This might be one of the final unanswered questions. And how do we know it even does begin? Or end? Something without beginning or end is unfathomable to us humans, whose perception is reliant on finite stretches of time. Once we die and roll back into the infinite source energy, we might find out.

More and more, I think not so much. That we are all one consciousness, experiencing The Simulation. Or, more excitingly, A Simulation. Simulation 3X41231d.

Understanding that we are all one. The more we understand that you are me and I am you, the less we hurt each other. And the more we understand the concept of Ubuntu: when you succeed, I succeed.

Selfishness and greed. Irrational fear of "the other." The idea that when you have more, I have less. The concept of the "pie" with it's slices that must be fought over.

Yes, but it's not what we think. As the source energy animates our hardware (our bodies) in a unique place and time, that source energy manifests into a life, a personality, decisions, emotions. But it's all driven by the source energy. IT has free will, not US. Because, really, there is no us.

Complex Hardware. The motherboard of our bodies.

Meditate. Shush the chatter of the hardware (the brain) and tap into the source energy. Be quiet. It will tell you what you need to know.

To experience the simulation, learn something, and bring it back to the energy soup when we die.

To increase the complexity of the simulation, making it more robust and allowing us to learn quicker.

We return to the energy soup, the source energy, and report back on what we learned. Then we energy a new simulation.

We will continue to contribute to the source energy's wisdom, along with the cats and dogs and trees and aliens. When the human species "dies out" then the source energy will lose a very valuable vessel.

Is this all real? Or a simulation?