One of the dichotomies of reality is between energy and form.

Energy drives the wave, while frequency and amplitude are the form.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. Cosmic convection cycles.

We have the digestive, respiratory and circulation systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts and organizes the forms/information precipitating out.

As mobile organisms, we experience reality as a sequence of perceptions and have a narrative based culture, so we think of time as the point of 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, in order to inform and drive it. Aka, causality and conservation of energy.

Energy is “conserved,” because it is always and only present, as it is the changing configuration of this energy which creates time. Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, noise, etc. Think frequencies and amplitudes.

The energy as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts and feelings go future to past.

Lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

So we think of life as linear and goal oriented, but the larger reality is all these thermodynamic feedback loops, of energy radiating out, as form coalesces in, permeating everything.

We seek immortality as a continuation of the narrative, but past and future don’t exist anyway. The larger being is in that sentience shining through the moment, like light shining through the film, then in the images and events depicted.