A Few Things About Metaphysics

Preface: Why Are We So Fascinated by the Mysterious and the Profound?

In an age when quantum computers perform trillions of calculations per second, the plaque reading “Uprightness, Centrality, Benevolence, and Harmony” in the Hall of Mental Cultivation at the Forbidden City still speaks of the wisdom of yin-yang balance. When we see The Astrology Chart and The Age of Big Data selling side by side in an airport bookstore, we understand that metaphysics is not a bronze artifact locked away in a museum, but a living fossil flowing through our cultural genes.