Chartes Labyrinth - shining a light on lost knowledge

by Geoff Stray

  In June 2006, Geoff Stray was walking across the 800-year-old Labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral when he noticed circles of light moving across it. A search for an explanation in the cathedral bookshop revealed nothing. The strange spectacle was conspicuous by its absence. Further research showed that all printed sources were silent on the phenomenon, so a Chartres specialist was consulted. He was a student of the late Keith Critchlow, professor of architecture specialising in sacred geometry who had studied Chartres Cathedral for over 40 years. The student had himself visited Chartres six times, particularly to study the Labyrinth, but had never noticed any lights on it. Somehow everyone had missed this “elephant in the room”.  The author returned in 2011 to film the lights, but it took another six years of research and investigation to crack the ‘Labyrinth Mystery’. Finally, the question was answered that people have been asking for “What is the purpose of those unique ‘cusps’ or cups that surround the Chartres Labyrinth?” Labyrinths at the cathedrals of Amiens, Rheims, Poitiers and Sens were all built after Chartres and all were destroyed – none had similar cups encircling them.  Owing to the pandemic lockdown, the final visit to Chartres to verify the results had to wait until June 2023, when a shocking truth was revealed. Now you can read the entire 17-year story that uncovers a Neolithic astronomical technology that survived into medieval times!

184 pages, Paperback

Published August 29, 2024