Mark Hecht received his Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Victoria in 1994 and then went on to obtain a Master’s Degree in City Planning from the University of Manitoba.

He thought he would be able to “help save the world” through the creation of fabulous urban designs and sustainable urban environments, thus leaving the natural world from the ravages of suburban sprawl and endless destruction. Of course, this was extremely naive. After working for a planning firm in Kelowna, BC for two years that did nothing but ravage the natural world including the pristine forest where he played as a child, he knew it was time to move on.

He serendipitously fell into working in the environmental field as a supervisor of work crews in the South Okanagan. He likes to joke that he did the minimum amount of work necessary to accomplish the tasks at hand before taking his crew off into the woods to explore, to test native plants as foods and medicines, and to engage in philosophical walk-and-talks. It was a beautiful time. Luckily, his boss had a complimentary proverb: We’re striving for mediocrity and if we don’t succeed, there’s always tomorrow.

A highlight of the job happened one day when the big boss at The Nature Trust of BC came up from Vancouver to met the crew. The boss looked at one of the native girls on the crew and suggested that she talk to the elders of her band (PIB) to see if someone would come out and teach the crew a little bit about native plants and medicines.

The young woman’s response was, “Oh hell, Mark knows more about that than our elders do!”

But that job came to an end in the sense that he knew he couldn’t work in the woods for the rest of his life. He had a bigger calling.

So he went off to Calgary, Alberta without a plan.

He got a job working at Community Natural Foods in the Health and Body Care department. He had to stand by a giant wall of natural health products and offer advice to customers and suggest products that might help their ailments. It was a profound practical, and mystical, learning experience beyond the scope of explanation here.

Then, the call came in that he’d been waiting for.

He got a job teaching geography at Mount Royal College (later a University). It was a fantastic time from 2008 to 2015 with collegial faculty and keen, smart students but around 2015, MRU, in line with most universities in the West, became increasingly Woke, more feminized and highly dysfunctional. He left at the end of 2019 at a moment when he wrote an Op-ed for the Vancouver Sun that caught serious flak from the cancel culture crowd. His time in academia came to an abrupt halt as he was now considered persona non grata.

He managed to get on the National Association of Scholars list of academics that have been cancelled. He shares that list with Jordan Peterson, although Peterson was inscribed onto the list much earlier than Hecht.

Hecht then went on to reinvented himself, which is to say, he brought forward the latent talent that had long been tucked below the surface. He took up writing with a passion.

It was also at this time in 2020, the Covid 19 scam was perpetrated upon an unsuspecting population. Hecht stood up firmly against it. Of course, he was labelled as a conspiracy theorist but all heretics must face harsh criticism and sometimes much worse, before being validated, sometimes long after their death.

Hecht wasn’t afraid of facing the truth.

He was afraid of being a coward.

He joined the People’s Party of Canada (the only federal party willing to stand up for freedom at the time) as a candidate in the 2021 Canadian federal election. He did well, all things considered but having done his duty to stand up to totalitarianism and mass hypnosis, he moved back to his love of writing as the bulk of the population began to see the lie they had been fed. He was no longer needed as an inconvenient truth-teller. He returned to writing and natural medicine.

Today, he writes other peoples stories, sometimes his own too, but mostly he delves into some good-ole fashioned spy novel fiction.

Welcome to Mark Hecht’s other world, beyond writing.

University Instructor

The classroom was a joy but getting out into the field to do research was even better.

The famous medical intuitive Carolyn Myss, wrote an book (Sacred Contracts) about Archetypes. From that, Hecht resonated with the Seeker, as the archetype he brought to teaching.

His teaching method, subconscious as it was, involved seeking knowledge and insight and then sharing it with others through the classroom. In this sense he was not really. a teacher, but. instead, a Seeker fulfilling his archetypal duty.

If you wanted to catch Hecht at this best, it was ideal to sign up for the third iteration of any course he taught. Those we the best, most refined, engaging lectures. After that, he got bored with himself telling the same stories over and over again and needed to move on.

The Seeker needed to unravel new mysteries.