I'm an extraordinarily open-minded, authentic, compassionate, deeply contemplative, introverted, creative, ethical, courageous, enthusiastic, persevering, discerning, sensitive, formidable individual.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love freedom, wisdom, nature, altruism, travelling, philoxenia, and cross-cultural experience.

I prefer an engaged, participatory approach to a standard touristic approach for knowing places in depth. Greater intermingling between individuals of diverse backgrounds allows for a more integrated, tolerant, compassionate, vibrant, evolutionary, and wise ethnosphere or global village.

"Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!" quoth Ginsberg

Interests

• writing
• poetry
• dancing
• yoga
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• backpacking
• neuroscience
• nature
• wilderness
• sustainability
• intentional communities
• film
• biking
• cultural exchange
• dreams
• myths
• decolonization
• foraging
• fermentation
• herbalism
• mycology
• ethnobotany
• ethnomusicology
• medical anthropology
• tek
• buddhist philosophy
• shamanisms

Music, Movies, and Books

Music- Tuvan throatsinging, drone music, carnatic and hindustani classical, free jazz, world folkways, experimental
Film- World cinema, avant garde, auteur directors
Good literature

What I Can Share with Hosts

Enthusiastic spirit

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States