Actually the biggest conspiracy is to make us believe any of this is real.
Take the idea of spacetime. That our whole lives and the entire universe exist out on this time dimension and the mathematicians proved it. Really it's just change turning future to past, not the point of the present appearing to move past to future. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There can't be any literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Basically there is this effect, called "energy," which is "conserved," because it is this state of presence. It creates time. As well as temperature, pressure, color, sounds. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Think in terms of a wave. The energy drives it, while the fluctuations rise and fall.
In a factory, the product goes start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product. As lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.
Consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts and emotions go future to past, suggesting consciousness is a form of energy, always pushing and exploring, but it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, while the central nervous system just sorts through the forms and information.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in.
As for God, phshaw. Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The fact we are aware, for better or worse, than what we are aware of.
This father figure lawgiver is a useful narrative device(flow of time thingy, for mobile organisms with a sequential process of perception), to instill a little respect for The Man, but since the ideal is aspirational, while the absolute is elemental, it is a serious logical fail, given it teaches people their ideals should be beyond question and that creates all sorts of political mayhem.
The Ancients didn't have any distinction between culture and civics, so one God meant one people, one ruler. Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic societies, because that was their version of multiculturalism. The Romans adopted Christianity to solidify the empire and shed any remnants of the republic. So then we had a thousand plus years of feudalism. When the West went back to more populist forms of government, it required a separation of church and state, culture and civics.
As Emerson put it, we are but thickened light.
Very thick, generally.
