WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE

The life-forms on Earth derive their energy from the Sun directly and from the Earth’s resources. Man-made objects such as machines and instruments derive energy ultimately from fossil fuels on the Earth, a part of the Universe. Energy is ubiquitous, interchangeable, transferable, and is perceptible to us only when it produces a result that can be perceived by our eyes, nose, ears, tongue, or skin. Religion recognized that energy is the driving force of the Universe long before science did. Descriptions of Universal energy exist in ancient Chinese and Korean religion, the Shinto religion of Japan, the Hindu religion that originated in India, Islam, and Christianity.

Reality changes dramatically with passage of time and is relative in nature. There was a time when science and religion believed that the Earth was flat. Scientific inventions such as the telephone, airplanes, mobile phones and computers could never been imagined until someone conceived the idea of their invention and the Universe gave them the power to realize their dream inventions. Likewise, the discovery of radioactivity and electromagnetic energy, and so many other discoveries and inventions.
Regardless of the progress we have made, there is probably much about the Universe we still cannot perceive, simply due to the limitations of human perception, even with the use of telescopes, microscopes, satellites and unmanned spacecraft. Hence, it is possible that the way we perceive the Universe is an illusion created by the limitation of our senses and whatever we use to aid them; however it is practical to accept what we perceive as the reality, so that we function in a sane manner in our earthly life, but at the same time, remain aware of the limitations of our perception.
Likewise, proof and evidence are largely second-hand, based on study and research by others. While these are unavoidable to live our daily life, our personal interaction with the Universe and its objects is first-hand evidence – hence, our own life’s experiences represent the extra connection the Universe provides us. We just need to trust it more.
Again, time is a concept created for day-to-day functioning in the world; in a dimensionless Universe, position, direction and distance are only relative in nature and destiny is simply the sum of events throughout the life-span of an object.

Birth and death are exchanges of energy between mass objects with the Universe; a living being forms when energy is condensed into mass and death occurs when energy ceases to be produced within the body of the living being and the mass is then returned to the Universe as energy over a period of time.
In human beings, the body is the mass that condensed from the Universal Energy, using the body of another for gestation and development. The soul is just the life-energy that pervades every part of the body and interacts with everything and everyone in our environment.
Since our body and soul are both derived from Universal Energy and since all other objects – living and non-living – on Earth and in the Universe are also derived from the Universal Energy, there is a direct connection between us and the forces and energies of other objects in the Universe