The Practice of Philosophy

With a foreword by Member Professor Peter Stewart, this magisterial function is a significantly extended version of the author’s earlier book Mirages in Western Science Resolved by Occult Science. The breadth of coverage and depth of thought are genuinely remarkable as the work of a single scholar. Edi has studied the detail and relationships of a lot of diverse disciplines and integrated them into an overarching view of the relationship between Western science and occult insight or gnosis....

Science explains the how: Metaphysics explain the why: Limits of science   Science is primarily concerned of how a factor is produced, how an object is constructed and how this object functions. It does not deal, in any way, with the why a factor exists, why an object is constructed the way it is and why an object functions. A tree for example is studied in terms of its physiology, biochemistry and functional anatomy. Every single science examines the life-cycle of this living organ. All sci...

Author: Peter M.K. Chan                 In the simplest of terms, human understanding comes in two forms: description of facts, and theories about them. Description tells us what happened, theories explain how or why they happened. More importantly, they also purport to tell us what will almost certainly happen. In other words, the purpose of explaining is to make intelligible sense of occurrences that description alone is not able to offer. This is normally completed by general...