The physical law that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only that it can change form, supports the idea of a collective conscience. Collective consciousness is generally described as a unified mindset withing a cohesive group or community. Hive consciousness is an extension of this into a larger collective of people. In the metaphysical community, some posit that the collective conscience exists globally and perhaps into our known universe and beyond. If the energy that exists in our world fuels our brain's ability to think and our mind's ability to reason, when we are born, and then again when we die, that energy goes back out into our world to be reformed and used again and again.

The energy that sparks thought and makes our mind and our bodies function cannot be destroyed, but it can change form. As such, our conscious energy may become the energy that animates the life of another person born after our death. This possibility supports the concept of reincarnation and the idea of past-life memory. It also suggests the potential for our energy to be embodied by other living and even inanimate things, as energy suffuses both.

If the world's energy permeates all matter, then it follows that scientific knowledge and discovery continues to grow as our energy travels from object to object, being to being and person to person. With each incarnation of energy and matter combined, knowledge of existence can only grow, and though the energy changes, and perhaps that knowledge is temporarily unremembered, the rediscovery of that knowledge is an ever present likelihood.

So where does divinity enter the equation? Is God or the source of creation or natural forces just another embodiment of the energy that gives us life? If so, then it requires us to acknowledge the divinity imbued in ourselves and the world we live in. When we look upon a dazzling sunset or a landscape of vibrantly hued flowers, a sharp intake of breath and a sensation of awe settles over us. We gasp at the beauty of a newborn child, and gaze at the moon in wonder as it casts its glow in the darkness. These are examples of how we perceive the divine in the world at large. Divinity, the energy that suffuses everything within and without our world is evident everywhere.

Are we then Divine? Is divinity in us, or is it part and parcel of who we are? It is possible that what we call God is really the collective consciousness ever-changing energy. Sentience is something that humans claim for themselves and sometimes in animals and other living things. Yet if the divine is responsible for the creation and ongoing existence of all that is, then it follows that sentience imbues absolutely everything. Divinity is omniscient and omnipresent because divinity is everywhere and in every single thing.

How can we, as a small portion of creative energy, contribute to and enhance this divine energy? Our best recourse is to open ourselves to every possibility, every potential and every incarnation of that energy. We must make the connection between the energy of our own mind and body with the energies around us. We should constantly seek out the knowledge that is already there, and pursue the ideas of of our human imagination. We can invite the energy around us to commune with our own to reach a greater harmony of existence. Most of all, we can recognize that as a collective unity of consciousness, we exist in and as divinity and that we magnify the force of creation and life with our own mind and soul.