We haven't really internalized the earth being round, not flat.
As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the present moving past to future.
The evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no 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, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.
Energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.
Consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past.
The digestive system processes the energy, feeding the flame. The nervous system sorts the patterns, information. The circulation system is feedback in the middle.
Convection cycles. Feedback loops.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.
The node is synchronization, everything on the same wavelength.
The network is harmonization, everything balancing out.
If we don't apply the occasional circuit breaker to the feedback loops, things tend to swirl down that black hole in the middle.
Then whatever is left, is shot out the poles as quasars. Giant lasers. Which are synchronized light waves.
One is the node, oneness is the network.
Life is like a sentence. The end is punctuation. What matters is how well you tie the rest of the story together.
Lives go birth to death, future to past.
Life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old, past to future.