Specialists Unite

We all have our specialties... things that we know a whole lot about. Some of us are professors and scientists with brains that are absolutely overflowing with information about a specific area. To them and to myself I say, don't forget to learn about the things that are not your specialty. Take time to learn a little bit about someone else's specialty. Read their works on a different topic, listen to their songs of a different genre. Realize that it's lonely business outstanding in your field. Worse, consider that in not being aware of how you are connected to them, you may be hindering the consciousness of a subject that is connected to you!

For example, I was reading today the words of someone who is interested in Universal consciousness. And to symbolize their understanding of the relationship of micro to macro they used an analogy of a single bubble within a bubble bath. On the surface, this seems like an innocuous and appropriate analogy. Yet, for me, it was glaringly obvious that this fellow hasn't really given much thought to excessively soapy water at all, particularly in the context of environmental and sustainability concerns. If he had, he might have realized that imagining bubble baths is counterproductive to the goal of both topics.

Now, I don't believe he intended to show his lack of wholistic thinking. But I do believe that this is what has happened. He has spent so very much of his time immersed in his studies and has maybe not considered how his studies are connected to other areas.

As we move with increasing momentum toward enlightenment, we are further challenged and with greater urgency to see how we are connected to one another, how our special interests relate to her interests and how I can increase my understanding of my own specialty by learning about an others.