O sagrado e o ritual vividos em um grupo de Danças Circulares Sagradas de Findhorn sob o enfoque de Carl G. Jung e Roy A. Rappaport

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Tânia Pessoa de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1929
• topic: Sagrado; Ritual; Danças circulares; Findhorn; Jung; Rappaport; Sacred; Ritual; Circle dances; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS

The present research is aimed at reporting the testimonies of the participants of the Sacred Circle Dances of Findhorn regarding the experience of the sacred, and defines the role of this experience for the individual and for contemporary culture. Sacred Circle Dances of Findhorn is the name given to the practice of the dancing in round formation and other group dances, whether traditional or recently choreographed, which are held according to a movement started by Bernhard Wosien, with the spirit of the group work proposed by the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, where they started, developed, and spread to many countries. In Findhorn, such dances achieved status of ritual and were focused on the experience of the sacred, although several purposes are accepted. However, studies conducted so far have not been dedicated to the basic focus, which is the path we choose to follow. The theories of Carl G. Jung and Roy R. Rappaport were used as theoretical support in what concerns the conceptions of sacred and ritual, besides taking into account some analysis on the overview of the way of being religious in contemporary times. The method used was qualitative, and data were gathered in the work field which the researcher participated. The research was performed in a group formed especially for this purpose and conducted by the researcher, in fifteen weekly meetings of two hours each. The reports were audio-recorded and transcribed. Data were organized and handled by building the technique of Lefèvre s Discourse of the Collective Subject. It was revealed that the sacred was experienced in the group studied as a process consisting of three elements. The first refers to the experience of two states of existence, that is, one that connects to the everyday life and the other to a wider order. The second deals with the experience of meeting a large body which the participants feel they are part of, as if attached to a greater being configured as an experience of comprehensive unit. The third element was present through the arrangement awareness of learning the meanings posed by living, and elaborations on their own life can be extracted from it, thus guaranteeing greater awareness. For the individual, the experience of the sacred can enable the perception of another personality, different from consciousness, with glimpses of the experience of wholeness and unity, and some relationship with the self, which are important aspects for the process of individuation. As for contemporary times, and with no necessity of joining some religion, this kind of experience can mean the removal of the sanctification or projection of the non-flexible context sacred, the replacement of the sacred in what is central and unifies humanity in the sense eternity and truth. This scenario favors the ecosystem adaptation that is essential for the continuity of human life. The Sacred Circle Dance Findhorn is related to the round formation dances from communities far from urban centers, probably born of sacred and religious elements. The operation is in connection to the characteristics of the religious way of being in contemporary times and in large cities. Practices of circle dances aimed only at numinous states, mistakenly interpreted as if sacred, would lead to the understanding that the sacred is something trivial and does not require some work of consciousness. In this manner, and packed by late modernity trends, the sacred term may be used imprecisely