I am by nature a fairly skeptical person, but I've had more than enough personal experiences to realize all is not as it seems.
The consequence is that it has forced me to examine reality as objectively as possible and find the cracks in the veneer.
For one thing, a spiritual absolute would not be an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, but the essence of sentience, from which we rise.
Ideals are not absolutes and the philosophers should have been all over that centuries ago.
Time is not the point of the present moving past to future, but change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is 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.
This was one idea really driven by my need to peel away the layers of reality, because my own mind gets caught in these feedback loops, where it is in no way a linear reality.
We are mobile organisms, so our sentience coalesces into a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is the present moving past to future, but that is much like seeing the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.
Energy is conserved, because it is present, it creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated 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.
Yet it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the signals.
Consequently we tend to think of reality in terms of order and chaos, rather than energy and form.
Waves tend to either synchronize, which is centripetal, or harmonize, which is centrifugal. So there are nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.
Our bodies function by synchronizing the various aspects, though our mind is the interface between the body and its environment. Which means it is a balancing act. Too much synchronization and we get obsessive/compulsive, selfish, narcissistic and easily drawn into addictions. Though we simply do not exist, if we are not a node in the network.
I could go on, but the general point I'm making is there is this conscious energy, that permeates our reality and it hides in our peripheral vision, always just out of sight.
When I was a child, I remember laying on the porch, watching this ant, when it stopped and I saw this tiny cone of awareness waving around with its antennae. Suffice to say, I seem to have only sharpened that sense over the years. A good time to experience it is driving, as people are focused in front of themselves and not too bodily focused.
There are a lot of these "floaters" out there and not all of them seem to represent corporeal entities.
Cheers.
