For me it's a question of perspective. There's the naïve anthropocentric projection, and then there's how an enlightened person would view the universe. The largely Eastern take on enlightenment is that this peak state is the escape from any perspective due to the ego's neutralization.

My take on enlightenment is different. I combine existentialism and naturalism with transhuman speculations about how the promethean trajectory might be vindicated. The Eastern mystic says egoism is simply wrongheaded and doomed. I say some such duality is presupposed by any life-affirming philosophy. So one question is whether monism ends up being nihilistic (ascetic renunciation) or totalitarian (cultish frauds, as in monotheism).

You say the universe consists of just a series of neutral events. But is the consciousness that you say encompasses those facts also just a neutral fact that supports no normative or aesthetic assessment? No sublime wonder or awe to be had from that idealistic monism? No bliss from nirvana?