Ben,

You can imagine putting yourself in the shoes of most any other human and possibly a few non-human mammals, but try this one;

Imagine you are Benjamin Cain, at about two days old.

That is probably difficult, but, logically, a spiritual absolute would be the essence from which we rise, not an ideal from which we fell. The absolute is elemental, while the ideal is aspirational and so it's relatively easy to put yourself in another's shoes and sense what desires drive them, but does that truely describe this sense of curiosity, motivation and desire, or just the forms it fixates on?

When we assume the ideal to be absolute, the effect is polytheism; The many versions of one competing.

Though the one is distinct. Always a node in some larger network. Even our current cosmology tries to envision the entire universe as one, but even that breaks down and now we have multiverses.

The absolute versus the infinite.

We exist between the anarchies of desire and the tyrannies of judgement, but as much as we try to turn the mirror on ourselves, it just becomes some hall of mirrors, vanishing to a point.

Our heads seek order and our hearts seek transcendence, so there is that eternal feedback loop, between wanting our cake and eating it too and the best we can do, is to know when to focus and when to chill.

Between synchronization and harmonization.