Metaphysics

Metaphysics is the combination of the Greek words “meta,” meaning “ after" or "beyond” and “physics,” meaning “nature.” It’s a term that was coined from the Greek philosopher Aristotle, who wrote a work titled Metaphysics, in which he, being the deep thinker that he was, wrote about his observations of the natural world and his philosophies of life accordingly. As one of the “founders” of Western Philosophy, Aristotle was considered a philosopher, a truth seekers, one who tried to get a grasp on the fundamentals of reality and express his understanding of it all to others. Incredibly, his searching even lead him beyond the purely physical.

Aristotle didn’t believe the universe was controlled by blind chance, or by magic, nor by the whims of capricious deities that others espoused culturally in his day. He saw order, and the rational, universal laws that all life around him was subject to. He also believed that it was worthwhile for human beings to conduct systematic inquiry into the natural world that utilized such laws, before forming any conclusions. He also advocated using both hypothetical observations and logical reasoning, not mythological superstitions or simply tradition in forming opinions, attitudes and beliefs, and this is perhaps why he is said to have profoundly influenced the development of Western civilizations. In Aristotle’s day, when he was talking metaphysics, he wasn’t advocating the occult like people do today, he was considering the mysteries of life’s in matter and form, and things like mathematical calculations.

In a theological sense his concept of metaphysics, because it goes “beyond” the physical, could be considered a study of God. He was after all, searching out answers and meanings to the idea of “being,” wondering about the “essence” of all things and studying life. Aristotle even conceptualized what he called the “unmoved mover,” the “first cause” or “prime mover” that he believed had to have set the universe into motion.

God?

Today, metaphysics is not much about the things we observe. It is not even very scientific. It generally refers to things occult, paranormal things outside the five natural senses. Topics and practices such as divination, soul travel, channeling, chakras, witchcraft, sorcery and certain “psychic” events would all be considered “metaphysical.”

Metaphysics is not a science like chemistry or even physics. Sometimes it is classified as a pseudo science, or “hypothetical” science but it contains all sorts of things that are simply not provable, physical or even logical compared to the natural universal laws which we can access in a tangible way and observe. Some people like to put it in a category all it’s own, and call it “ExoScience.”

Exoscience would refer to things way beyond our physical ability to perceive, but not beyond the mind. For example, to study the patterns of weather on Mars, one could not go there, but we might be able to study it due to information sent back to us from space craft and speculate about it, even formulate and understand what the weather there is like; or determine the mostly likely chemical make up of the planet. We could and do even formulate an understanding of it even though no human being ever observed it up close and personal. Theoretically, one could simply have an experience of mind without the spacecraft information, and come to some conclusions about what Martian weather is like. No one could even really prove them wrong, or right. This is exoscience.

There are also other categories of Exoscience. For example, the scientific study of phenomena that are unexplainable, seemingly "living things" like ghosts, extra terrestrial beings, would be Exobiology.

Hyperdimensional physics such as quantum physics, particles that take super ultra special devices or well trained brains to understand because they cannot be seen, as well as the study of ancient civilizations and ideas about ancient technology are a form of Exoscience too.

Metaphysics may sound like science, it might even sound Aristotelian, but it is at best hypothetical science. It often involves the practices of very things that God forbade. Metaphysics today, void of logic or reason, births things like belief in cryptoendoliths, theories of panspermia and exogenesis, and purely speculative “studies” of xenoecology and astrosociobiology.

Whether it's practicing mental exercises or casting spells that make you believe you have the power to change reality, or calculating biorhythms to help you know how to respond to people and events around you or plan your days, such things are merely superstitious and occult. You mind may try to legitimize such exoscience as science, but it's not. At best, it's metaphysics.