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Basics of Metaphysics
    Metaphysics is that portion of philosophy which
    treats the most general and fundamental
    principles, underlying all reality and all
    knowledge.

    Traditionally, metaphysics refers to the branch
    of philosophy that attempts to understand the
    fundamental nature of all reality, whether
    visible or invisible. It seeks a description so
    basic, so essentially simple, so all-inclusive
    that it applies to everything, whether divine or
    human or anything else. It attempts to tell what
    anything must be like in order to be at all.

Metaphysics addresses questions such as:
o What is the nature of reality?
o What is humankind's place in the universe?
o Does the world exist outside the mind?
o What is the nature of objects, events, places?

A secondary usage of metaphysics includes a wide range of phenomena
believed by many people to exist “beyond the physical”; the study of
things which transcend the natural world — that is, things which
supposedly exist separately from nature and which have a more
intrinsic reality than our natural existence.

    This type of metaphysics is most
    commonly used in two traditionally
    areas:
    1) As it refers to experiences of unity
    with the ultimate, commonly interpreted
    as the God who is love, and
    2) As it refers to the extension of
    knowing (extrasensory perception,
    including telepathy, clairvoyance,
    precognition, retrocognition, and
    mediumship) and doing (psychokinesis)
    beyond the usually recognized fields of
    human activity.

Metaphysics has often been criticized as “meaningless”, but in all
honesty, what should be said is not that the statements are
meaningless, but rather that there is no valid set of empirical
observations nor a valid set of logical arguments, which could
definitively prove metaphysical statements to be true or false.

Hence, a metaphysical statement usually implies an idea about the
world or about the universe, which may seem reasonable but is
ultimately not verifiable. That idea could be changed in a non-
arbitrary way, based on experience or argument, yet there exists no
evidence or argument so compelling that it could rationally force a
change in that idea, in the sense of definitely proving it false.
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