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The Alpha & Omega

Labyrinth Project @ Lifelight University  

Hard Work and  Some Camaraderie

Beaver and his son, Roy, began the project during Roy's summer visit. Since the labyrinth is built and designed through the harmonics of four and a good deal of mathematical skill, everything had to be measured and re-measured before any real work could begin.

Finding Your Center Is Just The Beginning

Since the center of our labyrinth is a concealed fire pit, the lotus petals were poured around a simple wooden disk. Bright sun and warm temperatures made this a hard picture to take, but not as hard as laying concrete in a 90 degree heat wave.

Roy's Vacation Ended with two petals yet to be poured. These two looked forward to the finish at Roy's Next Visit in the Fall.

  The Labyrinth Builder's Comments

"When the labyrinth first came to my attention I was impressed to duplicate the eleven path Chartres Labyrinth. I don't know why. It was like the Field of Dreams 'build it and they will come'. I felt strongly that many people would come and experience profound results by that walk.

  I spent the first week making blueprints and ordering all the materials that I thought that I would need. When I discovered all of the details I was amazed.

  feel very strongly that everything that happens is in Divine Order. Just about the time I was about to start building the labyrinth my son Roy, who lives over four hundred miles from me, decided to come and visit. Even though we love each other a great deal we seemed to have drifted apart over the years. This often happens in families. Roy has never been quite sure of what he thinks regarding my spiritual search. He has never said too much about it. He just watches and listens. To my surprise he was very excited about building the labyrinth with me. We started out doing the project together. He worked very hard at it and thought this was really 'cool'. As we worked we discussed the fact that this was the first big project that we had ever done together. It brought tears to our yes as we worked side by side. Roy had to go back home soon, but was able to help give me a good start and to lay out the labyrinth. The centerpiece was completed while he was here.

It was very interesting to me that many people expressed a great interest in the labyrinth and offered to help me work on it. Still, even when I graciously accepted their offers, no one really did help with the construction. I must, however, say that everyone was supportive verbally and contributed to its completion by their encouragement. No one hesitated to tell me what a great job I was doing and people continually commented on the amount of work involved and my dedication to the project.

After several months, being interrupted by weather conditions and other life necessities, I started to near the end of the project. My son returned again for another visit and even more eagerly helped me to put some of the finishing touches to the labyrinth.

The beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, were the hardest parts of the whole so his younger body was most welcome. When it was finished we were both very proud of the results and, I believe it brought back that strong bond of love that we had experienced earlier in our lives.

Because of all the energies and love that were put into it, I believe the labyrinth has a very strong and profound spiritual basis for all to build on. This does not even mention the fact that it is in the energy of a vortex on the premises of Lifelight University.

I believe every person who walks our labyrinth will increase its energy intensity and contribute to the good of all. This will continue to cause the raising of consciousness universally.

A Labyrinth is a pattern with a purpose, an ancient tool that speaks to a long forgotten part of us. Lying dormant for centuries, labyrinths are undergoing a revival of use and interest. They offer a chance to take "time out" from our busy lives, to leave schedules and stress behind. Walking a labyrinth is a gift we give ourselves, leading to discovery, insight, peacefulness, happiness, connection, and well being.

The labyrinth represents our passage through time and experience. Its many turns reflect the journey of life, which involves change and transition, rites of passage, cycles of nature. Different from a maze - which has dead ends and false passages- the labyrinth, has a single path that leads unerringly to the center. It shows us that no time or effort is ever wasted; if we stay the course, every step, however circuitous, takes us closer to our goal.

Thinking is not required to walk a labyrinth. At the same time, one must remain alert to stay on the path. This combination of reduced mental activity and heightened awareness makes the labyrinth ideal for walking meditation or prayer. Some walk the labyrinth just for the fun of it, or to express certain intent or wish. There is a strong connection between the labyrinth and earth energies, reestablishing a long-lost rapport with nature and with the feminine. The turns of the labyrinth are thought to balance the two hemispheres of the brain, resulting in physical and emotional healing. Labyrinths have been used for weddings and other ceremonial purposes. As reaching the center is assured, walking the labyrinth is more about the journey than the destination, about being rather than doing, integrating body and mind, psyche and spirit into one harmonious whole.

In general, labyrinth designs fall into two categories. The Cretan labyrinth, referring to the location indicated in the Greek myth (1500 BCE) on the Island of Crete. It is also called the 7-circuit labyrinth, referring to the number of concentric paths. The pattern depicts the orbit of the planet Mercury as seen from Earth.

During the Middle Ages, many Gothic cathedrals inlaid a different labyrinth pattern into their stone floors. Based on principles of sacred geometry and proportion, the following pattern still remains in Chartres Cathedral, France, where it was built in the early 13th century. This pattern has been undergoing a popular revival, led by the activities at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and the organization called Veriditas, headed by Dr. Lauren Artress.

We invite you to walk the Alpha and Omega labyrinth at Lifelight using your full creativity and expression. The process of drawing and building the labyrinth has led us through deep experiences of regeneration and discovery and we hope that using them will do the same for those who visit here.

Walking the sacred Chartres labyrinth can be likened to walking down the path of life. The center is the goal such as the goals of life that we have set and strive to achieve. You begin at the outside perimeter and start down the path toward the center. As you follow the path you make right turns .You make left turns. You go east. You go north. You go west. You go south. However, if you stay on the path you cannot get lost. Sometimes you feel you are going to get close to the goal and then you find yourself farther away again. It gets confusing and frustrating because just about the time you think you should be getting there, you find yourself farther away than ever. This makes you wonder if you are on the right path. Did I make a wrong turn or what? If you keep putting one foot in front of the other and stay on the path you eventually get to the goal.......the center.

Then you ask yourself: 'What have I achieved?' 'Is this what I expected?' 'Is there more?' 'What have I learned?' 'Is this all there is?' 'Now what?'  You ponder what you have gained along the way. The journey. The events. The knowledge. You savor the wisdom of it all. You wait.

As you walk back through the twists and turns of the path, profound answers become clearer to you. This is what the journey is about. You feel a little weak in the knees yet you persevere putting one foot before the other. Eventually you end up exactly where you started. 

The ALPHA has become the OMEGA.

The difference is now you are wiser than when the journey began.

This is true of the labyrinth.

This is true in life.

Walk with us.

Find your true center.

The Alpha and Omega Labyrinth Finished in November 1998

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