Laura Lee is only half joking when she says she has always felt aliens must have abandoned her here by mistake; and that though she doesn’t quite get this world, or fit in she is trying to make the most of it now! She taught herself to read by age 5, beginning a love affair with books. A series of spontaneous spiritual experiences as a child led to her current and ongoing quest to understand more of this mysterious universe and the role of consciousness. Her family wasn’t religious, but encouraged spiritual exploration. They took regular trips to the nearby forests of the Northwest, where mom Bernice felt the cathedral canopies of evergreens spoke to her more clearly than any cathedral. Laura and her sister Kim joined a church and when the pastor heard they had never been baptized, arranged a special mountaintop baptism for them during a church ski-trip. Continuing her exploration, Laura became a health food convert and vegetarian at age 16 and a meditator at 17. In college, she joined an overseas study group every year, traveling with a professor and 25 other students to spend semesters in Italy, Montreal, Israel, and London. Worked in London for a year, and traveled through Greece, Switzerland and France. Graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in English Literature and lots of art history classes. When she lived in New York City, working for a media company, she considered it a "working vacation" to see it’s museums, sights, and other wonders. She has never smoked or taken recreational drugs to this day and wants to declare that "there are one of two of us anomalies out there" and avoids pharmaceutical drugs, including aspirin. She met and married Paul Robear in 1988. They are childless by choice, though they baby their dog, Chants, to admittedly ridiculous degrees. She joined Seattle’s Talk Station KING in 1990, and later moved to KVI with mentor and Program Director Brian Jennings. Click here for a detailed radio history. With Gary Hawkins help and inspiration, Paul and Laura launched their website, www.lauralee.com in 1995 and that same year, they independently syndicated the show to over 100 stations until radio’s consolidation. They spent two years with "Worldstream’s TalkSpot", an Internet talk network founded by Ken Williams of Sierra Online. Intrigued by the Internet, Paul and Laura continue to offer their eclectic talk show on this revolutionary medium.

Paul grew up in Maine, among a large extended family. This was an ideal setting; they skated the frozen ponds in winter, water-skied and boated at his family’s ‘summer camp’ in the woods. He didn’t take to the hunting his other family members enjoyed. He was more interested in spiritual affairs, and joined a Theosophical based study group in high school. He became a meditator and vegetarian at age 18, and toured Switzerland, France, and the East Coast of the U.S.

Paul has developed a life long appreciation of the teachings of  indigenous Elders who share ancient wisdom with spiritual insight, providing practical solutions for modern cultures and technologies. Paul also worked with Felicitas Goodman, a Western anthropologist, a highly regarded expert in linguistics and anthropology who is best known for her ground breaking research into trance states using ritual body postures.

In recent years, Paul has begun using art to continue his journey. Inspired by oldest living art traditions, Paul's art ranges from creations on canvas, clay, found items and drums. Paul has studied with Native American sculptor and painter Barry Coffin. Paul sees art as a means to cross boundaries of culture and language, and to share old and new traditions and to contemplate the mysteries of life.