Metaphysics an attempt to know reality
as against mere appearance, or the study of first principles or ultimate truths, or again the effort to comprehend the universe,
not simply piecemeal or by fragments, orMetaphysics can defined as a reality based on abstract and subtle reasoning.Reality
that is beyond the physical world. It is supernatural. The Fifth Dimension is a metaphysical world. Metaphysics is founded
on the principles of physics that describe our existence as based in energy.Metaphysics also is the study of the nature of
knowledge.Thus Science / Physics is inclined to be misled because both of its truths are deceptive. Metaphysics aims to overcome
this problem by using reason to try and understand what the real world is, which causes both our logic and our senses (and
ourselves!). And for many thousands of years the great philosophers / metaphysicists Of India have known that for matter to
be interconnected throughout the universe before 3000 B.C., then there must be one thing that connects the many things (matter)
together. That a complete description of reality must be founded on one thing / substance.It is curious, that most philosophical
text books cover an area starting with the Greeks Plato, Aristotle, etc., but leave out earlier philosophies from Ancient
India.
Metaphysics is universal and is
exclusively concerned with primary substance. And here we will have the science to study that which is just as that which
is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has.The entire preoccupation of the physicist
is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. And to seek for this is to seek for the second
kind of principle, that from which comes the beginning of the change. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, 340BC)
"It is true
that the axiomatic basis of theoretical physics cannot be extracted from experience but must be freely invented, can we ever
hope to find the right way? I answer without hesitation that there is, in my opinion, a right way, and that we are capable
of finding it. I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients (India)dreamed." (Albert Einstein, 1954)
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Science sheds
more light on Spirituality. Economic Times. Monday, 4 2005.
Berkeley physicist Charles
Townes shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work in quantum electronics based on the laser-maser principle.However,
the distinguished scientist also shocks purists by saying that "advancing our understanding of spirituality is more important,
ultimately, than physics." According to Townes, science is an effort to understand what the universe is made of
and how it works. Religion, on the other hand, he says, is an attempt to understand the meaning and purpose of the universe.
Understanding how the universe works should give us a good deal of information about whatis its purpose and meaning. "Thus,
science sheds more and more light on spirituality," says the researcher who became the first Nobel laureate to win the John
Templeton Prize for Progress toward Research about spiritual realities. The Duke of Edinburgh willpresent the
$1.5 million award at Buckingham Palace on May 4 2005. What about the view that science and spirituality are polar opposites
that cannot or should not meet? Doesn't it bother him? Townes responds by presenting a holistic view of faith.
We usually associate faith only with religion and spirituality.However, even scientists would flounder without faith,he writes
in his autobiography, Making Waves. "Faith is necessary for the scientist to even get started,and deep faith is necessary
for him to carry out his task." Townes describes himself as a man of faith in three distinct senses: he has faith in
the scientific method and in the continuing advance of science. Secondly,his life demonstrates a quiet yet profound religious
faith. Less common than either of these convictions, he has a deep faith that science and religion will gradually converge
in the future. He does not merely believe in the compatibility of science and religion. Repeatedly he has sought to convince
scientists why it's crucial that they work together. I remember watching as he addressed an audience at the Indian Institute
of Science,Bangalore. "Given these parallels, we should never treat these two great dimensions of the human spirit as fundamentally
different or opposed. As our understanding of each increases, my own faith is they will increasingly grow together. If there's
a purpose in the universe it must be related to structure and it determination (which is science)."
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