Mark's Bio
Mark was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, left home on his17th birthday, never looked back and has lived life as a adventure ever since, living in places as diverse as Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, Arizona, Los Angeles (Hollywood & Beverly Hills) Jamaica, Australia, Bali, Java and Borneo.
During his 20 years in Los Angeles he created meditation techniques, teaching them to thousands including movie, TV and rock stars. As a marketing consultant he produced four record albums, three ghost-produced for fitness guru Richard Simmons and one for his own label, which earned him a Gold Album from the Recording Industry Association of America. His ‘Astral Sounds’ is the first recording ever to win a Gold Album despite containing no music, voices, human or natural sounds and it is now the best-selling 'New Age' album of all time. (Read about it at www.AstralSounds.com and see the Gold Album and the note sent to Mark by John Lennon. You can buy the CD there or you can download it as an MP3 from www.CDBaby.com).
Then he partnered with two Beverly Hills attorneys and helped create a remedial bar review training that utilized his mind-control techniques. Mark remains the only non-attorney in California history to train law school graduates to pass the Bar Exam.
He then relocated to Bali and during two years there he researched the first two books of what would wind up being his ‘Bali Trilogy’. He then moved to Australia where he spent more than two years on a plumb marketing assignment before it was back to Bali for a year then off to Indonesia’s South Borneo when the Indonesian government retained him as a consultant. It was in Borneo where he finalized the research needed to complete the third and final title of his trilogy – ‘Scared to Death’. He spent more than six years in South Borneo where he & his wife owned a 200-seat restaurant built on a stationary raft floating in the largest river there, and to this day he still acts as an occasional marketing consultant to the Indonesian government. You can learn more about his books (and buy them) at www.FreeTravelBooks.com or at www.EscapeArtist.com.
His only hobby (it’s more of an obsession, really) is early American Rhythm & Blues (circa 1945-62, or ‘pre-Beatles’ as he likes to describe it to his Beatles-fan wife), and collecting vintage film footage and sound recordings of America’s premier Rock ‘n’ Roll vocal harmony groups of the 1950s. From singing Doo Wop acappella harmony on the street corners of Brooklyn as a teenager fortunate enough to be an eyewitness to the dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll, his dream came full-circle when he helped staged some of his musical heroes in 1950s-style revival concerts in New York and Hollywood in the 1980s and, more recently, when he was graciously mentioned in the introduction to the published memoirs of one of his early musical heroes.
Mark has been happily married since 1988 to his beautiful wife Nurul who is highly accomplished in her own right (a doctor of acupuncture and a college instructor of the Indonesian language, in which she holds a Master's Degree). They reside in Homosassa, Florida.
