"So from where we are simply balls of energy with ALL this empty space .... how do we appear whole and solid?"
Because we can't see such small particles. This is also why we can't see the air molecules around us. What we see is reflected light.
You were supposed to have learned stuff like this in your early teens, at school.
"Why if cells are taken from a person and transported hundreds of miles away do they respond in the same way to stimulus as the original host?"
Huh? Human cells respond the same to stimuli regardless of who they were taken from. It doesn't matter where they are or who they were taken from.
"When you start looking at things like that then collective consciousness and the power of energy of thought doesn't seem like such 'woo' after all.."
All I see when I look at your questions above is shocking ignorance. Yours.
"Collective consciousness" sounds fun but of course there is no such thing. If there was, we would feel it because by definition we are all part of it. Can something be "consciousness" if it's not conscious?
"The power of energy of thought" just sounds like some words put together with no meaning and too many 'of's. Energy has power, of course. Not sure what the rest is supposed to mean.