Neo-Paganism: Wheel Of The World

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Neo-Paganism is a modern religious movement that seeks to combine beliefs or ritual practices from customs outside the main world religions. Neo-paganism also known as “earth Religion” practice an earth-centered religiousness. “The perception of the divine manifest in the physical world is the quintessential component of a Neo-Pagan identity”. (“Neo-Paganism as a Nature Religion”) People who practice Neo-Paganism are seeking to regain a sense of being one with nature. To make sure this is done they have seasonal festivals called the “Wheel of the world”. The Wheel of the World is the most important tradition in Neo-Paganism. It is a year-long mediation that is made up of the eight seasonal celebrations. It includes the rhythms of nature …show more content…
They make their dramatic rituals around the time when the season are changing. They also have different holy days depending and motifs within their religion depending on which their own groups. They also believe that the representation of nature as a full of earthly life. If you’re like me I have never even heard of Neo-Paganism or what it even was about. But there was parts of Neo-Paganism that were found in Europe before WWII, but it truly came out and was bigger in the 1960s. Neo-Paganism was influenced by Carl Jung a psychiatrist and a writer Robert Graves. The main thing that they are now interested as a Neo-Pagan is nature and archetypal psychology, they are not interested in nationalism. During the post way Neo-Paganism thrived in the United States, United Kingdom, and Scandinavia. Neo-Paganism is different from many religions that we see every day. They do not have an organized religion. They also do not have an official guideline, belief, or association. They follow many different spiritual paths and different beliefs on things like human nature, and afterlife. One thing that all the Pagans believe in is the cycle of seasons, being an expression if the divine and model for spiritual renal and growth. They believe that the Earth is sacred and most of them have strong environmental

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