I was born in Wakefield, England, educated at Wakefield Grammar School and then at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, where I obtained an MA in Natural Sciences. After finishing my studies, I joined a research team to design spectrophotometers at Pye Unicam Instruments, in Cambridge.

From an early age I had a passion for discovering and inventing things. I recall as a child dismantling clocks to see how they work, and later reassembling them, much to the relief of my parents. A few years later, I would spend my time designing and building such things as a Van de Graaff generator and various electronic devices. Later, as senior physics laboratory assistant at the grammar school, I set up the experiments my physics master would perform during class.

During the summer vacation after my final year at university, I organized a club in the Cambridge Guildhall, in which I installed the necessary electronics and lighting. I hired a local rock band: The Chequers. They were good, and I had a full house every time they played. At the end of the summer, I was tempted to join them as road manager and go on tour with them in France. However, I didn’t want to lose the benefit of my scientific training so I accepted the job with Unicam. Later, I learned that the band changed its name—their new name: Pink Floyd.

After five years with the instrument company, I decided to move into a more creative field and I joined an advertising agency—London Press Exchange—as an account executive. This enabled me to gain experience in technical and consumer advertising. Then I joined wine producer Williams & Humbert as International Marketing Director. When the company closed its London office, I was offered a contract in Spain to set up a marketing and advertising department at the headquarters in Jerez de la Frontera.

In my spare time, I had always been a keen photographer, and I had an exhibition of my work at the Kodak headquarters in London. Then, after completing my contract with Williams & Humbert, I produced and directed a 60-minute documentary for Channel Four Television. The film, titled El Rocio, was about a festival in which over a million people travel from all over southern Spain—many of them on ox-drawn wagons—to visit a shrine in the marshlands of the River Guadalquivir. The film was shown five times in Britain and twice on Discovery Channel in the USA.

The proceeds from the film helped me finance a six-month journey in South America, in which I crossed the continent overland from Rio de Janeiro to Lima in Peru. My goal was to follow the footsteps of Eric von Dӓniken, the Swiss explorer, and visit the archaeological sites in Peru—an unforgettable experience which included my getting lost in the Amazon. Later, I was invited to join a scientific expedition to a site named Auquis Puquio, which belonged to a pre-Inca culture, high in the Andes near Huaraz. Whilst in northern Peru, I also had the opportunity to visit the shamans in the remote region of Huancabamba, and participate in one of their healing ceremonies.

On my return to Spain, I was hired by a British oil prospecting company, KCA Drilling, to help them set up a local shore base for their drilling operations off-shore. This contract led to others in Britain, Italy, and Spain, and finally in the Middle East, where I held the position of Materials and Purchasing Manager for the National Drilling Company, Abu Dhabi. My department was responsible for the purchase and supply of equipment and parts for the 22 drilling rigs operating in the Emirate. At the end of my five-year contract, I returned to Spain overland, crossing the immense Rub’al Khali desert in Saudi Arabia, and travelling through nine countries.

This diversity of activities prepared me for my future endeavours, as those who read my book will discover. I had long been interested in psychic phenomena, especially precognition, but I was initially skeptical on account of my traditional scientific education. The idea of seeing into the future seemed little short of romantic fantasy. But when a friend had a series of premonitions that were hard to dismiss as occurring by chance, and I decided to investigate.

I was persuaded by the parapsychological literature that precognition was real and I decided to try to find an explanation. I had started a project that went on for 25 years, during which I published articles in peer-reviewed journals and lectured in Britain and Europe. Early in my investigations, I visited the University of Edinburgh where I met Dr. John Beloff, who became my mentor on parapsychology. My first breakthrough came when I solved the problem of the intervention paradox (bilking paradox in the USA) and my first paper on the subject was published in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, in October 1995.

During my investigations, I joined several organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Scientific Exploration, and the Parapsychological Association (PA), for which I was elected a Professional Member.

As the years passed, I noticed how the results of experiments confirmed that I seemed to be on the right track, and this encouraged me to continue with my investigations. However, life is not easy for anyone working on such a controversial topic. On one side are the parapsychologists who accept the evidence for ESP, but present it as a challenge to scientific materialism. On the other side are the orthodox scientists who reject such a dualist explanation and are therefore skeptical towards the phenomena in the first place.

Nontheless, I was able to present a complete physical theory of ESP at the Annual Convention of the PA held in Rome, Italy, in August 2013. I then described the theory in a paper titled “The Nature of Precognition” published in the Journal of Parapsychology, March 2014.

The most interesting aspect of the theory is that it explains intuition, and shows how intuition helps us make better decisions and serves as an important aid to our survival and well-being. I presented my research on intuition at the PA Convention in Paris, July 2019. I was also invited to participate in a workshop organized by the Institut Métapsychique International, at which scientists from all over the world examined the theoretical aspects of psychic phenomena.

My book “Contact with the Future” was first released in 2020, and a fully revised edition was published on Amazon, 26 August, 2024.