'CERES Calling' NEWSLETTER (Spring Equinox)
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Volume I Number 1 * Spring Equinox * March 20, 2003
The Butterfly- Transformation of the World Ceres Project is linked with a dedicated group of artists and musicians who have established a website and an organization called- The Butterfly Gardeners Association and Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace: <http://www.butterflyspirit.org>. On their website is told the story of how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. It serves as a perfect metaphor for what is transpiring across the planet as millions of Òimaginal cells”(visionaries and dedicated light-workers and beings of peace) are connecting and clustering as we all move towards a great transformation to becoming our own butterfly selves.
Animation by Tammy Steele Redwell: The Birth of A Butterfly
On the website Alan D. Moore quotes from Norie Huddle's book, Butterfly: The caterpillars new cells are called "“imaginal cells.” They resonate at a different frequency. They are so totally different from the caterpillar cells that his immune system thinks they are enemies...and gobbles them up--Chomp! Gulp!
But these new imaginal cells continue to appear. More and more of them! Pretty soon, the caterpillar's immune system cannot destroy them fast enough. More and more of the imaginal cells survive. And then an amazing thing happens! The little tiny lonely imaginal cells start to clump together, into friendly little groups. They all resonate together at the same frequency, passing information from one to another.
Then, after a while, another amazing thing happens! The clumps of imaginal cells start to cluster together! A long string of clumping and clustering imaginal cells are all resonating at the same frequency, and all passing information from one to another there inside the chrysalis. A wave of Good News travels throughout the system. It lurches and heaves...but is not yet a butterfly.
At some point, the entire long string of imaginal cells suddenly realizes itself into “Something Different” from the caterpillar. Something New! Something Wonderful!....and in that realization is the birth of the butterfly! Happy Birthday Butterfly!!! Since the butterfly now “knows” that it is a butterfly, the little tiny imaginal cells no longer have to do all those things individual cells must do. Now they are part of a multi-celled organism-- A FAMILY who can share the work. Each new butterfly cell can take on a different job.----There is something for everyone to do. And everyone is important. And each cell begins to do just that very thing it is most drawn to do. And every other cell encourages it to do just that.
The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is an excellent metaphor illustrating the process and intention of the Ceres Project.
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"Come out of hiding, all you imaginal buds, it is high noon and time to prepare for histogenesis! It is time for a magnificent metamorphosis into a new creature with new priorities: beauty, grace, social community, continuation of the species, planning ahead with many future generations in mind..."
- Don Gilmore