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Overview

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  • Fluent in English
  • 69, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Right now stuck taking care of my old mother in L.A.
  • 100's of superfluous college units, still 2 classes short...
  • From Grew up in L.A., CA. still here, But not my home.
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

2 B completely enlightened world travler with many homes

ABOUT ME

I am incredibly well read. I have lived and traveled around the world. 4yrs in Greece. 6yrs in India. 5yrs in a spiritual community in Wisconsin. 4yrs in New Zealand. A smattering of a whole bunch of years all around. I lived in Sedona AZ. I might go back. My wife Selene is 35yrs old, Mexican,I took her for a year to India before I married her. I could be called a professional student:spiritual and or otherwise. I've lost a small fortune, not poor but kind of cheap.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is a Dream, and we are all dreaming our reality. We are all here for a purpose, mostly for our own personal evolution and to work out alot of karma. Most of what happens is for a reason. Love at first sight is just a lot of Karma - but you have to go for it. Beauty is only skin deep, but you got to love that skin. We are all multiidimentional beings, but with a lot of effort one can become aware and live in these dimentions. One can become lucid in dreams and have great real adventures. Dreams are also communications that should be interpreted for the benifit of this present life. If one could live in the here/now aware, life can be an amazing waking dream. There are many watching and waiting for you to wakeup. Life is for the living. As my old Romanian Tantric Swamii once said, "There is not enough time to read good books, there is only enough time to read really good books

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Totally new to this, I cannot have couch, room, as long as old mother lives, but I cannot travel much either. But when free will be able to travel and take in travlers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

At the age or 15 I was hitchhiking around the country during summer vacations. In those days no CS,we called it crashing. People invited me home,I crashed at the Universities, followed the rock festivals. Odd jobs when I needed $'s. 17th birthday joined the Army for 5 and 1/2 years.I bought a house, bored moved to New Zealand,bored-traveled Asia. Found India fell in love with the country, and a Greek girl, had and lost a Greek family. Traveled all around, got married again.

Interests

I am an artist, but mostly a non practicing one. I've studied most things spiritual. I am a student of A Course in Miracles, Urantia, Eastern philosophies, Sufism, Sikhism, I still like Christianity, but not fundementalists- too many arguements. I love reading and the internet. I am just begining to discover Blogging. I use to be a killer in all racket sports, volleyball, bowling, I use to ski, snowboarding was a mistake. I'm into all health inducing philosophies, I want to live as long as I can. I take a lot of supplements. Reiki, Acupunture, OBE's, analyzing dreams, Yoga, Tai chi, Tengresity, Castaneda, Sai Baba, Eckankar, Meera, Mataji, Tantra, Tarot and other divinations, Kali, trying to stay a straight A student. Trying as well to stay content and balanced. Trying not to watch too much TV, and keep my tricked out Jeep Wrangler and 2 SUV's workings. Keep up the improvement to the house. Do all the above while keeping everyone content and happy. I love to cook and I'm good. Above all I want to evolve to the next level.

  • books
  • beauty
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • working out
  • reading
  • tv
  • traveling
  • blogging
  • scuba diving
  • skiing
  • snowboarding
  • christian
  • sports
  • volleyball
  • bowling
  • communications
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

I like all movies, and watch them all or try to, though I walk out on a fair share. Favorite movies, "The Matrix", (a lot of truth there!)All the old classic B&W movies. My musical tastes are very eclectic. Though I do like the music and video of Britney Spears, Eva Green, Katy Perry, Joan Jett, Blondie, The Beatles, The only musical instrument I play is a didjeridoo, I go a lot to the theatre. And I am involved in theatre. Secret or obscure books are my speacialty - they are usually channeled.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I traveled and lived all around the world, I have willingly left my body. I been in close contact with some of the great spiritual beings of this world. I retired at age 24.

Teach, Learn, Share

I guess I can teach all kinds of spirituality: I am a veritable guru. I've had a surf board for years but never learned to surf. I hope to take scuba diving scuba next semester.

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