Ousis is the usual name for the Divine Essence, about which we know nothing. In the book about transcendental consciousness and Vedic doctrine, it is assumed that Mind preexisted Matter, and that Mind (the Unified Field or God) originated Matter in the act of creation, which I would call the Alpha Point of the Great Wrap-around.

Let us see how that might play out in terms of modern physics. I picture ousis creating Matter by causing a local thickening of the Higgs field, which thus gives mass to fundamental particles, transforming them from virtual particles into real ones.

Virtual particles are constantly flicking in and out of existence by borrowing energy from the vacuum field; they cannot become real unless they pay back the energy loan to the vacuum field within nano- or femto-seconds. (It’s a short-term loan.) The virtual particles in the vacuum field constitute the “quintessence” which, on the cosmic scale, accelerate the expansion of the Universe, as recently discovered. (I think this is because of the fermion pressure; according to the Pauli exclusion principle, fermions cannot occupy the same space at the same time – I assume even if they are only virtual fermions.)

I don’t know how the Higgs field relates to quintessence, but God (Ousis) somehow makes them interact, and the real fermions thus created coagulate into matter as we know it, as presumably happened in the very early Universe after the Big Bang. First quarks into protons and neutrons, these then into nuclei, then nuclei and electrons into atoms, atoms into molecules, to macromolecules, to cells – and away we go.

The idea came to me while watching the little lake behind Bannister Park at Sauble Beach. Maybe it was imparted to me by the mosquitoes swarming around me from the swamp. Small creatures may know more than big ones. I paid for the idea by offering blood meals – offering matter for mind.