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title: "360MEN WTA 203 - Over Duex"
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category:
  - "Personal Development"
  - "Legacy & Storytelling"
summary: "WTA Season 2 Episode 4, filmed under the Oculus at Manhattan’s World Trade Center while visiting his daughter Carissa. Daniel finally shares a long-held story from his first solo Trans-America bicycle ride: butterflies escorting him across Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas in four protective quadrants, one saving his life by forcing him off the road moments before an oncoming car. A chance McDonald’s meeting with Navajo Windtalker and Korean War veteran Glen Douglas reveals their meaning. Emphasizes learning to truly ‘listen’ to the inner knower/gut/Holy Spirit and the power of generational legacy storytelling."
keypoints:
  - "True listening (not just hearing) to small inner unctions and prompts is life-saving guidance that builds over time"
  - "Butterflies flew alongside Daniel for hundreds of miles in protective formation; one executed an abrupt maneuver that saved him from a head-on collision"
  - "Glen Douglas (original Windtalker) explained: 'You are changing and you are helping people. The butterflies are there so you don’t quit. And the horses too!'"
  - "Generational wisdom transmission: Daniel passed Bob Moawad’s self-gaming dance to Carissa as a child; she recently taught the same song/dance to her own daughter"
  - "Start telling your full, vulnerable stories now — they build your personal corpus for your future AI avatar and change family destinies"
tags:
  - "listening"
  - "butterflies"
  - "transamerica-ride"
  - "inner-guidance"
  - "glen-douglas"
  - "generational-legacy"
  - "wta-2019"
  - "360men"
monomyth_stage: "09 - The Reward"
gameboard_position: "Camp 4: The Reward / Summit"
truth_score: 88
entropy_score: "Medium"
tone:
  sentiment: "Reverent"
  emotions:
    - "Grateful"
    - "Reflective"
    - "Awe"
  sycophancy_level: "None"
  notes: "Filmed under the Oculus (World Trade Center PATH station) in lower Manhattan with his daughter Carissa, who treated him to the visit. Daniel openly shares a deeply personal spiritual/protective experience for the first time with the 360MEN group. Title 'Over Duex' is a deliberate pun on 'overdue' for finally telling this story. Warm generational rhythm highlighted at the close."
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### Original YouTube Description
Imagine learning to listen with all your 'being'. Call it listening to your 'knower', the Holy Spirit, your 'gut', a feeling, what-ever. Imagine that 'listening' and not just 'hearing' became central to your day - for navigation, TXT replies, simple but life-saving choices. Imagine you learned it from butterflies and a Native American Legend named Glen Douglas! In this 200 level look at iterating, Daniel shares a 'weird' experience from his first Trans-America cycling expedition. He rode across four states with butterflies. More precisely, butterflies flew with him as he cycled across Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota. On at least one occasion, a butterfly saved his life. "If it wasn't for the prayer and story from a bunch of San Antonio pastors I would not likely be alive". The explanation of the butterflies company came from an expert. A Navajo legend and original Korean War Wind-talker Glen Douglas. "You are changing and you are helping people. The butterflies are there so you don't quit. And the horses too!" We live in a complex universe. We can tinker with quantum tunneling and fashion it into information processing. We can edit genes to change to future of human history. Have you ever questions if there is more to your life than the visible day-to-day? Join in a private conversation and share your true story with other men that will cover your backside, give precious feedback and share in your journey. Learn more at [https://360MEN.net](https://360MEN.net)

**Note from Daniel:** My daughter treated me to a visit to her success in Manhattan. We're standing under Oculus (the World Trade Center PATH station) — an awesome backdrop for a story. I passed to Carissa from Bob Moawad — a self-gaming dance which I did with her as a child. It's a story of generational wisdom passing. Just a couple days ago Carissa sent me a video clip of her teaching the same song/dance to her own daughter. Such is the rhythm of carbon life. Thus — the pun of the video title (over due).

### Cleaned Transcript

**Daniel:** Welcome to episode 203 of Worth Thinking About and welcome to Oculus in Manhattan. Remember how I said point it at your ceiling? Look at it — awesome ceiling. You should get one of these. I’m really cool. Thanks for bringing me here.

