Mostly it's personal experience for me. I grew up raising and training horses.
The problem is that people think the solution is more complexity, but simplicity is more sublime and more elemental.
We can better identify with the chicken, than the egg.
A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, rather than an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it.
A culture built on the principle of assuming ideals as absolute will be inherently confrontational.
My main issue with human culture is how we treat time. As mobile organisms, this sequence of perceptions is necessary for navigation, so our concept of time is as 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.
Different clocks run at different rates because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.
That culture is about getting everyone following the same rules and narrative, using the same measures, it might seem there should be some universal, Newtonian flow of time, but it's rabbit time, turtle time, etc. Nature is so diverse and so integrated, because everything doesn't march to the beat of the same drummer. Multi, not monoculture.
Energy is conserved, because it is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
As present, energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.
Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past, but it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information. Signals from the noise.
So we tend to think of reality in terms of order and chaos, rather than energy and form.
I find the more educated someone is, the more they are obsessed with some framework and model of reality they have established and will get defensive about the details, let alone stepping back and trying to look at the bigger picture. Yet the reality is the information really is just shadows on the wall. As Emerson said, we are but thickened light.
