Spaced Out Radio, 2021-05-20: The Phoenix Enigma with Cory Daniel

May 20/21 - Guest: Cory Daniel

Cory Daniel is a 3rd generation Phoenician, writer/researcher, and professional guide currently living in the Phoenix area. Raised in the Valley of the Sun the Phoenix Mountain Preserves provided an early introduction to the Sonoran desert, and it was here he took a strong interest in the local desert Flora. This, in turn, led to a passion for Ethnobotany, and later everything Native American and old west. The age of eighteen found him in Wikieup, AZ. where he spent the next ten years roaming the Big Sandy Valley. This time was spent studying religion, physics, poetry, botany, philosophy, primitive survival, traditional archery, and the occult. Here he rode for a local ranch working cattle the old way and teamed up with an old prospector to explore the surrounding mountains and valleys. Many afternoons were spent in trading posts listening to first-hand accounts of ruins, lost mines, secret springs, and the caves deep in the desert. He headed into the desert and found those places and more. Cowboys and adventurers, prospectors, and fugitives were all daily characters during that time and rounded out his education.