[Music]

**Daniel:** Sometimes you can use your floor for a good background or the skyline around you where you stand politically or in your beliefs. But I know where I stand right now. Get it?

**Daniel:** Welcome to episode 203. I believe it is on iterations. We’re going to talk about pivoting. I’m going to talk about learning by failure and we’re gonna talk about the story I have not shared with too many people until about three nights ago with about 20-ish awesome guys. And we’re in lower Manhattan. That’s my daughter. Wonderful. She brought me here. So talk about culture shock.

**Daniel:** And we were just talking about iterations about how to pivot, how to change your belief system. And she works with some pretty amazing companies that are doing just that. I want you to think about how are you gonna pivot your belief system as AI emerges and knows you better than yourself. Starting to shoot those videos so that you can actually find out what you really think and what you believe.

**Daniel:** Yeah, New York City — pretty crazy. Talk about iterating.

**Daniel:** You might remember I cycled across America a few times. On my first Transamerica solo to one a trailer, left Bellingham, ended up literally right here in this neighborhood, Ground Zero at the 9/11 memorial. Before I had left, a group of pastors in San Antonio gathered around me and I was reluctant to accept their offer to pray for me. I was outnumbered. I said sure. And so they laid hands on me and gathered around me and laid hands on me and prayed. And afterward one of them came up and said, “I had this weird picture in my mind kind of like that Michelin tire commercial where a car’s driving down the road and there’s four little protectors, four little angels around the corners of it.” And I know the picture. I’ve seen the ad. And I thought, well that’s interesting. So I kept it in mind.

**Daniel:** Here’s a point of the story: when you get information, when someone shares something with you, when there’s been a lot of energy that’s gone into making something happen — pay attention. The whole point of the Transamerica rides was to learn to listen. I don’t mean just hear it. I mean actually absorb it. Listen. Add those pieces up. You don’t get the whole story all at once. Your instructions don’t come in one event. They come trickled on you as you’re open.

**Daniel:** You’re walking down the street, you see that little piece of trash. Your little knower says, “Hey, pick it up.” And you go, “Yeah,” and you walk past it. There’s the beginning. The beginning is the little nudge, your unction, as Bill Sharman would say it, to do something. You don’t do it — you could die.

**Daniel:** Let me continue. So I flew to Seattle. I spent some time with my son. I started pedaling from Bellingham up over the Cascade Mountains. And somewhere in the middle of Idaho, butterflies would fly with me. Not just cross my path. They would actually come out and fly alongside of me in one of four quadrants. That was part of strange because they flew just out of reach right in those four sectors. And I thought this is really weird.

**Daniel:** So I continued across Montana. And in Montana at least a couple of times, sheriff, police and other law enforcement had said to me, “You know, you’d be a little careful where you’re staying and where you’re at because there’s some tensions going on amongst the tribes on your route and we’ve got a couple of missing cyclists and we just don’t want you to fall into any trouble. So you watch yourself. You take care that you’re under a light in a safe place when you camp at night.” Which I did.

**Daniel:** Let me tell you a little sidebar. I once asked someone — this is how I learned how to listen — I once asked someone, “So how far to the next grocery?” And they go, “Oh yeah, it’s just down the road.” Just down the road in a car. Down the road on a bicycle could be thirty miles, a half a day. And then when you get there they could be closed. So you learned to ask better questions.

**Daniel:** So these butterflies became part of my almost daily routine across Montana. And they would come out and I go, you know, you get a little doped up on endorphins. You’ve been cycling for three, four or five hours and you’re like, “Oh hey, just saw the wife, the kids back there. That’s cool. What are you doing out here?” You start having a conversation with these. And once a cyclist coming the other direction on this route stopped and talked to them and I said, “What’s with the butterflies? It’s pretty cool, huh?” Butterflies. Well, we talked about chilling a conversation when they think you’re talking about being Dr. Dolittle flying or pedaling with butterflies. And it wasn’t happening for them. And I was like, okay, I’m listening.

