Here's an idea to peel back some of the layers;
We are mobile organisms, so this sequence of perception that functions as an interface between our body and its world, is necessary to navigate. So our experience of time is as the point of the present moving past to future. It is the basis of the social construct of narrative and physics codifies it as measures of duration.
The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Potential>actual>residual. Duration is the present, as the events rise and fall.
There can be no 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.
Energy is conserved, because it is only present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
So energy, as dynamic present, goes past to future, while the patterns it generates go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.
Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information.
Which suggests consciousness is manifest as an energy. Which would explain why it tends toward constantly exploring its definitions and structures.
Science has a similar problem with describing energy, as it can only refer to the patterns it expresses, not as something distinct from its expression.
Though it seems to go opposite directions of time, thus creating time.
As for god, 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. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it. It is just that in order to function, societies need that totem at the center, to give focus. Though ideals are not absolutes and assuming them to be leads to eternal conflict, as everyone has slightly different ideals. Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as that enabled multiculturalism.
