When the cocoon is also the secret place – Cocoon Conclusions in 2018
There is an agenda that presses toward the end-game in the cocoon. In addition to anchoring in, being still, night prayers , there is a letting go and there is a secret place agenda. I don’t think it is coincidence, rather syncretistic that the new year of 2018 is upon us as I arrive to a settling close of butterfly insights. There is a butterfly crescendo on the horizon. This final work takes place in the Secret Place and is accomplished through a final act of bravery and surrender. Surrender to the initially affronting idea that this darkness is not inherently bad is hard to reconcile because it feels so bad sometimes. It is also hard because the darkness involves the eating away of what we are… the caterpillar’s whole self must dissolve . There must be an agreement with the Lord to this plan of decompensation – we have to say yes to this night prayer. We have to be overwhelmed by these imaginal cells so that the new thing can be birthed. But the moment of su