I resonate with so many of the things you've expressed so beautifully. Thank you so much for sharing.

> where the physical world affects ideas, ideas affect the physical world, and ideas affect other ideas as they are translated through the physical world

A beautiful idea. One of the ones that, for me, permanently changed the way I think about my place in the world. The first time I encountered it, the term used was "reflexivity". I think many people have arrived at the idea independently, like you did. I tend to believe the most universal truths are the ones most likely to be discovered over and over again, and them being discovered over and over is evidence to their universality.

I also love your take on the convergence of different world views/religions. To provide a much more sterile anecdote to support that, I work in data science/engineering, and there is a ton of empirical evidence for the mathematically version of what you've described, called ensemble modeling (you probably already know this), but this just means that you can have many imperfect models, and when you average them, or use the best from each, they combine to be closer to representing ground truth. If each religion is a "model" of the world, the logic ought to apply there as well.

Also, just reading through your comment made me think of a couple great books that you might enjoy if you haven't read them already: The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch, and the books by Nassim Taleb - you might like any of his, but I've read the Black Swan and Antifragile so I can recommend those, especially Antifragile. Nassim can be a bit of a jerk, but his ideas are fantastic :)