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Overview

  • 24 references 20 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Polish; learning French, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish
  • 28, Female
  • Member since 2016
  • Warsaw
  • No education listed
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About Me

Currently back in Warsaw. Just as Batman, I don't have any superhuman power, yet my mission is to rebel against evil and be on the side of innocent people. If after Sunday there is Monday, then after storm the sun has to rise. Generally, as I get older, I prefer listening to talking. In this mad mad world people tend to use their tongues too much, and it leads to misunderstandings. We’ve got one mouth and two ears after all, let’s take it as a hint. I’d like to know as much as I possibly can. As a result I know what I lack. The only hunger, which is always unsatisfied, is a thirst for knowledge. I’m exchanging questions for answers. Feeling or thinking? Intuitive or logical? I am, am I, who am I
I am you, you are me, who is stupid you or me?

my ig: 122mg__

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Here it comes. The total cliché. I've got two reasons- I simply love travelling and I simply love people with beautiful minds (which I've been meeting through my CS journey). I wanna travel the world- the non-existent list is starting from the over-crowded cities, living mostly at night, full of colorful lights and fascinating spots, packed up with individuals, and it's ending with the quiet, idyllic, peaceful places, untouched by human hand (I'm just like Hobbits, who loved everything what blooms and grows and and the Romantics, who believed that beauty was embedded in the nature).

Interests

I'm interested in widely (really widely) understood art. Why? Why not. Art has no boundaries, and the only limitation is the length of word or the paint brush stroke. There is a fine line between creativity and kitsch, and art includes them both. Painting and writing poetry are some of my beloved activities.

I am a pathetic film freak, a day without a movie is a day lost. I pop down the theater whenever I get a chance. I love to drown in foreign magical worlds. Recently discovered my musical skills as well, I’m trying to learn guitar, and most recently fool around with my hapi drum.

I am the aspiring creator of many kinds. The researcher of past, present and future. Of mind, soul, dreams, all sorts of inner treasures. Of the depth of myself and so called boundaries and limitations of human kind.

In terms of sports I’ve started appreciating yoga a lot. I’ve recently became a certified teacher completing my training in India. Besides that I’ve found a piece of myself lost deep in the water. Helps me get to know the world better.

I studied philosophy and cognitive science for some time, before ditching it to get some real life experience, not the one closed on pages of massive books. Now I’m back at school, finishing my Masters in Neuropsychology this year.

I try to mix the physical and the mystical, therefore I use my academic background to understand better the indigenous wisdom. I work with plants and carry out research on psychedelics and the path towards enlightenment (including very complex task of operationalization based on multiple various traditions as well as my own insights).

I hope that there will be more, and more, and more of these interests, since I seriously plan to try everything in my life (sic!).

  • arts
  • writing
  • poetry
  • theater
  • traveling
  • painting
  • magic
  • piano
  • philosophy
  • psychology
  • cinema
  • quantum physics
  • shamanism
  • mysticism
  • cognitive science
  • vipassana
  • lucid dreaming
  • psychedelics
  • artificial intelligence
  • occultism
  • conspiracy theories
  • altered states of consciousness
  • parapsychology

Music, Movies, and Books

It's like making the mother choose her favorite child!

It's hard for me to describe my taste, because it is so twisted that it defies any definition.

Some of my personal favs:

1) music: widely considered rock, post punk, new wave, nu jazz, stoner blues, indie rock, alternative rock, psychedelic, sung poetry, movie soundtracks, shoegaze, techno, psytrance and other trippy shit (to my forever-beloved belong eg.: Bowie, TR/ST, Shortparis, Hallas, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac, Air, Shpongle, Parov Stelar, La Femme, The Doors, Dead Can Dance…

2) movies: Persona, Waking Life, Eyes Wide Shut, Dogville, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Mulholland Dr., Mommy, Kill Your Darlings, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Enter the Void, Gummo, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Barton Fink, My Own Private Idaho, Total Eclipse; Bergman, Haneke, Kieslowski, Jodorowsky, Kubrick, Buñuel, Jarmusch, Tarr, Fellini, Kusturica, Tarkowski, Antonioni, Lynch, Has; many tv series including Peaky Blinders

3) books: among others Ginsberg, Hesse, Palahniuk, Roth, Miller, Witkacy, Gombrowicz, Kafka, Bulgakov, Camus, Rimbaud, Huxley, McKenna, Grof, Crowley, Sacks, Dennett, Leary, Jung, Vetulani, Proust, Wojaczek, Stachura, Osiecka, Italo Calvino

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Let's say my life is a huge experiment that I'm carrying out.

Teach, Learn, Share

Don't let anyone to clip your wings. People can say that you cannot fly but do not give a dead rat's ass about it and do your own thing. Flying is a unique pleasure, the one of its kind. Find your way. Wake up. You’ve already got this!

Eat your school.
Stay in drugs.
Don't do vegetables.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I look to the future without a crystal ball.

Hope to share lifelong memories.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Iceland, Norway, Poland, Spain, United States

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