Thanks for that guys!

If we hadn't of pickled our brains on cheap Red wine,
we should have been able to locate a definition.

So, many thanks!

Stew

--- Dave <dave.a.edwards@...> wrote:
> Hi Stew ;)
> Well a labyrinth walk is a ritualistic contemplative
> spiritual experience,
> or it's a bit of a giggle getting dizzy & trying to
> stay on the path!
> In other words, it's what you want/need it to be for
> you.
> I've had both fun and also some incredibly powerful
> and moving experiences
> while walking a labyrinth.
> I've enjoyed making them too.
>
> You obviously have internet, so if you go to
> www.google.com and type in
> "labyrinth walk" (make sure you include the speech
> marks) you should find
> around 3080 links to web pages describing all sorts
> of aspects of labyrinth
> walking!
>
> There are one or two I really like.
> This one is aimed at children, and so it explains
> things in a way I
> understand!
> http://www.childrenslabyrinthproject.org/walk.html
>
> Here is some text from another page describing
> labyrinth walking:
> What is the Labyrinth?
>
> It is an archetype-- a universal image pointing to
> the sacred center and
> existing deep within the collective unconscious,
> found all over the world,
> from every age and in every tradition, labyrinths
> have always been
> associated with religious practice and with healing.
>
> The eleven-circuit labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral
> (on which our labyrinth
> is modeled) was built around 1220, and had
> associations with the making of
> pilgrimage. By walking the labyrinth, one
> symbolically made the pilgrimage
> to the holy city of Jerusalem. Today, walking the
> labyrinth can be for us a
> symbol of our life's walk toward the sacred center.
> "To walk the labyrinth
> is to walk the thread of one's life" (Artress).
>
> How do I use it?
>
> Briefly, you walk the meandering path to the center,
> pause for as long as
> needed at the center, and walk out again by the same
> meandering path.
>
> The labyrinth is not a maze. There are no wrong
> turns. The path will
> inevitably bring you to the center.
>
> However, the spiraling path doubles back on itself
> from time to time along
> the way, even as it continues to move toward the
> center. And the circling
> motion brings to awareness that even as you are
> moving towards the center,
> you are always in touch with that center. Thus, the
> very process of walking
> the labyrinth puts you bodily in touch with the
> awareness of your life as a
> journey in and toward a center.
>
> Walking the labyrinth is a way of bodily
> understanding your life-- as has
> been said-- "not as drift, but as pilgrimage."
>
> Walking the labyrinth can be seen as walking
> meditation. As walking prayer.
> The action of walking often provides a focus for the
> mind enabling one to be
> less distracted. The mind is calmed and clarified by
> the action of walking--
> as we sometimes know for example when a walk in the
> woods helps quiet and
> calm the mind.
>
> When you walk the labyrinth path, the surface
> activity of the mind dies
> down, and thoughts and feelings come to awareness
> that might have been
> blocked in the haste and distraction of daily
> activities.
>
> The reassurance of the path, leading surely to the
> center, along with the
> meandering structure of the way, which prohibits you
> from knowing how close
> you are to the center, draws you to focus on the
> actual walking rather than
> the goal. This may help you pay attention without
> distraction to what is
> being brought to your inner awareness.
>
> Some people come to the labyrinth walk with a
> question or dilemma on their
> minds. Walking to the center may help settle the
> mind so that the anxiety
> that inhibits insight may diminish and a perspective
> on the situation be
> gained.
>
> Many however will want to walk the labyrinth simply
> in openness to what it
> has to offer of insight and peace. The seeker will
> be open then to whatever
> thoughts and feelings arise on the walk. Everything
> that occurs will
> instruct.
>
> Sometimes people like to say a repeated prayer on
> the walk, or a mantra-like
> phrase during parts of the walk. Examples are
> mentioned below.
>
> At the center of the labyrinth, pause for as long as
> you are moved to, then
> walk out of the labyrinth following the same winding
> path that led you in.
>
> There is no one pace to walk. Don't hurry yourself,
> or hold yourself back.
> Your body will tell you how fast to go. Some people
> take their time by
> moving quickly, others walk slowly. Some pause at
> different points along the
> way. Many pray at the center. Children run the path.
> There is no right or
> wrong way to walk the labyrinth.
>
>
> Enough to be going on with there me thinks! <Grin>
>
> Hugs...
> Dave.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stewart Hastie
> [mailto:tastyhastie@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:38 PM
> To: ecc-public-discuss@...
> Subject: Re: [ecc-public-discuss] Chat
>
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Well after a fantastic meal and too many bottles
> of
> wine, my flat mate and I have no idea what a
> 'Labyrinth Walk' is. Can anyone throw some light
> on
> it?
>
> Many thanks in advance! It is like one of those
> songs
> you hear and you can't remember the band! If that
> makes sense!
>
> Oohhh! and any recommendations for musical
> instruments
> for me to take with me to Laurieston Hall? Don't
> want
> to look like something out of 'The Bay City
> Rollers'!
>
> Showing my age now!
>
> Stew
>


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