About Author

Philip Adrian Sykes is a retired Barrister, Chartered Secretary, and the author of Eternity, a profound exploration of life, death, and consciousness. After decades spent advising industry and developing world-renowned business simulations, his life took a transformative turn following a spiritual experience that reshaped his understanding of existence. What began as a single moment of awakening in a railway carriage became a lifelong philosophical journey into the nature of the soul, culminating in Eternity.

On a cold January morning in 1974, a young man boarded the early train from Leicester to London, weary, practical, and unprepared for revelation. Somewhere between the Bedfordshire brickfields and dawn, a golden light rose within him, filling his being and speaking a single, immutable sentence: “I have work for you.”

That young man was Philip Adrian Sykes, then a legal adviser on his way to another routine day, unaware that his life had just changed forever. The experience, which he later called The Light, marked the beginning of a lifelong journey toward understanding consciousness, reality, and the mystery of existence.

For years, Sykes led a successful professional life, first as a Barrister and Chartered Secretary, then as the founder of a company that produced over a hundred acclaimed business and management simulations. His work became internationally recognized, with one of his simulations becoming the world’s best-selling and most influential of its kind. He also taught at universities and business schools and consulted with leading corporations worldwide.

But behind the achievements was a question that would not let him rest: What is the true nature of life, and what happens beyond it?

He began to read philosophy, physics, parapsychology, religion, and metaphysics, searching for clarity amid contradiction. Thirty years after that first encounter with The Light, he began to write Eternity. In it, Sykes explores consciousness, death, and the afterlife with a rare combination of intellectual rigor and spiritual insight.

Was The Light an external visitation or an inner awakening? Sykes offers no dogma, only reflection. “In the ultimate analysis,” he writes, “it doesn’t matter, because they are both the same.”

Today, Philip Adrian Sykes continues to share his vision through his writing, a vision shaped by reason, experience, and that golden moment when time stood still and eternity began.