September 24th-26th, 2010

I am honored and excited to share that I will be speaking at the upcoming Longevity Now Conference! This health seminar unlike any other. That is because this seminar has the worlds leading health authorities, all gathered in one place for a whole weekend, to share their unique knowledge around health and longevity. The Longevity Now Conference is held at the Orange County Hilton in Costa Mesa, CA. The Longevity Now Conference is by far, the most original, comprehensive, and exhilarating healing and longevity seminar I have ever seen.

Aside from myself speaking, we will be graced with the presence of many other amazing health experts such as David Wolfe, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Frank Giglio, Donna Gates, Truth Caulkins, Nadine Artemis, and several others! Each presenter brings to us their unique skillset and education around optimal health and longevity. We are blessed to receive such a wide range of knowledge and experience to learn from! I can’t wait to see what everyone brings to the stage!

My lecture will revolve around Eugenics and what “natural foods” really are, in this day and age. I recently did an interview with Len Foley of the Longevity Now team, in preparation for the event which you can listen to here, and get a taste of what I will be speaking about at the conference!

Another aspect that makes this seminar unlike any other, is that each individual participant will be “grounded” (using the latest cutting-edge technology provided to us by Earthing) throughout the event in its entirety! This is exciting to me, because I am a huge advocate for maximizing the amount of time we spend outdoors, with our barefeet connected to the ground. However, in this day and age, most of us are unable to spend all of our time outdoors ~ That is where the grounding technology comes in. We can use these advances to ground us while we are spending time indoors, working away by keeping our feet on a ground pad, or wearing one of their grounding bands. In addition, each participant will receive a complimentary $40 Earthing Kit so that they will experience the healing effects of being grounded even while in their hotel room.

There will be over $10,000 in prizes given out throughout the event as well! Truth Caulkins, one of the speakers, brings us a world-class Longevity Tonic Bar which will be open all weekend long! The tonic bar team will be providing us with the most powerful, delicious healing drinks only available through this wonderful crew. The drinks served are scrumptious healing blends of herbs and superfoods, to help heal and optimize any individuals condition. They are a group of “ElixirCraft Masters“, for sure!

We are also excited to have a booth in the exhibition area for my company, SurThrival, all weekend long at the event! The whole SurThrival team with be present for the weekend, posted up at the booth, ready to share and connect with all of the participants! We will have our full product line up for sale at our booth, along with some surprises we are waiting to reveal for the first time at the conference! We are can’t wait to share our latest excitement with all of you there!

One last piece I would like announce, is that I will be one of the featured speakers in the extended workshop taking place the Monday after the conference concludes! This workshop is being called “The Masters Workshop”, and it will be a comprehensive lecture between myself, David Wolfe, and Truth Caulkins where we will go in depth about ElixirCrafting, the art of  tonic alchemy, the secrets to abundant health, complete cell rejuvenation, and longevity. There will also be a 90-minute panel, where the audience members can ask us all of their burning question!

I highly encourage you to join us in September at this event. Not only will you discover the latest advances in longevity technology that aren’t available anywhere else, but this event will be nothing short of one of the most uplifting, educational, and inspirational weekends of your life.

Three full days of major downloads of advanced information is priced at a mere $297! This is a huge deal considering the amount of knowledge, connections, goodies, and community you will leave with after the weekend!

One of things I love most about Daniel’s information is that it it always evolving and dynamic. He studies and lives the concepts he teaches and is forever seeking a greater understanding of what it means to achieve and maintain the highest level of health we can. His most recent work being what he likes to call ‘Indigenous Nutrition & Physical Evolution’ … the base concept being that of acknowledging how many indigenous cultures seem to be physically and genetically superior to where we are now as a species, and that it would be wise to investigate why this is true.

Enjoy this 6 part video series that covers a full lecture given by Daniel during his event tour of California this past February, 2010.

Visit the SPEAKEASY PROMOTIONS YOUTUBE CHANNEL to view the rest of the vids, and please post your comments, feedback and questions because we LOVE them! Thanks again for all your support! ~Sarah Maria (SpeakEasy Promotions)

I will be facilitating 3 Wild Food Tours in the Jungles of Peru, August 5th, 19th, and September 2nd!

The RawFlora Wild Food Journey in ledgendary Peru!

This trip is so comprehensive that I will only be able to describe a few of the highlights here!

We are traveling into the jungle to explore the Wild Foods and Medicines of the most bio-diverse region of the world, the Amazon!

Native biologists, shamans, and wild food experts will lead us through the most nourishing, exciting and informative eco-adventure of our lives!

Hot springs, waterfalls, coca,cacao, wild food and wild medicine, and yes, even an optional Ayahuasca ceremony!  Herbal steam baths, guided hikes through forests and eco-gardens, native markets, and lodging in Peru’s eco-friendly Manu Learning Center!

You will have to view the itinerary to believe it!  I am still amazed!

Click HERE for the Raw Flora
Wild Food Journey Itinerary

I am also very excited to visit the markets and meet the locals!  Peruvian Alpaca garments are the best in the world, and my poncho, hat and gloves all come from there.  It is so great to get them locally and for the amazing prices that can only be had on such a visit!  Yay, gear!

This is your chance to meet the Superfoods, Medicinal Herbs, and Psychoactive plants of South America right there where they live and grow!

