Man has an imagination. Not everything man thinks, is in line with what’s perceived.
Take the word solidity. When taken literally, nothing’s solid, everything’s active, animated, energetic. When taken figuratively, some things can be said to be solid… that is to say, some objects are less energetic than other objects, but still essentially, fundamentally in motion. Rocks give man the impression they’re something altogether different from sand and soil, air and water, which is how the word/concept solid came into being, but they’re not, as they’re moving too, but we still use the word solid, for convenience sake and more.
Man, because of his primitive, simplistic cognition, and because of his emotional need to find something solid to ground himself in, nevertheless clung to the notion of actual solidity. He pushes the deadline further back. If rocks aren’t SOLID, perhaps they’re made up of things that’re solid, and if those things aren’t solid, perhaps they’re made up of things that’re solid, and so on and so forth. But the more we probe, the more disappointed we are. Every part can be integrated into a whole, and every whole can be disintegrated into parts, from stars to “atoms”, both of which, man has at one time, practically worshipped, the biggest and presently the smallest, because he thought they were indivisible. But time and time again, he’s been disappointed. The ground on which walk remains fluid. We must orient ourselves on quicksand, if we’re to orient ourselves at all.
Nevertheless, the notion of the indivisible has remained with us, not only for convenience sake, but as a very real thing, somewhere out there, waiting to be discovered. Because the myth of solidity exists, it becomes necessary to contrast it with the notion of energy, even though energy can be rightfully applied to everything, because everything is dancing, everything is in motion, in fact there’s nothing dancing, existence is itself is dancing, what we call a thing is just an area where one kind of dancing occurs, that can be contrasted with another area where another kind of dancing occurs.
So, true, an idea must be contrasted with something in order to conceive of it, it’s just that in this case it’s contrasted with another idea, nowhere perceived, not representing anything at all, anything tangible, but nonetheless persisting in our minds due to our mental deficiencies. It can be correctly said that everything is energy, everything flickers like a flame, and it’s meaningful, because man is perpetually deceived by into thinking some God particle, spirit or soul exists, somewhere out there.