Hello Tessa, I’m not sure I understand your comment. Some think that metaphysics deals with all the “unreal” stuff, the woo hoo stuff, etc., and religion fits in that category to them. However Dictionary.com defines it this way: the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.

Metaphysics has always been a highly valued branch of philosophy and continues to be. Many physicalist scientists today deal in metaphysics going well beyond what science tells us. It is not possible to deal in questions of meaning and even what is reality without involving metaphysics.