1. The Future of Metaphysics

Metaphysics a Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature. It is a continuum of learning and it is not to be confused with such modern words such as esotericism and occultism and moveover IT is a basic, fundamental area of existence. It is only today, that we put words to this "existence". The new term is now: "Universal Science."

Many people through the ages, including myself never had a word to associate with these "gifts". Through research, reading the great philosophers that I was able to "put" words to what I was experiencing. In all honesty, it wasn't till the mid-1990's while speaking to another did I get to know precise terms. In all essence, I was and still am one within the all. There is really no need to learn terms. Just be!

Metaphysics is re-emerged reinvigorated in the twentieth century. Its debates lie at the centre of philosophy, as they did in ancient and medieval times. Metaphysical issues now permeate philosophical discussion of areas once considered to provide the scientific replacement for metaphysics, such as the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of physics. It is my belief, because of the increasing specialization of all sciences, including philosophy, there is the risk that metaphysics too could become compartmentalized into disjoint areas with barely any communication between them. Philosophy tends to resist compartmentalizing more than the special sciences, but social and market pressures apply to philosophers and promote specialization at the expense of synoptic visions. Certainly the trend of much late 20th century philosophy has been to narrower specialization.

Nevertheless, though philosophers make poor prophets, I would like metaphysics to develop over the next hundred years, even if I am unsure whether it will do so. My vision for future metaphysics is that it should be unobstructed by the need to conform to ordinary language or the restrictions of our everyday view of things. It should be bold and re visionary. It should abandon the reliance on mathematics and logic that has narrowed its vision in the twentieth century. It should treat the need to find place for a credible theory of linguistic meaning as a constraint rather than a method. It should draw on the wisdom of the great philosophers, and not pretend it is a kind of advanced science needing to refer to nothing more than five years old. It should reject a priori methods and certainty and be thoroughly open to revision from within by argument and from without by scientific advance. It should encourage team effort and cooperation among metaphysicians and others, to counteract the pressures of specialism. It should be pluralistic, not because all the different views are somehow relatively right, but because, as Mao (all too briefly) recognized, the truth is more likely to emerge from the contention of competing theories than from the dictates of orthodoxy or fashion. It should be prepared to consider and engage in applications in areas considered remote from its concerns. It should aspire to be integrative and systematic, putting the various kinds of entity as positively disclosed by all the special disciplines into a single overarching categorial scheme. If the late twentieth century was a heyday of analytic metaphysics, may that of the twenty-first be synthetic.

The evolution of mankind continues. Carl Jung was one of the first to introduce the idea of 'archetypes', which has become the established paradigm for existing analysis of conscious awakening process. He knew that the way to reach the level of pure awareness was through the emotions and that once the last layers of human reactionary process became neutralized into spiritual balance that then and only then could we as a species rise above the baser, dense energy of the emotional imbalances to reach our full potential.

To many, it may come as a discovery that "The eye send at least ten million bits to the brain every second. The skin sends a million bits a second, the ear one hundred thousand, our smell sensors a further one hundred thousand bits a second, our taste buds perhaps a thousand bits a second. All in all, over eleven million bits a second from the world to our sensory mechanisms." Are we able to tap into all this information at once? No, because we aren't capable because of "bandwidth" limitation. Every communication has an intellectual, emotional and exformational context. The medium itself has a role to play in each of these.

The full range of perception as many scientients and creative thinkers including myself, have noted that the mind's best work without conscious awareness. It is done during the receptive state of a reverie, an idle meditation, dreaming and even the transition between dreaming and waking. During such times, there are symbols that emerges and these symbols are "smart" because they will assist or help us in remembering the masses of information even though we can at the most most remember several things in our minds at once. I think of a symbol as a computer virus and or trojan which will smuggle little bits of information in our consciousness.

I would even dare to suggest, that there is a psychological side to this information. More blood will circulate to the brain, when we converse with this information, rather than we merely report it to friends. Since the onset of the 21st century, more people are becoming aware and shifting their focus of what is going on behind the scenes. The way I compare this is; that the Consciousness is like a spotlight that emphasizes the face of one actor/actress dramatically, while all the other persons, props, and sets on the vast stage are lost in the deepest darkness. The spotlight can move, certainly, but it takes a long time for all the faces in the chorus to be revealed, one after the other, in the darkness."

More and more, our minds are getting de-synchronozed with the world as we narrowly see it today. Human perception, thought and language are all geared up for the specific material arrangements of this particular existence. We are being triggered by many modes of visualiation. Take for example, TV shows such as Tru Calling, Medical Investigation, the Matrix and movies such as What the Bleep do We Know, Sixth Sense are all entering the field. There is also the World Wide Web, containing mass amounts of information from many professional source. As this ceremonial dance continues, so does the development of consciousness continue. One of the main difference is that the "output" is hitting the "younger generation" which is causing them to question, be more alert and present.

In my view and experience, IF it wasn't for the backbone of prescriptive law, our society would probably have gone sooner toward listening to their inner voice. More and more people are seeing beyond the skeletal structures most of what passes for ethics in our society. Many are asking questions, debating and studying the archetypes of our civilization. Many are identifying with the persona of these archetypes and adapting them to their daily life. I would dare to say that for the last 200 years, society in the western world have lived and worked in ways that conflict with evolution. This is the reason that people are searching for more information. We are creatures of instincts and/or electromagnetics. We are in the presence of abundant carbon in our universe and most importantly is that we are carbon-based lifeforms. There is no denying that qualitive changes have arrived and we are open to these changes either willingly or not.

In the 21th Century, we will discover that "wizards" are really alive here among us. In fact, what if the Greatest Wizard Merlin, was standing in front of us and we could ask him anything we wanted. What would you ask him? Would your answer be evident? I believe, all of us would ask him the same questions. Although we all come from different backgrounds, and have lived different life histories, each of us after some consideration would ask the deep spiritual questions that arise generation after generation. "Why am I here?" "What makes life good or bad?" "What is the cause of suffering?" And "How can I get out of it?" "What happens after I die?" People once went to wizards to ask these questions, although in some other cultures another term might have been used such as "shaman" or "guru" or simply wise man. In our society however, all these functions have disappeared. Unfortunately, we have no certain definite source to answer the deep mysteries. No wizard or wise father who can be completely trusted to know what we want to know. So, let us change that! Let us imagine that we can actually summon Merlin to ask anything we want.

To be continued....