Why does physics seem to produce paradoxes? Why does consciousness feel mysterious? Why do the same structural patterns appear across cosmology, biology, and mind? Universal Collapse Theory argues that these aren't separate mysteries - they're symptoms of a single confusion: mistaking our representational models for reality itself. Jeremy C. Jones proposes that reality resolves through one recursive process - potential becoming form under constraint - and that this grammar operates structurally across scales, from the Big Bang (reframed here as an ongoing structural process rather than a one-time origin) to biological organization to the emergence of meaning. Drawing on cosmology, systems theory, evolutionary dynamics, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, this book offers a discipline-spanning framework aimed at clarity, coherence, and testable direction rather than speculation. It is written for readers interested in foundations questions across physics, mind, and metaphysics.