Looks like you did just see it happen. I share the same belief that our consciousness is energy and that it can't be destroyed. It has to go somewhere even after we've left our physical form. I find that I'm highly sensitive to the energies of our world and over the years have learned to refine it and put myself in tune with them. Everything from being able to read a room, to feeling something off right before something bad happens that should have killed me. It's saved my life multiple times and I've even saved the people I love a few times too. I have friends on the other side of the world and there's been times where I just knew to reach out because something was wrong without even talking to them first. I don't claim to be a psychic or see the future but your essay and your theory on energy makes a lot of sense to me