Naea, Mark: - "from one thing, know ten thousand things" Miyamoto Musashi10,000 Books LaterIn high school of the late 70s, that quote sparked a literary fire within Mark Naea for answers. Ten thousand books later, Mark has reversed it. Distilling all he read, experienced, and pursued to its fundamental purest essence. "From ten thousand things, know one thing."Distillation is the process of purification, to extract and render down to its fundamental quintessence, revealing its rarest elements or most subtle principles. I started my distillation project more than fifty years ago. At the age of five, I asked why? Two things set me apart from the beginning, my ability to recall what I have read or seen almost photographically, and the long-term processing, cross-referencing, connecting the dots and relationships that were made with seemly no connections other than pure insight.This was all done in the background, in that undefined realm of the psyche. Millions of bits of information, being constantly collated into a coherent picture that explained why. After five decades of distillation, having read ten thousand books, countless articles, studies and theories, thousands of hours of media, lectures, movies, not to mention access to the billions of info bits at your fingertips from the internet, it all boiled down to one word: Paradox.You are Source, the infinite in the singularity, the singularity in the infinite, how it all works, why it all works, understood without understanding. All is paradox, revealed in the stories I have written.A native of Kauai for fifty-plus years, Mark is self-educated in many diverse disciplines. From multiple fields of science, history, programing, physics and relativity to alternate realities, metaphysical experiences, spirituality, religions, eastern thought and practices, to the most elusive quest of them all: enlightenment. In his debut book "You are Source", Mark shares the events and stories that placed him as the top spiritual / metaphysical guide on Kauai. As one person said when first meeting him, "So you're Mark, to think I have traveled the world in search of an enlightened master, only to find him in a small gift store on Kauai." Mark is a rare soul, a prodigious reader, loves to cook, is genuine, interesting, and a true Hidden Master.