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What is Ontology, and what is the difference between Ontology and Metaphysics?

12 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by I Am Not A Standing Reserve: What is Ontology, and what is the difference between Ontology and Metaphysics?

Best answer:

Answer by Link
The study of cancer…oh no wait, thats oncology. Ontology is the study of being. Metaphysics includes ontology. Metaphysics is deals with the nature of Nature. Here are some links if you’re interested in learning more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

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the Illusion of Reality ~ consciousness & quantum theory

12 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is a dream, and we’re the imagination of ourselves.” ~ Bill Hicks ~◦ ◦~

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Easy and Quick Ways to Learn How to Meditate

12 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Easy and Quick Ways to Learn How to Meditate

Meditation is an ancient art form that has been used in the Eastern cultures for thousands of years. Eastern philosophy believes meditation is used to expand your consciousness until you are at one with the cosmos as a whole. Meditation is about transcending the physical body and letting your emotions fade away so you are at one with the universe.

The practice of meditation will bring you closer to attunement with the purpose of existence. Additionally meditation incorporates many relaxation techniques, which have a positive effect on stress and stress-induced illnesses. When you learn to meditate you will find inner peace, satisfaction, happiness, contentment, and refreshment.  The mind will become lucid and more focused giving one a sense of calm.  Meditation can transform the mind from negative to positive, from disturbed to peaceful and from unhappy to happy.

Meditation has both metaphysical and positive health benefits.

Everyone has his or her own reasons to meditate. Whether it is to understand ones own mind, to answer the questions of ‘ who am I’ or ‘why I’m here’ or even to implement simple relaxation techniques. It is up to every individual person to decide on how they meditate. There are many different schools of thought to pick and choose from. You need to find the technique that best suits you.

There are general facets of meditation that transcends the bounds of all cultures. Meditation is not difficult. Create an ideal setting for your meditation session. You can meditate sitting, standing, lying down, in a chair or on the floor.

Make sure to have appropriate posture, with your back straight but not tense. Sit cross-legged or in the most comfortable position possible. Partially close your eyes and concentrate on your breathing. Breathe naturally through your nostrils. Clear your mind and focus on the sensation of breathing. Concentrate on the breathing and exclude all of your surroundings. This is the first step to learning how to meditate. Once you have mastered the art of breathing meditation you can move on to other steps or stages of meditation.

There are hundreds of meditation techniques each with its own purpose and objective. Choose the technique that best suits your needs. Different kinds of meditation include breathing meditation, analytical meditation, placement meditation, mindful meditation, spiritual meditation, focused meditation, mantra meditation and many, many more. Each has their own benefits both metaphysical and physical. Whatever you are trying to obtain will determine what type of meditation will be best for you.

Sarah Labdar graduated with a BA in exercise science and has worked in the medical field since. Her focus is alternative medicine and how it interacts and works in conjunction with traditional medicine.

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Roger Hamilton and Nature Being At the Vanguard of the Art of Wealth Creation

12 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Roger Hamilton and Nature Being At the Vanguard of the Art of Wealth Creation

One of the main things that ever have mattered in the lives of the people ever since they became civilized was the way they can make ends meet. And from there on they went to dream about living a life that would be a lot more comfortable. And once that dream was achieved he went on to dream about a life that was a lot more luxurious and free of any kind of financial dilemmas. And in order to make sure that these dreams were achieved he began to devise systems that would govern the entire system of financial operations. And something similar can be said about the present day system of finance that is governing the economies of majority of the countries of the world. And that is creating the financial problems of the world. And the solution lies with only one man named Roger Hamilton.

And the reason behind this is that the majority of the people who were at the helm of the affairs as far as the governing of the finances f the world is concerned missed out on one simple aspect.

And that simple aspect is that howsoever hard human being might try to ignore, condone, or simply try to create a system that is really and truly man-made without any trace of nature or any metaphysical power ingrained in it, he simply cannot get away from it. And that metaphysical thing is the great Nature itself that encompasses everything that can be seen in this thing called existence. And man is one of its finest creation and all the operations that he undertakes would definitely have the imprints or rather the soul of those operations would be the Nature itself. Roger Hamilton understood it, implemented it and then formulated it in the form of theories like wealth dynamics, wealth spectrum, and many other similar theories that expound upon the importance that nature demands.

