Rev. Laura M. George, J.D. (Tau Lama) is an interfaith minister, attorney, and perpetual seeker. Raised Catholic, she began questioning her birth religion at an early age. As an adult. she embarked on a study of the world’s religions and was mentored by Zoroastrian, Gnostic, Melchizedek, and Lakota teachers. By 2000, she was finding answers to the spiritual questions that had haunted her since childhood. Yet it was the tragedy on September 11, 2001, that changed the course of her life. Thereafter, Tau Lama retired as a lawyer and founded The Oracle Institute, an educational charity and spiritual think-tank that studies the nexus between religion, politics, human rights, and conscious evolution. She also founded Oracle Institute Press and Oracle Temple, an esoteric church. She is the author of the award-winning first book in the Oracle trilogy, The Truth: About the Five Primary Religions (2006). She co-authored the second book, The Love: Of the Fifth Spiritual Paradigm (2010), with luminaries such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou, Bill McKibben, and Alex Grey. It took her a decade to complete the final installment of the trilogy, The Light: And the New Human (2022). For her groundbreaking work in the field of conscious co-creation, Tau Lama has been inducted into the circle of Evolutionary Leaders. Today, she lives in the Valley of Light intentional community and works at the Peace Pentagon – the heart of Oracle Campus – along the ancient New River in Independence, Virginia. 

The Truth: About the Five Primary Religions was awarded a Bronze Medal in the Religion category from the Independent Publishers Association, and the book has been endorsed by Bishop John Shelby Spong and Dead Sea Scroll scholar Robert Eisenman, Ph.D.

The Love: Of the Fifth Spiritual Paradigm features endorsements and contributions from Nobel Peace Prize and Pulitzer Prize winners and New York Times best-selling authors, including: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Aung San Suu Kyi; Stephen Dunn, Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, David Suzuki, Ph.D., Bill McKibben, Wendell Berry, Andrew Cohen, Barbara Hand Clow, Falco from the Federation of Damanhur, Henry Reed, Ph.D., Tau Malachi, Pastor Brian McLaren, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Ph.D., and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light, by Oracle Press author Valerie Tarico, Ph.D., was awarded a Silver Medal in the Religion category from the Independent Publishers Association, and the book has been endorsed by Margaret Starbird, Mickey Weinstein, Paul Constant, and Ken Himma, Ph.D.