KarunaNews Story

"Imagine that there are hundreds of people in an auditorium and, in the middle of the talk, suddenly the power in that building went off. And so we are in complete darkness, and because we are in complete darkness, we hear one another with a kind of acuteness that's very rare. Every word that is spoken reverberates through the room and penetrates in a way that is very mysterious. So the talk, the experience, went from something that approximated babble to a deep encounter with a process of reflection as a community," said Michael Penn, a clinical psychologist and professor at Franklin & Marshall College. "It was one of the most powerful experiences that I have ever had as an academic."