Metamorphosis

I am currently undergoing a metamorphosis. At a meeting the other day, someone said that this was a wonderful group of caterpillars. I was taken aback. He said, yes ... soon these will be butterflies.

A friend once said that metamorphosis was proof of God. Otherwise, how could one explain that a butterfly emerges from a caterpillar in purely evolutionary steps? Is such a leap in complexity even comprehensible through evolution? I'm not a biologist, and this only interested me as a thought experiment. I don't believe in a Christian God anyway.

However, the idea of metamorphosis has been with me ever since. Something very complex is transformed into something else extremely complex. I am interested in how this works with ideas. How can one idea give rise to another? Does this have anything to do with creativity? Does the 'old' idea have to die to make way for a new idea? Does the caterpillar die when it becomes a butterfly?

In the West, we have the idea of the subject, from which thoughts arise, in which ideas reside, and whose energy is the driving force… That seems unlikely to me. Isn't it perhaps rather the case that there is a larger consciousness, a divine consciousness or absolute spirit, a Immanence Is it, which seems cosmic? Isn't it rather that everything has always existed simultaneously? All possibilities are real, and we can only experience a small part of them?

Can we immerse ourselves in this great consciousness and become aware of our participation?

I've been asking myself a lot lately what I should do with 'my' old ideas. Should I write them down, preserve them, transform them, allow them to metamorphose and document them? It seems to leave its mark here on this blog.