Date of birth: 08-12-1982
Place of Birth: Kollum, The Netherlands
Has lived in: Kollum
Speaks these languages: Frisian (mother tongue) and Dutch, English (good), Spanish (basic).
www.andrieswijma.nl

Personality
Open, honest, loving, understanding, idealistic, profound, authentic.

Education/learning path
All phases of life.

Hobbies
Researching the deeper meaning of life, religion, history, languages, health, sport.

How I came to this
As a child I had already a sort of feeling of universal love. 
I could never get real mad on someone because I believed that all in all everyone wants to do "good". Unwanted expectations and a lack of fitting stimulus were frustrating me.

I did not like to go to school at all. If there was something I really did not wanted to do, 
then it was almost impossible to convince me, but I could not avoid school. 
I had an excellent learning-capacity, but I had problems with the school system, 
and I never felt at home among people of my age.

When I was 18 years of age I finally quited school. 
The first years after that I needed the time to recover from all that was behind me. 
The spiritual heaviness became even more. It seemed like there was no end to it, 
if I would never was going to feel happy. 
More than ever before I felt like I had to live on a planet that was totally unsuitable for me, 
where I was without chanche. A young man with many possibilities which could not be used within society. 
I have never been willing to adjust, but only wanted to be who I am. 
And I have never wanted to artificially suppress my feelings, 
as I know how valuable they are for letting me grow.

In the year 2005, after reading a good book, I got real interested in spirituality. 
All thoughts and feelings inside of my settled bit by bit. There was more disposition. 
From that I found a spiritual balance (in 2006) and for the first time in my life I felt really good. 
Life felt much more easy. After that I got down again. 
I kept developing myself and gathered even more insights. 
I have always been very much on my own and in 2007 that was even more so since I went to live on my own. 
For some time I got heavy alienation, more then before. 
It seemed that there was really no way out of all the intensity in my mind. 
Every time I was ready to give up there was some revival. 
But the other way around was also happening. 
The absurdity of the world became more and more clear to me. 
How on earth could I feel peaceful in here?

Halfway 2008 I deciced that I should find an entire different way of living. 
In the meantime I was reading the whole bookserie of the Ringing Cedars Series (Anastasia). 
This was an extra stimulant to my desire for a pure and natural way of living.

Because of this I came in contat with Robert via internet. 
From July 2008 on we started to shape our plans. 
I have never been adventurous when it comes to practise, but in spiritual sense I really am.

In September 2009 I went to Peru to join Robert, who was already there for seven months. 
I was planning to stay there for eleven weeks or even forever right away. 
I needed to have this termination. 
Eventually I went back to The Netherlands after a little more than six weeks. 
It was a good experience for me to be in Peru. 
I experienced that I was not yet ready for living there. 
Maybe that will come or maybe I will end up somewhere else. 
I am still sure that I want to live a whole different life than the average Western life, 
but I do not know yet how en where. 
I keep developing my life and myself and searching for new possibilities.

Andries, March 2009