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I have been reading Tarot since the mid-1980s, but didn't really launch into it more in-depth until the last six years. I'm a former seminarian who worked in evangelical ministry with teens and men's ministries for several years.

Illustrator and writer of fiction - The Rollicking Adventure of Tam O'Hare - www.tamohare.com - and poetry occupationally hovering in the advertising ghettos of Minneapolis & Saint Paul, Minnesota as an art director and designer. I can be more or less defined by my role as a Dad; a parent with custody of my three exuberant children, who live with me in my home. My life is a paradoxical roller coaster of hellacious joy and insightful befuddlement, and were it not for my buoyant, easy going nature, I would most assuredly have lost my sanity years ago.

I value a good pipe, a stout pint, and consider myself a purist when it comes to single malt highland Scotch - which for me is not a tool of inebriation, but rather an enlightened repast to be shared with colleagues and like-minded pedagogues of philosophy and hob-knobbing banter.

I am a contemplative, spiritual man of consideration who values intelligence, wit, justice and touch. I do not shy away from a good fight, and have had a few brawls in my day - whether on my behalf or in defense of another - and, were times different, would most probably be known wide and abroad as an expert swordsman. However, in keeping with my paradoxical nature, I prefer employing words over weapons, wit above profanity, spirituality above religion, stalwartness above inconstancy. And as I grow older, my burgeoning jaded cynicism is wholly tempered by my desire to not become an ass. My humor is wry, my mind is fertile, and my love is deep.



I am part of a professional paranormal investigative team, with an intrinsic focus on history. We are developing and producing a television series, www.DeadReckoningTV.com, merging the scientific with the psychic, and historical efficacy with entertaining presentation. A mix of science, spitualism, historical research, skepticism and fun.

I am ever seeking to improve myself. While I was trained in a Conservative Baptist Seminary, and spent some years in youth and men's ministries, I am still seeking answers to many seemingly unanswerable questions.... or at least unanswerable without the fail-safes of dogma and repetitive recitations of cold theology.

I have looked to my Christian-Paganism (now THERE's a conversation starter), Quantum Physics, the Dali Lahma, Christian Gnosticism and finally the Kabalah - which is less about organized religion, than it is about science, ethics, and reality. All-in-all for me, it's about tapping into the energy of the Universe - sorry if that sounds waaaaay too fringe-new-age-whacky for anyone, but there it is. Despite all, I consider myself a "believing skeptic," and an intelligent pragmatist.