One idea to consider is that synchronization is inherently centripetal, while harmonization is effectively centrifugal.

Such that when we do take the monist view, it not only implies, but effectively and inexorably results in that spiraling into the vortex at the center.

While harmonization, the equilibrium among all, amounts to the fading out of entropy.

So we seem stuck somewhere between one, as the back hole at the center, or the oneness of black body radiation. Nodes and networks. Organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

So while religions tend to fixate on some totem at the center, the grain of sand at the center of the pearl, those lacking any such center of gravity, to the degree they exist, are simply drawn to whatever attracts their attention and are consequently blown around in the wind.

Even galaxies are energy radiating toward infinity, as structure coalesces to the point at the center, or until it breaks down and the constituent energy either radiates back out, or is shot out the poles, also toward infinity.

So it would seem the reasonable course is to understand how the sides play off each other and build up our complex reality, so we can lead to navigate what seems most healthy for our own sense of being.

Given our state of conscious awareness is the interface between our body and its world, such that we can be as clueless of our own physical body, as we are of the larger world. So it is fluctuating between sensing both. Then that those around us are also in that interim state, while our abilities to connect and communicate have been distilled down to various mediums, such as language and money, and social institutions, government, families, religions, etc.

What if it is some hologram and the same element of sentience is shining through us all, like light through moving frames of a film. Then those fleeting times we make eye contact, with that self sensing itself and freezing all thoughts like one frame of the film on hold. Then reverberating around our head for a few moments, until that thought bubble bursts and we go onto the next reality check.

For our minds, the only difference between being awake and dreaming, is those constant reality checks the outside world imposes on us, unless we can gain some power over it, usually as a crowd or the wealth to control a crowd and can push the reality back, until the blowback of that bubble bursting and the stock market crashes, or we go to war with other delusional groups, or both, all at once....