**Daniel:** And on the back of my trailer was an American flag. Earlier in Montana I put it out there to keep the cars so they go around me instead of being so close. So it could be the fluttering of that. I thought, oh, the flowers around me or I don’t know what — this safflower, cornflower, one of the anyway — they were flax, something there were one of those crops that they turn into oil. I’ll look it up and put something here. And I thought it could be the blue color of my handlebars or maybe it was the bug spray. Maybe they’d like to fly right behind me because they were drafting on me. I mean I was thinking it all through.

**Daniel:** And kind of out in eastern Montana the roads get pretty straight. It’s gonna be several days. You just put your head down. You’re just pedaling along. Close your eyes. You got your motivational training — you know, Zig Ziglar, Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins — the whole litany of them. You got them all going in your head. One at a time. And this butterfly come on, “Hey, how’s the family?” And your head’s down and yeah, the butterfly made an abrupt and unusual maneuver down, up and away to the right. And it was enough that I went, “Huh?” What? I lifted my hand in it and immediately jerked my handlebars and went into the ditch — or off the road. Ditch is more like a slope. Okay, so I immediately pull off the road because coming straight at me was — I believe it was an Impala convertible — probably doing about 80 miles an hour, billowing dust cloud behind them. They were on my shoulder coming head-on for me. And the shock wave that went by me I could actually feel as if it hit. I mean it shook my clothing. It was that close. And if I had not moved over a few feet in that few seconds I would have been a grill, you know, a hood ornament, done, toast, finished over.

**Daniel:** I stood there shaking a little bit and then thought, “Wow, butterfly is pretty awesome. Just saved my life. Good thing I was paying attention. Whoo. Good thing I obeyed.”

**Daniel:** A few days go by — maybe about four or five days — Angelina happened to send me a package so I could restock my stuff. And so I did that. And in the package was a coupon for McDonald’s hot meal. Right? I’d been eating summer — you just heat fruit and stuff — but I was like, “Oh, hot meal.” Hadn’t been. Weather front had just gone through and it was cold that morning and wet. And so I went to — in Fargo, North Dakota — I went to McDonald’s. And as I went in and looked around it was full of senior citizens. I think there was no place to sit except at a table with an Indian. And you remember I was supposed to keep my… but I was like, well okay, there’s plenty of witnesses. It’s broad daylight. Come on, Daniel.

**Daniel:** I got my meal being delivered to me at the counter and I heard this, “Hey, I need to talk to you.” So it’s like whoa — people are looking at me. I turn around and it’s a gentleman sitting at the table pointing at me: “I need to talk to you,” he said. So I thought, well look. I went and sat down at the table and we started eating a meal. And I know — why do you have to wait him? Oh what’s all that stuff I’m looking at? All this — it looks like a Walmart greeter. It’s got a hat on, it’s got shirts, it’s got all kinds of pins and medallions and ribbons and stuff. And I got, wait a minute — you know Walmart? Those are all battle medallions and all campaigns. And I was like, who are you? And he says, “I’m Glen Douglas.” And we dug into the story a little bit. You might know the movie with Nicolas Cage in it called Windtalkers. And Glenn was one of the original Windtalkers from the Korean War. He’s the oldest living most decorated Army Native American army intelligence officer. Means the guy had some interesting life experiences.

**Daniel:** So mellow conversation. I said, what do you have to talk to me? And he laid the paper down — the newspaper he was reading — and he pointed to a picture of me: “Is that you?” And I was like, yeah. But is that you? Up his side of the paper was his face. What was here — we are. He’s reading the newspapers. Both of us that I’m standing at the counter. So we get to have a conversation with each other. And he wanted to know what I’m doing. I shared a little bit: unveiling across America, Angelina being in a car wreck, and I was trying to get the message out on the same day Lance Armstrong rode into Paris for the final time. A cyclist from Seattle rode into the Twin Cities for the first time. Daniel Camp is traveling cross-country on his bike to raise awareness for women in business. The longtime cyclist got the idea after his wife was injured in a bad car crash. Car crash. She was an entrepreneur and he’s riding in honor of her through peer support and mentoring. They all sort of networked together and share their business ideas and help each other in business and just incredible things coming out of it. So we’re trying to bring it out of the Texas South area and up across the northern US. Come started his journey in Seattle just after Father’s Day. He figures if he travels 80 to 100 miles a day he’ll reach the East Coast by the end of August.

