. But it's all happening now. Although yes, theoretically they would be looking into the past, but the EXPERIENCE of perceiving those events is still now to them. Just as we use Hubble to look at distant galaxies as they were billions of years ago, we still experience those ancient galaxies in the now.

So, we were eating pizza then, and from a cosmic perspective, everyone was also eating pizza then, and we're all still eating pizza now. Hitler is still invading Poland, Warheads are still a trend, Germany just won and will forever be winning the World Cup, I just burped and will forever be burping.

Just don't go quantum and it makes perfect sense.

Those are my interests.

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• books
• performing arts
• coffee
• reading
• traveling
• podcasts
• music
• surfing
• soccer
• tennis
• swimming
• world cup
• languages
• psychology
• science

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've stood on top of the Pyramids at Teotihuacan and later that day toured the house of Frida Kahlo.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Portuguese and how to make molten lava cake with Ben and Jerrys. I know how to make bulletproof coffee and why it's good for you. I can make a pretty good Caipirinha. I'm well-versed in the art of free-style soccer. I'm open to learn most things....

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States