Pythagoreanism is a term used for the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs purported to have been held by Pythagoras.

Secular Buddhism proposes that we leave behind the metaphysical beliefs and soteriology of Indian religious culture.

Scholarship has framed this claim as religious because it is frequently supported by a framework of metaphysical beliefs.

Spiritualism is a dualist metaphysical belief that the world is made up of at least two fundamental substances, matter and spirit.

A growing number of Neo-Confucian scholars had also begun to question particular metaphysical beliefs and practices.

But it does mean that the particular conceptions of science held by its pioneers were often informed by theological and metaphysical beliefs.

First, it is rational to form one's metaphysical beliefs based on the methods of natural science.

"You are certainly entitled to your metaphysical beliefs."

For Christianity and other metaphysical beliefs in immortality, the passing into death is a triumph, an opening toward other regions metaphysically different from life.

Even Jains showed interest in astrological predictions and metaphysical beliefs.