Religious Life Council

The Religious Life Council and the Chaplain's Office of Elon University are bringing a labyrinth to campus on May 13-15, 1-8 p.m. daily. This will be installed in McKinnon Hall at the Moseley Center.

The Religious Life Council includes representation from each of the nine Religious Life organizations. The council meets monthly to plan campus-wide events and to encourage groups to support one another in their individual programs.

Walking the Labyrinth
The labyrinth is an archetypal form found all over the world. The one visiting Elon is patterned after one found in Chartres Cathedral in France. It is a pattern to be walked, but unlike a maze, has no dead ends. The path leads to the center of the pattern, perhaps representative of our own center.

Why this walk at Elon? In a time and culture that is poor in rituals that touch us deeply -- a culture that is overwhelmed with noise and busy dailyness -- the labyrinth addresses persons' thirst for a spirituality that enhances the joy and wonder of life. In "Walking a Sacred Path," Dr. Lauren Artress says this experience offers "a tool to guide healing, deepen self-knowledge, and empower creativity. Walking the labyrinth clears the mind and gives insight into the spiritual journey…It gives us time and space to see our life in the context of a path, a pilgrimage."

The labyrinth is, in short, a meditative exercise, but one that is extremely personal. There is no prescribed learning or outcome. There is only the silence and the walk in which we may visit the deep need for largeness in our lives.

Please plan to take advantage of this inward journey, to come and experience this silent, calming and ancient way of deepening the life experience. In the busy days of a college student, what greater gift to claim than this?