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 center. In Walking a Sacred Path, written in 1995, 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. 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 says, quoting an unknown source, "is for those scared to death of hell. Spirituality is for those who've been there." --P. Randall Cohan

The Reverend Dr. Laura Artress is Canon for Special Ministeries at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. She is also the founder of Quest: Grace Cathedral Center for Spiritual Wholeness and the creator of the Labyrinth Project. In keeping with Quest's vision of addressing the spiritual hunger of our times, she lectures and leads the Labyrinth workshops nationwide. Dr. Artress earned her master's degree in religious education fro Princeton Theological Seminary and her doctor of ministry degree from Andover Newton Thoelogical School, and received her analytic training at the Blanton Peale Graduate Institute. A licensed psychotherapist in the state of California, she lives in San Francisco.