Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool

By Lauren Artress

Book Overview

The author explores the history and significance of the image of the labyrinth and explains how readers can use the ancient imprint in the art of meditation, leading them to new sources of wisdom, change, and renewal. Reprint.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573225479
• ISBN13: 9781573225472
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 4.6"

Customer Reviews

Life Path

Well done book. I enjoyed this one so much that I built my own labyrinth. It helps me find direction in my life. Want to find your own path? Try the Life Path Journal: Who are you, what do you want and how are you going to get there?

Spiritual connection

The book is well written and has inspired me to get involved with a Labyrinth project. Author identifies so many elements that were missing in my life that the Labyrinth can bring to life. I am thrilled it is still in print.

A Walk on the Wild Side

And by 'wild' I mean natural, authentic. This book is wonderful. It explains labyrinths, explores their purpose and delves into the ancient meaning of sacred geometry, something I'd never heard of until I read this book. Dr. Artress started me on my labyrinth walks...and I've walked the labyrinth many times, for many years - usually 5 or 6 times in a year - at the original labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral in France, and in a meadow and a farm in Ireland and one very ancient labyrinth attributed to the Vikings on the coastline in Northern Sweden. There are several really beautiful labyrinths in Los Angeles that I walk in sunlight and moonlight, in rain and wind. Walking the labyrinth is transformational for me - it brings me peace and serenity and stokes my creativity into a rush of ideas. The labyrinth is unique every time; its message is alway relevent to my circumstance or dilemna. The turns, and reverses, my steps, others on the path - it all speaks to me in metaphor and poetry and reveals secrets I might never have uncovered without the walk. It's a truly mysterious, mystical and mighty pathway to the personal sacred. Elaine Maginn Sonne, Ph.D., Author of Legends of the Stones

Excellent ideas..well written..resources available.

Just returned from walking the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral. A graced space. A healing pace. A slowing down. A looking inward. A looking outward. An appropriate fit between ancient symbol and present reality. This book provides historical information as well as possible creation of a local labyrinth.

A must for anyone interested in the labyrinth.

Lauren Artress has presented a very comprehensive treatment of the subject of labyrinths. Many people have absolutely no knowledge of labyrinths and feel it must be a New Age device. Artress gives a great deal of historical background and puts the use of the labyrinth in a modern perspective,as well. She also deals with the metaphors and symbolism inherent in the labyrinth. In this broken and aching world,the labyrinth offers us all a chance to explore the path to healing and wholeness. Artress is an Episcopal priest and a Jungian Psychologist. She offers many reasons for walking the labyrinth, as well as possible approaches to the walk. She happens to work in a church but this meditational tool can be used by people of all cultures abd religions. It is a way to go on a personal pilgrimage to become better acquainted with oneself.Lauren Artress is very involved with the technique of the labyrinth and she inspires others to experience it for themselves.