Abstract

TSUGAMI, Susan Sanae  and  SANTOS, Luciana. The sacred is in the whole: experiences from practitioners of (Neo)paganism as possibilities of the being's holistic encounter. Rev. abordagem gestalt. [online]. 2021, vol.27, n.1, pp. 14-24. ISSN 1809-6867.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18065/2021v27n1.2.

This paper aims to understand the experiences of practitioners of Contemporary Paganism and the relationships they have with their spiritual practices, as well as to investigate how they understand and interact with nature and how they perceive themselves as practitioners of a holistic belief. From in-depth interviews with four practitioners of (Neo) Paganism, it is possible to analyze the discourses on spiritual experiences through two categories of analysis: 1. Contemporary Paganism: Worldview and Holistic Practices, and 2. Understanding Totality: Nature, Self and Community. The research made it possible to understand that the relationship between the sacred, nature and the person in (Neo) Paganism is defined by the notion of totality as a reality in which the living beings, the world and the gods are interconnected, and therefore it is understood that the person-world-sacred does not separate.

Keywords : Pagan; Religion; Spirituality.

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