Daniel will champion the demise of the pandemic of narcissistic social pathology if it’s within his influence. That will require the overhaul of the systemic educational, social, and parental constructs that spawn the disorder. His difficult but exhuberant flight into professional clowning was braught to end under pressure of mobbing from which he may not recover even a decade later. This impersonal history is not rosy with achievement but enduring of an inhospitable environment that hijacks and nullifies voice. Little can be referenced when life is devoid of landmarks of human affection.

Three distinct awakenings reveal inner peace to emerge from complete relaxation. The teacher is the guide. The mask is the teacher. The body is the wisdom. The physical training derived from the research of Jacque Lecoq makes accessible to him the emotional-imagination of theatre. The lense motivates him to do “anything for the camera”. He writes by oratory his thesis monologue. His literary awakening comes while reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, his habitual thoughts dissolving by the time of Zen Mind, Beginners Mind.

Near 20,000 feet on Lobuche East, Kumbu, Nepal, he climbs; and rides a bicycle 500 miles round trip from Ithaca, New York, to Sandbanks, Ontario, Canada. Singing bowl in hand, Nawong Khechog shows him the ways of breath meditation, superseded by single pointed meditation. A deep listener and thinker prior to memory. A stuntman and prankster in youth.