Butterfly Logic

 

I willingly surrender the illusion of my own personal evolution

-that healing through THIS will lead to a better, more complex, more Evolved me-

everyone tells me this, though

the tarot cards

the spiritual books

all those damned butterfly metaphors

 

when I sit with Nature I witness something else

 

the caterpillar is not less evolved than the butterfly, no?

each are magnificently intelligent

each reaching for, aspiring towards, their ultimate

caterpillar-ness

or

butterfly-ness

before changing, yet again

before being thrust back into the cycle of death and rebirth

 

so it goes with us

we don’t evolve into a more enlightened life form, or version of Self

(…maybe a version of Self we’d like to take into the future

…maybe for this illusory confidence: to rest assured we won’t repeat THIS again)

 

Instead

we expand who we already are, right now

until there’s nothing left to do but go beyond this

and become, anew

 

we Become

not more evolved, intelligent, specialized, complex

we Become 

more varied, diverse, experienced, adaptable

 

observe Nature and you will see

 

we are becoming, You and I

becoming the maximum expression of what’s possible for us in this moment

until we can’t take THIS any further

until we let it go

until we change again

 

-Jessica Shepherd, healer, author Follow the Moonlit Path

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