# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions ## Masts; Metaphysic; Metaphysician; Metempirical ## Mystical; Ontological; Ontologist ## Phantasm; Phantasmagorically; Phantasmal; Phantasmicality Masts: ‘Masts’ (male) and ‘Mastanis’ (female) are described by Mr. Mervin Irani (aka Meher Baba) as God-mad, God-intoxicated and God-merged. (pronunciation: ‘musts’.) Metaphysic: Metaphysic (n.): an underlying philosophical or theoretical principle; [e.g.]: “a belief in luck, the metaphysic of the gambler”. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). Metaphysician: metaphysician: an expert in or student of metaphysics’. (Oxford Dictionary). Metempirical: • metempirical (a.) related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics; [e.g.]: “If then the empirical designates the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical”. (George H. Lewes). ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). • metempirical (adj.): (in metaphysics) beyond or outside of experience; not based on experience; transcendental; à priori; opposed to empirical or experiential; [e.g.]: “The metempirical region is the void where Speculation roams unchecked, where Sense has no footing, where Experiment can exercise no control, and where Calculation ends in impossible quantities”. G. H. Lewes, (Probs. of Life and Mind, I. i. §15). [from Greek μετά (metá), ‘beyond’ + έμπειρια (émpeiria), ‘experience’ + al: see empiric; viz.: “pertaining to or derived from experience or experiments; depending upon or derived from the observation of phenomena”; cf. metempiric⁽*⁾]. ~ (1911 Century Dictionary & Cyclopaedia). ⁽*⁾• metempirics (n.): the concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience; (adj.): metempirical: related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics; [e.g.]: “If then the empirical designates the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical”. ~ G. H. Lewes; (n.): metempiricism: the science that is concerned with metempirics. ~ (‌Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). Mystical: mystical (adj.): 1. relating to or characteristic of mysticism (=belief in or experience of a reality surpassing normal human understanding or experience, esp. a reality perceived as essential to the nature of life; a system of contemplation and spirituality aimed at achieving direct intuitive experience of the divine); 2. (theology): having a divine or sacred significance which surpasses natural human apprehension; 3. (alternative belief systems): having occult or metaphysical significance, nature, or force; (adj. & n.): mystic; mystics; (adv.): mystically; (n.): mysticalness. [C14: Middle English mystik, from Latin mysticus, from Greek mustikos, derivative of mustē, ‘mystery initiate’; related to muein, ‘to close the eyes’, ‘to initiate into sacred rites’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). Ontological: • ontological (adj.): of or relating to essence or the nature of being; (adv.): ontologically. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • ontological (adj.): of or relating to ontology (=‘the metaphysical study of the nature of being, existence, and knowing’); [e.g.]: “ontological speculations”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). Ontologist: ontologist: a person who studies ontology; a metaphysician. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). Phantasm: phantasm (n.): the mental imagery produced by fantasy; (adj.): phantasmal, phantasmical; (adv.): *phantasmically*. [Greek phantasma, ‘an appearance’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary). Phantasmagorically: phantasmagorically (adv.): in a phantasmagoric manner; [e.g.]: “Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration”; “the story enters a more phantasmagoric world, and nightmarish and unreal events seem to occur”; see phantasmagoria; viz.: phantasmagoria (n.): as in a sequence of real or imaginary images like that seen in a dream; [e.g.]: “Mere words could never capture the phantasmagoria of our dreamscape”; “someone had set up a strobe light in the back, so the dancing figures were in silhouette, and their movements appeared to consist of a series of slides; like the images from a phantasmagoria”; (synonyms): delusion, illusion, figment of the imagination, vision, apparition, mirage, chimera, fantasy, dream, daydream; (adj.): phantasmagorial; (n.): phantasmagorist. [origin: Mid 19th century; earliest use found in novelist Sylvester Judd (1813-1853); from phantasmagorical + -ly; from phantasmagoria; originally the name of a London exhibition (1802) of optical illusions produced chiefly by magic lantern: probably from French fantasmagorie, from fantasme, ‘phantasm’ + a fanciful suffix]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). Phantasmal: • phantasmal (adj.): relating to or of the nature of a phantasm[†]; unsubstantial; apparitional; imaginary; illusive, phantasmic; phantasmical; (adv.): phantasmally, phantasmically. ~ (Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary). [†]phantasm (n.): an imaginary appearance; a phantom[⁑]; fancy; ~ (Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary). [⁑]phantom (n.): something that exists only in appearance; an apparition; a ghost; spectre; a vision; an illusion; mirage; often used adjectively; as, “a phantom ship”. ~ (Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary). [www.funkandwagnalls.com/phantasmal]. • phantasmal (adj.): of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality: chimeric, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmic, visionary. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). Phantasmicality: phantasmicality (n.): of, resembling or characteristic of a phantasma (=not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material); [e.g.]: “Thus, the phantasmicality of the spirit in an apparent-body has become quite solid and popular once again”. (page 57⁽⁰¹⁾, “The Unique and Its Property”, by Max Stirner; translated 2017, Underworld Amusements, Baltimore (first published in 1844; lit. ‘The Individual and His Property’, by Johann Kaspar Schmidt, 1806-1856⁽⁰²⁾). [circa 1200; Middle English fantesme, from Old French from Latin phantasma, from Greek phántasma, ‘image’, ‘vision’]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). ⁽⁰¹⁾ [https://archive.org/details/StirnerTheUniqueAndItsProperty/page/n57/mode/1up]. ⁽⁰²⁾ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own]. RETURN TO DEFINITIONS INDEX RICHARD’S HOME PAGE The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one. Richard's Text ©The Actual Freedom Trust: 1997- . All Rights Reserved. Disclaimer and Use Restrictions and Guarantee of Authenticity