Metaphysical Page
Many will ask the question, what is a Metaphysical page doing on a martial arts web site?

What is Metaphysics?

We at the AKKF hope we can answer your questions and also hope you will endeavor to study and learn why and how metaphysics effects your life in the arts and your life in general..

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the ultimate nature of reality, being, and the world.
Metaphysics addresses questions that have existed for as long as the human race - many still with no definitive answer. Examples are:

What is the meaning of life?
What is the nature of reality?
What is humanity's place in the universe?
Does the world exist outside the mind?
What is the nature of objects, events, places?
A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into what types of things there are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. The metaphysician also attempts to clarify the notions by which people understand the world, including existence, objecthood, property, space, time, causality, and possibility.

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

Socrates


Just like the Natural Laws that govern nature (such as gravity), there are other Laws which govern all that happens in the universe. From the spiritual to the physical to the mental, everything that happens does so according to Law."

With the above brief introduction we will now continue on the path of knowledge...

The Martial Arts as a 'way' seeks to understand by living. So it is that the Way of Martial Arts as a philosophical discipline is about understanding the truth and the reality of life as it is by living it.

The philosophy of Martial Arts bases itself on shin, gin, tai — mind, body, spirit (in much the same way that the Hebrew psychology of Man  conceives of Man as mind, body, and spirit). In the West we have tended to emphasise body and soul and thus, intentionally or otherwise, we have created a dualism rather than an integrated vision of the human condition. Most Martial Arts instructors teach only the physical (body) and forget the Mental or 'Spirtual, this is a major mistake, it defeats the concepts of the Martial arts.
The metaphysical part...

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MIND---BODY---SPIRIT---THE WAY OF THE MARTIAL ARTS
"How do I stop my negative thoughts?" - is a question that I have been asked by students and instructors many times. If you have ever asked this question then you will feel such enormous relief in knowing the answer, because it is so simple. How do you stop negative thoughts? You plant good thoughts!

When you try to stop negative thoughts, you are focusing on what you don't want - negative thoughts - and you will attract an abundance of them. They can never disappear if you are focused on them. The "stop" part is irrelevant - the negative thoughts are your focus. It doesn't matter if you are trying to stop negative thoughts or control them or push them away, the result is the same. Your focus is on negative thoughts, and by the law of attraction you are inviting more of them to you.

The truth is always simple and it is always easy. To stop negative thoughts, just plant good thoughts! Deliberately plant good thoughts! You plant good thoughts by making it a daily practice to appreciate all the things in your day. Appreciate your health, your car, your home, your family, your job, your friends, your surroundings, your meals, your pets, and the magnificent beauty of the day. Compliment, praise, and give thanks to all things. Every time you say "Thank you" it is a good thought! As you plant more and more good thoughts, the negative thoughts will be wiped out. Why? Because your focus is on good thoughts, and what you focus on you attract.

So don't give any attention to negative thoughts. Don't worry about them. If any come, make light of them, shrug them off, and let them be your reminder to deliberately think more good thoughts now.

The more good thoughts you can plant in a day, the faster your life will be utterly transformed into all good. If you spend only one day speaking of good things and saying "Thank you" at every single opportunity, you will not believe your tomorrow. Deliberately thinking good thoughts is exactly like planting seeds. As you think good thoughts you are planting good seeds inside you, and the Universe will transform those seeds into a garden of paradise. How will the garden of paradise appear?

CONQUERING NEGATIVE THOUGHTS
"Those who speak do not know, and those who know do not speak"
THE GREATEST QUESTION OF ALL TIME

“Why are we here?”
“What is the meaning of life?”

According to basic spiritual principles, we are individual expressions of Infinite Being and we are here to experience life. Each person is unique, and our purpose on Earth is to experience life from our own unique perspective. We are the eyes and ears, so to speak, of Infinite Being.

You are here to experience your uniqueness, and to experience it as fully as possible. That way, you learn as much as possible from the experience of being who you are in this particular incarnation.

The Paradoxes
It is a paradox that everyone is here for the same reason and yet everyone has an individual purpose. Everyone is here to experience life as deeply as possible, and yet your individual purpose is to explore your unique character. Everyone, therefore, has an unique function within the infinite variety of Creation.