These retreats are limited to 10 people and they are already filled!  Contact info@rawflora to get on the waiting list!

~Daniel

OH, Wait!!! Did I mention that there is an optional trip to Machu Picchu?  I almost forgot.  There is an option to arrive on the early for a trip to the Ancient Incan City of Machu Picchu!  This has been a dream of mine for ages!  See you there?

I recently did a series of interviews with my friend Jonathan Landsman for Natural News University. We shot 16 videos in all, and you can see them all for free here at NaturalNewsUniversity.com.  When you go to the site you can just enter my name in the search bar to find the rest of the videos we produced.

Much of the material that I a presenting here is information that I have been teaching in events around North America this year, but haven’t really shared publicly on the internet.  I hope you will enjoy and I look forward to hearing what you think about them in the comments below!

Gratitude,

~Daniel

Over the last several years I have been immursed in the study of the Elements, not those 92 Elements of the Periodic Table, but rather the Elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire.

It seems today that if we refer to these forces as the Elements we encourage the criticism of science and the “educated” around us.  Strangely, our current perception of the laws of physics seem perfectly in line with this ancient belief.  Heres what I mean.

Today in physics we refer to four distinct states of matter, Solid, Liquid, Gaseous, and Plasma, each representing matter at different states of energy.  As an object is heated (or absorbs thermal energy) it moves from its solid state into a liquid state.  If it can continue to take on energy it will next become a gas.  If it can be energized still further it takes up the fourth known state of matter we call plasma, a super heated ionized gas, the stuff the stars and nebulae are composed of.

These four states of energy can be -and were- known as Earth (solid), Water (liquid), Air (gas), and Fire (plasma).

Now the Sun exists in the Plasmatic state, and we also encounter plasma as the arcs of electricity the tear through the sky on thunderous nights…  Lightning.  It is present in the ionosphere as Aurora Borealis as well.  It is the celestial Element, the substance of stars and interstellar space.

For most of our history here on Earth we only experienced this Plasma in its most juvenile form, as Fire…  the Proto Plasma.

As a species, Homo sapiens sapiens has been using Fire for a long time.  Maybe the whole time.

It is believed in paleontology that Fire was controlled by Neandrathals, our paleolithic cousins, and even (there is some debate) by Homo Habilis, our earlier ancestor.

It seems very likely that we humans have been using Fire as long as we have been humans. So much of Anthropology is dedicated to what it is that makes us human.  Is it our ability to reason? Perhaps it is our opposable thumbs (I snicker a bit at this one).

To me it seems obvious – if not apparent – that it is our conscious and deliberate control of Fire.

Today all known humans the world over use fire, to include even those most “primitive” peoples still living tribally as hunter gatherers, tucked away in pockets of uncut forest and jungle.  And many unique methods were developed to kindle the sacred flame into existance from the naturally occuring items of our local environment.  The image here is of a Bow Drill, one of the most effective and relatively easy ways to coax a flame into being, and has existed for countless thousands of years.

I would like to show you another method, even older and more pure…  The Hand Drill.  I have been practicing this method for some time now, and have become fairly proficient.  Not nearly as proficient though as my good friend Arthur Haines, who has a particularly fascinating command of this nearly forgotten primitive technological force.  He makes it look easy here, though I assure you that it requires not just the knowledge of the proper plants for the job, but also a considerable endurance and physical fittness that comes from practicing it again and again.

Today people jokingly  call it “rubbing two sticks together” which, after one has been initiated into this wisdom, seems somewhat over-simplified if not even a bit irreverent.

Now you might ask, why take the time and energy to develop this skill when we have so many sources of flame around us all the time?  Perhaps as an Emergency Survival Skill?  It is often taught as a survival skill though this seems a bit far fetched to me.  The materials that are used must be properly selected, processed, dried, and prepared.  It is hardly something you whip together when you find yourself in a dire situation.  For me it is something more..  a few things actually.

First, I love to deepen my practice of personal sovereignty…  Learning to be self-sufficient is a deeply satisfying experience for me (well…  for many of us actually).  Knowing how to conjure a flame forth from an otherwise cool and very inert biome is a magick that I would feel vulnerable and even alienated without.  It is afterall the basic human skill.

Even more, I am moving always towards a lifestyle where I am free from reliance on the purchase industrially produced items that pollute the environment I live in and weaken my relationship to the natural world around me.  Now I know that I, like the rest of us, am a part of this massive and almost all-encompassing machine we call civilization.  I am writing this – just as you are viewing it – on a machine that will one day pollute our environment.  Still, there is something sacred to me about making a flame without a plastic tool that seems revolutionary…  Perhpas its just a symbol, but it might be the perfect symbol for the role.

This image was instrumental in shifting my perceptions about the creation of fire.  Yes, that is a plastic lighter in the belly of a bird.  These are the kinds of atrocities that we are all responsible for.  So for me, fire mastery is a keystone skill, and I am working towards it all the time.

If skills like these are exciting to you, and you would like to learn to do this, please stay tuned.  Arthur and I will be leading classes on practices like these as well as Wild Food gathering, processing, and medicine making.  It is all part of a movement towards a more gratifying, sustainable, and very tangible Neo-Hunter Gatherer Lifestyle.

Thanks for watching, and I hope that this inspires you!

Let me know your thoughts!

~Daniel