Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

It's just that every culture needs that center of focus. The totem at the center of the village, so to speak. The grain of sand at the center of the pearl. The eye of the storm. There is no there, there, it's the energy swirling around it.

When you dig far enough, it applies to all our beliefs, from money to matter.

The music is more real than any actual material substance. It's vibrations all the way down.

The light drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. Coming and going, like those frames of film...