The thought process does cycle between reductionism and contextualization, so it’s not that boundaries are/are not real, but what is real, without definition? What if it truly was a void?
Yes, most people do naturally build boxes around themselves and plaster over their bubble of self with pictures they like, rather then keeping the surface clear and letting everything in and out, yet what is out there isn’t always benevolent. If you propose to really clear away the cultural cobwebs, you need to examine them, without getting too fully attached.
For example, the three most basic flaws we subconsciously accept, whether we agree, or not, are time, god and money.
Time is not so much the point of the present, moving past to future, as it is change turning future to past. Potential>actual>residual. It’s just that as mobile organisms, we have this sequential, judgmental thought process, in order to navigate. Then build civilizations out of the collected knowledge, so the narrative passage of time seems basic.
There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it. Aka, causality and conservation of energy.
The process goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. As in consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past.
Lives go birth to death, while life goes onto the next generation, shedding the old. Products go start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consuming material and expelling product.
The patterns steer and define the motor and energy of process.
It is a dichotomy of energy and form. As in galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. Or our bodies are the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems, processing the energy driving us on, along with the central nervous system to sort through the information precipitating out and referee the emotions and impulses bubbling up.
As societies are the organic desires pushing out, as civil and cultural forms coalesce in.
Though the patterns are most defined, as they are cresting, so if you really want to be part of the dynamic, learn to sense the wave as it is building, not wait for it to crest. Getting into the subconscious as process, before it becomes thought.
So necessarily a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, from which we rise, rather than an ideal of wisdom and judgment, from which we fell. It is just that we tend to be focused on the selection process, the navigation, that we obsess over form, than the dynamic driving it.
What would this banquet hall of life be, without the appetites; pleasure, power, knowledge, to give it meaning?
Then they compete to prevail, as potential is nearly infinite, while actual is a small fraction of that and the residue of memory and history a tiny fraction of that. So all this tension and friction that makes reality real, is fundamental.
Though we could do a better job. Such as the social contract that enables this mass of people to function, money, is treated as a commodity to mine from society. Econ 101 tells us it is both medium of exchange and store of value, but a medium is dynamic, while a store is static. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store.
To store the asset side, similar amounts of debt have to be created, which creates a centripetal effect, as positive feedback draws the asset to the center and negative feedback pushes the debt to the fringes of the community. Though as the system to circulate value around the community, this is like the heart telling the hands and feet they don’t need so much blood and should work harder for what they do get.
Not to mention that the elephant in the room of capitalism is that public debt is effectively designed to support private wealth. Where would those trillions go otherwise?
We need to learn that as a medium, we own money like we own the section of road we are using, or the fluids passing through our bodies and store value in stronger communities and healthier environments. Not just in banks, with our account as our personal economic umbilical cord, enabling it to be siphoned off, like The Matrix.
Just saying that while your head is in the right place, there is further, much further, to go.
