Our problem with understanding time is that as these mobile organisms, this sentient interface between body and world functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the point of the present moving past to future, while 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.

Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy and feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information. Thus the tendency to focus on the patterns over the processes generating them. Our minds function as this sequence of essentially stable frames, so we see the pictures, rather than the energy generating them.

As Emerson said, we are but thickened light.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, toward infinity, as structure coalesces in, toward equilibrium. Harmonization versus synchronization. Black body radiation and black holes. Zero to infinity. Absolute and infinite.

Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields, galaxies and space.

Our minds like to focus on the point in the middle, than the networks giving life to it.

It's more yin and yang, than God Almighty.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

Ideals are not absolutes and assuming such leads to a fractious society, as all the various ideals compete, from Wahabism, to wokism.

Think how much information we have learned to cram in a tiny bit of light, but we are bathed in it. When you really learn to read the light, not just the frequencies and amplitudes of the wave, that our left brain sees, but the thermostat and barometer of the right brain, feeling those waves building and receding, the layers really do start to peel away.