A experiência religiosa e os estados alterados de consciência em interface com a saúde – Um estudo fenomenológico-empírico

Abstract

Many consciencial levels, in some determined cultures, haven’t been seen as something bad or pathological, but as an expansion of the limitation of the human senses firmly based on religious beliefs. Simultaneously, it’s been scientifically proven that different states of consciousness can promote new perceptions about the same phenomena and, also, new emotional states. There are endless technics or rituals to achieve altered states of consciousness, such as meditation, which is the focus of this study. That said, is it possible that meditation, considered a religious experience, could help on the promotion of health and healings, specifically on the field of mental health? For that much, it’s been made a bibliographic review and an empirical research, with which the phenomenological method applied the following trigger question to the interviewed collaborators: “How is it, for you, the meditative practice?”. Through the descriptive synthesis of the interviews, the description and the analysis of variations and invariations, we have as a result that meditation is related to transcendence, the absolute, the sacred, the consciencial levels and the promotion of health.