The limitations of Western materialist science is what led me to fully accept Eastern thought. So far, I am not disappointed. Western science is good at answering a lot of little questions and bringing us technology, but big picture, they have not answered the most important questions - the origin and nature of Universe, life, and consciousness.
Keep in mind, that I am not suggesting to abandon your science. There is room for both Science and Eastern thought, and science would do well to adopt Eastern thinking into its methods and practice.
You are still not seeing deep enough. If we were to make a list of different existential factors and organize them by levels of influence and implications, then happiness and purpose would be some of the things at the top. These two have bigger implications and influence on how one lives - they impact your very being as opposed to just one small aspect of it.
You can say having healthy kidneys is important to life, but religion or any system (which provides purpose, meaning, happiness, morality etc.) is even more important to life. Science can not provide answer for all of these issues.
Perhaps later I will make another discussion explaining why Science should adopt Eastern thinking or we can create a new science that is not bogged down by "materialism".
So, basically, you are saying that people should accept myths and superstitions of astrology and horoscopes over real astronomy?
Because that’s what I am reading from your posts.
The eastern astronomy like that the western astronomy were completely unaware of other galaxies outside of the Milky Way, before 1919.
Before the invention of telescope in early 1600s, the only visible galaxies (beside the Milky Way) were Andromeda, Triangulum, Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud, and with the telescopes from 1604 to 1918, more galaxies were discovered, EXCEPT that BEFORE 1919, astronomers thought these objects were nebulas, not galaxies separate from the Milky Way.
When the late 18th century French astronomer, Charles Messier catalogues all the known objects that can be viewed in the night sky, have labelled these galaxies as nebulas, eg Andromeda Nebula (M31), Triangulum Nebula (M33), Virgo A Nebula (M87), etc.
It was Edwin Hubble, in 1919, using the largest telescope at that time, the Hooker Telescope, and discovered these nebulas were really galaxies not nebulas. All the catalogues of stars have to be revised and updated, during 1920s & 30s.
Easterner astronomers were just as clueless as Charles Messier (Messier Object, 1771), John Herschel (who published Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, 1786) and John Louis Emil Dreyer (who published New General Catalogue, in 1888), regarding to other galaxies.
Why would I think easterner philosophies or religions would know more about the universe, when they gave no ideas about other galaxies?