THE METAPHYSICAL

In The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand presents a thoughtful consideration of how we acquire our ideas about the world around us and the shifts that occurred in American thought during the 19th century.

An explanation of Sartre's Nausea and how it impacted the Metaphysical Enlightenment.

As a recovering insomniac, I understand the dismissive comments you get from people who tell you to go to bed earlier, take the TV out of your room and take a few deep breaths before bed. This article will introduce you to a different approach.

In this paper, I talk about the disavowal of metaphysics by Karl Popper. I then provide an argument for why Karl Popper would most likely not accept the method of "Inference to the Best Explanation."

Spirits, Ids, and the Multiverse

Disquisition upon how the nominalist pursuit of spirituality vainly seeks anything or everything, except ethically, morally, and spiritually needed belief in God.

Discussing Witch School move from Central Illinois to Salem Mass. the Witch City. First we have to pack the Library.

One evening at the theatre downtown has swept over me an intellectual lesson. This is me, trying to make sense of it.

In this essay, I examine John Donne's poem, The Bait, and how it exemplifies the genre of metaphysical poetry by parodying a romantic poem, namely through bizarre metaphors.

A brief overview of the process of asking certain questions in certain situations and also looking at the different questions and information.

This is a scholarly research paper on the effects of the Industrial Revolution on British Literature, influences in literature at the time and the failure of public education to redress the problem of illiteracy.

Inspecting the metaphysical assumptions of historical writing

Opinion article about the cosmos and human perception.

Purchasing pagan or metaphysical supplies can be done in any community with a little creativity and ingenuity.

2008 holds the power of the number one! For those who believe that numbers hold occult power, the number one represents resurgence and a new beginning after emerging from the end of a long cycle.

In the short story "The Smallest Woman in the World," Bourdieu's ideas of taste and the Foucault's rules of formation are replicated in Lispector's demonstration of language within social boundaries.

A discussion and analysis of the philosophical antecedents used in the science of Descartes and Galileo.

An analysis of the philosophical merit of Immanual Kant and Sir Isaac Newton's metaphysical understandings as pertaining to an application of said understanding to Halley's comet.

Chi or "life energy" is a concept in the Chinese belief that every organism in the world bears host to a spiritual force within them that allows them to on top of many motor functions live, eat, and sleep.

This is an article about some of the strange experiences I had while living in the town of Roswell, New Mexico, also known as the Alien City.

In the beginning of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner readers are presented with an introductory statement regarding the metaphysical world.

Prisons aim at homogenizing human behaviour in the desired ways of the authority. Hence the so called prisoners are forcefully annexed and kept behind bars as part of reinforcing back the humane qualities in them.

Learning to read Tarot cards is easy, if you just pay attention to the patterns. This guide introduces you to the 22 named cards in the regular Tarot deck.

In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Baroque (or baroque) was a period named not by its artists, but by its critics. Seen as an age of excess,

In Plato's final hours, he dictated a philosophy of the soul and reality to his friends and pupils. This philosophy explained the world of forms and the world of particulars. I will show examples of forms and particulars in classic occult literature.