PCPG

English

Noun

PCPG (uncountable)

1. (paganism) Initialism of peer-corroborated personal gnosis; in neopagan communities, beliefs and knowledge derived from the subjective experiences, revelation, or intuition of multiple individuals rather than established tradition or lore.

   Coordinate term: UPG

   • 2009, Galina Krasskova, Raven Kaldera, Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner: A Book of Prayer, Devotional Practice, and the Nine Worlds of the Spirit‎^[1], page 32:

     PCPG is a process that requires great patience, communication, and open-mindedness, and an ethic of courtesy while going about the process.

   • 2013, Kenaz Filan, Raven Kaldera, quoting Del, Talking to the Spirits: Personal Gnosis in Pagan Religion‎^[2], page 26:

     So although it may start out as a piece of information you have no way to prove, the more others agree with it and experience it for themselves, the more it moves from being UPG to PCPG.

   • 2012, Joseph P. Laycock, “'We are Spirits of Another Sort': Ontological Rebellion and Religious Dimensions of the Otherkin Community”, in New Religion: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions‎^[3], volume 15, number 3, page 82:

     PCPG might entail an acquaintance who shares your suspicion that there is something otherworldly about you.