Date of birth: 23-12-1979
Place of birth: The Hague, The Netherlands
Has lived in: The Hague, Zoetermeer, Nijmegen, on a cargo ship (sailing between Coevorden and region Brabant in The Netherlands, and Germany), Amsterdam and then Cusco, Quillabamba, and Madre Selva (Peru).
Speaks these languages: Dutch (mother tongue), English, Spanish, German, basic French, and now learning Quechua.   

Personality
Idealistic, striving for real development for everyone, therefore investigating and experimental. 
Adventurous and positive / trustful.

Education/learning path
HAVO, MBO Food Technology, HBO Food&Business, Reiki I and II, Transmutación Andina I, II and III.

Hobbies
Actually, I can put it all together, under the name of "alchemy" (research & exchange on natural well-being and real development: medicinal and edible plants, Sungazing, Wudang-fitness, Poy, meditation, ).

How I came to this
When I was little, you could find me very frequently in the yard, busy with plants. Not only taking care, but also making all sorts of brews of it... and stones get many attention too: like an alchemist I was very often searching for gold... but also fossils and especially crystals were really nice!

Somewhere in that early years I lost a bit of that confidence and the feeling at home in nature, 
and I was living more and more indoors.

That took a whole lot of profundity away. It stayed that way until around the age of twenty. 
Together with my good friend (Marek) I hiked into nature more and more. 
We did wild camping and searched for adventure in every possible season, 
we hiked to the peaks of higher and higher mountains. 
A few firm satellite-map hikes in Peru were (also literally) the top experiences.

Somehow, I have always had the feeling of wanting to be independent from a house-rent/mortgage, 
shops and money. As a matter of fact, those are all Human inventions, 
and in our society you have to do all sorts of things to get it or to keep it. 
That COULD not be the purpose. 
That is why, even until the end of my college-days, 
I have never had the feeling that I would spend 40 years of my life in some company or office, 
while I would nearly have time left for the important things in life.

What also happened around the age of twenty, was my Reiki I initiation, 
which automatically shook me a bit awake. 
I came closer to myself again, and dropped a few things of which I all of a sudden realized, 
that they were not fitting me, like smoking, what I just didn´t like anymore.

The second punch came after my first trip to Peru, when I was 22. 
Suddenly, I completely lost my like about the things I used to like, 
and came to have problems to finish my study. 
Before that, I had always enjoyed it, and it had been a piece of cake.

Directly after my study, I sailed with my uncle on his cargo-ship, for half a year. 
There, I had some time for reflection. I came to see the setting-up of an own business as the fastest way to become independent/self-sufficient.

Also thát had to do with Peru: first, I wanted to import Maca, and later other natural health-products and delicacies from Peru as well. With that, I would be bale to support and set up local development-projects, 
and eventually it could give me the possibility to live there part of each year.

It was not that easy, being a lonely time, because I was in a situation in which I felt completely out of place and mis-understood. Fortunately, I merged with the company Mastercare in Amsterdam, 
thanks to a couple of intuitive acts, just at the point of hitting rock-bottom. 
Mastercare was in the same sort of business, however with raw food as a starting-point.

It became a very nice and instructive period, with a new lifestyle (raw food, 
with all that fits in that lifestyle), many new and inspired people (in VERY much recognition and thankfulness), working really hard and with very intensive cleansing: physical as well as spiritual and emotional. 

At a certain moment, the nutrition of that (and my will to be dependant, too) began to run empty. 
It turned out, that I had a different ideology. I decided to start a business on my own again. 
For some months I sold all sorts of alchemic delicacies, and offered information.

Then, in a peaceful week of holidays, I was reading volume 4 of the Ringing Cedars Series (Anastasia). 
WOW, what recognition! With this volume, I had that feeling the strongest. 
A few years before, I had already pondered on living in nature, preferably in Peru.
I was already a bit preparing for that... but the book showed me that it could be done in a more simple way: actually I could start immediately!

So, after half a year of pure sallary-slavery (getting money together), 
practical, and above all emotional preparation, I came in Peru for the 4th time. 
This time to find land, to live with good friends in paradise, and to inspire others as well! 

This is where I am NOW...

Robert, March 2009