Lulu P.'s Profile

CURRENT MISSION getting deeper into permaculture design thinking, nature connection, dream work and depth psychology ABOUT ME I deeply care about the environment and dream of a sustainable, self-sufficient life in harmony with nature. For me permaculture is a fantastic process-oriented approach to find solutions to the environmental problems we're facing. Yet with my background in Jungian psychology I think that to seriously tackle these problems, it's necessary to start with people care. First, we need to take a good, hard look at ourselves and start the change from within. I'm therefore very interested in self-exploration, -development and practicing mindfulness through yoga, meditation, sound healing, Kambo, sweat lodges, shamanic journeying, .... I'm also totally into gardening and was involved in a community garden project for 4 years. I love cycling, dancing, swimming, dreaming... PHILOSOPHY I think life will always remain mysterious and ultimately impenetrable - and I think that's great. Emotions, thoughts and challenges will come and go and wash over us like waves. It's not about becoming a perfect human being and to strive towards being always happy (an impossiblity anyway) but to find good strategies for how we cope with the dramas in life. I found that what works best for me personally are for the moment: believing in my own strength and warrior spirit (thanks, Kambo!) by not taking everything, above all myself, too seriously (thanks André Breton and your idea of black humour!) and last but not least through LOVE ("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). :-)

Why I'm on Couchsurfing

to meet new and interesting people. to exchange life stories and to be granted a glimpse into someone else's unique perspectives on life.

About

researcher

PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies

Music, Movies, and Books

40s-60s Soul and Funk, Afrobeat (esp.: Femi Kuti, Manu Dibango, Antibalas), Electroswing, Sweet Smoke, Postal Service, Jose Gonzalez, Iron&Wine, Devendra Banhart, Ben Harper, Pupkulies&Rebecca, St Germain, Psychedelic Rock, Neil Young, , Calexico, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Buckethead, Shpongle, Kliment, Tycho, John Frusciante, Ataxia, ... Natural Born Killers Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Withnail and I Harold and Maude Bondi Tsunami Der Himmel über Berlin Augsburger Puppenkiste Lammbock An Angle at my Table The Wind-up bird Chronicle by Murakami Janet Frame Bartleby, the Scrivener Jezt stillen wir unseren Hunger - Christoph Bauer Kafka Huxley Nabokov Heinrich Böll His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman all sorts of 19th century literature E.T.A Hoffmann E.A. Poe Kult - Ljubko Deresch Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins - Kundera Mio mein Mio - Lindgren and uncountable numbers of other good books!

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One Amazing Thing I've Done

ask me. :-)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach: baking sourdough bread jam making and other preserving didgeridoo circular breathing gardening cooking knitting and crocheting I'd like to learn: willow weaving more yoga and pranayama cheese making Lindy Hop or similar, tribal dance ........ what do you have to offer?

My Interests

Literature, music, nature, permaculture, eco villages, knitting, sewing, boating, cycling, wwoofing, my cats, bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, ecotherapy, C. G. Jung, chance and synchronicity, Surrealism, playing, lucid dreaming, spirituality, strings of connections between things, bird songs, trees rustling, tides changing, clouds moving...