Breaking it down to the basics gives one huge advantage. It gives you a powerful foundation upon which all is based. Without It, your stance is shakey, your ideals get flaky and your perspective gets hazy. In other words, if junk, gunk, and yuckiness arrive while you are shaky, flaky, and hazy, it's hard to get past, through, or around that stuff. If your communion with the Divine in you is less than optimal, your "being in resistance" levels are higher. And for your best life, resistance is futile.