Encyclopedia - Metaphysical: Encyclopedia - Metaphysical
Metaphysical may refer to: Metaphysics, a branch of philosophy dealing with the ultimate nature of reality; or The Metaphysical poets, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphysics: Encyclopedia - Metaphysics
Metaphysics (Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature) is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of "first principle...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysics: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Metaphysics
Metaphysics (Meta, �after� or �beyond�; physics �physical�)   Originally, the study or philosophy dealing with cause - i. e. non...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysics: The Chemistry Of Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of existence, truth and knowledge. It incorporates ontology (the science...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysics: Living A Metaphysical Lifestyle Is Fun Easy To Do!
Changing your lifestyle to live metaphysically is easy, but before you start this process, you need to know what your Mind, Body and Spir...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Definition Of Metaphysics
The term metaphysics originally referred to the writings of Aristotle that came to light after his writings on physics, in the arrange...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Principles: Principles Of 'self'
Through discrimination, the seeker has to isolate the pure innermost Self from the mental coverings.   The Self is only reflected...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Principles: Outgrow The Ego
    (See also: Metaphysics, Metaphysical Principles, Definition of Metaphysics, Metaphysical Techniques, Miracles, Creatin...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Idealism
Idealism is the doctrine that whatever exists, or at least everything that can be known to exist, is mental. (Opposed to materialism: ...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: Key Tenets
All metaphysical powers relating to the psychic and paranormal phenomena can be practically manifested by you ... today!   You ca...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Principles: Cardinal Principles
Only direct Knowledge can be the cause for Liberation. Action by itself cannot destroy our illusions and delusions. It is because of o...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Opportunities For Transformation
Did you ever see something go wrong around you and suddenly burst out, How on Earth did I create that? Really, how can bad things happ...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: Attracting Love
The Hebrew 'Kabbala' or 'Science of Prophets' is a book containing the ancient mysteries. The mystic diagrams in it have an esoteric m...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: Communicating With Divinity
One tends to remember God, when one thinks he needs the Almighty the most i.e. at a time of difficulty. Most of the problems and diffi...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: Choices Are Constraints
No choice in life is without a cost. Each decision to choose something necessarily costs us the option of keeping something else. In m...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: Intelligence And Happiness
Intelligence does not in and of itself bring happiness. What brings happiness is acceptance. There is no purpose to intelligence, it i...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: The Power Of Thoughts
Thoughts are things. You have probably heard this idea at one time or another. You have probably nodded your head in agreement, unders...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Knowledge By Acquaintance
We are normally acquainted with anything of which we are directly aware, without any inference or knowledge of truth.   Am I acqu...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Nature Of Matter
We shall now take it for granted that matter, physical objects, the external world exist e.g. that there is a real table which exists ...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Nature Of Existence
The general rule we normally accept is: "All things which I perceive/conceive clearly and distinctly are true."   But o...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Appearance And Reality
The totality of all physical things is matter. "Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man co...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Birth And Death Are Only Constructs In The Mind
They say that Life is only Existence visible. That birth and death are only constructs in the mind, two points in time, taken to be Re...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: The Existence Of Matter
Our fixed point of reference is the existence of our sense data, and what they are like.   But the existence of the Self, the 'su...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Discover Your Soul
The human species is a three part being - mind, body and spirit. The mind is what drives us, the spirit is our personality or ego, and...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Nature Of God
Dictionaries usually describe God as the Supreme Being. Since we cannot put God on a table for a thorough investigation, God and his n...   » Read the article

Article - Definition Of Metaphysics: Look Deep Within
The Higher Self knows everything about us and sees the bigger picture. It knows all of our past lives, our dreams, frustrations, relat...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: Mind Power Is The Key!
