I am bombarded on all sides by claims and counter-claims. I listen to everyone, up to a point, so it is all very confusing. I can see clearly the appeal of an All-Encompassing Heuristic–like religious or political dogma–in order to make sense of it all.
But really, we have to consider that NOT ONE PERSON ON THE PLANET has it all figured out. None of them. None in history, none writing today.
But a great many of them have parts and pieces figured out.
This sort of approach both requires and develops the Fundamental Openness the Buddhists talk about, which in the Zen iteration often gets called Beginner’s Mind.
In Signal Theory terms, in order to make sure you don’t miss any of the actual signal, you have to allow all the noise.