Quaker Worship and Techniques of Meditation

The general topic of Quaker worship in relation to techniques of meditation has received increasing attention over the past several years in many kinds of Friends’ gatherings. Yet nowhere have I seen any sustained discussion of the relationship between systematic meditative techniques and traditional worship after the manner of Friends. I offer the following considerations not simply to fill an intellectual gap, but primarily to show the advantages as well as the dangers which lie both in s...