"You Are Psyche" - Butterfly as a Divine Symbol of the Soul

We must dare to dream about flowers and nectar.

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When I first read about the “imaginal cells” in a caterpillar, I thought, “If it isn’t the best metaphor for life, I don’t know what is.”

The biology of a caterpillar is truly stunning. A crawling, plant-bound creature has been leading an ordinary life, but one day, something shifts within its body, and it receives the message that it’s tim…