Metaphysical Illusions: The Future and Beyond
The term metaphysical is one which is often used, but not exactly universally understood. Applied in various books, practices, mostly those dealing with the paranormal like fortune telling, or the movement of items using one's mind, as well as in certain areas in philosophy, the metaphysical term is one which sounds deep, at times even exploited with many of those who use the metaphysical term as such not truly grasping the essence of the metaphysical term.
About Metaphysical
Metaphysics, from which the metaphysical term is derived from, is basically known for being a branch of philosophy, where the investigation of the principles of reality are set into play. Such principles of realty put into question would result to the act of transcending the various bodies of knowledge already known to the world, like those of ontology and cosmology.
The term is one taken from Greek, with the words "meta" and physica, which would result to "after" and "physics", respectively. The whole "after", stands to be the title of a chapter in Aristotle's work, which was titled "physics", thus the term. Basically, being in a metaphysical mindset entails the explanation of the nature of being along with the nature of the word, resulting to metaphysics being the study of what transcends physics.
Aside from Aristotle, Immanuel Kant is one name often associated with being in a metaphysical state of mind, and is quite famous for raising questions entailing the value of a soul, the existence of a God, as well as the whole concept of being free, or that of a state of freedom.
Questions like, "Why does the World even exist?", "Is there really a God?" or "Just what is God?" are known to be often tackled by a number of metaphysical philosophers.
Metaphysics and its Relation to Fortune Telling
Technically, as many fortune telling systems and cultures entail certain aspects of divinity, metaphysics is often included into the mix of a fortune teller's "abilities", even labeled as a "secret weapon", in finding out just what is to come in the days ahead.
Oftentimes though, the use of the metaphysical term is one which boasts to have no relation to a fortune teller's job at all, and could even be categorized as among the many "big words" which evidently scam-artist fortune tellers say, just so to sound convincing.
Foretelling the future is one thing that many cultures don't always see eye to eye on, as some cultures are known to advocate such, while within such cultures there are sects known not to.
All in all, when metaphysics is being talked about, remember that it is a branch of philosophy, and not a system to which the future could be foretold.
