The Prayer Room arose from a felt need for a playful and irreverent space for communal prayer and contemporary spiritual exploration. Regardless of belief orientation- orthodox, cynical, apathetic, or in between-, The Prayer Room was a place people could approach diverse spiritual communion personally and in concert with each other. It was a space to offer supplication to something greater than oneself, be it the community, the universe or the divine. It remained open to the public for two weeks with programming that included non-denominational prayer workshops based on the scientific research of Dr. Gary Schwartz on material implications of communal positive intention exercises.
In addition to the seven carnivalesque prayer kneelers, The Prayer Room also had a small library of books on a variety of metaphysical traditions. Some topics included were: texts on zen, chaos magic, 12 step recovery, the Yoruba pantheon, quantum physics, comparative religions, parapsychology; the writings of Krishnamurti, Rudolph Steiner, Alice Walker, Aleister Crowley, Hakim Bey and more.
In addition to the seven carnivalesque prayer kneelers, The Prayer Room also had a small library of books on a variety of metaphysical traditions. Some topics included were: texts on zen, chaos magic, 12 step recovery, the Yoruba pantheon, quantum physics, comparative religions, parapsychology; the writings of Krishnamurti, Rudolph Steiner, Alice Walker, Aleister Crowley, Hakim Bey and more.
