present day Metaphysics

The problem in present day Metaphysics!

Reading the literature written as a single base for research is an exercise in futility. Even if all the writing were narrowed to the last fifty years, it would still be a collection of contradictions, omissions, and personal opinions that seem unworthy of the intelligent authors, yet we have found that nearly half of the people do not even know the meaning of the word.

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, and so all-inclusive that it applies to everything, whether divine or human or anything else. It attempts to tell and sell us, what anything and everything must be like in order to be at all.
The key word is BASIC, and SIMPLE! In the study of Yoga if you go back to the beginnings the poses were SIMPLE in execution, they reflected nature around them. Keeping the word Simple in mind, does it make you wonder just how an author can write a book with over 300 pages? Or how some can charge you hundreds of hundreds of dollars to tell you how to discover something you already know? In Zen, we are told not to pursue the Psychic powers and that they are in fact just the offshoot of the proper way in which we should live, yet again thousands of hard-earned money is spent on this pursuit.

Even among those who are knowledgeable, some are afraid of it, some are skeptical, and some use it enthusiastically. Some find it to be almost a religious ritual, while others believe it to be sorcery. Finally, there are rapidly growing segments who find it to be a useful tool, and refuse to inquire further and thereby excepting every idea that comes along without crucial thinking being applied.

In any case there are many people who know about it, believe in it unalterably, use it, and spread the gospel of its use. Almost everything written today is actually slanted toward the author's preconceived opinions. Both pro and con writers are guilty. This is maddeningly true in history. There is a method of presentation becoming commonplace in everything from books to television.

The scientific elements are presented first, in a most logical manner. Then, when the stage is set, the non-scientific parts of the act are innocently introduced in a casual, yet authoritative manner, and without comment. The realist, faced with this bit of manipulation, finds it infuriating. The Seeker unaware of the manipulation falls for it hook, line and sinker, the methods done so very well to inset the thought pattern that no amount of logic will change or influence the believer. The really sad part is those who are Leading are those who were Lead, so even they do not understand what they are doing, and are truly convinced as to the validity of what they are teaching.

Even in the rapid growth rate of the herbal industry, the simplest form of health improvement, there are unethical manufacturers selling substandard products with no guarantee of authenticity, potency, purity or safety. At the same time, anyone with knowledge will tell you that it is the combination or synchronistic (synergistic?) nature of herbs with which their healing properties lie, and not in the single taking of the herb. For them to be truly effective, they should be taken as a liquid, not as they are found in their natural state! It is, however, easier and more profitable to sell single herbs in the form of a pill.