I'm Scotty Roberts.
Here's a little bit about me...
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) 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.
My kids - Abby, Sam & Bryn - and me...
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.
My wife, Raini, holding Bubba, our "Emo"-chihuahua...
I am part of a professional paranormal investigative team, with an intrinsic focus on history. We are developing and producing a television series, Dead Reckoning., 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.
I have always believed that Yeshua is the Light, but sometimes His light casts deeper shadows along my path than even He can illuminate...
My horse, Fergus, and me...
