I am very pleased to announce my next publication: Butterfly Journal: Monthly Contemplations for Spiritual Metamorphosis!
Butterfly Journal is an interactive journal for personal growth and spiritual transformation. Inspired by the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into the butterfly, this journal, with its inspirational prompts, will encourage its readers to grow from the inside out, transforming themselves into more compassionate and joyful beings.
Here is the Introduction to Butterfly Journal:
Butterflies are one of Nature’s most beautiful and amazing creatures. They flutter about like free spirits, but only after having gone through a long metamorphic process of growth and change. They are the only known living being capable of changing its DNA entirely during its metamorphosis from caterpillar, or larva, to the adult butterfly. That is, they go through a total transformation. You could even call it a rebirth.
Spiritual transformation, like the physical metamorphosis of the butterfly, is a very difficult and often painful process. Transformation requires growth and change, and so for our souls to fly free, we must embrace the growing pains. Many of us fear change. Change is scary because the outcome is usually unknown, but it is only by stepping into this darkness, like a caterpillar inside the cocoon, that we can in time grow, change, and emerge to fly into the light. Living, healing, and growing physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually require change and transformation.
To be reborn like the beautiful butterfly emerging from its burial shroud-like cocoon, our souls need to break free from the illusions of the ego and free ourselves from attachment to the physical body and the material world. When we break free of this mental cocoon, we can spread our beautiful wings and fly free.
The Ancient Greeks’ word for butterfly was ψυχη, psyche. They equated these free spirits with life, breath, and the soul itself. Across Shamanistic cultures the butterfly represents:
- Growth
- Change
- Transformation
- Reincarnation
- Courage to make change
- Mental clarity
- Freedom of the Soul from the Ego
These small delicate creatures have inspired people across the globe to face their own challenges and obstacles and to have the faith and courage to take on the growing pains of spiritually transforming from the inside out. May the butterfly be an inspiration for personal and spiritual growth for all!
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Congratulations. Two books in a row too! A cat and a butterfly.
Thanks! These two have been done for a while, so I finally decided to self-publish so I could focus on my other bigger works. 😉 Namaste!
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Thank you! Namaste _/l\_
Congratulations and the best of luck! Looks like a winner!
Thanks Joe! I hope it will be a helpful tool for self-awareness and growth for many. Namaste!
So beautiful! I love the analogy, too. It’s why I chose the butterfly as my tattoo last summer. I covered up a rose and have a lovely blue butterfly!
Thank you! Love blue butterflies!
Congratulations and beautiful cover art.
Thank you!
Butterflies are so graceful. That sounds like an interesting Journal.
Thank you Perpetua! Butterflies are so ethereal!