Paper short abstract:

The presentation introduces three spiritual parks in North of Estonia as the sites of learning of particular tradition where negotiations between different sources create the milieu of attention and enchantment.

Paper long abstract:

The presentation introduces three spiritual parks in North of Estonia as the sites of learning of particular spiritual tradition. They are built to perform and engage the visitors into different teachings by their architecture and organization of the room. Various ritual practices merge different religious sources inspired by yogic/Hindu concepts, neo-shamanic teachings and psychologisation of the natural forms on the paths of the person seeking spiritual as well as physical healing.

However each park has its dangers, the places that embody qualities that are considered harmful and insecure by their supernatural nature. Earth energy stemming from the ground, spirits of the nature and the conflicts in the transforming power of ritual and meditation express the dangers that control the feeling of sacredness and its inevitable role in the spiritual reality. Despite seemingly distant origins of teachings in these parks, the nature with its supernatural qualities works as a uniting, translating and renewing concept for its users. This refers to the conceptualization the source of sacrality which is ultimate and transformative power with its different functions, it is living and dynamic force, healing, dangerous and educating at the same time.