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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.

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This Is How the Goddess Weaves the World

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  • Karen Shearer Voorhees
| 26 Feb 2026 Banner, Features Poetry Gaia consciousness, complexity theory, daily life, ecopoetry, metaphysics, physics

From sunlight through leaves to electrons through networks, Karen Voorhees traces the intricate weaving of matter into life, life into community, and community into consciousness—a meditation on how the Goddess dreams herself awake through us.

Black Widow Spider in Five Dimensions

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  • Karen Shearer Voorhees
| 2 Jun 2025 Banner, Features Essays, Humor Meditation, Spiritual breakthrough, humor, memoir, metaphysics

A close encounter with a black widow spider triggers a spiritual opening and a points to a possible solution to the existential problem of suffering.

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