The basic dichotomy and dynamic would seem to be that relationship between energy and the forms generated.

Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Galaxies are the energy radiating out, as the structure coalesces in.

Energy, as presence, goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past.

Consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form go future to past.

The digestive system processes the energy, feeding the flame, the nervous system sorts the patterns, signals from the noise, while the circulation system is feedback in the middle.

The issue of fate, determinism, requires some overall frame, model, map, in which all the various pieces play out their parts. Yet the models break down over infinities and disappear at equilibrium/zero/absolute.

An objective point of view, the omniscient omniscience, is an oxymoron. Frames, maps, models need some compass points. Too much information and the signal is lost back in the noise. Whiteout.

The universal is the elemental, so a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

The light shining through and animating the film, going past frames to future ones, rather than the stories playing out on it, going future to past.

Sometimes the simple is more sublime than the complex.