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