I am sure you know a butterfly comes from a caterpillar that has gone into a chrysalis.  However, did you know that when a caterpillar goes into the chrysalis, it does not automatically become a butterfly?

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The caterpillar contains within its body other cells called “imaginal cells” that are the basis for the butterfly. These imaginal cells are the seeds of future potential which had been dormant and which now begin a process of creating the new form and structure of the butterfly. In order to actually become a butterfly, the imaginal cells must connect with each other.

 

A breakdown is always an opportunity for a breakthrough. However, there is no guarantee that there will be a breakthrough, just as there is no guarantee that the imaginal cells in a caterpillar will become a butterfly.  Therefore, connections, cross-pollination, and conscious cooperation between and among the imaginal cells are critical for creating a new and different life, both in the caterpillar/butterfly and in our human lives and experience.  

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Transformation (both individual and collective/cultural) does not occur in a linear, straight line. It requires de-construction (coming apart, letting go) and then re-configuring in new, unknown, unpredictable ways because of the quantum field.  It requires moving into and through the unknown, because that’s where creation happens. 

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Becoming a new culture (individually and collectively) requires a non-linear process that has the right conditions for creativity and transformation.  It is the same process that a caterpillar goes through in becoming a butterfly.  Cultural transformation occurs organically through individual people, from the inside out.  It is not some externally-decided or managed change or event.

 

Dr. Joe Dispenza says that we get stuck on the mistaken idea that transformation has to be predictable and that we should be able to know how it’s going to happen. That’s our biggest error because the quantum model says that we can never control the outcome.  It has to be uncertain and unpredictable.  

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Since we create our lives and experience through our stories/world views, an important purpose of the Cultural Butterfly Project is to give us new perspectives about the cultural stories we have been living by and see possibilities for evolving into higher levels of cooperation and co-creation.

 

There are innumerable examples springing up of this socio-economic cultural transformation which give real hope and substance to the new world we are in the process of creating.  See “Signs of the Emerging Cultural Butterfly" under “Blog” for examples.