L A B Y R I N T HS
     

3 D

           
Since the nineties of past century I made a number of maze games in 3D on my computer. I made them on land, under water, in the air and in space (science fiction). I made a maze in which I pluck flowers and give them to myself, so that they appear in a border around my world. But now, with the discovery of the labyrinth, and designing this pattern in 3D, I have surpassed myself because of the deeper insight I have gained by creating it. Up till now this has been the ultimate experience of creativity for me.
       
    In november 2002 I have made a game in my 3D GameStudio program, called: "JailEscape"

 

                                  
            The jail is situated on a  mountainous island. Not only do I have to escape from jail, but also have to find a way to get off the island. In the end I will come back again in the civilized world.      
                                                       
                                                 
      The number seven is present for the first time in this game (seven keys to be able to open seven doors)                    
                           
 

My first experiences with the Labyrinth

In may 2003 I had my first experience with the labyrinth. At that time I barely knew what a labyrinth was (a kind of a maze), but through the Internet I learn to draw one and discover the connection with Yoga, which I in the meantime already practiced for more than 30 years. I am especially grateful for learning about the labyrinth at :http://www.geomancy.org/home.html

 
I created my first 3D labyrinth and more or less crawled through it full speed. Later I was able to reduce the speed a bit but still drove rapidly through it in a toy mini-car. In other words: I did not really understand the meaning of a labyrinth yet.

But I was learning and my second 3D labyrinth was already a lot better.

    
                                                                         
                  It had the colours of the rainbow that corresponded with the seven chakra colours that I knew from my Yoga lessons.

 

 

            
      I walked the paths as follows:

3rd path - 3rd chakra - yello - rational
2nd path - 2nd chakra - orange - emotional
1st path - 1st chakra - red - material
4th path - 4th chakra - green - spiritual
7th path - 7th chakra - pink - cosmic
6th path - 6th chakra - indigo - visual
5th path - 5th chakra - blue - communicative

I now knew what I was doing. In this labyrinth I let a "player" walk the labyrinth and in this way I myself could be the observer, could survey the whole and was even able to zoom in on it. And I could make it in such a way, that the player walked to the centre and walked back again from the centre to the exit/entrance.

 

 

                                
                       
                              I built my third 3D labyrinth with wooden building blocks at a virtual (photo) riverside. Because of the fact that a virtual 3D labyrinth is not visible as a whole when walking it, being the "player" oneself, one cannot see the centre directly. So, one will have to simply believe the fact that one will end up walking into the centre. For this faith I used my intuition, so I started walking open-mindedly and received what I was looking for: the union of the masculine and feminine within myself.  
           
        Now I was balanced and in the fourth 3D labyrinth I made, I used a female "player" to dance the labyrinth from the inside to the outside and from the outside back into the inside again.

 

            
                                         
                                                                         
            The fifth 3D labyrinth showed me the way to go and lead a life as creative as possible from now on.

I made a virtual room with texts hanging on the wall that were meaningful to me. A few of my own poems complemented the whole. This labyrinth became my inspirational one. It was in this labyrinth that I have been inspired time after time to be creative in my life.

                          
                                                                           
            My sixth labyrinth contained a number of symbols that expressed my vision of life. So this became my symbol labyrinth.

 

                              
                            In the seventh 3D labyrinth my female "player" walks the labyrinth and performs a Yoga exercise in the centre: She breathes in deeply and spreads her arms to receive everything with deep gratitude and when breathing out she brings everything in her heart. When she dances back, she thanks the cosmos for the enormous treasure she has received, accompanied by a fleet-footed Allegro from Bach.

 

 

          
                         
          I created a CD with these seven 3D labyrinths and from that moment on, one creative event after the other happened and it still does.