Another paradox is the question of destiny versus freewill. People seem to have freewill, and yet, if destiny exists, wouldn’t pre-destiny cancel freewill? Not exactly. Here’s how it works.
You planned your overall path through life before you were born. That life plan is your overall destiny, but the details of life leave plenty of room for freewill. You could even use your freewill to change your whole life plan, but then, why would you want to change your own life plan? The fact that your physical brain doesn’t remember your own pre-made plan doesn’t hinder the fact that it continues to unfold as time goes by. Your inner self, your soul, remembers your plan perfectly. One of the functions of your inner self is to give you hunches that you can follow. These hunches, when acted upon, assist you to explore your life’s potential to the fullest effect.

Meditators Have More Fun
Regular meditation keeps you in tune with your inner self and helps to guarantee that you get the most out of life by being in the right places at the right times. Then synchronicity can unfold in the form of meetings and events which support your life’s purpose.

At a soul level, you are a member of an extended family of many hundreds of people. All of these people know and love you, so there are always ample opportunities available for incarnation through parents that you already know at a soul level. People usually choose lives where they can surround themselves with members of their extended soul family. People in the same soul family share common themes. They are in tune with your consciousness and therefore interested in the same issues and experiences in life.
Before the Veil of Birth

When it was time for you to incarnate into this life, you viewed several alternatives, including several possible sets of parents. Your final choice offered you the best opportunity to explore the activities and issues that you have been experiencing.

How much detail goes into planning an entire lifetime? Destiny exists for the main events in your life – the major choices, events and connections in your life. Important relationships are carefully planned so that they have the best chance of happening. Your parents and your environment are chosen for how they will mold your life in the direction that you wish to explore.

In the pre-life planning stage, you actually get to see how everything will turn out as you explore different alternatives and scenarios. Then you make your big choice. You say, “I’ll take Fred and Freda Smith as parents. I’ll be their baby boy, starting in 9 months when I get born. Until then I’ll hang around them in spirit, at least on and off, until it’s time to emerge and become a baby person.

Then I’ll grow up in their family, attending that local elementary school. When they move to Phoenix as planned, I’ll go to high school there and meet my old buddy, who’ll be called Freddie, and he’ll be the same age as me. Sylvia’s family will move into town when I’m sixteen, and being her boyfriend will start to shape the direction of the rest of my life. We’ll go to the same college together and explore the idea that she will need me to support her while she goes on to medical school to become a doctor.” And so on, and so on, as the plan unfolds. Each plan eventually includes a series of agreements orchestrated to interact with the plans of other souls.

Themes, Issues, Adventures
Personal themes are planned for exploration in life, as well as soul family themes. Also, there are cultural themes and global issues, especially in today’s growing global awareness. One theme that society has been developing over the last few decades is the issue of liberation from the imbalance of a patriarchal society.

At the same time, an even larger shift has been taking place – the shift from a consciousness of separation to one of integration. Separation consciousness has been the theme for thousands of years. We have separated into tribes, then countries and empires. We have separated ourselves by race, sex and religion. We have even separated our own consciousness, focusing it further into the external world and away from the inner light which is the very source of our consciousness.

One of the first differences that will be noticed as the world evolves towards integrated consciousness is that people will care more about their work. Most people today see their work as a means to an end, as a way to pay the bills and maybe get ahead a little.

Tomorrow, people will work at what they love and they will care deeply about the quality of service that they provide, because they will care for their customers. Of course, there are people who work just like that today, but they are in the minority. Tomorrow, it will become the new standard, the new work ethic. Loving what you do and doing what you love.
The purpose of being human in today’s Shift to the New Reality is to learn how to translate universal love into human form. Universal love is the aspect of original consciousness which holds Creation together. The universe is, by its very design, filled with the love of the Original Creator.

Once universal love has been transformed through the heart-consciousness of a human being, it enters the global mind atmosphere of Earth which we all share. This upgrades the entire human experience, taking us one more step into the unfolding New Reality.


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A clearer Understanding:
By
The Watash

For many years I have tried to understand what metaphysics really is all about, I have come up with a different approach and understanding concerning my dilemma. So at this time let me share my thoughts.


Can something as profound as metaphysics reach a point where
it will cease to exist?

To answer that, you have to understand the definition of the
word metaphysics. It means 'beyond physics,' i.e. 'beyond the
study of the phenomena of nature.'

Saying that metaphysics is beyond the study of nature suggests
something supernatural. However, as nothing can exist outside
of the Creation, then nothing is beyond being natural.
Supernatural, therefore, is a word that contradicts itself.

'Supernatural' is an oxymoron, just like 'an exact estimate,'
'clean dirt,' 'fresh frozen,' and 'a definite maybe.' How can
anything in Creation be beyond the natural? More likely, it is
something beyond the understanding of physicists because it is
too subtle to be included in today's physics.

Let's drop the use of the word supernatural. 'Supernatural'
implies that some things are permanently beyond our
understanding and, in the New Reality, that attitude just
doesn't make it any more. If something exists, it can be
understood. The first step is to admit that it does exist.

For example, there is overwhelming evidence to support the
idea that the human aura exists. The human aura is an envelope
of etheric energy surrounding the physical body. While only
clairvoyants can currently see the human aura, what will happen
when a device is invented which allows the aura to be displayed
on a physical monitor screen? One thing that will happen, is a
boost in our ability to diagnose health conditions before they
can physically manifest and cause real damage.

The study of etheric energy is in its infancy today. Etheric
energy is life energy, an energy more subtle than
electromagnetic energy. While electromagnetic energy deals
directly with the physical world, etheric energy is
pre-physical. Clairvoyants can see it, and people in the spirit
world can see it, as etheric light. Most physical humans do not
see it at the present time, although we do have the potential
ability to do so by developing our in-built, subtle senses and,
as we progress through The Shift, people will find this ability
unfolding naturally.

Research into etheric energy today is in its infancy. Remember
that electrical energy, in the early 1800s, was still a mere
curiosity of scientific pioneers. Electricity, it was said,
could be felt from an electric eel, it could be seen in the sky
as lightning, and observed in biology as the force which moves
muscles.

In doing research I found out about the Leyden experiment, the following is what I have read:

When the Leyden jar, a device for storing a small charge of
static electricity, was invented, the door was opened to more
research into electricity. Then, with Volta's invention of the
chemical battery and its ability to produce a controlled
current, laboratory experiments became much easier to perform.

It wasn't long before there were instruments to measure
voltage, current and resistance. Then, Faraday's inventions of
the electric motor and the electric generator opened the way
for electricity becoming the new motive power in the Industrial
Revolution, largely replacing steam as a working fluid.  Interesting
Read and it help me quite a lot in this writing.

Today's challenges to physics, and metaphysics, are etheric
energy and consciousness. Etheric energy research will yield
machines which diagnose and heal automatically. It will also
produce, among countless other benefits, the means to affect
and control the weather. Rain dances are not superstition, by
the way, they are conscious attempts to alter the balance of
etheric energy in the vicinity, which automatically affects the
weather conditions. Etheric energy devices can also achieve
that same effect.

Rain-making, etheric energy devices have already succeeded in
some basic experiments by Trevor Constable. When he served on
merchant marine ships, he would secure his experimental,
etheric energy projector tubes to the deck of the ship. The
passage of the ship through water continuously recharged the
ship with etheric energy. His projector tubes directed some of
that energy towards the sky ahead of the ship. Within 15
minutes rain would appear - on a fine day, around the ship, and
nowhere else!

The study of consciousness will also expand physics, which is
just beginning to recognize the role of consciousness in
subatomic behavior. Subatomic particles are displaying signs of
consciousness, and this is happening under controlled
laboratory conditions. This is leading to the realization that
the universe, and everything in it, must be conscious. In other
words, the universe must be one big, fully aware,
inter-connected, Infinite Being.

The boundaries between physics and metaphysics will blur as
the study of consciousness becomes their common ground. Physics
will find that it has to expand and become something more
all-encompassing than it has been to date. The big turning
point will occur when physics grows to include a philosophy of
Creational consciousness. When it adopts the habit of asking
the question, "How did the Creator's consciousness achieve
that?" then it will be on the fast track to its greatest
discoveries ever.

Physics, the study of nature, will grow to include everything
in nature. When that day comes, there will be no metaphysics
because metaphysics will have become a part of the new,
expanded physics.

The unknown will have become the known, and our appreciation
of the works of the Creator will have grown along with this
expanded knowledge.

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WRITTEN BY DR. DONALD FULLER PHD
DON IS ALSO A SHIHAN WITH THE AKKF & RED DRAGON KARATE

 

One way or another, every child on planet Earth gets traumatized by their life experience.  The trauma and the drama come many different ways and through many different people.  Some of those people are near and dear to us, and we often feel betrayed when that occurs.  We tend to believe that somehow they were negligent and meant to be selfish and self-serving when they did whatever they did that left us feeling hurt, betrayed, and damaged.

