Ever since I've started taking metaphysics seriously, I've felt a sense of contentment that I don't remember feeling ever before, it is not a sense of happiness encountered by perusing one's childhood memories, but rather is built off of the premise that you've happened upon something that is only ordained by fate itself, as if your life could've only led you here.

I'd like to leave you with a few lines of Maulana Jalal al-din Rumi's here; I realize they're not in Farsi, but I'm merely learning as of now.



"The answer to our needs is meeting you,

All faults you fix before we ask you to,

Translating what we keep inside our souls,

Stretching your hand to lift those trapped in holes."

I felt like that when I discovered Evola and Guenon at 25 but nothing really changed in my life after that so it went away.

Thats what metaphysics is basically , thinking designed to be make you feel good, because its thinking contenplating thinking itself. It doesn't say anything about the world as the world "in itself". Metaphysics is basically poetry for analytical minds.

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trying to identify that which is truly necessary for and essential to thought and representation and understanding is the highest calling of thinking beings! Partaking in such imbues the most mundane drudgery of continued existence, and the active maintenance of the human condition against forces of evil, with a greater significance, as now a means towards the preservation of the ultimate end, which is an expression of our acquaintance with the eternal.



What people fail to recognize is that you need to learn a lot of quantified modal logic to participate in this cleansing of the spirit. 



https://jeremy-goodman.com/CounterfactualsAndPropositionalContingentism.pdf

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Metaphysics is a very broad term, covering a lot of ideas, theories, and traditions. Which ones do you feel closest to?

I'd honestly say that studying Aristotelian metaphysics, as well as Ibn-Sina's interpretations of them, has been thoroughly enjoyable for me, particularly in relation to how they deal with being qua being, and the subsequent comprehension of reality as an emanation from this metaphysical base.

I've also started getting into Urdu and Farsi poetry, and that has compounded my experience with what I've stated above, as in, how all reality emanates from God.



What is interesting about the Urdu tradition of poetry, is that a majority of it comprises of the praising of love itself; but whether your beloved is God, or another being like yourself is intentionally left ambiguous, the subtext teeters on the edge between worship of your lover or of God, but further research has let me to believe that it surely cannot just be one or the other. It is the highest Good one can do to see God in your lover, at the risk of falling into idolatry, but then again, the greatest Sufi saints have all been driven by such supposed heresy.

It's fantastic stuff.

That's interesting. One can of course say that it's escapism, but isn't all culture escapism?



As for me, I find the approach of process philosophy (not Whiteheadian, but something in the vein of Heraclitus/Lao Tzu/Buddhist idea of anicca) somehow comforting. But, to each his own.

The closer to the core the greater the syncord, and the more frequent the synchronicity, until, finally, all concurs in one consonant presence, transcurring unitarily in the chronicless present.