Metaphysical power is the power of your mind , the power beyond the ability of physical science to measure!   Out-of-body experie...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: Miraculous Techniques - Consciousness Expansion
Expand Your Consciousness As You Stretch Your Mind! You can stretch your consciousness and check out somebody, thousands of miles away...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Principles: Some Esoteric Principles
Esoteric tenets of the established religions clearly state, among other things that "God is everywhere."   If we are to...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: Find God In Everything
We sometimes fear rejection when we express our needs to others. However, we have the promise from God that, when we ask, our needs wi...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Principles: Attachment And Non-attachment
In the West, there is a widespread fear of losing the ego or personality. Through meditation we find that we can expand the ego, not l...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: How To Have A Dialogue With God  
Prayer is a conversation or dialogue with God and the art of prayer is knowing how to speak to and listen to God.   If communicat...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: Realizing The Concept Of Death
Everyday, we hear of deaths. We hear of people contracting diseases and dying. We hear of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods et...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: The Three Keys To Happiness
Life has a way of taking unexpected turns - of throwing surprises at us when we least expect them. In many ways, life does bring one d...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: Stop Dissipating Your Energies
You are dissipating your energy out into existence through the personality, instead of using it to stay in your reality. The mask is k...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: How To Stay Positive?
Why is staying positive so difficult?   I read, write and strive to be positive, but I often slip back to doubt and fear that see...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: The Three Keys To Happiness
Life has a way of taking unexpected turns - of throwing surprises at us when we least expect them. In many ways, life does bring one d...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: Be Cool, Draw Energy From Spiritual Devotion
Have you seen how peacefully a child sleeps in the lap of his parent, even in a noisy, crowded local train? The hustle-bustle disturbs...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: You Can Look Even With Eyes Closed
Q: How can we control the thought process?   Sadhguru: "I want to control the thought," this itself is a thought. Once ...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: Ten Ways To Heal A Broken Heart
A broken heart requires as much care as a broken bone or as any other physical ailment. However, with time and proper care, one can be...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: Kshana - Time Stands Still When Mind Stops
Hindu mythology of creation talks about how the universe is created each time the Creator Brahma blinks! Millions of human years, call...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysics: How We Get What We Get
At one level, we are nothing more than a bundle of squiggly energy. Everything in our universe at its essence is comprised of an electro-...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Inspirations: Listen To The Voice Within
Every soul that is currently experiencing life on any level begins and ends as a whole. Our essence - the very core of our spiritual b...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysical Techniques: Havan And Yagya: Procedure For Purification
Havan is a procedure of eradicating inner imperfections prevalent in our being. This procedure has all the healing techniques incorpor...   » Read the article

Article - Metaphysics: Meta-physical Body Energy
 Meta-physics means changed physics (meta = changed). As you will see, the meta-physics of the body really means meta-nomenclature (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Balance Metaphysics: Encyclopedia - Balance Metaphysics
In the metaphysical or conceptual sense, balance is used to mean a point between two opposite forces that is desirable over purely one st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosmology Metaphysics: Encyclopedia - Cosmology Metaphysics
Cosmology is the branch of philosophy and metaphysics that deals with the world as the totality of all phenomena in space and time. Preso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Universal Metaphysics: Encyclopedia - Universal Metaphysics
Universals (used as a noun) are either properties, relations, or types. However, classes are not usually considered to be universals; how...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Type Metaphysics: Encyclopedia - Type Metaphysics
A type is a category of being. A human is a type of thing; a cloud is a type of thing (entity); and so on. A particular instance of a typ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysics: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Metaphysics
Metaphysics (Meta, �after� or �beyond�; physics �physical�)   Originally, the study or philosophy dealing with cause - i. e. non...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysics: Parapsychology Dictionary On Metaphysics
Metaphysics: Derived from the Latin word meta which means beyond, metaphysics would literally mean that which is beyond the laws of p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysics: New Age Dictionary On Metaphysics
Metaphysics The science of the supernatural.   (See also: Metaphysics , New Age, Body mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysics: Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Metaphysics
Metaphysics: Philosophy of the relations between “underlying reality” and its manifestations.   (See also: Metaphy...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysical: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Metaphysical
