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 sheer innovation and in tradition for tradition�s sake.
The present pamphlet has its roots in a long standing interest in comparative philosophy and religion, some aspects of which were explored in two earlier Pendle Hill pamphlets, Obstacles to Mystical Experience and On Being Real. To quote the author, �The immediate impetus came from three sources: the general growing interest in techniques of meditation, the fact that one frequent student attender at worship (from whom, in fact, I had taken some Yoga lessons) combined her Yoga with Quaker worship, and from my own initiation into Transcendental Meditation in 1973 out of a combination of professional and personal curiosity.�
