Nick Cook (writer)

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Nicholas Julian Cook is a British aviation journalist turned defence consultant, former CEO of the defence industry consultancy Dynamixx,^[1] and author, whose interest in consciousness studies led him to become a director at Robert Bigelow's Institute for Consciousness Studies.^[2]

Journalism

In the 1990s, Cook was the aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, the international defence journal.^[3] He was an aerospace consultant and contributor to the journal from 2002 to 2008.^[4]

He won four Journalism Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in the Defence, Business, Technology, and Propulsion categories.^[5]

Books

The Hunt For Zero Point,^[5] published by Century Random House in the UK in 2001 and Broadway Books in the US in 2002, details Cook's ten-year investigation into anti-gravity technology.^[6] It focuses on Igor Witkowski's conspiracy theory that the Nazis developed a UFO-like device which allegedly became the basis for US research.^[7][8][9]

Cook has also written two novels, Angel Archangel^[10] and Aggressor,^[11] as well as ghostwriting a number of books predominantly on military subjects.^[12]

Television

The 1999 Discovery Channel documentary Billion Dollar Secret followed Cook's investigation into secret US military spending and experimental aircraft that may have been mistaken for UFOs.^[13] He also wrote and presented the 2005 documentary UFO's: The Secret Evidence, known as An Alien History of Planet Earth in the US.^[14]

Other media appearances

He has been a frequent guest on Coast To Coast AM, a radio show that deals with the paranormal and conspiracy theories.^[15]

Other work

Cook was the founder and CEO of Dynamixx, a consultancy that brought together the defence industry and the search for solutions to climate change.^[16][17] His current focus is on writing and corporate storytelling.

Consciousness and afterlife research

In 2014, Cook’s wife Ali experienced what she described as a shared-death experience during her mother’s passing. She told Cook, “I was there. I knew the meaning of life and the secret of the universe but I couldn't bring it back with me.”^[18] The experience prompted Cook to begin researching consciousness, eventually inspiring his novel The Grid.

Some years later, Cook was contacted by an anonymous philanthropist—unfamiliar to him but a reader of The Hunt for Zero Point—who offered to fund two years of Cook’s research into consciousness, with no conditions attached.^[18]

In late 2020, American businessman Robert Bigelow launched an essay competition on the topic: "What is the best available evidence for the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death?" Cook submitted an entry, which was awarded a $20,000 prize.^[19][20] Following this, Bigelow invited him to become director at the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies.