Logically a spiritual absolute/universal state, 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.

Ideals are not absolutes, but the entire Western culture is premised on the assumption.

There are not even Platonic ideal forms. Patterns arise from the processes generating them. Even the mathematical premise of form as elemental is flawed. The function of the map is to extract signal from the noise, not explain the noise. Epicycles were brilliant math, as a description of our view of the cosmos, but the crystalline spheres were lousy physics, as explanation.

As harsh as it may sound, but morality is a social construct, as the immune system is a biological construct.

To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while in nature, they are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.

That's because the function of culture is to synchronize society into a larger organism.

The complement to synchronization is harmonization, distributing out, as synchronization swirls in. So nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields. Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure swirls in. The opposite of the absolute is the infinite.

The problem with applying this singular, monastic paradigm to a reality that is the spectrum between poles, is each side sees themselves as on the path to heaven and those going the other way is at best misbegotten fools, if not actively evil.

Whatever the totem serving as the grain of sand at the center of the pearl.