About This Work (and the Witness)

My name is Daniel Curtis. For most of my life, I traveled a well-known road, one that promised a conventional and respectable form of success. I was once the man in a story I now tell: a man who, after a long and proud journey, arrived at a luxurious hotel, a pinnacle of human creation. And in the morning, I looked out the window to see that this tower of success was surrounded on all sides by the immense suffering of a world living in shanties. That moment of seeing left me with a single, burning question that would ultimately undo my entire world:

What has brought me to this place of comfort, and what system creates the suffering that it is built upon?

That question set me on a different path—a more difficult, mountainous road inward.

That inward journey led to a direct, waking vision that shattered my reality. While meditating on that question, I was met with an overwhelming, numinous force—a spirit that identified itself as Truth and merged with me in the form of a Tiger. The experience was not gentle. It was a complete and total recalibration of my senses and my soul.

That experience was not an end; it was the beginning of a diagnosis. It gave me new eyes. And with those new eyes, I could see the sicknesses of our time for what they truly were—not political failures or economic problems, but deep, spiritual wounds. I saw two of them with stark clarity: the hollowness of performative authority that rules through fear, and the pervasive sickness of disconnection that severs us from ourselves, each other, and the very soul of the world. My role, I realized, was not to be a fighter or a guru, but a witness.

"The (all) Unknowing" is the result of that witness. It is the work that has emerged from trying to map this new reality, to discern the intricate patterns of what Eastern philosophy calls Maya: the grand, hypnotic, and often painful illusion of a separated world that veils an underlying, unified truth.

The parables, the dream analyses, the poetry, and the philosophical explorations you will find here are not meant to be a new doctrine. They are mirrors, tools designed to help us see the illusion for what it is, and to glimpse the reality it conceals.

This website and the accompanying podcast are a collection of these mirrors. It is a reflective space, an invitation to a different kind of journey. It is not a search for easy answers, which are often just more elegant cages. It is a commitment to sit with the difficult questions, to explore the territory beyond the map, and to find the courage to walk the path of unknowing.

The ultimate goal of this work is to provide the tools and the space for the rediscovery of individual sovereignty—the quiet, unshakeable authority that resides within each of us, the "ruler in the mirror."

Thank you for being here. I invite you to explore the work, to use the mirrors for yourself, and to join me on the path of The (all) Unknowing.