How do you get beyond the terminology defining and enforcing these realms?

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 would seem though, that our culture still assumes ideals to be absolutes, from math to money. The medium has become the message. We are still linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, so we are still looking for that pot of gold at the end of the narrative arc, even if it's some divine state.

Look at galaxies; Energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

As these organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through the forms precipitating out. We are reflections of that cosmic feedback loop. The anarchies of desire pushing out, as the tyrannies of judgement pull in. Heart and head.

The price we pay to feel, is a lot of it will be pain. The price we pay to think is it is subjective. There is no objective, godlike point of view. Just life bubbling up, until it reaches some level and coalesces back in. If we don't keep a clear eye and become most intoxicated at the crest of the particular wave, the trip back down can be quite bumpy.

As an old guy told me many years ago, the secret to life is knowing when to leave the party.