Do we sometimes get lost in the metaphysics end of the path? Do we tend to let our intellect complicate something that is basically simple & beautiful? Is there a point where the intellect & always trying to figure it all out becomes a block? If so, what are the signs & symptoms this is happening? Is this more of a problem for those that forge their own path verses those in a traditional religion?
2007-12-19 07:12:40 · 14 answers · asked by Just Be 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's easy to get bogged down in metaphysic, but in the end, it's obviously your practical work that matters. It's important to have a solid grounding in theory though. But "Gnosis" is not intellectual knowledge at all; the most metaphysics can do is translate spiritual experience into the symbols of language.
My whole problem with "traditional religion" is that it seems to mistake these dead symbols for the Real Thing.
"The strong brown reaper swept his swathe and rejoiced. The wise man counted his muscles, and pondered, and understood not, and was sad. Reap thou, and rejoice!" (Crowley, Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente.)
2007-12-19 07:23:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
We are lost to start with.
We are lost because of our intellectual abilities.
Yes, one reaches the point where one can't answer the question, then one gives up trying to mentally get the answer.
But this is not something that just happens once, it will happen quite a few times in one's life, until one realizes that one will never have the answer.
Knowing about metaphysics or about any teaching isn't helpful, because it just feeds the intellect, or our wanting to know. If we feel we know, we have no reason to look outside our box or limited viewpoint.
It's a problem that is in everybody, no matter how they perceive their path. The problem is in the perceiving one. They don't know what is truth and what not.
Betsy
2007-12-19 08:44:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The word Metaphysics has been so abused by so many Schools of Thought that it's hard to know who's Metaphysics can lead you to a pure and undiluted path in Metaphysics.
I would recommend this web site...
http://christianmetaphysics.com/lessons.aspx
2007-12-24 23:32:34 · answer #3 · answered by Santo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not necessary. I have not studied metaphysics, although I do read many spiritual books, finding out I am a mystic. It is simple and beautiful, all one has to do is find peace within themselves so they can hear and be guided. Yes, sometimes intellect does block many things, it causes doubt.
2007-12-19 18:29:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Phae, on may way, I have had many incoming experiences that have not been sought, all mysterious, fascinating, and revealing, and even though I have traversed the landscape of metaphysics for some years, I would usually research something after it has been my experience, not before. I like to find out what my soul wishes to reveal to me....the natural unfolding, so that is primary to me....the personal epiphanies.....and I record them, as a writer and artist. In that way I can see the pattern of my own creation. I love finding books, and other people, who's experiences are equally fascinating........it means to me that there is a paradigm shift occurring that I am a part of, and I like having that connection.
2007-12-19 07:29:32 · answer #5 · answered by Lyra 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
For me it was.
Metaphysics literally means: greater nature.
The one who can explore their own greater nature is a true mental physicist. I prefer the label 'Pilot'.
Simple and beautiful yes...but also wheels within wheels in a spiral array... a pattern so grand and complex.
If the intellect does not 'go with the flow' it can become a problem, but the word 'intellect' implies a cutting tool and many times forging your own path requires using a cutting tool.....so....
2007-12-19 18:15:33 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
YES, YES ......and YES again.
I think that metaphysics has laws just like science has. We just have to know and understand those laws of it.
Even if we intuit sometimes a spiritual thing we have to work for understanding it because only when you understand something you can totally accept it, and than you make no mistakes.
You see, there are some who choose only the the emotional way, and there are some who choose only the mental way, but wouldn't be better for us to use the both ways ?
2007-12-19 07:39:59 · answer #7 · answered by Claudia A 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, metaphysics helps one to understand the underlying laws of the universe; thus helping one guide and structure their personal path to enlightenment. It is the balance between the void (mysticism/female energies) and creationism (logic/male energies) - thus resulting in the ultimate balance of the Divine's work: third dimensional reality. One can become lost in the world of mysticism; but the ideas generated from there, they are to be created/manifested into the physical (which is why logic comes to the fore) - why do you think humans need to copulate to manifest children? A female (the void) needs a seed (of creation) from a man to manifest children...
2007-12-19 19:32:05 · answer #8 · answered by mima... 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Great question, yes it is all too easy to overly complicate God and then be lost in the trappings of a mind that can not overcome the artificial paradoxes that come from over analysis. God is complicated but faith should be simplified.
2007-12-20 03:44:45 · answer #9 · answered by Rational Humanist 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've been through three whole semesters of theoretical metaphysics that they required me to take to get my degree in Philosophy...then they introduce you to Phenomenology, and you realize you've wasted 3 semesters (and thousands of dollars) pissing and moaning about "The Matrix".
2007-12-19 07:17:38 · answer #10 · answered by Skalite 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