One is the node, oneness is the network.
While our mental functions are naturally reductionist, the mental models generated, from theism to math, break down over infinities and disappear at zero. Everything in-between is relational.
Synchronization as the essence of the node, with everything operating on that same, centripetal wavelength. While the essence of the network is harmonization, as all the waves rise and fall across infinity. With resonances and reverberations as feedback in the middle.
Galaxies are the energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.
As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is the present moving past to future, yet the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Energy is conserved, because it manifest this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.
So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, 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. Suggesting consciousness manifests as an energy. Though it is the digestive system processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the patterns, signals from the noise.
Given we are tactile, object oriented creatures, there then tends to be this reductionist focus on objects, then processes, nouns before verbs. From atoms to individuals. "Entangled particles."
To the Ancients, gods were metaphors. Gods of power, love, nature, fertility, wars, etc.
In this state of mental evolution, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Basically the group/tribe as god. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion. The chieftain.
Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, where there were more tools in the mental toolbox and they had to be integrated.
The origins of the Christian Trinity go to fertility rites. The young god born in the spring to the old sky god and earth mother. Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal.
Which was why the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus had such resonance across the Greek world. As metaphor for the coming of spring, after the cold stone gods of winter.
Though by the time Constantine co-opted it as the state religion of Rome, it too had started to calcify and so it was the monotheism that served to validate the Empire, rule from above, while the origins and implications of the pantheistic elements were shrouded in the Trinity, with the Holy Ghost replacing the inconvenient element of the earth mother.
Making the Catholic Church the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.
When the West went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, basically culture and civics, morality and law.
Creating a void where might has become right. Which totally breaks down those social bonds on which humanity depends. It becomes all about money and power. Where one's status is not a function of what one adds, like a tribal culture, but what one can extract. Which is necrotic and only sustainable as long as economic growth compounds.
The logical flaw with monotheism, as in the Catholic "all-knowing absolute," is that ideals/metaphors, are not absolute. It's a category error.
Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture are ideals.
The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So 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.
So for Judaism, the ideal is the tribe, for Catholicism it is authority, for Islam, it is law, for Protestantism it is community.
Morality cannot be absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were, like a temperature below absolute zero. Morals are the ideals that enable a healthy society.
