I had this conversation with @Bob, and he described consciousness as part of a network, perhaps similar to mycelium. Maybe our souls are part of such a network? It got all kinds of neurons firing:
Discovering Magic - #85 by Bob ?
So perhaps physical being is like being the fruit of the network? Like fungi are to the mycellium?
None of that invalidates the first three paragraphs you wrote, but again, the Elysium thing doesn’t fit into how the Universe provides its own balance at all times.