Walking into the rock…’: Labyrinth Experience as Thin Place and [spi]ritual Direction

Six staff and students at Tabor Institute of Higher Education, South Australia, participated in three curated labyrinth walks. Three of the themes emerged from the resulting data. First, a heightened sense of the dissolution of individual identity into a greater sense of connectivity or fusion with, and to, elements of nature. The second speaks of deep emotional connection and processing of a pivotal, personal historical turn in spiritual awareness. The third relates to a movement into unusual peace, a sense of the living and fluid nature of time and space, and the agency of ritual practice as active.

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