**Daniel:** I said, “Oh go ahead — you’re an Indian.” I still remember this. I get goose bumps on this because it was like the most obvious inappropriate social statement to make out loud, right? “You’re an Indian.” And yeah. And I said, “What’s with the butterflies?” He goes, “Oh, butterflies. They know.” I’m like, they know? They know what? “Your mission. My mission. What you’re changing and you’re helping people. The butterflies are there so you don’t quit. And the horses too.”

**Daniel:** And I still get goose bumps. I had not even told Angelina that at that point I had three small pelotons run with me — pelotons of horses that they would see me. And apparently it’s not so uncommon. It did it in the Tour de France once. But for me that was quite unusual to be out in the middle of the Dakotas and have horses running in parallel with you.

**Daniel:** So obviously the butterflies saved my life. They were there. In Native American folklore to protect me. I had later met with Clint Hackney with one of the tribes up in spit by there — a group of Indian tribes up in the Pacific Northwest — and he had shared a, I think he called it a medicine wheel and the four quadrants and the meaning that they have and butterflies etc. And I pretty much sat on that story.

**Daniel:** Here’s the ending I didn’t even share with the guys. So I continued my journey. I pedaled off across Great Lakes up into Pennsylvania. And pedaling up one of those monstrous bluffs in Pennsylvania there was a historic marker that I assumed in on. And it talked about the Warriors Path — that the road I had been on for some 800 miles was a proving ground of sorts where Indians, the younger warriors would ride out and if they were able to return that they had proven themselves to overcome challenges. Here I was on that Warriors Path. And by the way there were no more butterflies from Fargo on. No more protection. You could learn to listen better, Daniel. At the right time your story would be valuable.

**Daniel:** So I say this hoping that that experience and dozens of others would add value to my corpus for my grandkids but to help you tell some stories that you’re afraid to tell because people won’t understand it. They won’t get it. This is a journey that’s very personal. It’s very deep. It’s very unknown and special and you need to share it. You’re not going to be able to train your AI bots if it doesn’t have much about you. And you won’t make it up your summit if you don’t learn to listen. And it starts with the little unction to do something and it finishes — or at least in the higher altitudes the air gets thin and they all turn into challenges.

**Daniel:** So watch those previous episodes as the heater turns off to make noise. Watch some of the earlier episodes especially the “Nowhere Now Here,” Death Valley. I’m facing some obstacles but I’m iterating, pivoting. Long story to say hey, come follow me and I want to show you what’s happening with some other guys. It’s not my syndication. They have their own. They have a fractal. We’re building it into a fractal. They’re capable of being digital franchises similar to 360 Men. Whether you want to join the journey — self understanding, self actualization with a group of guys ahead of the emerging AI so that you don’t have to be part of the useless class. So that your family can change lanes and change destinies, outcomes and become a platform owner. Talk to me. I have a platform. You might have a story.

**Daniel:** Okay, that’s a long way of telling it. Thanks for hanging in there. I want to encourage you. It’s very, very much worth the challenge. Bless you guys. See you next week.

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**CODEX ENTRY**

**Date:** 2019-01-25  
**File:** 360MEN WTA 203 - Over Duex.md  
**Monomyth Stage:** 09 - The Reward  
**Gameboard:** Camp 4: The Reward / Summit  
**MA5 Domain:** Initium  
**Summary:** Under the Oculus in Manhattan with daughter Carissa, Daniel releases a long-held Trans-America story of protective butterflies, a life-saving intervention, and interpretation by Windtalker Glen Douglas, modeling the reward of deep listening and generational legacy transmission.  
**Key Insight:** The little unctions of the “knower” — when obeyed — become visible escorts and protectors; your vulnerable stories build the corpus that trains your future AI avatar and changes family destinies.  
**Narrative Significance:** This episode delivers the Reward phase of the Scotomaville/Initium arc: after Tests (scotomas, illusions, cash-flow runs), the hero receives supernatural confirmation, ancestral wisdom, and the mandate to pass living legacy forward — exactly the rhythm of carbon life that powers the entire Initium journey.

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**INITIUM.**