The Flow of Energy is the Essence of Life

As energy moves through biology,

It creates structure,

Right?

Proteins are created.

The nucleus,

You know,

DNA,

The replication of DNA is an energetic process.

DNA is like the penultimate structural component of biology,

Right?

Without energy,

DNA is just inert,

You know,

Nucleic acids.

There's information in there,

But there's no way of pulling the information out or bringing it to life.

So it's energy that brings DNA into life.

And then if you have a genome and what life does is it replicates,

Right?

You make two genomes,

Two cells,

And then you make four and then eight.

And this is an energetic process.

Without energy,

There is no creation of new structure.

There's very good evidence that the primary element of life,

The core substance of life,

Is not DNA.

It's not RNA.

It's not protein.

It's the movement of energy.

And as energy moves through structure,

It creates more structure,

Right?

So you are the product,

This thing,

Right?

This body is an energetic process.

And as energy fluxes from the time you're created as a single cell,

The sperm comes and then there's a spark of light literally in the egg.

From that moment,

There's this energetic process that allows the embryo,

The fetus,

The baby,

And then the child,

And then the adult.

Eventually,

This whole developmental process is an energetic process.

And once you start to understand biology,

Understanding life from an energetic perspective,

You come to realize that the human experience,

What we call the mind,

And what neuroscientists call consciousness,

Is really an energetic process.

And the human experience and the mind is an energy pattern.

And it's as energy fluxes through this physical structure of the brain and the body,

It feels like something.

If you cut energy flowing through the body and the brain,

You stop to exist,

Right?

The consciousness disappears.

And that's telling us the primary substance of life is not the physical structure of the body,

Right?

The difference between a cadaver,

A dead body,

And a thinking,

Feeling,

Conscious person that you can interact with energetically is not the molecules.

It's not the number of cells,

Not the DNA,

The organs,

The brain structures,

Right?

The fundamental difference between life and death is the flow of energy.

So once you start to see light energetically,

It gives you,

I think,

An appreciation,

A deep appreciation for what you are as a movement of that broader movement,

Which you see in nature as well,

Which you see in other people.

And then from that movement,

It's hard not to be grateful.

It's hard not to be grateful for life,

And it's hard to not see personal endeavors as more important than the broader endeavor,

Which is cultivating this movement of energy.