METAPHYSICS PRACTICE

There is a real, verifiable rebirth that can be experience through Buddhist practice. It isn't metaphysical, it is simply changes in the not-self.

This Master's thesis argues that Nietzsche's concept of metaphor is inadequate for progress in metaphysics and philosophical inquiry. Fruhling argues that theoretical models are more philosophically adequate than metaphors.

The meaning of metaphysics.

You don't have to believe in God to use the power of thought to change your life. Metaphysics is a universal principle, a law of the universe that anyone can use.

Kant's system of ethics, in my opinion, seems to be flawed in a couple of ways.

Vajrayana Buddhism & Creativity

Epistemology and the basic philosophy of empiricism are the topics of dicsussion. I will explain where Greek philosophy began and who the main contributors were to ancient philosophy and what their contributions were.

Reiki, an oriental style of subtle energy manipulation that came to America in the 1980s, is greatly misunderstood in the West today. Some call it quackery, others claim it has miraculous healing powers. Is reiki science, metaphysics or myth?

What role does law play in ensuring the common good of a society? How is a philosophy of law fundamentally different from the practice of law?

Meditation is a practice conducted by sole participants for the purpose of self-transformation. These are five of Central Florida's meditation centers.

Lexigraphy is the art or practice of defining words.

This article shows that how continental philosophy works and how it deals with existenilism

Ethical and moral reasons why stem cell research should be better funded.

G. Stolyarov II argues the fundamental compatibility of two vastly developed ideological systems, Objectivism and Transhumanism, and claims that adherents of these two strains of thought need to recognize the necessity of each ideology to achieving the other's goals.

This paper describes the coercion tactics of the Heaven's Gate cult and how they relate to other cults and religious movements.

A piece using both personal experience & the traditional definition for a metaphysical realm. An imbalance of hormones affecting the endocrine & gynecologic systems, is like experiencing supernatural phenomena without special powers but increased levels of awareness.

G. Stolyarov II describes the life of a Persian doctor and philosopher who expanded and perpetuated the legacies of Hippocrates and Aristotle.

The philosophy of Ayn Rand does not coincide with her specifically professed stance on abortion, and G. Stolyarov II attempts to grant valuable secular, rational, Objectivist ammunition to anti-abortionists via this essay.

The author offers a critique of Nakamura Hajime's purportedly historical biography of Buddha.

When it comes to defining the nature of reality, almost everybody has an opinion (or maybe hundreds of them). Yet how many of those opinions are based on investigation, consistency and tenability? The speculations to follow, I believe, embrace all three.

The earliest form of Jewish mysticism was the Merkavah tradition. Learned Rabbis would fast for 40 days and 40 nights, constantly in prayer, preparing for a conscious ascension to the highest hekhaloth, or the realm of the divine. The journey to...

Anthropology struggled for years to be accepted as a science - and then promptly began denouncing it's scientific credentials once they'd been accepted. This paper represents a young graduate student's views as to the future for scientific anthropology.

Christianity implicit gain answers about being of our world and Universe, about philosophical being, and about possibility of existence of unseenable World of Heaven...