Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

This book adds that the word labyrinth is: “From the Latin labor + intus, ‘into’: the place of entering into labor, birth, or rebirth. At sacred sites, such as Chartres, Glastonbury, and Knossos in Crete, a maze constructed of earth-walls, ruts, tiles, or underground windings, believed to have been used in initiations as a place of ordeal and initiation through the PSYCHO-DRAMA.. ..They are also closely related to SACRED DANCE, for which they may have provided a sort of ground plan.” [Italics and caps in the original; Boldface added] The Labyrinth Walk is becoming popular in the United States. “This is a mystical medieval practice of walking a 42' wide maze-like design (a sign of wholeness appearing also in Tibetan mandelas (sic) and Hopi Indian medicine wheels) which becomes a ‘walking meditation.’ People walk and ‘contemplate,’ walking to the ‘center of their spirituality.’ In San Francisco, new ager, Jean Houston (Mrs. Clinton’s guru) introduced the Labyrinth to Episcopal Priest(ess), Rev. Lauren Arness, who now travels the U.S. with a mobile model to introduce it to others.