The absolute is necessarily the essence from which we rise, not an ideal from which we fell.

The problem is that as mobile organs, we are goal oriented and have abstracted from this the premise of the ideal. The problem is that nature doesn’t care. She is cyclical and dichotomous. The end is punctuation, not destination.

As mobile organisms, our perception functions sequentially and so experience time as the present moving past to future, but the reality is change turning future to past. It’s an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, etc. There is just this physical state and it’s mostly just thermodynamic feedback loops. Even galaxies are cosmic convection cycles, of energy radiating out, while mass and form coalesce in.

Our bodies are the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems, processing the energy driving us on, along with a central nervous system to sort though the information precipitating out. Energy goes past to future. Form goes future to past.

Without the ups and downs, it would just be a flatline.