 

We are convinced that we know, understand, and correctly interpret every action, intent, and result of every circumstance and relationship.  Within ourselves, we begin to unconsciously develop a sense of identity based on the experiences of our life.  In turn, that sense of identity tends to continue to manifest a set of life experiences that are congruent to the identity we adopted.  Together with the adopted identity and the experiences of life we go through, we unconsciously begin to develop a sense of personal worth or value, and this sense of self-worth is also based on who we have come to believe we are, how people interact with us, and how we habitually interpret the dynamics of our life's experience.

 

These experiences, and how we habitually interpret those experiences, are effective causes of certain habits we adopt to adapt to life.  We adopt and express certain attitudes of thought, words, choices, and actions that we believe will serve us to create more of the life experiences we enjoy, and reduce the occurrences of experiences that cause us pain.

 

We spend a lifetime in this on-going circle of habit, influence, and reinforcement of attitudes, beliefs, and choices.  These include deep psychological feelings of fear, guilt, and toxic shame that color and confuse every perception and awareness.  So much so, we can't remember if we ever really saw the Actual Truth of anything.  If life and living were accidental and random, this state of affairs, which every individual experiences, would be a hopeless game of chance, luck, and powerlessness to create change and make a difference in destinies.  Were life not purposeful and meaningful, we would indeed be victims of our own natures, ignorance, and poor adaptability.

 

Now, this is the point of awareness everyone must come to.  Some come to this point of realization kicking and screaming, bruised and bloodied, and even perhaps, almost dead, while others manage to get here not so worse for the wear.  Sooner or later, every one of us comes to a point of introspection and ask ourselves, "Is this all there is to life and living?"  When we pause in quiet self-assessment long enough to really take an honest personal inventory of ourselves, our feelings, and the direction our life seems to have taken, we then find that we all come to a common conclusion that seems to well-up from within ourselves, "There's just got to be a better way!", and there is!

 

We must come to the realization that we have come to live our lives in virtual habits of insanity.  We have adopted methods and manners that don't work well, and almost never serve us or our best interests.  We must all get to a point where we truly are sick and tired of being sick and tired; that is, if we want to create change and manifest a different destiny.  We must be willing to admit to ourselves that it is pure insanity to think if we just keep choosing to behave like we always have, that somehow, we'll affect a different result!  That's just pure unadulterated insanity!  How many times do you have to do something before you figure out how it is that you did it?  If you always think like you've always thought, speak like you've always spoken, and act like you've always acted, you are always going to get what you've always gotten!

 

Each one of us have to come to a real understanding and awareness that we, ourselves, are completely and totally responsible for our lives, living, and life's experiences.  So long as we choose to remain in our habituated ways of living and refuse to accept total responsibility for every past, present, and future eventuality of our lives, we have adopted a false identity of ourselves, refused the Truth of our actual existence, and voluntarily rendered ourselves powerless, impotent to effect any change and difference in our manifesting destiny.

 

How do we change if we finally get to the point of surrender to the facts as they are?  Get "there" first, and show up with the decision that life will be different "so help me God!"  And, God will!  Through your Higher Self within, and by looking within, every baby-step of the way, you'll be miraculously rescued from your own sense of insanity, and restored to the state of being you were intended to live.

 

To get "there" will require that you relinquish every bit of insanity that you have, heretofore, thought was right and true.  You'll have to listen to the One you've neglected for the largest part of every decision you've ever made, your Higher Self--your God-Mind within.  Finally, you'll have to be willing to eliminate the very source of every bad decision, every debilitating attitude, and the source of all your fears, guilt, and toxic shame--your Ego!  You'll have to stop looking on the 'outside' for answers that will never be there, and go within, the only place where all the answers are.  Those who refuse to go 'within' will definitely go without!

 

The Actual Truth is:  You have created your entire life and reality just as it is.  You've put every person and circumstance exactly where they appeared and you will continue to do so, favorably or not, one way or the other.  To deny this is to willingly continue to make your life, Hell on Earth!

 

Sincerely,

Rev. Dr. Donald Lee Fuller, Ph. D., CHt.

