Karen Shearer Voorhees

In 1979 I was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue research for my Ph.D. dissertation in Medieval Studies. While working in Munich I found my spiritual path, began meditating in earnest and discovered that there are levels of truth and beauty far beyond the intellectual.

I returned to Berkeley, finished my Ph.D. and left academia to devote myself to my spiritual path. Between 1996 and 2000 I managed the 501(c)3 incorporation of my guru’s organization.

Since 2003 much of my time has gone into late-life and hospice care for elderly relatives.

Now, in my early 70s, I am reinventing myself yet again, this time as a writer of essays and novels. As a visionary, a historian by training, long-time meditator and lover of good stories, I trace the long arc of our collective past and follow its trajectory into an Integral future.

I also love art, music, song and dance of many kinds, big ideas, silly fun, nature, and potato latkes at Saul’s deli.