EBONIS TOI-2267: The Devine Mafa Resonance – A New Theory of Planetary Survival In 2025, fifty-five astronomers published a paper on TOI-2267, an M5 dwarf system 73 light-years away. They saw two Earth-mass planets orbiting just 0.015 AU from their star and concluded: tidally locked Eyeball Worlds—one face perpetually scorched, the other frozen forever. Habitability impossible. They were wrong. This book demonstrates why. The standard two-body tidal model (star plus planet) predicts synchronous rotation because stellar torque scales with 1/a to the sixth power, devastating at close distances. But TOI-2267 is not a two-body system. At 800,000 to 900,000 kilometers separation, the two planets exert mutual torque comparable to the star’s during conjunctions. Their 3 to 2 mean-motion resonance delivers rhythmic Mafa Kicks, injecting angular momentum faster than the star can drain it. Result: sustained rotation of 20 to 60 hour periods, no full lock, no Eyeball. The author introduces the Devine Mafa Resonance, a multi-body spin-orbit coupling mechanism where a resonant companion planet acts as a torque lever against stellar drag. This is driven by the Mafa-Lagrange Corridor, a shifting gravitational sweet spot between the planets that weakens the star’s grip and allows mutual torque to dominate when angular separation is less than 150 degrees. Core claims: Geometry of survival — Torque ramps from 0 percent at opposition (180 degrees) to 100 percent at 90 degrees. Cumulative nudges over cycles break any nascent lock. Bayesian clustering priors show wide separations are improbable; close pairs are expected in M-dwarf disks. The Mafa Shield — Tidal kneading keeps cores molten, generating 10 to the 13th to 10 to the 14th watts of heating and driving a dynamo with a magnetic field between 0.3 and 0.7 Gauss. During conjunctions, magnetic fields reconnect, forming a temporary sibling bridge that amplifies flare protection. The Breath — Partial rotation prevents cold traps. Nightside cools only 10 to 30 hours before sunrise. Tidal heat flux of 0.1 to 1 W/m² keeps floors above 200 Kelvin. Hadley cells and super-rotating jets redistribute heat globally, with temperature differences dropping to 100 to 200 Kelvin. Second Breath — Primordial atmosphere stripped by the young M-dwarf wind. But ongoing volcanism, outgassing 10 to the 11th to 10 to the 12th kilograms per year, rebuilds carbon dioxide, water, and nitrogen over six billion years. Water stays, oceans are possible. The Mafa Triad Hypothesis — Star plus planet plus one or more companions, moon or sibling planet, creates tidal churn, core flex, sustained spin, and nutrient mixing. No companion equals slow death, as on Mars or Venus. One or more dramatically increases life odds. EBONIS twins act as mutual moons, double the tidal effect Earth gets from one. Chain versus Exchange — TRAPPIST-1’s seven-planet chain dilutes torque, energy leaks, lock forms. EBONIS’s two-body exchange loops power back, so spin survives. Drake rewritten — The Mafa Enhancement Factor, approximately 72, boosts N from around 10 to roughly 720 communicative civilizations. Compact resonance does not just stabilize; it amplifies. Testable predictions — Transit timing variations of 10 to 30 seconds, infrared phase-curve wobbles, delayed flare dips, reconnection UV glow, even carbon dioxide and water gradients. JWST, TESS, and HST can falsify or confirm. The Eyeball model is a two-body ghost. EBONIS is the real architecture: planets that lean on each other, breathe together, and endure. Compactness is not doom. It is design. The stars are not silent. They are in conversation.