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Now, between you and I, is it really real out there? Do objects, you, me, and the cat really exist outside our minds? Are objects, or even our thoughts an illusion?
We are sometimes deceived, therefore we could always be deceived!
Have you ever thought you heard something, but there was nothing there? Have you ever thought you saw someone in the corner of your eye, and when you looked there was no person there? Have you ever looked at an illusion and been deceived that one line was longer than the other, but really it wasn't? When you look down from a high building on people, do they appear small like ants? Aren't there thousands of occasions when we do mis-perceive?

If we are wrong on some occasions, for example, from a height people look the size of ants, is it not possible that we are always deceived? Logical necessity requires the answer: Yes, to this question. It is possible that things as we perceive them are not that way at all!

So what?
If we are concerned with:

The purpose of life.
What we should be doing on Earth.
The meaning of  life and death.
then the issue of reality and the true nature of our existence is crucial. If things are different from how they are presented to us conventionally, then this is very basic to our quest.

What does science have to say?
Let's say they do, and let's be scientific. How do you know something is really out there?

Now ...

We know things are there because

Light hits the retina of the eye.
And this changes the chemical composition of the eye. Right?
And this makes electricity travel along a nerve, the Optic Nerve.
And this goes to a part of the brain.
And then something happens and we see the thing.
That's what happens according to science.

According to science: "We do not respond to the thing, but to electrical and chemical events in the brain."
So, do we really respond to a thing?  Don't we respond' only the electrical and chemical events that occur in the brain and nerves, and not to the alleged real object? Therefore, it is not things we are experiencing but chemical and electrical reactions. We don't see things directly. We see via chemical and electrical reactions in eyes, nerves and bits of brain. This appears to be true because:

Without eyes, we don't see.
Without Optic Nerves we don't see.
Without certain bits of the brain, we don't see.

So we never directly see what is out there, according to science.

How do we know that what we see is real?
Suppose someone were to put electrodes in our brains and stimulate the visual part of our brains mimicking the impulses we normally receive. Would we see? Definitely we would. But we wouldn't be seeing what is there outside. We wouldn't be seeing what is real. We'd be seeing because some electricity was put in our brain, and it would look the same as our real objects!

How do we know the science is true? Of course we can observe, but science tells us that we don't directly experience objects .. and just as we could be deceived by a wicked scientist putting electrodes in our brains, we could be deceived, in the same way, into thinking that science was 'real.'

Is science self contradictory?
Therefore, isn't it true that if we accept this scientific account then we cannot be certain that anything exists out there because we can never directly perceive it. Strangely, if this scientific theory is true we cannot prove it, because we can never perceive anything directly, so we do not know how and from where the experience came into our minds. Even our knowledge of eyes, nerves, bits of brain, is not direct but via electrical and chemical events in our brain!

How much is in the mind?
In the olden days, we thought that there were objects, material things, such as bricks, trees, mountains and goats, which were themselves real and constant in a way independent of our looking and otherwise perceiving them. These were things that had primary qualities which did not change and other qualities, sometimes called secondary qualities, which   were our reaction to the primary object, and which did change depending on. These secondary qualities were colour, shape, etc. No thinker suggested that the actual object had these qualities. They were qualities we gave to objects.

For example, a rose might look red to us, but if no one was looking at it, we couldn't really say it was red. We might have said it had the power to elicit the colour red in our minds, but this primary quality of being able to elicit the red sensation was not 'red.' The colour was our reaction to the object. So we assume there was something out there, say next door's cat, which was a real object. However our experience of it, blackness, meowing, shape, etc, were largely our reaction to the real object and not the real object itself.

Have you ever been in a shop to buy something, say curtains, where the colour is very important? Have you heard these stories of people getting home only to find the colour looked different? The curtains were the same curtains in the shop. Their primary qualities hadn't changed, but our experience of them, the secondary qualities, changed when we viewed them under different lighting conditions. Because the length and weight, for example, remain the same, we may be tempted to think these are the primary qualities, and colour is just subjective.

What does a thing look like when no one is looking at it?
Science rushed off to discover these primary qualities and developed concepts like mass which were supposed to describe the real object. However, pretty soon, we realised that the so called primary qualities were just as much secondary as colour and the rest! Although we can specify conditions and measuring instruments which largely give us consistent results, it is a human being who is perceiving the measuring instruments and their reaction on him or her. We cannot know the real object apart from our perception of it. A question like, 'What does something look like when no one is looking at it?' is clearly nonsense, and unanswerable.


WHAT IS REALITY?