Scrolling through medium, I was drawn to your "box" of Re-Assembling Reality," which is something I've been trying to do.

Having grown up around more horses and cattle than people and as a younger child in a large and work obsessed family, I've pretty much had to build my concept of reality from the bottom up and while I read a fair amount, I've always been somewhat outside any of the various frames, so I seem to have come to see the the world somewhat differently than others.

I think the most fundamental fallacy built into human culture is the nature of time. We are mobile organisms, which is the logical basis for this sequential process of perception we refer to as thought and which seems to distinguish the category of fauna from the flora.

Over which we have layered narrative based cultures, as a means of communicating information.

So we experience time as the point of the present, moving past to future. Physics codifies it as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events form and dissolve.

There can be 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 is what is present, not some dimensionless point between past and future. It creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

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

In terms of a wave, the energy is what drives it, while the fluctuations rise and fall, come and go, future to past.

In a factory, the product goes start to finish, future to past, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product. Lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past.

Yet it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the information precipitating out.

We have a similar problem explaining and describing energy, as we do with consciousness, as both can only be defined by the forms they express, yet these forms come and go, while the dynamic generating them is "conserved."

The logical fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute, unitary state, would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The fact we are aware, than the details of which we are aware.

More the new born child, than the wise old man. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

The energy, not the form.

Conflating the ideal, which is aspirational, with the absolute, which is elemental, creates the presumption one's ideals should be universal, rather than unique. Which leads to all sorts of politcal conflicts, as the Other becomes an affront to one's own True God.

Organisms function by synchronizing their internal clocks, while ecosystems function by harmonizing their clocks. Insisting the networks function as a larger node and become a monoculture, means the entire system rises and falls as one, rather than some coming and some going, filling in all the gaps, harmonically.

One of the assumptions built into monotheistic monocultures is the notion of good and bad as some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but they are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. Even bacteria get that.

All the higher order social constructs, respect, responsibility, love, trust, honor, as well as the negatives, evolve up and out from such fundamentals. So when good is assumed to be aspirational, rather than elemental, conflicts do become a race to the bottom, of us versus them, black versus white, as any nuance and subjectivity is washed out.

I could go on, but I just thought I'd put this up as an example of how far down we really need to go, to find some common ground.