This week Bill tells us about a labyrinth project he has been working on and forwards an invitation
A labyrinth is an ancient symbol that is being rediscovered as a path for spiritual growth. And it won’t be long until the next full-sized labyrinth will be completed within a provincial park. It seemed like the right thing to do but how does one begin such a journey in creating a labyrinth?
One of the meanings that have been given to the labyrinth within different cultures is life after death. The earliest labyrinths were carved on grave sites and probably represented the journey of the soul after death or the victory of the higher self over animal instincts. Labyrinths are constructed both indoors and outdoors. Indoor ones are found in church or community halls, hospitals, retreat centres and jails.
Their labyrinth was built as a Millennial project as a meditative tool. Sister Sharon and Sister Mae helped me with the first labyrinth story, others followed below. “My journey with the labyrinth began when a good friend, who is an artist, told me of walking local labyrinths and of the peace and creative inspiration she found there. The image of the labyrinth was in the back of my mind I had not yet walked one. Then we later lost our 27-year-old son in October of 2005. All we could do, I thought, was to try to help others find some peace after a time of trial such as my family had endured," Paryas said.
"Some walk or dance the labyrinth just for the fun of it, or to express a certain intent or wish," Paryas said. "The turns of the labyrinth are thought to balance the two hemispheres of the brain, resulting in physical and emotional healing. As reaching the centre is assured, walking the labyrinth is more about the journey than the destination, about being rather than doing, integrating body and mind, psyche and spirit into one harmonious whole.
Resources and Toronto You can access the labyrinth locator online for public-access places near and far. As mentioned there is the Sisters of St. Joseph of Sault Ste. Marie Motherhouse, Main St. West, in North Bay. Here are a few known labyrinths in northern Ontario and in Toronto. There is a labyrinth challenge in Toronto, the very one I seek out and walk when downtown, close to Nathan Phillips Square . Jo Ann Stevenson is the Chair and Co-founder of the Toronto Public Labyrinth and Labyrinth Community Network .
Another resource is Veriditas. It is a non-profit incorporated in the State of California in 1995 by Lauren Artress. “We cross many thresholds, great and small, that are not predictable life crises. Moving, starting high school or university, graduations, new jobs, job loss, separation, divorce, leaving home, sickness, hospitalization, and many other such events occur in our lives all the time. Some of them are so common in the modern world as to be almost predictable crises," said MacQueen. "And all of these transitions can be occasions to walk a labyrinth.
“Beyond its architectural denotation labyrinth also has an anatomical definition. It refers to a complex structure in the inner ear, housing organs of balance and hearing and a skein of bony cavities. Both definitions contribute to the evolution of the labyrinth as a spiritual tool, a walking path of a meditative and at times sacred space which leads us to a centre and then to a way out," he said.
"They represent a centuries-old method of reflective peace, a way of finding our way out of the maze of a soul-scrambling cacophony of contemporary life and into a journey of self-awareness, of listening peace, and sagacious insight.”So after many years of walking labyrinths, it seemed like the right thing to do – create one. It is almost finished near the Canadian Ecology Centre and within Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park located on a decommissioned baseball field .
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