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Hermann Kern, Through the Labyrinth, ed. Robert Ferré and Jeff Saward, Prestel, 2000, ISBN 3-7913-2144-7. (This is an English translation of Kern's original German monograph Labyrinthe published by Prestel in 1982.) Lauren Artress, Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice, Penguin Books, 1995, ISBN 1-57322-007-8.
The design of a Caerdroia was very similar to a classical labyrinth A diagram of the "Classical" labyrinth. A caerdroia is a Welsh turf maze, usually in the sevenfold Cretan labyrinth design. They were created by shepherds on hilltops and were apparently the setting for ritual dances, the nature of which has been lost.
A common metaphor used in the spiritual traditions of the world's great religions is that of walking a path. [1] Therefore, a spiritual practice moves a person along a path towards a goal. The goal is variously referred to as salvation, liberation or union (with God). A person who walks such a path is sometimes referred to as a wayfarer or a ...
Fundamental to the practice is the idea that everything is energy, and moves in waves, patterns and rhythms. Roth describes the practice as a soul journey, and says that by moving the body, releasing the heart, and freeing the mind, one can connect to the essence of the soul, the source of inspiration in which an individual has unlimited ...
The practice of creating a "body of light” in imagination builds on the body-image system, potentially working with alterations across all of its three modalities (perceptual, conceptual, and affective): an idealized body is produced (body-image model), new conceptual structures are attached to it (e.g., the doctrine of multiple, separable ...
The meaning of “show me” is like “help me understand,” as if to say, “that I can attain knowledge of the inner essence of this Glory and how it differs from all creations below it.” He [God] responded: “You cannot see My Countenance” (Exod 33:20), as if to say, “in order to contemplate it until you apprehend the essence of its ...
This contrasts with the śraddhānusārin ("follower of faith"), whose spiritual practice and realization are based on trust and confidence in the teachings as presented by others. [ 8 ] Both the Sarvāstivāda tradition and the Theravāda tradition identify seven categories of noble individuals ( ārya , Pāli: ariya ) based on their ...
Viriditas (Latin, literally "greenness," formerly translated as "viridity" [1]) is a word meaning vitality, fecundity, lushness, verdure, or growth.It is particularly associated with abbess Hildegard von Bingen, who used it to refer to or symbolize spiritual and physical health, often as a reflection of the Divine Word or as an aspect of the divine nature.