This grounded theory study investigated the embodied experience of middle-aged North Americans walking the labyrinth in the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres, France, while on pilgrimage at the turn of the twenty-first century. Research revealed the central theory that the lived experience of walking the medieval labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral involved a process of coming home to Self in a spiritual, archetypal, and mythic sense. Analysis of the research participants’ narratives indicated a movement toward wholeness of self.
