CURRENT MISSION

To visit countries with warm friendly people

ABOUT ME

My defining spirit is curiosity. I love to explore the world and enjoy lifelong learning. On the other hand, I realize that in a sense all learning is but a subterfuge, for the only real learning in life is to Open deeper to Love.

Some parts of my life I spend engaged in the formality of courts of law, where my challenge in this very structured environment is to humanize my clients before a jury, to allow them to see beyond the strict confines of the courtroom and into the heart of the person I represent.

I've spent my early life in the slums of Brooklyn, NY and I've spent times with the rich and famous..and my travels thru life have taught me we are all, at core, very much the same.

When not in the courtroom, I am likely to be exploring chant and sound healing. I'm a huge fan of Deva Premal and feel alive when immersed in her beautiful music.

I also love to spend time hiking in the mountains or diving in warm waters.

Travel allows me to the opportunity to open to new people and ways of viewing the world...it cleanses the doors of perception..and keeps me fresh.

PHILOSOPHY

To ignore what perishes and attend to what endures.

Expect nothing and anything seems like everything; expect anything and everything seems like nothing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am a beginner but this sounds fascinating. I believe we are all students and teachers to each other. I look forward to sharing adventures with people of every age and every background.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Beginner... I've always taken people in but only recently discovered this great community.

Interests

Hiking, reading, scent, Tantra, gardening, animals, medicine, photography, finance, wine, good food, movies, music, geopolitics, law, sound healing, continual learning, marketing, art, dichroic glass, heart connections, seeing "misfortunes" through to the other side, mentoring, biography, journalling, meditation, spiritual teachers, altered states, hot springs.

• animals
• arts
• photography
• environment
• dining
• wine
• meditation
• gardening
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• scuba diving
• geopolitics
• law
• medicine
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite movies..The Piano, When Harry met Sally, Big Fish, The Notebook, Somewhere in Time, The Lover, 9 and 1/2 weeks, The Wonderful Terrible Life of Leni Reifenstahl, The 7 Up Series, Forrest Gump, The Hurricane, American History X, The Gladiator, Keep the River on your right: A Modern Cannibal Tale,
Music...Dire Straits, Blues, Classic Rock, classical, chant, trance. Leonard Cohen, Chris Webster, Deva Premal, Joni Mitchell, Kate Wolfe, John Prine, Jackie Green

Books..The Rise and Decline of the Roman Empire, The Glass Castle, Devil in the White City, Against Love: A Polemic, The Emperor of Scent, Shantaram, Any book by Osho, The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq, The KIte Runner, No Left Turns ( about J. Edgar--Hilarious), Finite and Infinite Games, This Time I Dance, The Dice Man, Class: A Guide through the American Status System, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill, American Ceasar (About Douglas Mc Arthur), Under the Banner of Heaven:A Story of Violent Faith, Eiger Dreams:Ventures Among Men and Mountains, Into the Wild, The Sling and the stone: On War in the 21st Century, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Natures most dangerous creatures, Etty Hillesum:An Interrupted Life, Zelda: A Biography, Running with Scissors, All the Fishes Come Home to Roost, Holy Cow, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire, Animals in Translation, Storming Heaven, The Autobiography of a Face, The Unimaginable Life, What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America, The Secret Chief, The Little Prince,

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, The Art and Practice of Loving, Change your mind: Change your life, The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test, The Power of Now, Undefended Love, The Prophet, And There was Light: The Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, The Razor's Edge, Passionate Marriage, The Future of the Body, Tripping: An anthology of true life psychedelic adventures, The Last Lion by Manchester, Epictetus Discoures, Permanent Midnight: A Memoir, Final Verdict, Century of the Wind by Galeano, Risk to be healed, Travels with Myself and Another, Intimate Communion, Lola Montez: a life, Seductress: Women who ravished the world and their lost art of love, Passioate Child: The Extrodinary Life of Jane Digby, The Devil Drives (About Sir Richard Burton),

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked down a 9000 foot mountain with a fractured leg.

Fell in Love with 40 people in the space of a weekend.

Survived a plane flight over Cambodia and Laos with 3 engines feathered during the Vietnam War.

Earned the Equilvelent of 3 Billion Dollars yearly for one hours work.

Made a 4 minute long freedive.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach about law, medicine and the stock market. Can share what I know of Tantra and sound healing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Fiji, French Polynesia, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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