The Personal Theology Committee is delighted to have UUCB Member, Dr. Karen Voorhees, as our presenter.
She will read from her recently published memoir essay “Black Widow Spider in Five Dimensions,” in which an encounter with a spider in her kitchen opens an experience into higher dimensions, and points to a possible solution to the existential problem of suffering.
BIO
Karen Voorhees grew up attending the Unitarian Fellowship in Livermore, California, where her father was a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore laboratory. She left UU-ism behind when she went off to college at Cal in 1969.
Always a humanities nerd, Karen was just finishing her Ph.D. in cultural history when her spiritual path landed on her. She abandoned academia, married a doctor, and made her living as homemaker while dedicating herself to her meditations and to serving her spiritual community. In the mid 1990s she spearheaded the creation of a 501(C)3 corporation for her guru, and helped run it until his death in 2005.
Since then much of Karen’s time has gone into late-life and end-of-life care for elderly friends and relatives. After the presidential election of 2016 she returned to the religion of her childhood here at UUCB, and, to her delight, found her beloved community.
Karen’s passion for the humanities, big history and spirituality have remained with her throughout. They now drive her “retirement” career as a writer of visionary fiction.
