What you present, but don't recoginize as such, is the fundamental dynamic, between the bottom up dynamic driving and providing the energy, versus the presumably top down, but effectively emergent structures that emerge and than try to channel that energy.
As biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us, versus the central nervous system sorting and ordering the flow, hopefully directing it for long term sustainability and not just short term appetites and desires.
For tens of thousand of years, we've had this linear, object oriented, go forth and multiply paradigm, but now we are reaching the edge of the global petri dish and are having to turn around and turn inward and sensing that nature is this cyclical, reciprocal, feedback driven dichotomy of expansion and consolidation, laying down these layers.
The reality is that time is not this linear progression from past to future, but change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
The reality are more these thermodynamic feedback loops creating our environment, not some linear march of time. Yesterday doesn't cause today, the sun shining on a spinning planet creates this cycle of days and nights. It's just that our faunal mind is this sequence of perceptions.
As for the top down paradigm, a spiritual absolute isn't some ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, but the essence of sentience, from which we rise. The fact we are aware, than the details of which we are aware.
The top down father figure lawgiver has always been a tool of authority.
Democracy and republicanism evolved in pantheistic cultures, which were the Ancient's version of multiculturalism. When the West went back to these more broad based, presumably bottom up forms of government, it required a separation of church and state, culture and civics.
I could go on, but these are just hints of some of the collective cobwebs needing to be swept out of the mental attic.
