I'm not sure how the old time religions are not also cults. Yes, they have their good points, and bad points as well. 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 new born babe, than the wise old man. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

When we assume our ideals to be absolute, it tends to empower the close minded and confuse the open minded.

We are driven by our desires and guided by our judgements. Heart and head. Not all desires are healthy, nor all decisions wise.

Actions tend to sychronize or harmonize. Synchronization adds the small waves into a larger wave, while harmonization tends to distribute them out evenly. Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems. Groups synchronize around some communal totem, while the larger network distributes them across infinity.

We fluctuate in the middle, between black holes and black body radiation. Between the absolute and the infinite.

Energy expanding, form coalescing, like galaxies.

Transcendence and order. Desire and judgement.