Walking the labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral is a really wonderful mystical experience for those open to connecting to their soul path.
I made it my sole purpose of going there to walk and spend the night to take in their famous light festival. I wanted to share my rather strange, unsettling and spiritual experience.
I had been several times before, but never on Fridays when the nave of the church is cleared so the labyrinth can be walked. As in all things in life, there is timing that we are never fully aware of. Chartres cathedral is considered the most complete, the most preserved and the most representative of all Gothic cathedrals in the world.
Besides being huge and majestically resplendent in all ways, it is also a mind-blowing testimony to the tremendous skills and devotion of these ancient masons who lavishly and with much devotion constructed her in only about 26 years! The actual cathedral was finished in , and is the fifth cathedral to have built on that spot of sacred earth.
The first church of the roman era dated back before the fourth century and each were successively destroyed by fires. Legend has it that the location was considered to have divine energy and was a place of worship by Druidic tribes who constructed a sacred well, that is still preserved today. Chartres Cathedral sits atop strong telluric or geomagnetic currents that flow under the surface of the earth below.
