About Mark G. Adams
Mark was born in 1952 in Petaluma, California. He was adopted at five days old, and raised in nearby Lafayette until age eleven, when his family moved to a home in Danville near the base of Mt. Diablo.
Mark fell in love with writing at Monte Vista High while taking journalism classes, and became the front page editor for his school newspaper. Mark focused on in-depth investigative reporting on controversial topics, and received two journalism awards at the end of his senior year. One was from Monte Vista’s English department, the other from Dean Lesher, the founder and publisher of the Contra Costa Times daily newspaper group.
With an unobstructed view of Mt. Diablo from his parents’ home, Mark found himself constantly drawn to the mountain. He spent hours hiking alone on its slopes, cherishing the expansive views, driven to seek a deeper connection with the Universe, and savoring the fleeting moments when he would feel a magical, but illusive, presence. Mark became obsessed with discovering the purpose of life, and embarked on a concerted effort to find God, “Whoever, or whatever, or wherever that supreme power was.”
When Mark realized he wasn’t going to find the purpose of life in college, he dropped out to devote himself to his quest. While searching, he experienced several highly unusual paranormal events that he had no scientific explanation for, and Mark interpreted these mystical episodes as the Universe telling him to keep searching.
At age twenty-one, Mark stumbled upon what he considers the greatest of all fortunes: he met a teenage boy from India, Prem Rawat, who said, “The answer you’re seeking is within you … and I can show you how to find it.” Prem claimed that he could teach how to find an endless source of inner peace and joy inside. There was no religion or philosophy attached to the teaching, just a pure experience.
After an initiation session, Mark found himself forever altered. He learned how to enter a universe that was filled with light and celestial harmonies, a world within himself that delivered a deeply rooted experience of peace, joy, contentment, gratitude, and a new sense of reverence for life. That was in 1973, and since then Mark has meditated an hour a day on the practice he learned from Prem.
After finding the secret he was seeking, Mark turned his attention to developing a career. After ten years in various sales positions, he spent the last twenty-five years of his career in the museum industry, where he represented teams of talented writers, artists, designers, media producers, and master-craftspeople who created exhibits and immersive storytelling environments for museums. “It was highly rewarding.” Mark explained. “My clients were all great people, museum directors, curators, and exhibit directors. I loved how passionate they were about their work.” While touring history museum galleries, Mark discovered scores of true stories about amazing people, often common folks, who embarked on epic adventures. These true adventures and the wonderful storytellers Mark worked with helped inspire him to start writing again.
In 2003, while spending time hiking alone in regional parks, Mark said, “I began seeing random scenes, like trailers from a movie.” He started writing down the scenes as they came to him, then realized a story was unfolding. In 2010 he completed a draft of his first novel, The Original Instructions.
As soon as that first manuscript was done, Mark said, “Something snapped inside me, and to the bewilderment of my wife and friends, I became obsessed with writing The Lost Revelation,” a biographical novel of Jesus’ entire life, including accounts of a lost secret teaching. (see Why I Wrote The Lost Revelation for more details.) Mark tabled The Original Instructions, deciding it should be a sequel to The Lost Revelation.
Mark retired from his sales career in 2014 to devote himself full-time to completing The Lost Revelation. He has a series of other novels he is excited about writing, some historic fiction, as well as science fiction, and nonfiction.