If you enter the word "labyrinth" into a search machine, you will be surprised by the number of hits. But unfortunately it is like the paths in a maze: Most of them are wrong (but still try it with "mystery labyrinth"). I tried to find out some of the most essential. I would like to show them to you. Here is a partial and subjective choice. Thanks to the people behind these websites who want to share their labyrinth experiences with you. Surely you will find there what you didn't find here.
Labyrinth Links 1
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The
website of The Labyrinth Society has
been relaunched now (June 2008), but the TLS'
mission remains: To support all those who create, maintain and use
labyrinths, and to serve the global community by providing education,
networking and opportunities to experience transformation.
Since
1980, Caerdroia - the Journal of Mazes and Labyrinths
- has been a forum for all those interested in the labyrinthine path.
It is currently the premier source of information
for news, theories and research available and is published annually
by Jeff Saward, founder and editor of Caerdroia.
Caerdroia is published by Labyrinthos - the Labyrinth
Resource Centre, Photo Library and Archive. Founded in 2000 by Jeff & Kimberly
Saward, it provides an information resource for those working with
labyrinths and mazes, with extensive photographic and illustration
libraries and professional consultation services for owners, designers,
publishers and producers. Labyrinthos publishes and stocks a wide
range of maze and labyrinth related books, publications and products
from around the world and also provides lectures, slideshows, events
and tour services for enthusiasts and pilgrims on the labyrinthine
path.
The
Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress is an Episcopal priest,
psychotherapist and the author of Walking a Sacred Path which reintroduced
the labyrinth as a form of walking meditation and a path of prayer
to thousands of readers. Through her work as Canon for Special Ministries
at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and as founder
of Veriditas, a worldwide labyrinth project, she
has become the single most visible and sought-after leader of the
labyrinth movement around the world.
gracecathedral.org/our-labyrinths/
An interview with Lauren Artress from April 7, 2003 "Exploring the Labyrinth as a tool for spiritual navigation" by Kathy Carmean can be heard or read on the website of explorefaith.org.
www.explorefaith.org/artress/interview.html
Labyrinth
Enterprises is entirely devoted to the Labyrinth, on business
and in person. The man behind is Robert Ferré,
an all-round Labyrinth-maker and -enthusiast. He organized already
innumerable travels to the Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral. On
his website you can learn how to build a labyrinth and you may
order his canvas-labyrinths.
Lars Howlett builds, walks, and photographs labyrinths as a practice in mindfulness. He is a Veriditas Faculty Member and Certified Labyrinth Facilitator. For three years he was the apprentice to Master Builder Robert Ferre, learning the art of sacred geometry and his methods of creating exact replicas of Classical and Medieval patterns. In 2015 he launched Discover Labyrinths LLC based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lars designs and builds labyrinths for universities, offices, churches, hospitals, retreat centers, and private residences. He specializes in the design and installation of temporary and permanent labyrinths, leading workshops and meditative walks in the San Francisco Bay area and beyond.
Graphic
courtesy of Toni Phillips
Through Mazes to Mathematics is the website about labyrinths of Tony Phillips, Professor of Mathematics of the State University of New. He explains the labyrinth in a mathematically way and shows how to calculate new types.
www.math.stonybrook.edu/~tony/mazes/index.html
Lea
Goode-Harris, Ph.D. has created the famous Santa
Rosa Labyrinth. On her website she is telling how it happened
and she shows many examples of realized labyrinths. She made also
the Snoopy Labyrinth for the Charles M. Schulz Museum. Lea is engaged
in labyrinths, she is writing poetry, and offers many services
through her Santa Rosa Labyrinth Foundation.
In
Lessons for Living, the website of Dan Johnston with
the title Awakenings, there is beside many other
themes, also a main chapter about the labyrinth as a psychotherapeutic
and a spiritual tool.
www.lessons4living.com/labyrinth.htm
The
Reverend Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion, Ph.D.
is delighted to be working closely with labyrinths as an author,
speaker, spiritual coach, photographer, retreat facilitator, designer,
installer, trainer of labyrinth facilitators, and visual artist.
Jill enjoys encouraging others to use these ancient patterns in ways
that invite creativity, transformation and joy. Her deepest interest
involves the sacred uses of the labyrinth.
Lisa
Moriarty, BA, CLF is Creative
Artist/Designer Certified Labyrinth Facilitator, and is creating
sacred space for individuals, churches, groups
and organizations, leads workshops, retreats and
presentations on the history and use of labyrinths. She has the Bachelor's
degree in fine arts and has trained with Rev. Lauren Artress of Veriditas
and Master Labyrinth Maker Robert Ferré of Labyrinth Enterprises
in St. Louis, MO. She is Board member of The Labyrinth Society and
an active member of the Minnesota
Labyrinth Network.
Lisa creates unique labyrinth designs, including Circle of Peace ™, a 7-circuit concentric circle design that blends elements of the ancient classical and medieval or Chartres-like patterns with sacred geometric principles. Another widely embraced design is the Dancing Woman ™, a design inspired by the ancient Baltic Wheel pattern and developed to represent triumph, celebration, compassion, joy and comfort.
The Mid-Atlantic
Geomancy is dedicated to Astronomy, Sacred Geometry, Dowsing,
Sacred and Secular Space. The labyrinth plays an important part
and there are a lot of practical and detailed information about
it; also an introduction to meditation technics. The men behind
are Sig Lonegren and Patrick MacManaway.
Marty
and Debi Kermeen are creators of labyrinths. Labyrinths
in Stone from Illinois (USA) specializes in creating permanent
labyrinths of Chartres, Cretan, and contemporary designs.
This
is the website of John Ridder from Indianapolis
(USA), producer of labyrinths, consultant, expert and foundation
member of the Labyrinth Society. There is an extensive photo gallery,
informations and articles to the theme.
In
this website Adrian Fisher of Great Britain, the
world most famous 'mazemaker', presents his works and his ideas.
There are 5 websites: for Maize Mazes, Mirror Mazes, Paving Mazes
and Six Minute Mazes.
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