I think what has been overlooked in our knowledge of reality is the relationship between energy and form. Our minds process form, while our gut and heart process the energy driving the process.

The problem of energy is that we only conceive it in terms of the forms it expresses. The energy drives the wave, while we think of it in terms of the fluctuations, further defined by frequency and amplitude. Yet these emerge as the limits of the energy expressed, not as the dynamic giving rise to it.

So the energy, passing through as the wave, goes past to future expressions of form, while the patterns being generated go future to past.

As these mobile organisms, we evolved a sequential process of perception, in order to navigate. Then as humanity, we evolved a narrative based culture, from sharing our experiences. Consequently we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future.

Yet change turns 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.

So energy is "conserved," because it is the present. It creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color, sounds. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Thoughts are like a wave that is cresting, because that is when it is most fully formed and clear. Yet it is also receding, so the present always seems to fade when we try to grasp it. The forms fade, as the energy moves on.

The emotions and instincts sense the wave building and receding, so while they are powerfully expressed, they are not necessarily clear and contained, because they tend to move us, rather than being fully circumscribed by our perception.

Given consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts it manifests come and go, it would seem consciousness might be described as a form of energy.

Science has a similar problem with consciousness, as with energy, in that it can only be described in terms of the forms expressed. Thus tends to be relegated to being some effect of what is expressed, rather than a cause of it.

While this might raise some interesting issues about consciousness, it also raises some interesting suppositions about physics. Such as, what if quanta are just the forms, not the energy...

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in.

As for consciousness and thinking, consider how much of thought is distilling initial concepts into ever more concise forms, requiring the expenditure of lots of effort/energy, much as matter is constantly condensing into more compact forms and radiating energy in the process.

One of the more popular concepts is defining space as three dimensional. Yet they really are a mapping device, like longitude, latitude and altitude.

If we remove all physical properties from space, it still has the non-physical qualities of infinity and equilibrium.

Infinity because there is nothing to bound it, while equilibrium is implicit in Relativity, as the frame with the fastest clock and longest ruler would be closest to the equilibrium of the vaccuum. As opposed to a frame moving at the speed of light relative to this vacuum, where clock and ruler are reduced to zero.

So space is the umoving void of absolute zero. Making space the absolute and the infinite.

What fills space is the energy and the forms it expresses.

The energy radiates toward infinity, while the forms coalesce toward equilibrium. (Galaxies)The zero between positive and negative. The flatline between the ups and downs.

We exist in this fluctuation and convection cycle between everything fading out and everything cancelling out.

Yet we have this conceptual paradigm of monism, so we are constantly trying to distill everything into the singular, but the one is only a node in the network. The basis of the singular is the state of balance within, while the basis of the network in which this node exists and from which it emerged, like an individual wave, is infinity.

Part of this focus on the singular goes to the power of monotheism on our culture.

Logically though, 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, than the details of which we are aware.

Which also goes to that problem of only seeing the form, rather than what expresses it.

Math is description, not explanation. Epicycles were brilliant math, but the crystalline spheres were lousy physics, as explantion. We still get the cart before the horse.