And one of the most important things that is revealed in the theories propounded by this man Roger Hamilton is the benedictory aspect of mother nature when it is given the due importance in the operations carried out by the human being.

And one of the main things that Roger did was that he gave the prime importance to the role of nature in the art of wealth creation. He has made people realize that without the importance of nature being reflected strongly and that too at the vanguard, an individual would never really get to know the real worth of wealth and the real art of wealth creation

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School of Metaphysics Owner Teaches Mysticism in New Book …

12 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

The Way of the Unicorn: an introduction to Unicorn Light Mysticism by Ahura Z. Diliiza introduces a spiritual practice developed by the author over decades of
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Q&A: Would one start with St. Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant and Aristotle to get a foothold on metaphysics?

11 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Anybody: Would one start with St. Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant and Aristotle to get a foothold on metaphysics?

Best answer:

Answer by crystal
No You’d start on those for Religious Reference

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11 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

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This video is from a radio show interview.April Crawford is an Open Deep Trance Channel and Medium. Most of videos and audio recordings are interviews or converations with highly evolved non-physical entities and guides who can speak when April is in deep trance. The Entity that we call “VERONICA” is the most featured but others can and do come through. This is an interview with April Crawford herself, talking about how she got started as a Deep Trance Channel. The interview is conducted by Radio Host Filippo from “Life Changes With Filippo” (see www.LifeChangesWithFilippo.com) We happened to have a video camera and so we turned it on. The radio inteview was recorded on a high quality digital audio only recorder. To sign up for your free copies of “Inner Whispers”, the spiritual newsletter written mostly by VERONICA, try www.InnerWhispers.info To learn more about April Crawford, try www.AprilCrawford.com This is one of a series of excerpts from Interviews with the entity that we call “VERONICA” who speaks in this interview About the AfterLife via Open Deep Trance Channel April Crawford. See the other interviews for more details. You can find more information about VERONICA and April Crawford at www.AprilCrawford.info For the free spiritual newsletter written mostly by VERONICA, try www.InnerWhispers.info Everyone is interested in this subject. However, those of you interested in the work of Jane Roberts, Robert Monroe, Seth, Oprah with regard to her spiritual work with
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Academics and the affairs of Nigeria

11 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

The earlier philosophers, Locke, Spinoza, Durant, Machiavelli, etc predicated life's essential is on the speculative metaphysics of self-targeted hedonism that arrogated opportunities without consideration for environmental nuclear and peripheral
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Metaphysics – The roots of metaphysics, where and how did it come up?

10 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by ][Eric][ AKA Just a question][: Metaphysics – The roots of metaphysics, where and how did it come up?
I was just wondering, im a fan of metaphysics, im only 14 less then a month 15, but sence the age of 10 or 11 i’ve doing research on metaphysics. One thing i have never found is how Metaphysics became to be “Metaphysics.” Where does the word metaphysics come from, and does anyone know who is best known for 1st presenting metaphysics? (Tk, OBE, telepathy, = metaphysics)

Best answer:

Answer by pexie
there is a book written by connie mendez try finding it she writes all about it.

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Who Exactly Is A Jew? Dr. John Henrik Clarke 3/

10 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

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The Apollonian and Dionysian Struggle Within the Human Personality Part Four

10 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

The Apollonian and Dionysian Struggle Within the Human Personality Part Four

The Apollonian and Dionysian  Struggle Within the Human Personality

PART FOUR

Norman W Wilson, PhD

In Part Three, I presented the argumentation between the Nietzsche and Jungian points of view regarding the base creative instincts within the human personality. Both have value. Whichever viewpoint you ultimately buy into; remember, to create something, something else experiences destruction.

If you are a painter with a blank canvas and you apply a wash, you have destroyed that blank canvas. If you build a house, you excavate the earth, you have destroyed what once was. The same is true in the biology of the human realm. A man has sex with a woman and impregnates her; he has destroyed what was. The creation of  a new life results. With all of this said,  I want to discuss a possible solution to the conflict between control and the lack of control, aesthetics.

An aesthetic approach immediately converts the problem of uncontrolled raw emotional creation into a picture which a viewer can contemplate at his ease—merely experiencing its passions at a safe distance—with no danger of becoming involved.

Consequently, the aesthetic attitude guards against any real participation, preventing one from any personal implication. This issue of involvement or action is one of the major problems facing the Romantics of the late 1700′s and the early 1800′s.

Carl Jung concedes Nietzsche has an inkling of the real solution to artistic control especially when the antagonism between the Apollonian and Dionysian creative forces in man are not bridgeable by art, but by what he calls a ‘metaphysical miracle’. That miracle is the Hellenic will. Nietzsche most likely means the metaphysical will as espoused by the Ancient Greeks.

Jung, however, suggests we should replace the word metaphysical with the word unconscious— thus, the desired key to the problem of the Apollonian and Dionysian conflict would be an unconscious miracle. He is critical of the choice of miracle claiming it to be irrational. In this case, it is “an act of an unconscious and irrational happening, shaping itself without the assistance of reason and conscious purpose.”

The real key to understanding here is the word act. Despite what Jung claims regarding an ‘unconscious irrational happening’, the word act implies decision; something that is deliberate. In other words, there is a choice. Creation then, is a deliberate and controlled act despite the apparent abandon of such decision processes by artists of the Jackson Pollack ilk.

In Nietzsche, the description implies an unfolding, a streaming outward and upwards, a Dionysian expansion. It is a flood of overpowering universal feelings bursting forth and totally intoxicating one’s senses. Others might call this ecstasy, but not as shown in Bernini’s The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa. While in this state, Jung claims the psychological function of sensation participates at the highest degree. From a psychological perspective, this is a complete extroversion of all the feelings bound up with sensation. In the Dionysian, these feelings have the archaic character of wild abandonment.

In the next article, I will complete the discussion of the two realms of the creative impulse. Neither is superior to the other, nor is there implication that one produces greater creative works. The purpose here has been to bring about an understanding of the two creative forces that contend for artistic dominance in the human personality.

Dr. Wilson is the author and co-author of college textbooks in the humanities. He is the author of five speculative fiction novels, and just published non-fiction book, Shamanism: What It’s All About. His The Shaman’s Quest is soon to be released. He is the author of over 150 articles on the internet and is a reviewer for the New York Journal of Books and for Novel Spot. Net.

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The West Coast Metaphysics Conference July 7-9 – UC Santa Cruz …

10 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Santa Cruz Event: The West Coast Metaphysics Conference July 7-9 – Find event details, directions, start time, and other related events.
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Is mathematics the true metaphysics of reality?

09 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by TROLL: Is mathematics the true metaphysics of reality?
What else could describe nature so eloquently?

No God.
No spirits.
Just vectors, curves and all in between.

Best answer:

Answer by Alan Turing
Fine with me.

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Beethoven – 9th Symphony ‘Choral’ (Complete) ♫*

09 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Beethoven - 9th Symphony 'Choral' (Complete) ♫*

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Parapsychology in China

09 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Parapsychology in China

Paranormal research has dwindled down to about a handful of any serious work here in the United States and likely so because of lack of Government funding since the 1980′s. Those few laboratories in the West function through the private sector and pathetically under funded.

For most of us Paranormal Research continues to be a controversial science that we depend on to convince us that those curious functions of our mind that we call psychic are real.

China, on the other hand, takes the lead in being the only country in the world that has a nationally supported parapsychology research program. Chinese scientists have a variety of interest in moving objects with the mind such as evidence of psychokinesis displayed in the practice of Qigong. Known as China’s father of the missile, Qian Xuesen, a 97 year old missile and space scientist declared has declared paranormal research to be a top priority for the Nation.

Have no doubt that the rest of the world will take China’s lead and try to renew and improve the quality of research in parapsychology as business needs increase and the world population continues to evolve equally in their individual ESP function.

We are all in the process of shifting our focus from logical reason to relationships, mysticism, and metaphysics.

We are all aware that we can create different scenarios of destiny. We gravitate to life enhancing thought and attitude involuntarily. We have emerged from the New Age movement of the 1980′s from external information of experience to an inner awareness world view.

The reconciliation of scientific research and the paranormal data of parapsychology implies a more holistic and transcendental metaphysical state of thought.

This transformation of scientific study may produce an organization of rational thought to the study of an entity without a physical structure created from an exceptional manifestation of humankind.

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Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Mad Metaphysics!

09 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Mad Metaphysics! Richard Marshall talks with Eric Olson (Sheffield). Posted by Brian Leiter on May 08, 2012 at 09:17 AM in Philosophy in the News, What is Philosophy? | Permalink
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Q&A: Is there a university where I can major in metaphysics?

