About the author
Ian Gordon has spent all of his professional life involved with education. After teaching in Victorian secondary schools for about twelve years, he moved to lecturing in teachers colleges and Monash University. After some years as a curriculum consultant to schools, his special interests in curriculum development and evaluation led to senior roles in the Curriculum and Research Branch in Victoria, of which he became head for about five years.
While teaching he wrote a textbook published by Longmans and several children’s novels published by McGraw Hill Australia. His writing for teachers was extensively published through the Curriculum and Research Branch in Victoria, mainly as discussion papers or significant reports.
Special interests over several years in psychic research and spiritual phenomena led to the publication of articles in national magazines. He is also the author of The Andronicus Tapes, a book about psychic phenomena, published in Melbourne, Australia in 1983. Well known for his association with the New Age movement, for many years he conducted workshops on issues such as Contact with Extraterrestrials and Telepathy in most Australian capital cities. He produced and featured in two documentaries about psychic phenomena.
As a young man he was active in Christian churches and a qualified preacher with an in depth knowledge of Biblical prophecies. On his retirement he became an ordained Spiritualist Minister in Australia.
For thirty years he has had a special interest in UFO research and reporting.
These interests have provided a unique expertise to create his books: The Return, a novel of prophecy and mysticism based on an evidential background, Trafford, Canada 2007; Letters to the Church, Trafford, Canada 2007; Letters to Spiritualists, Trafford, Canada, 2008, and Aliens in the Warrumbungles, Zeus, Australia 2008. Watch for these titles as Ebooks.
Since his retirement, Ian Gordon is actively following his interest in writing. Further writing is being planned.
Ian Gordon’s qualifications are BA, TSTC, M.Ed, PhD, and formerly MACE