You could hear a pin drop Sunday at the World Trade Center’s Oculus.
About 400 people turned up at the transportation hub for an evening of mass meditation courtesy of The Big Quiet, which was launched last year by Jesse Israel to connect like-minded people, mostly millennials.
The group has held similar events at the Summer Stage in Central Park and at Lincoln Center.
The event at the Oculus was held in partnership with apparel company Kit and Ace and the Port Authority of New York. Portions from the ticket sales went to support the HEART 9/11 foundation.
“We’re a stressed-out generation, and meditation is an obvious source for stress reduction,” Israel told the J. Walter Thompson marketing company.
“On a deeper level, as our generation is connecting less with religion and more with technology, we have this hunger, almost like a scrambling, to find more meaningful ways to connect with other people and with ourselves,” he said.
