[Guille]

I agree, paranormal is all kind of mysticism, whiles metaphysics is rational philosophy. The first is for the un-cultured and the second is for the cultured. Paranormal is anything like luck, astral projection, souls... And although metaphysics might have theories or propositions including the ideas like souls, god, etz, these are always rationalized. This is a problem, because the distinction between what is metaphysical and what goes too far and becp,es paranormal (mythology/religion/spirituality), or too short and becomes physical (scientifc), is not sure, therefore the 'set' of what is metaphysical has beek broken (just as the set of what is paint art has broken, for the paints of today are far too abstract and different to put them in a set). But the reason why the words paranormal and metaphysics where together is because another use of the term 'metaphysics' is what refers to more-than-physical (this is the greek meaning of the world), and that is souls, etz. Anyway, in posmodern philosophy, metaphysics has died. And in neopragmantism (ex: Rorty) and postempiric pragmatism (ex: Searle), also abandoned metaphysics. Metaphysics--in philosophy--is dead (and there is no 'zombie'-like life in philosophy, if somethind dies, it is eaten by worms and dissapears).