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Logan: Is there a university where I can major in metaphysics?
I like studying spiritual concepts and things like astrology. The only “traditional fields” I like are Visual Arts and Writing. I like Transcendental Psychology and Transcendentalism, but that’s not practical.

I’m for the most part not interested in college as a means for a job, but my mom is forcing me to go so can you help me find a college that offers non traditional programs.

*not like “school of baptists” or university of spirituality”. Those are obviously fake.*

Best answer:

Answer by Carl
None really, metaphysics is a branch of philosophy, so majoring in philosophy would probably be your best route.

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What is metaphysics and how does it related with the varna system based on merit to justify its system?

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by wINsKii: What is metaphysics and how does it related with the varna system based on merit to justify its system?

Best answer:

Answer by Lunar Child
philosophy section

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The Tree Of Knowledge (Terence McKenna) [FULL]

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

alchemicalarchives.blogspot.comTerence K. McKenna (1992) Search For The Original Tree Of Knowledge. Recorded live in Boulder, Colorado May 29-31, 1992. Art: Michelangelo. The Fall of Man and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican
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Reiki Master & Spiritual Holistic Health Programs

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Reiki Master & Spiritual Holistic Health Programs

Reiki is a big thing in our new modern society, but this has been around since 1920. Back then it was not common to perform distant attunements or healings, so you had to rely on who you knew and what was close to where you lived. Unfortunately this made Reiki not a common thing, but more of a specialty in healing. Reiki should be available to anyone and everyone who wants to use this, and not be determined by your income or location.

A lot of alternative, metaphysical, spiritual, or holistic programs include Reiki as part of their instruction. This is a big thing in this line of work because dealing with alternative, metaphysical, spiritual, and holistic healings the majority of then will come back to learning how to use energy.

Take for example, an animal communication program. If you want to learn how to communicate with animals, it is beneficial to know how to work with energy as well.

Reason for this is because everything is tied back to its beginning and as you may already know everything in this world is made of energy. So if you want to learn how to relate and understand animals, you must know how you are going to connect with them. Working with meditation, relaxation and communication deals with energy as well. Being a Reiki Master is only a benefit to those who are studying in an alternative, metaphysical, spiritual or holistic program.

Another example would be taking a crystal-healing program. To charge a crystal, you can use your Reiki energy, as well as cleansing, programming and enhancing the crystals own vibrational energies. So why not be attuned to a Reiki Master as well, it only helps develop and enhance your own spiritual pathway in life.

Now just because you are attuned to a Reiki Master does not mean you have to go and try to heal everything you come in contact with.

Some of us are here to help and serve with this type of work and some of us are here to enhance our own spiritual pathway and connect with the vibrational level of others. We are not all on the same pathway in life, so remember when making your decisions, it is about you, your learning and spiritual growth!

Stay focused, grounded, protected and learn as much as you possibly can to heal yourself and develop your own spiritual pathway in life, being interconnected with the Universe and others!

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Carried My Father Unside, Carried My Father Unside

08 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Carried My Father Unside, Carried My Father Unside

Mirror to mirror
a face floated in anguish
the mourning was deep
whenever inquest for truth was made.
Was it so terrible?
I cannot read the human face.
We were so used
to wear the masks.

Stoned and deaf,
fuzzy kiss of death levels the ferocious peak.
The nameless murder
of truth got a reward.
Garden of strange foliage
slurred on a song.
A metaphysical experience
sniffs the life.

Chained to the probity of the city
I bowed my head.
Reluctant to move in a procession of ugly months.
Lifetime’s nostalgia lifted a veil.
No sleep will descend.
I still carry
my father inside.

Satish Verma

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CARRIED MY FATHER UNSIDE

Mirror to mirror
a face floated in anguish
the mourning was deep
whenever inquest for truth was made.
Was it so terrible?
I cannot read the human face.
We were so used
to wear the masks.

Stoned and deaf,
fuzzy kiss of death levels the ferocious peak.
The nameless murder
of truth got a reward.
Garden of strange foliage
slurred on a song.
A metaphysical experience
sniffs the life.

Chained to the probity of the city
I bowed my head.
Reluctant to move in a procession of ugly months.
Lifetime’s nostalgia lifted a veil.
No sleep will descend.
I still carry
my father inside.

