CURRENT MISSION

To live.

ABOUT ME

What do you want to know? I am a human being who happened to be born in Venezuela, then happened to leave Venezuela to live in America, then happened to leave America to go to China. Then happened to continue traveling on to the rest of the world, always on a search for the new. And now, I just happened to come in contact with many good couchsurfers. And this said individual has a passion for traveling, has a passion for seeing new things, and likes it better if the travels are made in a cheap way. So voila.

PHILOSOPHY

These quotes describe me pretty well:

"Tat tvam asi (Thou art that)."
-from the Upanishads

"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."
-Beatles, I am the Walrus

"Virtue, the minute it recognizes itself as a virtue, becomes a vice."

"If you are in hell, kiss the devil."
-from Gloria ;)

"Ignorance is the cause of fear."
-Seneca

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
-Voltaire

"Hypocrisy is the foundation of sin."

"The moment humans started to think, we fucked it all up."

"Civilization is just one humongous misunderstanding."

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
- Albert Einstein

"My grandfather rode a camel. My father rode in a car. I fly a jet airplane. My grandson will ride a camel."
-Saudi Saying

"If you want to make the gods laugh, tell them your plans."
-old proverb

"If the gods laugh at us mere humans, well then let us laugh together!"
-Me

"Philemon and the other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. Philemon represented a force which was not myself. In my fantasies I had conversations with him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. For I observed clearly that it was he who spoke, not I. He said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, "If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them." It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, or the reality of the psyche. Through him the distinction was clarified between myself and the object of my thought."
-Carl Jung

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By singing loud cosmic songs that echo across the expanses of time and space!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've met many, and stayed in four couchsurfers' apartments already. One of them in Hailaer, one in Manzhouli, another in Lahore, and finally one in Hong Kong. All great personalities. Only Couchsurfing can do it!

Interests

Philosophy, discussing, peace and love, music, singing cosmic songs that echo across the expanses of time and space, loosing my sense of self through the beats of dancing, reading, writing, conspiring to take over the world... ahum ahum... language, politics, people, psychology, instinct training, inventing, history, literature, cold beer, futbol, ping pong, our great mother nature, all things mystical, hot tubs, meditating, analyzing, teaching, creating, drinking tea, drinking coffee, whichever kind of food I can put into my mouth...

• animals
• birds
• arts
• writing
• literature
• singing
• dancing
• dining
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• flying
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• table tennis
• history
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite authors: Any Dostoevsky, any Hesse, any Aldous Huxley, any Orwell, any Borges, any Stalisnaf Grof, Capra, Quigley, Tolstoy, Spengler, Sartre, Kafka, Camus, Paulo Coehlo, Richard Heinberg, etc.

Favorite music: So much... by category, jazz, blues, trance, electronica, classical, indie, ethnic, folk, classic rock, tribal, psychedelic rock, among others.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seeing the endless horizon of the Amazon from atop a tepui in the Venezuelan high savannahs.

Teach, Learn, Share

Only one thing is needed in this world, and all of the universities and libraries in the world put together won't teach it to you: respect. That single word has so many meanings and applications that it'd take me a lifetime to correctly define it, for to practice this word correctly one must go through a life-long journey of challenges of the ego. And when one finally overcomes oneself in these challenges, one will find that the practice is as simple as drinking a glass of water, or breathing air, yet our stubborn minds always muddle its original meaning and transform it into its complete opposite.

So what is respect? Respect is to know that you are an extension of everything and everyone else. To know that you're are a part of the Brahman, and that you represent the entire whole within yourself. To know that you, and a farmer from Cambodia, or a murderer from Belgium, or a tree from Brazil, are indivisible entities, and that the entire world and universe shares a collective heart and soul. To forgive yourself and everyone for our collective sins. To know that you're meaningless and meaningful at the same time, meaningless alone, and meaningful as part of the whole. To live for others. To love everything and everyone, irregardless of what harm they have done to you in the past.

These are all things that are as true as the light of day and as the darkness of the night, and yet, for that very same reason, so hard for us to do. And why is this so? Because we're afraid of letting go. We're afraid of the dark. We hold on to our egos so dearly because we're afraid of finding out that we're holding on to nothing at all. And when we finally do give up, let ourselves go, and become one with death and the impermanence of everything, we realize that there was nothing to be afraid of after all.

Once we understand this with our hearts, and not just our minds, then respect will come about naturally and without effort through universal love. Until then, our egos will enslave us and leave us confused in the traps of the self, in the deserts of samsara. And the vicious cycles that derive from this source will continue on repeating themselves in our individual, and collective futures until there's not much of a future left for us at all.

Couchsurfing is a good step in the opposite direction, by the way! :)

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Nepal, Thailand, United States, Venezuela

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