(02-10-2014, 11:58 PM)Sagittarius Wrote: Is that not what the purpose of life is ? To become an expert, is an expert not by definition someone largely conscious of what they are doing?. Lessons of balance can be seen in everything, reading statistical studies and learning lessons of balance can consciously become the same thing.
It's ironic when people criticize scientists for being to mechanical when it's actually there own view of science they are unconsciously criticizing.
I don't believe the purpose of life has anything to do with becoming experts in all available fields. Even experts in one field (say astrophysics) rely on other experts (chemists,etc) when they decide to take a new drug that just got approved by the FDA for their high blood cholesterol.
Just because lessons of balance can be everywhere, does not mean all lessons of balance are equally effective.
Those who spend time meditating, contemplating, praying, actively examining their belief systems, finding love in the movement, will find balance faster than someone who dedicates every working hour to reading statistical studies. That's also why Ra makes suggestions about what one can do in their free time in order to achieve greater balance, and that their harvest on Venus was aided by the fact that they had more leisure time to contemplate these concepts.
I think you're confusing the philosophy of gaining expertise with the term experts/scientists which as used here describes people with a given skillset. My discussion has been about why two distinct subsets of people (those with scientific expertise in an area, and those without) can have trouble working with one another.