Imaginal Cells and Impostor Nutrition
There’s the caterpillar. There are imaginal cells . These seen, material imprints of the unseen world line up with this essential-self calling us. It parallels with what G. K. Chesterton calls “Divine Desire”. As the small still voice whispers to us from behind (1 Kings 10:12), so the caterpillar starts hearing this different frequency . This frequency is that of one tiny imaginal cell within. This foreign cell gets his attention: “The caterpillar’s 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 things they are enemies…and gobbles them up.” Imaginal cells survive liquefaction of very nearly all other cells of the caterpillar when once inside its chrysalis. ( From Norie Huddle’s children’s Book Butterfly ) Eldridge writes: “ Our desire, if we will listen to it, will save us from soul-suicide, the sacrifice of our hearts on the altar of “getting by”