“He apparently approached my parents. But as my solutions were correct, it was decided to say nothing. I was oblivious. I didn’t even know that I’d written the words. Or at least it all seemed so perfectly reasonable to my eleven-year-old view of the world that I didn’t even register the defacements. I only found out when I was in my twenties on discovering the saved collection of dust-covered exercise books inside a box while helping out in a house move.”

Daniel’s meditation practice is a major driving force in his life, and having chosen a varied path of simultaneous intersecting careers, he has worked as a musician, a songwriter and as an artist manager in the rock music business.

And with a clinical background and keen professional interest in behavioural science, he also works with his highly-trained control dogs as a specialist dog handler dedicated to the behavioural modification of highly-aggressive canines facing euthanasia. “Knowing dogs and becoming ‘one’ with them at the absolute peaks of their most frightening expressions teaches you stuff – mainly about yourself. Your intuition has to pump hard for prolonged periods without failing. And that intuition allows you to know about people, too – both the light and dark sides of this fragile human psyche of ours. I use intuition massively in my writing.”