Satish Verma

———————-

CARRIED MY FATHER UNSIDE

Mirror to mirror
a face floated in anguish
the mourning was deep
whenever inquest for truth was made.
Was it so terrible?
I cannot read the human face.
We were so used
to wear the masks.

Stoned and deaf,
fuzzy kiss of death levels the ferocious peak.
The nameless murder
of truth got a reward.
Garden of strange foliage
slurred on a song.
A metaphysical experience
sniffs the life.

Chained to the probity of the city
I bowed my head.
Reluctant to move in a procession of ugly months.
Lifetime’s nostalgia lifted a veil.
No sleep will descend.
I still carry
my father inside.

Satish Verma

———————-

Satish Verma is ferociously original. You feel resentment, outrage and violence, cannot pin it down but wonderfully spin your brain. Satish has the greatest sensibility which sweetly exploits the delicacies of human conflicts. His scions, doctors and engineers are living in USA. He chose to live back in his beloved country and resides in Ajmer (INDIA) with his spouse Kanta running the Charitable Holistic Institute of SEWA MANDIR FOUNDATION. He can also be reached at kantasatish@gmail.com. 5-A ii, Mayoor Colony, Alwar Gate, Ajmer – 305007 INDIA Mobile +91 9829071468

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Q&A: What is the other half of metaphysics?

07 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Penfold Ickle Bear Innit: What is the other half of metaphysics?
meta meaning half. So presumably metaphysics is half physics and half something else. What is the other half?

Or should I have posted this in metawittics?

Best answer:

Answer by Rachel
Meta doesn’t mean half, unfortunately. I’m not sure if this is a hypothetical question as to IF meta meant half. Meta, in current philosophy, means self-referencing and also “Above”. Check out Godel, Escher, Bach if you have any doubts about what I’m stating.

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Spirit Guide Message: “Awaken to Your New Year” via Deep Trance Channel April Crawford

07 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

A message for the New Year from an entity and guide we call VERONICAvia an Open Deep Trance Channel named April Crawford. “Awaken to Your New Year….. Be Present… Start Your New Year with a VERY Conscious Moment of Being In The Now.” Most of videos and audio recordings are interviews or converations with highly evolved non-physical entities and guides who can speak (and use body language and even walk around) when April is in deep trance. The Entity that we call “VERONICA” is the most featured but others can and do come through. This session was held in late December of 2009 in a hotel suite at the Airport Marriot in Burbank California. This is one of a series of excerpts from deep trance channelilng sessions with the entity that we call “VERONICA” … and others….who speak via Open Deep Trance Channel April Crawford. See the other interviews for more details. You can find more information about VERONICA and April Crawford at www.AprilCrawford.info For the free spiritual newsletter written mostly by VERONICA, try www.InnerWhispers.info Those of you interested in the work of Jane Roberts, Robert Monroe, Seth, Oprah with regard to her spiritual work with Eckhart Tolle, Esther Hicks and Abraham or Deepak Chopra, Richard Bach or Wayne Dyer may find this clip of particular interest. In fact, anyone interested in channeling, metaphysics, consciousness or the nature of reality may want to view this series of deep trance channeling interviews.
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The Unconscious Reason Why Most People Will Fail in Their Pursuit of True Happiness

07 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

The Unconscious Reason Why Most People Will Fail in Their Pursuit of True Happiness

The key to experiencing the success you are looking for in all areas of your life, including personal growth and conscious creation of reality, is an understanding of your motive.

You are not here to merely make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. — Woodrow Wilson

A psychologist named Tim Kasser, along with a variety of other psychologists, has repeatedly done studies that show the direct correlation between aspirations and well-being. This is very important for us to be aware of, as many of our aspirations are unconscious, so only by becoming aware of them, can they be changed.

According to Kasser, there are two main types of goals/aspirations:

Extrinsic aspirations depend on contingent reaction of others and are typically engaged in as a means to an end.

This type of aspiration includes such things as money, fame, and image (appealing appearance).

Intrinsic aspirations are expressive of natural growth tendencies and are likely to satisfy basic psychological needs. This type of aspiration includes such things as growth, connectedness, and helpfulness.

Basically through a variety of controlled studies, psychologists have repeatedly shown that intrinsic aspirations are conclusively related to higher well-being. Whereas extrinsic aspirations are related to a lower well-being and happiness.

When you get down to the primary reason why anyone wants anything in life it is almost always because they think it will make them happy. All we truly want from life is happiness.

