Nature, art, symbolism, ancient wisdom, healing, plant medicine, hiking, mushroom hunting, cooking, gardening, shamanism, ethnobiology (especially ethnobotany and ethnomycology), dark chocolate, green tea, red wine, mystical philosophy, alchemic psychology, taoism, qi gong, tantric buddhism, kindness, consideration, empathy, transcendental parties, caressing ambient sounds, stirring ethnic melodies, pumping house rhythms and knowing when to stop.
I'm looking for online friends and real-life companions who are kind, caring, honest and considerate. People who are intelligent and/or well-educated or at least really like to learn would be great. I'm (obviously) open to making alot of friends while at the same time I'm pretty careful who I get close to. I would ideally like to meet people who value culture, art, nature (inner or outer) and/or some kind of spirituality.
William Orbit, Philip Glass, Tranquility Bass (ambient), David Visan, Robert Miles, B-Tribe (house), Angelique Kidjo, Aster Awake, Cesaria Evora, (ethnic), Natalie Merchant, The Rolling Stones, Cat Stevens, Sheryl Crow (rock with occasional countrified twangs), Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke (soul) Miles Davis (jazz), Deee-Lite, ELO, Abba (disco, it's fun once in awhile), Lucky Dube, Bunny Wailer (reggae), Joaquin Rodrigo, Carlos Montoya (Spanish classical/flamenco), Joan Baez (folk), Joni Mitchell (sort of older pop, I guess), Halcyon, Deep Forest and Lost at Last (ethno-techno).
Baraka, Winged Migration, The Lion's Roar, Message to Little Brother, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Beyond Rangoon, Arabian Nights, To Live and Chac.
When I watch, my favorite channels are the Independent Film Channel, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel and The Food Channel. Sometimes Free Speech TV and Link TV has cool stuff. Favorite shows are Going Tribal, Blind Date, The Simpsons, My Name is Earl, No Reservations, Good Eats, The Colbert Report, The X-Y Factor and Histories Mysteries. OK, I admit sometimes I watch Cops and World's Worst Drivers.
Romantic/spiritual poetry by Rumi, Sadi, Kabir, The 6th Dalai Lama and Omar Khayam. Philosophical/psychological aphorisms by Nietzsche. The I Ching (sometimes spelled 'Yi Qing'). The Classic Herbal Materia Medica (from a couple of thousand years ago) by the Emperor Shen Nung. Health related books by Andrew Weil (M.D.), Ray Sahelian (M.D.), Ward Dean (M.D.) and Bob Flaws (DOM, CMT, Dipl.Ac.). My favorite 'cookbook' (it's more than a cookbook) is Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. 'Wild Fermentations' (on cultured foods) by Sandor Katz. Asian philosophy/spirituality by Thomas Cleary and Tenzin Wangyal, etc., ... .
Varjrasattva/Vajratopa, Padmasambhava/Yeshe Tsogyal, Avalokitesvara/Kuan Yin, Jesus/Mary Magdalene, Gautama Buddha, Medicine Buddha, The Taras, John the Baptist, The Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, St. Francis of Assisi, Shantideva, Julia Butterfly Hill, Noam Chomsky, Rumi, Omar Khayam, Arya Nagarjuna, Galen, Carolus Linnaeus, Thomas Merton, Meister Eckhart, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Moses Maimonides, Chuang Tzu, Su Nu (The 'Simple Girl'), Ge Hong, Li Shi Zhen, Shen Nung (The 'Herbal Emperor'/'Divine Husbandman') and many others ...