Such lack of comprehension, at the highest intellectual level, provides evidence of the state of fragmentation and separation of our current knowledge of the world. The it dawned upon me that all of the above has to do with a less rigid discipline - philosophy. Everything cannot be measured in the realm of philosophy but can still be truths and values. For example, an explanation and interpretation of an aesthetic model or theory. The model can be tested by empirical experimentation for validity, but also through compatibility and extension of a school of philosophy.
Philosophy provides alternative ways of interpreting the facts of experimentation.
Opposing camps in any field sprout up because facts are valid when they support the respective opponents' theoretical models. In other words, philosophy points out that there can be different truths derived from facts about phenomena, truths that are conceived because they are compatible with a particular philosophical belief or world view. So it seemed that turning towards philosophy might provide some understanding of my most unusual life. I now see each degree earned as a fragment of information that show how fits into a larger whole and awareness, one based upon My broad but specific interests. I am not there yet, but this phenomenological approach to study promises to bear fruit.