Verbors, let me toss something into this mix as well.
The way I figure it, everything that we feel, see, hear, smell, or taste is really just an illusion. Atoms - the smallest known particles of matter that still retain the properties of an element - are like 99.99% space. Molecules are made of atoms. Everything else that we perceive in the physical world is made of molecules. Water, air, US, even SMELLS...everything. So, in essence, everything that we perceive with our normal senses is 99.99% space - it's not really "there". It's like looking at clouds from an airplane. They LOOK solid enough to walk on, but we "know" they're not. The rings of Saturn when seen through a telescope LOOK pretty substantial - but they're mostly dust and pieces of pea-sized gravel spaced miles apart.
So that leads to the question, "If what we perceive isn't really there, what is?"
Answer: Energy/Spirit/Source/God/Vibrations.... there's a thousand different words for what it is, but in the end, it's the only "Truth". It's what the Lakhota call "The Great Mystery" or what the Toltecs call The Nagual.
When people talk about "energy" or "vibrations", they're talking about how they experience the stuff that our normal perceptions can't: that stuff inbetween the Protons, Electrons, and Neutrons. The stuff that is REAL.
Like Angela, I'm very pleased that someone as young as you is taking the time to really ask this question. My own Daughter is ten, and having lived with me her whole life, she gets it a little, but for someone to step up at 14 and say, "Um...excuse me...but what the HECK are guys talking about??" to me shows immense personal integrity.
I hope this helped a little. If not, keep asking the question - because in the end, the answer is a LOT less important than the fact that you are asking it.
Aho Mitaque Oyasin,
Mato Kinze
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