4 April 2023

The Universal Energy Field and Your Natural State of Being

This article revised and updated 9th October 2026 (originally published 4th April 2024)

By Dr. Scott Zarcinas | Author, Doctor, Wayfarer

What’s in this article:

What One Energy means and how all life is interconnected through the same Source.
How our accumulated Self-Image creates the experience of separation.
Why we seek freedom, peace, and fulfilment in circumstances when these qualities are inherent in our Natural State of Being.
How recognising our Soul Identity reconnects us with our oneness and changes the way we participate in life.

One Energy: The Oneness of Life and Our Natural State of Being

There is only one Source of Being, one fundamental reality from which all life arises and through which all life participates.

For many years, I have understood this as the principle of One Energy. Everything we see around us, from the galaxies and stars to the oceans, forests, animals and human beings, exists within the same universe.

Although everything appears in different forms, nothing exists independently of the whole.

This understanding has been central to my philosophy for more than thirty years. It has also led me to question something fundamental about how we experience ourselves:

If we are already part of the same indivisible reality, why do we so often experience life as though we are separate from it?

Interconnected Energy

One way of understanding our interconnectedness is to think of a glove.

The four fingers and thumb appear separate and individual. Each has its own shape, position, and function, yet all five are expressions of the same glove. The individuality of each finger exists within the unity of the glove itself.

In this analogy, the glove represents the underlying Oneness of Being, while the fingers represent the individual forms through which life expresses itself.

You and I are individual expressions of life. We have different bodies, personalities, histories, experiences, and ways of participating in the world. Our individuality is real as an expression of life, although it does not make us independent of the Source from which that individuality arises.

This distinction is important because much of our understanding of ourselves begins with what makes us different. We recognise ourselves through our bodies, our names, our relationships, our achievements and the accumulated experiences that make up our personal histories.

Over time, these distinctions can become the foundation of our identity.

We begin to experience ourselves as separate individuals attempting to find our place in a world that appears equally separate from us.

The glove analogy suggests another way of understanding our existence. Individuality can be recognised as an expression of oneness rather than evidence of separation.

We are all One.

The Energy of Life

Energy is fundamental to the physical universe. It makes movement, transformation, and the processes of life possible. One of the most important principles of physics is the conservation of energy:

Energy can be transferred and transformed, although it is not created or destroyed within an isolated system.

Electrical energy, for example, can be transformed into light and heat when we switch on a lamp. The form in which energy is expressed changes as the transformation takes place.

I have often used this principle as an analogy for the relationship between the invisible Source of life and its visible expression. The forms of life are continually changing, yet the deeper question concerns the reality from which those forms arise.

For me, this is where the discussion moves beyond physics and into philosophy.

I understand Being as the underlying reality of existence, the Source from which life arises and through which life expresses itself. In this understanding, the visible world is an expression of an invisible reality, and the individual soul is a living interface through which Being participates in the world of form.

The physical concept of energy helps illustrate transformation and expression, whereas the deeper recognition of oneness is how I understand Being itself.

The Picture of Separation

If we are expressions of the same Source, how do we come to experience ourselves as separate from it?

I believe much of the answer lies in the image we accumulate of ourselves.

From an early age, we begin forming ideas about who we are, what we are capable of, what others think of us, and what life requires of us. Our experiences contribute to these ideas, and repeated experiences can reinforce them until they become part of our sense of identity.

Eventually, the accumulated Self-Image becomes the place from which we look at life. We begin seeing, interpreting and experiencing the world through what we have come to believe about ourselves.

This is where the experience of separation becomes particularly convincing. When our identity is centred on the individual Self-Image, we can begin to experience ourselves as isolated beings who must acquire from the world what we believe we do not already possess.

We seek security through circumstances, acceptance through other people, freedom through achievement, and fulfilment through reaching a particular destination. Our experience of life becomes increasingly conditional upon what happens around us.

The underlying assumption is that something must change before we can experience the qualities we are seeking.

Yet if our Natural State of Being is already grounded in oneness with Source, the question becomes whether we have been looking for those qualities in the wrong place.

The Abundance of Our Natural State

One of the central ideas in my work is that freedom, peace, joy, security, acceptance, love, and abundance are qualities inherent in our Natural State of Being.

These qualities are often experienced as things we need to obtain. We look for circumstances that will give us peace, relationships that will provide acceptance, achievements that will bring fulfilment, and financial security that will finally allow us to feel free.

There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting improvements in our circumstances. Relationships, financial resources, opportunities, and achievements are meaningful parts of human life. The difficulty arises when we make our experience of freedom, peace or fulfilment entirely dependent upon obtaining them.

We begin waiting for life to become different before allowing ourselves to experience what we are seeking.

This waiting can continue for years because the Self-Image through which we experience life keeps presenting evidence that something is missing. Our attention remains oriented towards what has yet to happen, what we have yet to achieve or what we believe we must become.

The resulting experience can be one of exhaustion, frustration, uncertainty, and disconnection. This is part of what I call the Invisible Weight.

The weight becomes increasingly familiar because the identity through which we experience life continues to reinforce the very conditions that make the weight seem necessary.

Remembering Our Oneness

Recognition begins when we become aware of the Self-Image through which we have been looking.

We can begin to recognise the beliefs, expectations, meanings, and identities that have shaped our experience. We can also begin to distinguish the image we have accumulated through life from the deeper truth of who we are.

This is where Soul Identity becomes important.

I understand Soul Identity as our unique expression of Being, the individualised pattern through which the one Source participates in life. Like the fingers of the glove, each soul has its own expression while remaining inseparable from the whole.

Recognising Soul Identity changes our orientation. Instead of continually looking towards circumstances to establish who we are and what we can experience, we begin looking towards the Source of our Being.

This is the significance I understand in the teaching that “the Kingdom of God is within” (or in our midst).

What we have been seeking through the circumstances of life may already belong to the deeper reality of who we are.

The Living Path of Awakening is grounded in this recognition: Recognise, Rest, Reflect. We recognise what is true about our identity, rest in that recognition, and allow it to be reflected through our participation in life.

Living as an Expression of One Energy

When we begin to recognise our oneness with Source, our relationship with action and achievement can change.

Imagination, intention, and attitude remain important aspects of how we participate in life. We imagine possibilities, develop intentions, and then we act upon them. These capacities allow us to create, contribute, explore, and express ourselves through the circumstances of our lives.

What changes is the identity from which that participation arises.

When we look from a Self-Image organised around separation and lack, our actions can become attempts to establish our worth, secure our identity, or obtain the qualities we believe are missing.

When our orientation returns towards Being, those same capacities can become expressions of what we recognise within ourselves. Creativity can become an expression of the creative nature of life. Love can find expression through our relationships. Freedom can be reflected in how we participate in the circumstances already before us.

This brings us back to the principle of One Energy. The glove remains one glove, regardless of how its fingers move. Each finger participates in its own way, expressing its individuality through the same underlying reality.

Perhaps the most important implication of our oneness is that we can begin living from the recognition that we already belong to life. Our individuality becomes a means of participation, and our Soul Identity becomes the expression through which that participation unfolds.

Freedom begins with recognising who we truly are and remembering our oneness with the Source of life.

Find Your Way Forward

If you’ve been waiting for circumstances to change before you can experience greater freedom, peace, or fulfilment, the Crossroads Journey offers an opportunity to explore what’s been keeping you waiting.

Together, we explore the Invisible Weight shaping your experience, recognise the patterns through which you’ve been looking at life, and reconnect with your Soul Identity.

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