The Path of the Holy Fool: How the Labyrinth Ignites Our Visionary Powers - Softcover

Artress, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735918822 ISBN 13: 9781735918822

Publisher: Rose Petal Press, 2020

Synopsis

From the author of Walking a Sacred Path comes a #1 New Release in the Psychology of Creativity & Genius (Nov 2020).

The Path of the Holy Fool summons each of us to become a Holy Fool: one who is accountable, stands for equality and social justice, embraces an ecological vision, and encourages community spirit. Lauren Artress, who established the two permanent labyrinths at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, is a leading force in the Labyrinth Movement. Her new book The Path of the Holy Fools: How the Labyrinth Ignites Our Visionary Powers expands upon her earlier work in Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice.

Through the Parsifal story Artress suggests the labyrinth serves as a Grail that is discovered in the invisible, imaginative, in-between world symbolized by the Grail Castle. Most importantly this book invites readers to explore and reflect upon their own uniquely configured imaginations. It is through the imagination that self-reflection and raw experiences of the Holy occur.

Once we navigate our imaginative processes without fear, the labyrinth experience ignites our creativity, heals our wounds and opens our big picture vision that nurtures empathy and gives us eyes to see and ears to hear—even through the sorrows of the pandemic—the call for a life-enhancing future. The labyrinth offers the Holy Fool an unwavering path as we learn to takes risks, create new modalities and find a way to contribute to our evolving world.

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About the Author

At this historical turning point, Rev. Dr. LaurenArtress presents The Path of the Holy Fool: How the LabyrinthIgnites our Visionary Powers. The release comes on the25th Anniversary of publishing her first acclaimed book, Walkinga Sacred Path, her creating the first permanent labyrinth at SanFrancisco's Grace Cathedral, and her founding of the Bay Area based non-profitVeriditas to 'pepper the planet with labyrinths' in 1995.

As a canon pastor facing the peak of theAIDS epidemic in 1995, Artress offered the labyrinth to the community as ameditative tool to move through anxiety, grief and healing. Her story,workshops and wisdom touched hundreds of thousands as she travelled over onemillion miles with a canvas Chartres-style medieval labyrinth to facilitatecommunity walks around the globe.

Born from the collective wisdom ofthirty years on the labyrinth path, her new book reveals how the labyrinth canserve as a grail in this uncertain yet opportune time. Artress poses that manyhave lost touch with their imagination, having had it overrun by mass marketingand swamped by social media. The ancient archetype of the labyrinth can providea divine spark for the imagination and ignite our visionary powers for personaland global transformation.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Rose Petal Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1735918822
• ISBN 13: 9781735918822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214