Short Bio :
Paul Bailey has sat in pitch black meditation caves inhabited by deadly snakes for days, travelled with gun smugglers across the Sulawesi Sea, witnessed a helicopter attack a wedding party in Mindanao, and almost fell into the active volcano of Mt Agung. Paul is an internationally recognised public speaker, modern-day philosopher and educator. He has distilled the best scientific research and personal insights for the pages of Think of an Elephant, and met with some of the key researchers working at the frontiers of mainstream science and esoteric studies. If you are interested in reading more about Paul's work, go to: www.thinkofanelephant.com............................ Bio : In between pursuing business interests and teaching, Paul has travelled the world to study spirituality and healing, including Chan (Chinese) Buddhism at the Po Lin Buddhist monastery in Hong Kong and with the late Charles Luk (the famous master translator of Buddhist texts); faith healing in the Philippines and Brazil; traditional Aboriginal medicine in the Northern Territory of Australia; Chinese massage and medicine with the renowned Professor Wong Lun in Melbourne; and parapsychology at John F. Kennedy University in California. For more than a decade Paul has immersed himself in the esoteric sciences, archival scientific research, and practices that lay at the heart of Think of an Elephant.

In parallel to these studies, he has run health clinics specialising in relaxation, nutrition, and remedial and sports massage, and worked as a consultant to the Victorian Government (Australia) on preventative health and wellness through adult education in country centres. These interests are supported by his membership of the Association of Remedial Masseurs (NSW, Australia).

Initially qualified as an aircraft electrical engineer, before passing through several careers in education, Paul Bailey has been involved professionally with all aspects of holistic health and complementary medicine, as well as the psychology of communication, the meditative arts, and environmental issues. These interests have supported a varied career in business, the arts, teaching and health. (In the commercial world, Paul is currently the director of a rare collectibles company.)

Paul has an arts degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (including the study of comparative religion), postgraduate qualifications in education from La Trobe University (Victoria), and postgraduate qualifications in human resource management from the University of Western Sydney. Before embarking on a corporate career, and immersion in the holistic sciences, Paul taught throughout Australia and overseas in history, English, health, music and drama. Several years were also spent in operations and technical training management within corporate Australia, while he simultaneously guest-lectured in commerce at the University of Western Sydney.

During this time, Paul developed educational training programs for adults and children in entrepreneurship, train-the-trainer and health & wellness, prosperity and executive coaching. He has run executive skills, motivational and corporate team-building training courses throughout Australia, South East Asia and into the USA. Supporting these interests, Paul is a member of the National Speakers Association of Australia (which is affiliated with the National Speakers Association of the USA).

On the creative side, Paul has also worked as a professional musician. He has played piano, African percussion, and guitar, with many a dance-hall overflowing and seething to the wild exuberance of the Shearers Tally bush and folk band. One classical orchestral composition of his, titled A Melody for Krisha, received some polite airplay in Australia. (A copy is available, but only if you implore him.) Paul also appeared awkwardly as the young Colonel Hacker in the entirely forgettable Hollywood movie: The Last Reunion.

His personal life is shared with Kristina, two delightful stepsons, two dogs, a flop-eared rabbit (the dogs and the rabbit insist on sleeping together nose-to-nose and side-by-side), aquarium fish, and frogs in a pond in the backyard. “We grow passionfruit on the cubby-house,” he says. “The dogs dig holes. I can't read a bus timetable.

As part of an integrated process of personal development and corporate facilitation available to the public, you may be interested in more information and training on the ideas and insights presented in Think of an Elephant. This additional access includes private sessions, seminars, workshops, personal profiling and corporate consultancy facilitated by Paul, and his associates.

Paul says: “In this interconnected world, where everything connects to everything else
at some energetic level, it only takes the slightest positive change within ourselves
to create a world of difference around us.”