all of us when we are aware enough, have sensed that there is more to life that meets the eye. but usually, the mere routine of daily duties and the mounting pressures of living in the wake of the bloodiest and most precarious century in human history, blunt the edge of our quest. some of us merely settle down and accept their then rather meaningless existence. but many of us are not satisfied with such dreary compromises, and seek something beyond them, knowing they need a bigger picture.

all religions in their non-doctrinaire and profounder reaches seek to find this Big Picture, for the very word religion means to re-tie us (re-ligare) to some larger reality that gives meaning and purpose to our experience and the unfolding of events for us, including the great question of death and the possibilities of transfigurations beyond it. in no civilization was this quest more pervasive and profound than in ancient Egypt. in this connection the word ousi is memorable (wsy in the jargon of technical transliteration for the 5th to 7th hieroglyphs).

the word is found in the inscriptions of the Great Goddess’ temple of Dendera which speak of the Sanctuary of the Divine Cat-Lady, Bast. it connotes a narrow passage or aperture leading to celestial realms – a meaning confirmed by the great Egyptologist Serge Sauneron in 1966 when studying a papyrus in the collection of John Wilbour now at the Brooklyn Museum. the word goes back at least to the times of the 18th Dynasty, some two and a half millennia ago, and meant a place of passage protected by divine energies. three years before a fatal accident, Serge Sauneron wrote down the elegant and pregnant passage we translate now [from the French]:

What follows will of necessity be only the ground lines of a kind of treasure map. we need to walk the trail to find the sacred territory. in that pursuit the map can be only an aid to reaching a reality beyond the map. and the path of what the old Navajo tradition calls the trail of the Holy People, woven of rainbows and the caduceal serpent of powers of male and female lightnings – a reflection of the energies of God and Goddess, the powers of the Divine Two. The “powers of two” can literally help us here, the first power of 2 being two itself; the second (2^2 or 2 x 2) being 4; the third (2^3 = 2 x 2 x 2) being 8, and so on. we can only regard the Divine Pair as complementary entities (+1) + (-1) who blend so perfectly they become invisible: (+1) + (-1) = 0.

biology is more basic than either physics or chemistry, since all the constituents of any universe, including its fundamental particles, are living forms. This bios* or life energy (we feel it ebb and flow within us everyday) is, interestingly, not only the Greek root for “life” but a computer acronym for what amounts to their equivalent of life energy: Basic Input-Output System. Like gravitational energy, bios flows perpendicularly to, i.e. independent of, all of our spatial dimensions, and thus our apparently three-dimensional world is actually 5 dimensional, with two of these dimensions shared throughout the multiverse, along with time itself. thus the three universes, manifesting separately in terms of their three perceived dimensions each, contribute 9 (3 x 3) to the 15-D space continuum in which they are embedded. to these nine we must add 2 more [the gravitational (grav) and bios dimensions] which are shared by all worlds in the Multiverse, thus making an 11-D continuum thus far. there is a needed master-control centre in the Multiverse (which we shall call the Q-Cosmos for convenience) linking it to a higher 7-D world whose time is independent of consequences in the Multiverse, as above noted. This Q-Center is smaller in size, but much larger in power than any of the three sister universes (including ours) of the Multiverse. it not only has its own separate 3-D perceived space, with shared grav and bios dimensions (which all of the other three also do), but it is a world not subject to the inevitable aging and molecular dissolution of our universe and the other two. this capability requires a new dimension and direction independent of all the other five (the 3-D perceived space, plus the two shared grav and bios dimensions). this new dimension (Bios 2: self rejuvenating), plus its separate 3-space, thus adds a contribution of 4 more to the 11-D continuum we already had accumulated at the level of the Multiverse, giving a grand total 11 + 4 = 15 for its total space continuum, thus making a 16-D space-time...*

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*Bios 1: basically, self-repairing with the capacity to replicate one body for another

Janus (literally meaning “The Time-Gate Keeper”) was the old Roman god of the year, hence the name January for the first month. Janus is always shown with two faces. one looks to the past, the other gazes into the future. the first could be said to be the conserving mode of natural time that tries to maintain things as they have been. but the second seeks to change things by metamorphosing the present into a quite different future, not necessarily conservative with respect to the past. the two modes of Q-control of the Multiverse (which of course includes our own universe) reflect this profound and complementary duality in the nature of time itself. the system of seven circular rings (each containing 360 clusters of 13 world-types each) maintains and sustains nature; whereas the system of five times seven square rings (each containing 72 clusters of 13 world-types) transforms and metamorphoses.

the two alternative Q-control modes of sustaining and metamorphosing through the mutually exclusive square and circular ring configurations, allow for balancing any abuse of the ongoing natural maintenance, for example by gross-abuse of special powers (e.g. technologies). due re-balancing is achieved by switching over to the metamorphic mode, which could speed up the adaptive development of natural enemies of the offending species. if this should not avail, then ultimately the evolutionary destiny of all life forms is speeded up to the point where their molecular transducers are finally no longer needed.

sometimes, in a difficult problem, it is best to leap right into it rather than wait too anxiously long trying to anticipate all the maybes, what-ifs, and whether-or-nots that might arise. it not only saves time and worry, but we face reality directly and hence know more clearly what we should do to make things better.

so let it be with our planet, which has been increasingly affected by human actions past and present insofar as dominant inputs to its vast ecosystem that are very closely and intricately networked with feedback and feed-forward circuits. human history has unmistakably been deleterious in its effects on this network, and in recent decades it has become obvious that all other species, both plant and animal, have paid the price.