Unsolved:Unverified personal gnosis
Unverified Personal Gnosis, sometimes referred to as UPG or Unverifiable personal gnosis, is an epistemological belief that an individual's direct experience of deity is more authentic than any dogmatic beliefs held by a spiritual community.[1]
Description
Unverified Personal Gnosis (UPG) refers to the new religious movement emphasis on personal experience as the most important element of religious expression.[2] Commonly found in neo-pagan traditions such as Wicca and heathenry, unverified personal gnosis focuses on individual religious experience and epistemological individualism.[3][4] UPG is a spiritual and religious notion where knowledge comes directly from personal relationships with gods or spirits.[5] This is a self-validation belief system,[4] and as such does not ascribe a particular focus to beliefs of others who hold onto sacred books or shared revelation in the conventional epistemologies of mainstream religious practices.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Velkoborská, Kamila (2012-04-15). "Performers and Researchers in Neo–pagan Settings". Traditiones: 65–76. doi:10.3986/Traditio2012410106. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/971.
- ↑ Mayer, Gerhard A. (2013). "Spirituality and Extraordinary Experiences: Methodological Remarks and Some Empirical Findings". Journal of Empirical Theology 26 (2): 188–206. doi:10.1163/15709256-12341272. ISSN 0922-2936. https://brill.com/view/journals/jet/26/2/article-p188_5.xml.
- ↑ Robertson, Venetia Laura Delano (2012). "The Law of the Jungle: Self and Community in the Online Therianthropy Movement". The Pomegranate 14 (2): 256–280. doi:10.1558/pome.v14i2.256.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Van Gulik, Léon (2011-01-11). "On the Pagan Parallax: A Sociocultural Exploration of the Tension between Eclecticism and Traditionalism as Observed among Dutch Wiccans". Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 12 (1): 49–70. doi:10.1558/pome.v12i1.49. http://www.equinoxjournals.com/POM/article/view/7652.
- ↑ Goodwin, Megan (2017). "Manning the High Seat: Seiðr as Self-Making in Contemporary Norse Neopaganisms". in Bever, Edward. Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization. Penn State University Press. pp. 152–170.
- ↑ Laycock, Joseph P. (2012-02-01). ""We Are Spirits of Another Sort"" (in en). Nova Religio 15 (3): 65–90. doi:10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65. ISSN 1092-6690. https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/article/15/3/65/70585/We-Are-Spirits-of-Another-SortOntological.
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