Winnie Darphin-Bacque, BA

• Labyrinth Project.com - Robert Ferre makes labyrinths of all types.  Also has links to labyrinth locations and other information.
•  1heart.com  - Robert Ferre's travel site (Great trip to Chartres) 
•  Jean Houston  - The Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress learned about the Labyrinth at a seminar led by Jean Houston, Ph.D., scholar and researcher in latent human capacities.  She is the author of 18 books including such best sellers as A Passion for the Possible, A Mythic Life, The Possible Human, The Search for the Beloved and most recently Jump Time.  She lives in Ashland, Oregon and sponsors the Mystery School.  I attended an introductory Mystery School weekend in November 2002 which focused on several fiery concerns which also paralleled many personal issues. 
• InnerLightCentral - Located in Mindin, Louisiana, Nancy is a labyrinth facilitator.  Handmade prayer beads are offered through her web site.
•  The Labyrinth: Walking Your Spiritual Journey - A wealth of information on Labyrinths with links to sites and information.
•  Indiana Glassman - Cathedral glass labyrinths for sale.
• Veriditas at Grace Cathedral - Originators of the Worldwide Labyrinth Project located at Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco, California.  Dr. Rev. Lauren Artress is credited for reintroducing the labyrinth as a spiritual tool.
• gracecom.org - Locations of Labyrinths in the USA and around the world.
• Mid-Atlantic Geomancy - This is Sig Lonegren's web site about information on creating sacred spaces and labyrinths.  Located in Glastonbury-Tor, England.
• Labyrinth Online - A super site for walking the labyrinth online created by Vickie Keiser. 
• paxworks - Labyrinth information, music, books, etc. by John Ridder. 
• Labyrinth Journey - Pennsylvania based facilitators who design labyrinth presentations and workshops.
•  treetops-in-the-forest  - Treetops-in-the-Forest is a not-for-profit project of Alternative Learning Environments, Inc. whose mission is to teach respect for persons and property through Environmental Education.  Programs such as Environmental Studies Sessions and Labyrinth Workshops are offered.  The director of the project is Dr. Christine Kallstrom.
•  redsunlabyrinth  - Visit this Montana TURF LABYRINTH site and read about their adjoining Bed and Breakfast.

•  M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence - Website with information on Gandhi and his works and principals of nonviolence.
• Home of the Wholistic Wellness Network   - Wholistic wellness information.  Dr. Henri Roca, MD, LMT, CCH. (There is now a chapter in Lafayette, LA)
• Uni-mainz.de - Information about Hildegard von Bingen, a Christian Mystic of the Middle Ages.

• folkgrass.com  - Link to Anne and Curtis Darrah (Music Site)
• Aimee Dominique - MSW, LCSW, Certified Labyrinth Facilitator in Lafayette Louisiana.  Aimee offers solution oriented holistic wellness therapy and spiritual counseling.
•  Allen Bacque (Home) - Allen's home email address.
•  Allen Bacque (Work) - Allen's work email address.

• WALKING A SACRED PATH: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool;  by  Dr. Lauren Artress, 
ISBN 1-57322-007-8
• Good book giving the history of the Labyrinth and many stories about its use.  Dr. Artress is credited with reintroducing the labyrinth to the modern world.

• THE IDEA OF THE LABYRINTH; from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages;  by Penelope Reed Doob
ISBN 0-8014-8000-0 (paperback)
•  EXPLORING THE LABYRINTH; by Melissa Gayle West
ISBN 0767903560
• LABYRINTHS - WHAT ARE THEY: Prehistory to the 21st century; by Kay Torrez and Friends                ISBN 0-9649094-2-1

• An esoteric view and information of the Labyrinth.  Reference to dowsing and chakras.
• SECRETS OF THE MAZE: An Interactive Guide to the World's Most Amazing Mazes; by Adrian Fisher and Howard Loxton                  ISBN 0-7641-5053-7

• PARABOLA is "The Magazine of Myth and Tradition" which is published quarterly.  Each issue is on a single, interesting topic.  Subscriptions or single issues can be ordered by contacting PARABOLA, 656 Broadway, New York, NY 10012; Tel (212)505-6200 fax (212)979-7325.  Issue XVII, Number 2, May 1992 was exclusively about Labyrinths.

