The Traditional View Energy is the ability to do work. Energy can be converted from one form to another and is used during processes of change.
Nature is dependent upon cause and effect.
The universe and everything in it is a big machine with no other purpose than the purpose we, as human beings, give to, or see in, it. The Alternative View New, yet age old, is the idea that energy is a phenomenon, a thing which has the inherent ability to change. The phenomenon of energy is what everything is composed of, all that we can and can't see, along with all that we have yet to see. Espousing this alternative to the traditional view of energy can lead us to new insights. The One is always transforming, always becoming.