METAPHYSICAL: a 'catch-all' term referring to subjects of transcendental, or supernatural (hate THAT word!) reality.   (See als...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysics: Health And Healing Dictionary On Metaphysics
Metaphysics: A field of abstract thought and philosophy about topics not on the concrete or physical level of understanding. This incl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysics: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Metaphysics
metaphysics: 1)    The branch of philosophy dealing with first causes and nature of reality. 2)    The...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysics: A Christian Theological Dictionary On Metaphysics
A Christian theological definition of Metaphysics according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:   &quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysics: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Metaphysics
metaphysics 1.    The philosophy of systematic investigation of the nature of first principles and ultimate reality, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphysics: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphysics - The Origin Of The Word 'metaphysics'
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle produced a number of works which together were called the Physics. In an early edition, the works...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphysics: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphysics - Examples
It is sometimes difficult to understand what the issues even are in metaphysics. It might help to begin with a fairly simple example that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphysics: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphysics - Criticism
Metaphysics has been attacked, at different times in history, as being futile and overly vague. Lord Byron often mocked the subject in hi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysical Hypnosis: Alternative Health Dictionary On Metaphysical Hypnosis
metaphysical hypnosis (metaphysical hypnotism): Natural yet spiritual form of suggestive therapy promoted by Dorothy H. McCrary, Ms.D....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphysics Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphysics Aristotle - Style
Many scholars believe that Aristotle's works as we have them today are little more than lecture notes. Many of his works are extremely co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphysics Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphysics Aristotle - Summary
Book Alpha: Outlines "first philosophy", a knowledge of the first principles or causes of things. Historical survey of previous philosoph...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fractal Metaphysics: Encyclopedia Ii - Fractal Metaphysics - Fractal Mysticism
Fractal mysticism is the loosest and least rigorous of the three types. In it, fractal artworks are used as a framework for spiritual jou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fractal Metaphysics: Encyclopedia Ii - Fractal Metaphysics - Fractal Philosophy
Finally, there is a small but growing group of thinkers who are trying to apply fractal geometry and chaos mathematics directly and rigor...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Metaphysical Gymnastics  : Pagan Paganism Dictionary Ii On Metaphysical Gymnastics  
Metaphysical Gymnastics The fine art of leaping from an unverified assumption to a foregone conclusion, without traversing the logical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dynamism: Encyclopedia Ii - Dynamism - Metaphysics
Dynamism is term of philosophy and science coined by Gottfried Leibniz (1646—1716) and developed into a full system of cosmology. The D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphysics Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphysics Aristotle - Title Date And Predecessors
The title of the work is Τῶν μετὰ τὰ φύσικα (literally, "of the things after physics"). This is generally supposed to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parmenides: Encyclopedia Ii - Parmenides - Metaphysics
The Way of Truth discusses that which is real, which contrasts in some way with the argument of the Way of Seeming, which discusses that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parmenides: Encyclopedia Ii - Parmenides - Metaphysics
The Way of Truth discusses that which is real, which contrasts in some way with the argument of the Way of Seeming, which discusses that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plato: Encyclopedia Ii - Plato - Metaphysics
Platonism has traditionally been interpreted as a form of metaphysical dualism, sometimes referred to as Platonic or Exaggerated Realism....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plato: Encyclopedia Ii - Plato - Metaphysics
Platonism has traditionally been interpreted as a form of metaphysical dualism, sometimes referred to as Platonic or Exaggerated Realism....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biophoton: Encyclopedia Ii - Biophoton - Metaphysics
The scientific usage of the term biophoton has been overtaken by several pseudoscientific groups, new-age groups, etc. Some claim that th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphysics Of Quality: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphysics Of Quality - Development Of Pirsig's Thought
Pirsig began college as a chemistry student, and dropped out after concluding that the ultimate answers to life were not to be found in s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metaphysics Of Quality: Encyclopedia Ii - Metaphysics Of Quality - The Moq According To Pirsig
The MOQ divides Quality into two forms: static quality patterns (patterned) and Dynamic Quality (unpatterned). The four patterns of stati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voluntarism: Encyclopedia Ii - Voluntarism - Metaphysical Voluntarism
General agent of the metaphysical voluntarism is Arthur Schopenhauer. The will is not reasonable in its core for him, but more irrational...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samkhya: Encyclopedia Ii - Samkhya - The Metaphysics Of Samkhya
