Experiment with Light: The culture of silence

Helen Meads reflects on her experience of Experiment with Light

Quaker religious experience happens in the silence of Worship | Photo: stevendepolo / flickr CC

Why is Experiment with Light not practised more widely among British Quakers? This was the question at the back of my mind when I began work on a doctorate in 2003. As my work progressed, I found that I was looking at British Friends more generally and that at the heart of the answer was the fact that there was a cultural barrier.

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