Para-physics and meta-physics

A brief clarification of some concepts

The specially attentive reader may have noticed that the part of the terminology, which in my articles on this site refers to Martinus' Cosmology, to some extent are based on the concepts and terms introduced by the writer and lecturer Per Bruus-Jensen and with his works on just Martinus' Cosmology.

This applies especially to the word and the concept of para-physical and as such does not occur in normal Danish terminology. From Per Bruus-Jensen's hand it has been crucial to the introduction of the word and concept, that define a certain distance to the word and the concept of spiritual, which may appear more diffuse and perhaps unfamiliar in modern parlance. Moreover, associating it with a religious terminology Per Bruus-Jensen felt would hinder the spread of Martinus' Cosmology to modern humans, and perhaps especially for people with a more intellectually and experimental scientific approach to the Cosmology.

For my own part, I agree with Per Bruus-Jensen's opinion, why I as mentioned have introduced the word and concept in my own writings concerning Martinus Cosmology.

However, as it is significant that the reader can understand and hopefully accept the concept of para-physical, let us look briefly at what is more precisely found in the word and concept. The word and the prefix para are Greek and means in this context, beside, besides, lengthways. So together with the word physical, which also comes from Greek: physikos an adjective to the word physis, meaning nature, body characters, constitution etc., we thus get the word and concept of para-physical. This means, therefore, something that lies beside, besides or along with what we commonly understand as the physical. This second 'something' is, in other words "spirit" and "spiritual" or "soul", “psyche” and "psychical" in modern parlance consciousness and the consciousness-like.

The relationship between concepts and phenomena of physical and para-physical does not mean that there is a genuine and mutual antagonism, rather the contrary. Also, it is only analytically that we can and must distinguish between the two concepts, and secondly, the relationship actually seen it, that this reflects two sides of the same phenomenon, namely the nature. Or in idealist philosophical and cosmological parlance the spirit, and in the religious language the divine or God, alpha and omega of all things, so spirit and matter (energy) are basically one and the same.

The word and concept of physics is due to the great Greek philosopher, scientist and teacher Aristotle (384-322 BC) who wrote 146 different works, which dealt with his basic idea that the world explanation might appear as a synthesis of all sciences. The world is eternal without birth and end; it exists only by its own inner necessity. For him, ideas are lying in the very things, and there is no pre-existence and no immortality, and herein he was in opposition to his brilliant teacher, the philosopher Plato (427-347 BC), who hailed a more spiritualistic conception of life. Historically, it was Aristotle, so to speak, who stood godfather to science.

But as his thoughts about a world explanation moved Aristotle himself beyond physics, which he did quite consciously and with his thesis "Meta physiká". The word and concept meant to him simply "the Book After Physics", i.e. "the Book of Metaphysics." But in more modern understanding of the concept of metaphysics lies more accurately the importance, that is metaphysics dealing with that which is following after physics, i.e. the doctrine of the phenomenon's essence and existence in the broadest sense, more precisely, thus the doctrine of what is outside the area of the physical world or sensory experience. Metaphysics is, in other words, a spiritual science that is based on physical science and achieves its stringency through mathematics.

The conclusion here must be, that the metaphysics in principle is similar to philosophy and spiritual Cosmology. So, Per Bruus-Jensen as equally well could have chosen to use the word and the concept of metaphysics or metaphysical, for example in connection with concepts such as energy and matter, why these so would respectively be called meta-energy and meta-materia. But words and concepts like para-physics and para-physical are just easier on the tongue and in the thought.

PS. In contrast to the word metaphysics, the word para-physics, is not to be found in English, but nevertheless I have chosen to use the word, just as I in some cases have chosen to use words from Martinus' terminology, which does not exist in English. This applies to words such as over-consciousness and under-consciousness, which has a special meaning within the context of Martinus' Cosmology.

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