The author’s transdisciplinary inquiry into the psychological factors underlying pilgrims’ motivations explores the call to pilgrimage and the significance of the archetypal labyrinth as a mandala. A Jungian framework is used, in that the images, metaphors, and symbols of pilgrimage are embedded in the collective unconscious and have meaning for individual consciousness. Overlayed with this review is the author’s personal sojourn to pilgrim sites in ancient Greece, to the medieval experience of Catholic Christendom, and her journey as a modern pilgrim to Chartres Cathedral in France.
