Metaphysics - The Study of the True Nature of Reality.
Metaphysics has evolved over the centuries as human
consciousness has developed to include science and spiritual
awareness as tools to explore and observe the true nature of
reality. Reality, or physical reality, includes everything we
experience. Thoughts, ideas, emotions, perceptions, even what we
call dreams and hallucinations, life and death; all are included
in this experience that we call "reality". Science attempts to
separate, categorize, quantify, and objectify physical
experience, labeling certain aspects as "real" and others as
"not real". Metaphysics includes science, and goes beyond it to
encompass all aspects and dimensions of life experience as
"real". Religion attempts to separate the physical from the non-
physical, or spiritual, aspects of life experience, rejecting
the physical and calling it "bad" or "evil" while embracing the
spiritual and calling that "good" or even "God". Metaphysics
goes beyond religions, recognizing that the physic