Oracle Founders and Board Members

 

How and Why Did We Start?

 

 

 

    The Oracle Institute was founded in 2004 by Laura George and a group of like-minded souls who believe that the world is on the verge of a major Spiritual Paradigm shift, the likes of which we have not seen since Jesus left the planet. The Oracle founders also believe that we have the ability to co-create with God – and with you – to manifest the future we seek. To us, our collective future depends on earnestly seeking and then holding fast to: Truth, Love, and Light.

 

Our Current Board of Directors and Officers

 

Director and President

Laura George

 

Director and Vice President

Pat Bernasconi

 

Director and Treasurer

Pat George

 

Director and Vice President of Oracle Press

Dave Roberts

 

Director and Webmaster

Allan Hardy

 

Director and Sweat Lodge Leader

Pete Beebe

 

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Laura George

 

 

    Laura George is a Virginia-based author, attorney, artist, teacher, and spiritual seeker who founded and directs The Oracle Institute, a 501(c)(3) educational charity whose mission is to assist humanity in making the spiritual shift into the New Millennium. Oracle has established a publishing program, an adult school, an informative website, and a newsletter. Starting in 2010, Laura will direct the establishment of a permanent school for spiritual studies at a stunning site in the Appalachian Mountains along the New River, the oldest river in our hemisphere.

 

    Laura grew up in Gaithersburg, MD. Her father was a naval officer and Director of the Arms Control Agency. Her mother was a public school special-ed teacher. Raised a Catholic, Laura began questioning her birth religion at an early age and, as a young adult, embarked on a study of the world's religions in an attempt to find the "Truth." Today, her search continues.

 

    In 1983, Laura graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce, with dual concentrations in Management Information Systems and Human Resources Management. In 1986, she graduated cum laude from Boston University Law School, where she worked in the legal aid clinical program. For the next six years, Laura practiced law, working for Venable, Baetjer, and Howard in McLean, VA, for Reynolds Metals Company in Richmond, VA, and then running her own law practice while raising her three children. Her husband at the time also worked for a law firm, specializing in the area of intellectual property.

 

    In 1992, Laura left the law to concentrate on her family and her more ethereal interests: painting, writing, and the performing arts. She exhibited her art at King Street Studios in Leesburg, VA, wrote several feature-length screenplays, and performed as a member of the George Mason University Ensemble Theater Program, at Le Neon Theater in Arlington, VA, and in several commercial and Hollywood film productions.

 

    By 1994, Laura was working intensely at finding the answers to the spiritual questions that had haunted her since childhood. Following her divorce, Laura moved to a farm in rural Leesburg, VA with her three children and, for a short while, she returned to the practice of law.

 

The events of 9/11 sparked a deep spiritual awakening in Laura, which prompted her to start writing about the dangers of sectarian religion and the upcoming paradigm shift. In 2004, she founded The Oracle Institute with a group of like-minded souls and donated her first book to Oracle: The Truth: About the Five Primary Religions & The Seven Rules of Any Good Religion. Her debut work is the first in a trilogy: The Truth (2006); The Love (2010); and The Light (2011).

 

Currently, Laura is busy preparing for the release of the second edition of The Truth and the debut release of The Love. She also is designing Oracle's first school building, which will be built in the shape of a Pentagram to represent humanity's potential to become Christed beings. Her New River project will contribute to the efforts already underway to make the New River valley a sustainable economic region. Laura is available for public appearances and can be reached at the Institute: Laura@TheOracleInstitute.org

 

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Dave Roberts

 

 

 

David L. Roberts is Vice President of The Oracle Institute Press, LLC, where he manages the Institute's burgeoning publishing programs. The Press is still concentrating on its seminal trilogy of books by Laurel, the Institute's founder – The Truth, The Love, and The Light – but is now seeking proposals for book manuscripts from other authors. Dave also is a member of the Institute's Board of Directors, in which capacity he further guides the Institute by teaching at the Oracle School and helping to establish a permanent spirituality center for Oracle along the New River in Independence, VA, a few miles from his childhood home.

 

Dave has alternated between teaching and journalism throughout his career. While teaching high school English in North Carolina, he worked part-time for the Winston-Salem Journal when the paper received a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the successful effort to prevent a power company from building dams on the New River. Later, he taught at Forsyth Technical Community College and served as President of the Faculty Association and a non-voting member of the Board of Trustees. After ten years there, he changed careers and became a reporter and editor for community newspapers in North Carolina and Tennessee, winning state press association awards for both writing and photography.

 

Then the classroom beckoned once more, and Dave joined an innovative team of community college instructors to develop a related series of courses in World History, World Literature, and History of the Fine Arts with the help of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. He spent the rest of his teaching career at James Sprunt Community College in eastern North Carolina, where he received Teacher of the Year honors and pioneered the college's development of online and distance learning classes. He was also founding co-editor of Wellspring, an award-winning literary magazine. Since his retirement from teaching, he has served as Managing Editor of the internationally renowned Journal of Parapsychology, published by the Rhine Research Center in Durham, NC.

 

Dave is a 1968 cum laude graduate of Wake Forest University, where he majored in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He later earned a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Duke University and a Master of Arts in History from Wake Forest. He is an avid baseball fan and a practitioner of meditation and reiki. He has a grown son and lives in Winston-Salem with his wife, Trudy, who is a state Park Ranger. Dave can be reached at the Institute:
Dave@TheOracleInstitute.org