Labyrinth at Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
On the Baylor University Medical Center campus in Dallas, a healing labyrinth is built into the medical district's grounds, part of the hospital-labyrinth branch of the practice at one of Texas's oldest hospitals.
On the Baylor University Medical Center campus in Dallas, a healing labyrinth is built into the medical district's grounds, part of the hospital-labyrinth branch of the practice at one of Texas's oldest hospitals. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a Medieval 11-circuit path; installed 2003.
Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.
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