The Inevitable: Another Gulf Oil Spill
Being highly intuitive, I have lots of like-minded, or should I say like-spirited, friends. At the onset of BP’s Gulf Oil crisis one of them said, “There’s another one coming.” What just reminded me of her prediction is the FOX Breaking News headline as I write this.
Seems there’s been another spill.
The obvious question is “What’s going on?” How can there be so much crisis and bad news day after day? How much stress can people take? And why are things as they are?
For me the answer is fairly clear since I have a habit of frequently looking at Nature to clear up the unknown. In reply to these very valid questions I look at how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Its a process of transformation… and a difficult and deadly one at that. There are stages to such transformation. As one aspect (or form) disintegrates and ceases to exist, another more graceful and less dense emerges. Such is the stuff of Life… evolving.
Einstein taught us that matter is neither created nor destroyed, only redistributed. That’s what a butterfly is…a redistributed caterpillar. Unfortunately, there’s no getting around the fact that for the caterpillar, its the end of the road, so to speak. But all roads end when you’re in the physical world. All those roads that led to Rome did also. The only road that does not end is the one that traverses the cycle of life.
That road transcends what is in a continuous journey of self-discovery.
My heart aches for all the destruction that accompanies transformation just as my Soul simultaneously delights in the potential expansion of consciousness and quality of life present in the same evolutionary moment.
The chrysalis, that stage of caterpillar transformation, where the adult structures of the butterfly are formed while the larval structures are broken down, must be stressful and can’t be all that much fun. Neither is all that we are going through. But as with the larval breakdown, we too are in a breakdown phase of our more infantile or adolescent development as sentient beings… inevitably to emerge as the butterfly…more adult, more graceful, more Light.
Amen.