Life is like a sentence. The end is just punctuation. What matters is how well you tie the rest together.

Our problem is that culture is very object oriented, so we see people as discrete entities, rather than cells in a larger organism.

Consider that as mobile organisms, our experience is this sequence of perceptions, generated as the interface between the body and the environment, in order to navigate.

So our concept of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future, but the reality is that 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.

Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So energy, as present and process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Energy drives the wave, as the fluctuations rise and fall, so energy and information go opposite directions of time.

As consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past. Though it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, as the central nervous system sorts the information.

All as this feedback loop of the present.

Consider as well that 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, than the wise old man. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

As Emerson said, we are but thickened light.