How Metaphysics Helps in Practice Much has been written about spirituality in health care. Recently, I've seen metaphysics mentioned as well.
Spirituality is the belief and acceptance of a power or energy beyond our physical selves.
Meta means to transcend, or see behind, so Metaphysics is the science and laws of how that unseen power and energy works. The study of metaphysics is ancient. From the West there is the Kabbalah, Christian gnosticism and the Earth religions of the Amer Indians, Norse, Greeks and Druids. The East tended to develop more passive ways to tap unseeen energies, while from the West emerged more active ones. But in the West, after the development of the printing press and the publication the Guttenberg Bible, the strict adherence to the written word of the Bible turned the society against gnostic or metaphysical methods.