Philip A. Sykes is a retired Barrister and Chartered Secretary. After spending his early career as a legal adviser and company secretary in industry, he established a company to publish business and management simulations for training purposes. He is the author of over 100 simulations, games, case studies, role plays and other participative training resources, including what was the world's best-selling and most influential business simulation. In addition, he has taught business and management subjects at universities and business schools.Following a spiritual experience 50 years ago, he has studied and researched world religions, philosophy, cosmology, parapsychology, the paranormal and the occult. He has sought to unravel the confusions and contradictions that he had found in these subjects and to integrate science, religion and psychic phenomena into an integrated system that explains the true nature of reality.