Our son, Brennan Naea, 20, unexpectedly passed away on November 13, 2025. Needless to say, our family is shocked and beyond devastated. As we work through our grief, we thank you for your patience during this extremely difficult time. I will not be around for about a week or so, then plan to restart asap. Here's the link to his OBITUARY online: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/frisco-tx/brennan-naea-12617594 Thank you for your patience and support.

Aloha, It is not by chance that you have found this space. Your arrival here is a reflection of your own readiness to go beyond the surface and truly understand who you are. This is not a community for accumulating more knowledge, which as the "Seasoned Seeker" knows, can be the final cage. This is a container for deconstruction. It is a space to question, to see through illusion, and to remember the truth of your own being. In the "Classroom" section, you will find the two foundational texts and movie for our free community: - Light of Be-ing: This is the "map" that lays out the territory. It details "The 3 Keys" that unlock reality and "The 8 Gates" that form the walls of our perceived prison. There is also the highly praised "Light of Be-ing" movie, a 1 of a kind spiritual experience to awakening. - You Are Source: This is the "proof." It is a collection of documented, real-world stories of awakening that demonstrate the principles in action. Ordinary people having extra-ordinary experiences. The information is here for you. But this is not a library; it is a living dialogue. To begin your journey, go to the main community feed and introduce yourself by answering a single question: - "What is the single most important question you are living with right now?" This is not for my benefit, but for yours. It is the starting point of your own unveiling. Please read "The Field: Our Code of Presence": The pinned post with our community guidelines. It explains the simple agreements we all hold to keep this a sacred and powerful space for everyone. Welcome to Contrary Wisdom. Your awakening is at hand. Blessings, Mark Naea, Øm 'not-mark'

Hello everyone, how are you guys doing? How is life at your side?

Aloha, Mark and everybody, Thank you, Mark, for having me here. I'm glad to be connected to you and everybody in this sacred community. The question as my introduction is "How is healing related to enlightenment?" I always had an assumption that the more one gets healed, the more closer to enlightenment. But now I started to understand that each one of us is Source, which doesn't need healing. I am Source, at the same time experiencing the healing journey in this physical realm. Someone can realize he/she is Source around the end of his/her healing journey, and others can realize it in the midst of physical, emotional, or spiritual crisis. So, if I answer my question, "maybe nothing." When I was pondering on this question, another question popped up in my mind. "When someone drops, does this person get healed?" Then, while I was trying to answer this, I realized that the foundation of this question is the concept that we are someone who needs to be healed. But when someone drops, the person realizes what she/he truly is doesn't need to be healed, so this questions will also automatically drop. I'd like to know what I'm missing, so comment or feedback from anyone is very welcome. I've been getting a lot of inspiration from Mark's texts and everyone's sharing in the Community page. Thank you so much. I look forward to our ongoing interaction.

In “The Field” we are invited to share stories, so I thought I’d do so. About four months ago I was very much drawn to learn about Mt. Shasta (which I live about 3.5 hours from). I saw an interview with Lowell Johnson which led to me to his website, which has several pages on Andara Crystals. I can’t recall if Life’s Treasures Kauai advertised on the site, or if I found the website with a search, but it was the first (and only) Andara Crystal website I looked at. On it I saw an Andara Crystal which spoke to me. Mark sent that to me along with another Andara Crystal as a gift. There are pages and pages I could write about my interaction with them, so in the interest of keeping this post manageable I’ll list the broad brush strokes of what happened next. I could very clearly feel their energies as they approached my home. From the moment I touched them their energies and patterns were surprising and powerful. My spiritual work became very simple: I would sit or lay near them, or hold them, their energies would take over, I would let go of resistance and expectation, experience amazing things up to a point after which I would be unable to clearly remember, and would return to (so-called) “normal” consciousness sometimes hours later. Almost immediately I stopped drinking alcohol (after several years of that being a very difficult thing); I purged many decades worth of sadness and anger and so was able to heal many relationships in my life. I could go on with the list of life changes, but for the sake a brevity I won’t. After looking at the Life’s Treasures Kauai website in more detail I saw where Mark had linked his YouTube videos re the Lemurian Codices. I began watching those videos with the Crystals and had more intense experiences. In fact it took me weeks to get through the videos because I would get about 15-20 minutes into them, lose memory of what happened next and then “wake up” hours later. When I thanked Mark via email for the gifted Andara Crystal and mentioned the videos he let me know about “You Are Source” and that he was launching this online community/course. And now I’m here. (I still haven’t made it to Shasta yet.)