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Prior to starting the Centre, 
Steaphen Pirie was consulting and working with the Professional Development Unit at Charles Sturt University, as well as other leading educational organisations (such as IMIA's Graduate School of Leadership.
He specialises in "Big Picture" world views and how our beliefs are crucial in determining the quality of our lives and relationships.
Steaphen is the author of Maya Sends Her Love and was the recent (2007) Sydney Coordinator of the Scientific and Medical Network, based in the U.K.
He is also the author of two previous books - Be and Become, and Awkward Truths: Beyond the dogmas of science, religion and new-age philosophies.
His work is centred on describing how underlying quantum physics principles operate in everyday life, and how those principles can be engaged and beneficially applied.
Background:
Steaphen's fairly conservative upbringing led him to study a level 1 physics major at high-school and then electrical engineering and computer-science at university. But a lack of interest (as typified by skipping lectures and tutorials, even on his first day) eventually saw him drop out of academic study. He subsequently drifted -- driving buses, fixing computers (e.g. for Control Data Corporation) before beginning a professional sales career selling data communications products.
Beginning a career in corporate sales (not the proverbial used-car variety of sales) marked a dramatic change in his world view. He learned about the role of attitude in determining one's experiences. He subsequently and enthusiastically dived into the study of all matters concerning sales training, motivation, meditation, beliefs, spirituality, NLP, the Silva Method and the many practical implications of quantum physics. (Along the way, he often had extended, vigorous discussions with any and everyone concerning the underlying philosophical frameworks of such).
In wanting to more fully rely on his expanded understanding and creativity, he left sales to begin, without any prior industry knowledge or experience, his own engineering business ("Special hazards" computer-room very early detection + full-flooding gaseous fire-suppression systems). While a success - designing, installing and maintaining advanced fire-protection systems for many leading Australian corporate customers (e.g. Westpac Bank, Advance Bank, BHP, MasterFoods, Telstra) - his heart was never really in it. Accordingly, after six years in his own business, he took leave of the business world to begin writing, which began another dramatic shift in his perceptions.
By setting aside time to write, Steaphen experienced an avalanche of deep new insights that profoundly enriched his views on life. By having read widely, and by leaning on past intuitive experiences, he intuited and developed a deep, new philosophical framework that has, to date, not erred or failed to clarify and deepen his understanding.
That framework (variously described in his books as The Table of One and AllTM, The Pairadox Rule, The God-as Principle and The Possibility Principle) is applicable to all areas of life, including business management and development, relationships, health, creativity and personal development. It engenders a deep understanding and appreciation of the seemingly contrary natures of chaos and order, surprise and predictability and other such apparent "dualities".
In essence, the framework is a core principle of life that reconciles and integrates the core truths of the many diverse spheres of human understanding and experience, including but not limited to science, medicine, religion, spirituality, psychology, sociology and political science.
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