To obtain the happiness that mostly everyone seeks, it is key to focus on intrinsic aspirations.

People desire things like money, power, and fame (extrinsic aspirations) because they believe these things will make them happy. Based on scientific proof, we know it does not work like that. Those things are just a means to an end, which will result in a lower well-being for you in the long run. If you didn’t intuitively know this already, I strongly urge you to look up the results of Kasser’s research on extrinsic vs. intrinsic goals online.

Many people, especially in the western culture, are prone to seek extrinsic goals. We all know at a conscious level that money does not make you happy. But due to unconscious cultural influences we are basically programmed to seek material things like money as a means to happiness regardless of our conscious understanding.

This is mostly due to the mainstream media and other cultural outlets that program us to focus on extrinsic goals over intrinsic goals. Simply being aware of such an unconscious influence allows you to begin to shed your cultural programming so that you may experience the state of well-being that you desire.

Once you are aware of such unconscious influences you must exert your will to focus on intrinsic aspirations in achieving your spiritual growth. You must continue to work with the law of attraction and personal growth information but with a sole focus on intrinsic goals. This is the only way you will ever obtain your desired results. This goes without saying, but also be wary of metaphysical information that focuses on extrinsic values!

In the bigger picture, it will not be until humans offer the deepest respect for all of life, that humanity will know its highest, most noble self. Only when we focus on intrinsic goals like self-acceptance and our deep interconnectedness, will we know what true happiness is. The results of such a shift will profoundly impact all of earth.

All in all, this just comes down to basic metaphysics. Turn off your TV. Become aware of, and inactivate, limiting unconscious cultural influences. Make an effort to go within. Seek peace and love with yourself. Then, you must show that love and peace to all others (although it will come naturally once you have found it with yourself).

Obtaining happiness has always been that simple.

Jason Randhawa, author of this article among many other metaphysical writings, invites you to check out his WhatIsMetaphysics.com website. This free online resource contains his full autobiography, a bunch of metaphysical information, as well as a free metaphysics information package. This complimentary package includes the popular 7-Day “What Is Metaphysics” E-Course, a subscription to the Metaphysical Mind Ezine published bi-monthly by Jason, and access to the Metaphysical Library (a collection of over 25 spiritual E-Books). Get yours at no-cost here: http://www.WhatIsMetaphysics.com

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FROM METAPHYSICS TO INVECTIVE: Art Criticism as if it Still …

07 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

'Art criticism' is that form of literature which condenses or amplifies, emphasizes or arranges, or attempts to bring into harmony all the ideas that come to the mind
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Internet Archive Search mediatypetexts AND subjectmetaphysics

07 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

The metaphysics of Sir William HamiltonVolume MISSOURI – TI055 L200 Frank A**L200 William** Hamilton William Sir 17881856
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what was the Copernican revolution according to Kant and what does it mean for metaphysics?

06 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by fashiongurl89: what was the Copernican revolution according to Kant and what does it mean for metaphysics?

Best answer:

Answer by Michael M
I’m not sure if Kant had a different definition of the Copernican revolution, but after Kant, may people referred to Kant as the Copernican revolution. If true, comparison certainly puts Kant in the same rank as Plato and Socrates.

Due to Kan’ts explanations of the relationship between rationalism with empiricism, metaphysics wasn’t left any room. Metaphysics certainly didn’t die with Kant, but it didn’t appear to ring true for Kant.

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What’s So Great About Mushrooms? 1987 (Terence McKenna) [FULL]

06 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

What's So Great About Mushrooms? 1987 (Terence McKenna) [FULL]

alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com Another Terence talk from ’87 originally aired on The Psychedelic Salon Podcast… www.matrixmasters.net “Culture is sort of a shockwave which follows behind language. Culture is fossilized language.” “One of the reasons I think these psychedelic compounds still are important is because they catalyze the evolution of language.” MP3 DOWNLOAD… alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com

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The Metaphysics of Taxation | The Moral Sciences Club | Big Think

06 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

The Metaphysics of Taxation. Will Wilkinson on May 4 2012 623 PM. A couple weeks back I wrote a post for the Economist trying to get my head around the
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Q&A: How did Plato influence epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics?

05 MAY
2012

Author: The Oracle

Question by Sara S: How did Plato influence epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics?

Best answer:

Answer by modern.sage33
His influence provoked a teacher to include his influence in your education.

What do you think? Answer below!

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