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Overview

  • 27 references 25 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 71, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • retired. living in community
  • BA. psych.
  • From san francisco, ca. usa
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to live with grace

ABOUT ME

ageless, health oriented, fit, spiritual, wannabe one with god, that is, fulfill my potential, or be "love", or not codependent (on anything outside myself). I value exquisite consideration for others, thoughtfulness, awareness, kindness, no ego, warmth, friendship, and love, singing, dancing, music, joy/laughter/humor. Easy going, tend to be light-hearted, romantic, artistic, extremely witty (under the right circumstances). Love nature, not big on cities, enjoy helping out.

PHILOSOPHY

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FLIES (written yesterday, Oct. 25, 2009)

Meditating outside
They crawl under my nose
Will they enter my nostrils?
Imagine God picking his nose
Or better, stretching my boundaries
For intimacy
By touching me through flies
His emissaries
God meet God
And I'm gone.

Each fly reminds me
God wants to be intimate with me.

To just feel and watch the feeling.
Don't be the feeling.

I do not personify God
Dazzled and mystified
Am I
Lost
In His dream
Adjusting and tuning
Twisting and turning
Walking that shadowy edge
Between the light and dark side of the moon
Catch the light that comes through
Don't stand in my shadow

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Flow with the Flow.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a beginner. In the past, before couchsurfing was born, I hosted many a traveler.

Interests

hypersensitive people, self-sustainability, intentional communities/ecovillages, love, god, curious about almost everything.

  • arts
  • singing
  • dancing
  • dining
  • walking
  • clubbing
  • flying
  • clothing
  • painting
  • music

Music, Movies, and Books

yes, of course, reading swann's way right now, you know, Proust. I don't know if I'll make it thru though, to soon to tell. Also, I Am That, Nisergadatta Maharaj is always by my bedside.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Had a 3 week "illumination", when I was young. That was fun. Met some lovely people. Lived in an intentional community/organic farm up until a month ago for 5 years on the border of holland and germany.

Had probably the first "antique clothing store" in the world in San Francisco, a ways back.

Got arrested for serving homeless people food in San Francisco back in the nineties, a number of times. Working with Food Not Bombs.

Fell out of an airplane and survived (this is not really true) :).

Teach, Learn, Share

I can give an introduction to Non violent Communication (www.cnvc.org), I know a bit about painting (art), having done that in the past, "professionally". I'm more of a generalist (generally I don't know) and I belong to the "I don't know club" :). A few other things. I'm mostly an expert on Nothing.

I love to learn useful things and spiritual/self-knowledge.

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