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  • 54 references 40 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hebrew (modern); learning Dutch, Persian (Farsi), Spanish
  • 58, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Artist, film director, interactive games creator, writer,...
  • University of Life
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

http://www.alternativetraveling.com/ travel the world for the next 2 years with my beautiful family, while creating together the www.alternativetraveling.com project

ABOUT ME

Read the book :)

PHILOSOPHY

" we all just visiting this planet"
we are here for a glance but for a reason, and what ever we mark in this precious gift that is called our life, is here to stay after us, any of our actions are part of a matrix that creates the ongoing future that has already happend many many times in the past.

Any one can be anyone, all it takes is strong will and determination,while fighting to "kill" the demons of our fears.

Changing and changes are the key for vitality.
Any contemporary thinking or being will finally become a dogma if it isn't able to change.

I start feeling uncomfortable anytime i start feeling too comfortable, these are the times when i realize that time has come to pack and get on the road to the unknown, to the places that i am a stranger again, to stay sharp, keep my senses open & broaden my mind.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I welcome couchsurfers to my life, my home, my friends, my work and projects, my family and anything else that comes a long while staying at my space.
Trying to learn as much as possible from the couch surfers i meet and i hope i deliver something in return.

Interests

Travel, travel and more travel in any aspect of the word. inside, out side, into the wild, observing human behavior and patern of thoughts, mind changing experiences.

The art of change.The art of do. The art of think. The art of silent and staying still. The art of love. The art of feel.The art of touch. The art of give.The art of share.The art of be.

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • folklore
  • dancing
  • meditation
  • movies
  • traveling
  • painting
  • camping
  • rock climbing
  • paragliding
  • beaches
  • lakes
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books are one of the only attachements i have in life, i carry my libary from country to country and from apartment to apartment when i move.

Several books are the basics for me,they are great friends for many years and i always come back to them.

So said Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Ayn Rand's collection and all about objectivizem
Fiction: We the Living,The Fountainhead,Atlas Shrugged
Non-fiction: The Virtue of Selfishness
Total freedom - Krishnamurti
The Dice man - Luke Rhinehart
Stranger in a strange land - Robert Heinlein
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha,Narcissus and Goldmund.

Few movies from the thousand movies i watched to date that are timeless,i admire their creators and believe they make a difference:
Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgema - One giant leap, what about me.
The wave.
Naked lunch David Cronenberg based on a novel by William S. Burroughs.
Any of the cohen's brothers movies - The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Miiler's crossing, Barton fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Blade runner - Ridley scott
Peter Greenaway - The Cook,The Thief,His Wife & Her Lover.
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange.
Short bus - John Cameron Mitchell

Music - i am Eclectic in my taste and sorounded by music and basically interested in any type of music that the word QUALITY can be attached to, regardless of the genre, it can be PsyTrance like - Sphongale& Halucinogen by SIMON POSFORD, Tekno like old Mononom, classic rock like Led Zeppelin, Yes, Pink floyd, king crimson, jazz masters like old standards of Telemonious monk, and Miles davis, modern jazz like Jan Jarbarek or classic like simon Tanol or Stieve reich, dub, balkan or irish music.

Artist and art pieces i love and inspired :
Alex grey spiritual and psychedelic art.
Daniel Libeskind architecture and multidisciplinary approach.
La Fura dels Baus language, style and aesthetics.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The list is endless, but few that just jumped into my mind -

Doing Vippasana meditation.

climb 6000 meter to the top of the cotopaxi,the highest active volcan mountain in the world.

Get lost for a month in the "paradise" Andaman islands.

Camp over night in front of the Sangai extremly active volcan mountain and watch it "performing".

Jump a lone from 1500 meter with paraglide and be "abird"

Dive in the Galapagos with sharks, Mantarays and thousand of fishes.

Stream dive in Ras Mohamad coral reefs in Sinai.

Watch the snow covering the Nevada desert.

Wonder a round the temples in Hampi.

See the perfect eclipe with 15,000 thousand beautiful people in stunning nature in Turkey.

Dance for a week on the beach in universo Parallelo and in the Carnaval in Salvador de Bahia

Take a trip and go hicking in Chapada Demhantin, Brazil.

Watch all night for rain of Meteors droping from the sky in the desert in Israel.

Go climbing on the Norwegian mountains for few days with my 4 years son and enter the freezing ice water lakes with my daughter.

paint 3 by 2 meter painting togehter with my daughter when she was two and a half.

Writing and directing movies and people.

be inside a cloud of Million Yellow butterflies landing on the river beach, comimg out of nowhere, in the Jungle of Peru.


Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to make a sushi, how to give a deep head and body massage, how to meditate,sit silent for an hour and observe your mind, how to make a movie, how to tell a story in 30 seconds, how to dive with sharks, how to climb volcan mountains, how to paraglide.

I would love to study from you, your favorite dish,anything from your home kitchen tradition, all about alternative living and eco living and anything you would love to teach and share.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Seychelles, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Iran, Israel, Netherlands, United States

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