It’s quite simple, energy begets energy and it never dies, it just changes. When I think of the word valence, it’s pretty descriptive of my philosophy about “what lies beyond.” All that is, is change; to semi-quote The Kybalion. Think about it though, life is simply a valence of everything, especially this “all-consuming” moment we’re living in. William Shakespeare once said that we are in a play or an act for a while, that is the reality of the situation honestly and truthfully. I remember seeing “Transformers: The Movie” when the Megatron character became the Galvatron character in the way I’m describing. That is almost exactly what I mean by the word “valence” in a sense.

So when I write the words “what lies beyond” with that question mark afterwards, I can honestly say that I see the future as an interesting adventure of change, not death and “that’s it”. Because energy by nature changes and never really has a death. In fact, conscious consistency over conscious immortality could be an accurate term for what keeps all those memories in the passage from life to death, to the next as energetic reality.

So think about this concept: when considering energy, everything is now, not later or past, and change is the only constant from moment to moment. What do you think Albert Einstein was really saying with his theories of relativity and the laws of time and space?

Strangely, the trillion dollar question isn’t exactly “what lies beyond?” but the more genuine “what’s next for reality from an energetic point of view?”

In fact, now that the context is here, “what lies beyond?” is the million dollar question, “what’s next for reality from an energetic point of view?” is the billion dollar question, as there is no actual physical death, really, just a valence shift, so to speak.

So here’s the secret that turns lead into gold: Reality is fluid in the sense that only energy changes and that’s it. Take a few atoms of mercury and you have hydrogen and all the way through the atomic periodic tables and beyond. You wonder “what lies beyond?”, well I can simplify it, the past is spent in cash, the present is here now, cold and hard, and the future is an IOU when it comes down to it.