Metaphysically, Samkhya maintains a radical duality between spirit/consciousness (Purusha) and matter (Prakrti). All physical events are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals: Encyclopedia Ii - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals - Kant's Argument: Autonomy And Freedom
Why should we want to act morally, that is, why should we will in a rationally consistent manner? Why can't I make an exception of my sel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals: Encyclopedia Ii - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals - Examples From The Abstract To The Concrete
Kant uses the same four examples throughout the Groundwork: 1) that of someone sick of life, contemplating suicide, 2) that of someone wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals: Encyclopedia Ii - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals - Examples From The Abstract To The Concrete
Kant uses the same four examples throughout the Groundwork: 1) that of someone sick of life, contemplating suicide, 2) that of someone wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Panpsychism: Encyclopedia Ii - Panpsychism - Relation To Metaphysical Positions
Panpsychism does not necessarily imply idealism - the metaphysical view that mind is the fundamental constituent of reality (a view that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes. Aristotle names four "causes" of things, but the word cause (Greek: αἰτἱα, aitia) is not us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes. Aristotle names four "causes" of things, but the word cause (Greek: αἰτἱα, aitia) is not us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes. Aristotle names four "causes" of things, but the word cause (Greek: αἰτἱα, aitia) is not us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chaldean Oracles: Encyclopedia Ii - Chaldean Oracles - Metaphysics Of The Oracles
The metaphysical schema of the Chaldaean Oracles begins with an absolutely transcendent deity called Father, with whom resides Power, a p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Extension Semantics: Encyclopedia Ii - Extension Semantics - Metaphysical Implications
There is an ongoing controversy in metaphysics about whether or not there are, in addition to actual, existing things, non-actual or none...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Subject Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Subject Philosophy - Metaphysical Subjectivism
Metaphysical subjectivism is the theory that perception creates reality, and that there is no underlying, true reality that exists indepe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lapis Lazuli: Encyclopedia Ii - Lapis Lazuli - Metaphysical Qualities
As inscribed in the 140th chapter of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, lapis lazuli, in the shape of an eye set in gold, was considered an a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Identity Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Identity Philosophy - Metaphysics Of Identity
Metaphysicians, and sometimes philosophers of language and mind, ask other questions: What does it mean for an object to be the same as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xavier Zubiri: Encyclopedia Ii - Xavier Zubiri - Zubiri's Critique Of Classical Metaphysics
Probably the most innovative aspect of Zubiri's metaphysical system is his critique of classical metaphysics, and particularly of the not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Nature: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Nature - Metaphysics And Ethics
There are a number of perspectives regarding the fundamental nature and substance of humans. These are by no means mutually exclusive, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modal Logic: Encyclopedia Ii - Modal Logic - Metaphysical And Other Modalities
Modal logic - Alethic epistemic. Modal logic is most often used for talk of the so-called alethic modalities: "it is necessarily the ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modal Logic: Encyclopedia Ii - Modal Logic - Metaphysical And Other Modalities
Modal logic - Alethic epistemic. Modal logic is most often used for talk of the so-called alethic modalities: "it is necessarily the ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Moral Philosopher And The Moral Life: Encyclopedia Ii - The Moral Philosopher And The Moral Life - The Metaphysical Question
The gist of this section is the contention that to be good, something has to be desired, by some sentient being. A world of only rocks wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waynflete Professorships: Encyclopedia Ii - Waynflete Professorships - Waynflete Professors Of Metaphysical Philosophy
The Waynflete Professorship is one of five statutory professorships in philosophy, the other four being the Wykeham Professorship in Logi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Symbols: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Symbols - Religious Esoteric Metaphysical And Mystical Symbols
A: Agnus Dei - Alchemical symbols - Allah - Ankh - Astrological signs - Astrology and alchemy - Aum/Om - Axis mundi B: Bagua - Bahá'í s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophy Of Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Philosophy Of Religion - Philosophy Of Religion As A Part Of Metaphysics
Philosophy of religion was classically regarded as a part of metaphysics, after Aristotle, among whose writings was a piece that later ed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Al-ghazali: Encyclopedia Ii - Al-ghazali - Al-ghazali On The Metaphysics Of Belief
It can be instructive to look to Al-Ghazali for insight into the role of the Intellect: "Therefore, there is no salvation except in indep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atman Buddhism: Encyclopedia Ii - Atman Buddhism - The Abandonment Of Atman In Later Buddhist Metaphysics
With the doctrine of anatta (Pāli; Sanskrit: anātman) Buddhism maintains that the concept of ātman is unnecessary and counterproductiv...   » Read the article