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

Psychotherapist and priest Dr Lauren Artress says, "To walk a sacred path is to discover our inner sacred space: that core of feeling that is waiting to have life breathed back into it through symbols, archetypal forms like the labyrinth, rituals, stories, and myths". In her eloquent treatise, she champions the use of the labyrinth as a way of rediscovering one's spiritual centre. Here Artress tells the story of her own spiritual seeking and how a labyrinth came to be built at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco--sharing the vision of sacred geometry through the ages, she poetically recounts its wonderful effects. Written in 1995, the author is deeply concerned about the environmental and spiritual crisis near the end of the millennium and offers illumination on the path to greater self-understanding, healing and true spirituality. "Religion" she quotes an unknown source, "is for those scared to death of hell. Spirituality is for those who've been there". --P. Randall Cohan

"The Labyrinth inspires in the people who have come to walk along its sinuous, painted path a palpable mix of solemnity and joy." --The New York Times

"The Labyrinth turns the simple act of walking into a sacred experience." --Gnosis

"As you follow a winding path for twenty minutes or so, you might cry tears of grief or joy, solve the riddle of a messed-up family or work life, feel better about an illness, or gain spiritual insight." --Los Angeles Times

"Part of the fun of reading Walking a Sacred Path is to feel 'the great dignity of the symbol, ' regardless of one's own religious background." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"Lauren Artress is one of the pioneers of the renaissance of Western spirituality." --China Galland, author of Women in the Wilderness