On this website I have many and various aspects of myself that I am trying to put all in the same place for many reasons:

  • as a social experiment,

  • as a point of personal integration just to see how it feels and what happens,

  • as a vision of a world in which those who have learned to very unusual things with their minds and attention can say that they did that and still exist in other contexts.

Some various Daniels this site attempts to integrate:

  • Physician Daniel — who spent about 12 years mostly working in major Level I Trauma and Referral emergency departments practicing standard allopathic emergency medicine and, at the end, working as an assistant medical director helping with metrics, protocols, finances, and the like.

  • Epidemiologist Daniel — who got a Masters of Science in Public Health (MSPH) and published some research papers which you can find on ResearchGate and Academia, cares about ZeroCOVID efforts, neurophenomenology, emergent phenomena, and public health in general.

  • Philanthropist Daniel — who volunteers as the Acting CEO and Board Chair of the 501(c)(3) registered charity Emergence Benefactors whose mission is to upgrade the global public and clinical world’s understandings of what we term emergent phenomena (mystical, spiritual, magical, energetic, and psychedelic phenomena) and to support the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC), which this Daniel also helps support and organize along with Physician, Epidemiologist, and Meditator Daniels. You can find me on LinkedIn.

  • Meditator Daniel — who started having various energetic phenomena and insights as a kid, and ended up writing a book called Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha and then co-authored The Fire Kasina with Shannon Stein, and co-founded the Dharma Overground — a fine community of helpful, accomplished, aspiring and diligent practitioners there, and its spirit of mutually supportive dharma is wonderful, and whose writings, podcasts, and other works you will find above in the InteractiveBuddha Menu. I have a vision of how meditation is talked about, taught, shared and practiced that draws from the best of what I have been exposed to and seen happen, a vision that is all about personal empowerment, stripping away dogma and unhelpful taboos, people sharing with each other in ways that are down-to-earth, helpful, and pragmatic, and the vision that it can be done, rather than a dharma world that is mysterious, artificially heirarchical, dogmatic, and secretive. 

  • Musician Daniel — who started singing and playing guitar as a kid and continues to make and appreciate music, as found in the Menu.

  • Green Daniel — whose interests in green building you will find above in The Straw Bale House.

  • Family Daniel — who is happily married with a step-daughter, two step-granddaughters, numerous nieces and nephews, and many other family members.

There are many other aspects of Daniel you will find here, so may this attempt at integrating these diverse aspects be of some benefit.

I hope you will find information that is supportive of the development of insight and peace in your life. 

May all beings awaken in this lifetime.

PS You are probably curious about the Daniel Equation Logo: notice that the integrals of sin(anything) from zero to two pi will result in an integral of zero, and there is no time term for the second integral of dt. It also clearly contains even harmonics along the way. It is not meant to be taken too seriously, and is more of a poem or small artistic piece in mathematical notation on cycles, completion, emptiness, harmonics, time scales, fullness, life, death, etc.