 
• CONTEMPLATION AND ACTION IN WORLD RELIGIONS; 

A Rothko Chapel Book, edited by Yusuf Ibish and Ileana Marculescu     ISBN 0-06-064182-7
 
• SOUL MAKING: The Desert Way of Spirituality; 

by Alan Jones                    ISBN 0-06-064182-7

• MYTHS, DREAMS AND RELIGION: Eleven Visions of Connection; Edited by Joseph Campbell ISBN 1-56731-340-X

• WISDOM CIRCLES:  A Guide to Self Discovery and Community Building in Small Groups; by Charles Garfield, Cindy Springs, Sedonia Cahill.

• CHRISTIAN MYSTICS: The Spiritual Heart of the Christian Tradition;  by Ursula King  ISBN 0-684-82423-X

• SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI (First and Second Life of St. Francis with Selections from Treatise on the Miracles of Blessed Francis); by Thomas of Celano       Library of Congress No. 62-22288

• THOUGHTS AND MEDITATIONS by Cahlil Gibran (author of THE PROPHET)        ISBN 1-55521-894-6

• THIS MAN FROM LEBANON: A Study of Cahlil Gibran: 

by Barbara Young       (Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher)
• Life story of Cahlil Gibran as told by his life companion.
 
• A PASSION FOR THE POSSIBLE: A guide to Realizing Your True Potential;  by Jean Houston   ISBN 0-06-251532-2 (paperback)

• THE CALL;  By David Spangler  ISBN 1-57322-046-9

• ILLUMINATED LIFE, by Joan Chittister, Orbis NY.

     Here is an excerpt from the book:  "The important thing to remember in the spiritual life is that religion is a means, not an end.  When we stop at the level of the rules and the laws, the doctrines and the dogmas -- good guides as these may be -- and call those things the spiritual life, we have stopped far short of the meaning of life, the call of the divine, the fullness of the self,
       ENLIGHTENMENT is the ability to see beyond all the things we make God to find God.  We make religion God and so fail to see godliness where religion is not, though goodness is clear and constant in the simplest of people, the remotest of places.... ENLIGHTENMENT sees, too, beyond the shapes and icons that intend to personalize God to the God that is too personal, too encompassing, to be any one shape or form and name.  Enlightenment takes us beyond our parochialisms to the presence of God everywhere, in everyone, in the universe.... To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming".  Heaven is here.  We have simply not been able to realize that yet because, like King Arthur and his search for the Holy Grail, we look in all the wring places, worship all the wring idols, get fixated on all the wrong notions of God.  We are always on our way to somewhere else when this place, the place in which I stand, wherever it is, is the place of my procession onto God, the site of my union with the Life that gives life. 
            To be contemplative I must put down my notions of separateness from God and let God speak to me through everything that seeps through the universe into the pores of my minuscule little life.  Thin I will find myself, as Abbess Syncletica promises, at the flash point of the divine fire." p. 41 - 43

• Findhorn Press is a Scottish publisher who has been producing books of spiritual inspiration, healing, guidance, nature and transformation for  twenty nine years.

• Check out the link to The Labyrinth: Walking Your Spiritual Journey .  There is a "labyrinth locator" at this site.
•  Grace Cathedral  in San Francisco 
• Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans is building one.
• Church of the Transfiguration in Dallas, Texas. 
• (Hillcrest at Spring Valley) 
           Dr. Mary Ann Reed, Ph.D., Labyrinth Project Director.  ~~~~~~~~~~~

• The labyrinth above is located in Buffalo Gap in west central Texas near Abilene.  DESCRIPTION:  Outdoor, country setting, brilliant sunrise and sunset observation, northern entry, left handed, seven circuit, 60 feet in diameter.  The pattern is made with wooden fence posts, rocks, a few bricks and mesquite limbs.  For directions, Email to Wells - Ovalolabyrinth@aol.com  or call Wells @ 915.554.7399.

 
• KINDRED SPIRIT HOUSE BED & BLESSING  - Interfaith retreat house outside Portland Oregon.  A Labyrinth is mowed into the grounds for guests to walk.  There are rooms for five (5) overnight guests and space for 12  small group day retreats or workshops.  Spiritual direction is offered and sacred massage as an adjunct for guests retreats.  For more information contact Rev. C. Amber Rose Dullaea   http://home.earthlink.net/~kindredspirithouse/ 

• List of other sites in our area will follow at a later date.  If you know of a labyrinth site, please  contact me  and I will be glad to list it here.