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El Gastor, Andalusia, Spain
@siddiq-khan-1
Member since 2015
Mild and merciless. Endlessly vagrant. Subject, lover and agent of the Nameless Wildness. While some people travel to find themselves, I travel to lose myself. The attachments, habits, comforts, routines, relationships that defined me are all in the past. He who is not busy being born is busy dying and what I do day by day: leting go of my home to feel at home anywhere, letting go of my country to become a citizen of the world, letting go of my education to learn all the things they never taught me, letting go of the old idea of who I am to encounter an unknown, undreamed of way of being. My passion is beautiful interaction between people and the planet, beginning with human community and expanding through to ecology and the full diversity of the arts of living a fruitful and joyful life.
Fluent in English
Fluent in Spanish
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
To meet people, laugh and be merry. To discover the radical genius of my generation. To continue the conversation between each and everyone about what it means to be human, to have a fruitful life on this earth, and how to overcome the disease of fear and dishonesty that plagues civilisation with courage and truth.
Music, Movies, and Books
Music: 'The Nguni Sound' from South Africa and Swaziland, also jazz from my country such as the Blue Notes, Brotherhood of Breath, Abdullah Ibrahim, Johnny Dyani, Dudu Pukwana, pop music like Miriam Makeba the Mahotella Queens, Shangaan Disco, etc Mbira music from Zimbabwe, Kora from Senegal, Afrofunk from Nigeria, Pygmy polyphony and Rhumba from Congo and central Africa, Marina from Madagascar, etc Blues, rock, jazz, contemporary classical, experimental and folk music from the US, polyphonic choral music from medieval and rennaisance Europe Classical music from India, Iran, Indonesia, and elsewhere Generally, folk and traditional music from around the world Books: Emma Goldman, Mustapha Khayati, Laura Riding, Lao Tzu, William Carlos Williams, Chuang Tzu, Ford Maddox Ford, Kenneth Rexroth, Bertold Brecht, Freddy Perlman, Wilhelm Reich, YB Yeats, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Phillip Whalen, Lew Welch, Guy Debord, Kenn Knabb, Raoul Vaneigem, Octavio Paz, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, Ursula Le Guinn, Doris Lessing, Henry Miller, George Orwell, Marx, Kropotkin, Engels, Bakunin, etc Movies: One Sixth of the World by Dziga Vertov In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (and everything else) by Guy Debord Intolerance by GW Griffiths Seven Samaurais by Akira Kurosawa Summer with Monica (and almost everything else) by Ingmar Bergman 8 1/2 by Fellini Los Olvidades by Luis Bunuel etc
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Love someone well
Teach, Learn, Share
All the time
What I Can Share With Hosts
Laughs
My Interests
Astronomy, world history, psychedelic and medicinal plants, geology, permaculture, foraging, practical philosophy and the domestic arts, body-based psycho-social therapy, childcare and education, traditional knowledge and culture, communication, architecture and the built-environment, open-source ecology, dance, history and literature, mutual-aid and co-operative social relationships, self-reliance and resilience, are what interests me deeply in my mission make some small but concrete contribution towards a global movement away from the present suicidal civilization towards a sane and beautiful way of living on this earth.
