The universe is very much like a big wind-up clock, or better, a wind-up toy. Let’s use your solar system as a microcosm, and we’ll use just one of the so-called forces of nature as an example. This doesn’t explain the entire picture, but it will give you a taste of the ego’s ingenious ways of illusion. Even though energy, which I’ll call chi, is an illusion, it’s very much a part of how the ego takes the script that’s in the mind and transmutes it from invisible thought into invisible but measurable forms, and then into the visible manifestations you see and experience. This really happens all at once, but it’s necessary to be linear so you can better understand it. For instance, let’s say you could look at your planet from outer space, from half the distance to the moon, and that you could see chi. You’d then be able to see that the earth is completely encased by electromagnetic chi that’s carried to it, and past it, in the form of a huge flow of radiation from your sun. This flow of chi is constantly changing, with yin and yang going in and out of balance and everywhere in between balance. The changes in the chi are caused, in turn, by the constantly changing radiation on the sun. Now, if you could look at the sun close up from space, you’d see what could be described as enormous swirling oceans of gas. What few realize is that these oceans of gas behave in a similar fashion to the oceans of the earth. Just as the tides of the earth’s oceans are subject to the movements of your moon, the tides of those solar oceans of gas are subject to the pulling and pushing of the total interaction of all of the planets in your solar system, and even the universe beyond it —which of course is all connected. This causes different gaseous tides, sunspots and other solar events —which in turn regulate the changes in the flow of the radiation while it’s carried to the earth as particles via the solar wind, or directly by sunlight. This changing radiational flow, regulated by the movement within the entire solar system, including the earth and its moon, causes corresponding changes in the chi surrounding your planet and sends electromagnetic fields onto every inch of it. You can’t see these chi fields with the body’s eyes, but they’re everywhere —and you’ve been walking right through them every day of your life. They regulate everything about you, including your decisions and resulting movements. They are actually thought from a completely different level, transmuted into the form of chi, telling you what to think on this level. Everything you do follows from what you think, and sometimes it follows instantaneously, like a reflex.