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 challenging but exuberant flight into professional clowning cripples him under the pressure of mobbing from which he may not recover even a decade later. This impersonal history is not of rosy achievement but enduring an inhospitable environment that hijacks and nullifies voice. Little is there to reference when 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 research of Jacque Lecoq makes accessible his emotional imagination through physical training. He is motivated to do anything for the lens of a camera. He writes oratorically a 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 Singing bowl in hand, Nawang Khechog shows him the ways of breath meditation, superseded by single-pointed meditation.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.