ABSTRACT
This chapter is part of a comprehensive, multisite ethnographic study on new spaces and places created by contemporary spiritual seeking. In recent years, sacred song circles have also been held monthly in urban settings outside the festival venue, and some of them also apart from shamanic ceremonies. Thoughts of place linked to social imaginaries are not a new theme in the theoretical literature. The research literature abounds with studies linking spiritual experiences with the sacredness of nature in general and the forest’s sacredness in particular. Creating a space that facilitates individual introspection and the communal connection of a random group at one event is achieved through means aiming at all the senses while rigidly framing the event. The spiritual work of the Vision of the Forest group, whose members wander among circles in different spatial locations, creates new imaginary places—in the city, in rural areas and in the forest—and invites movement between them.
