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In fact we know something about the caterpillar that I suspect the caterpillar doesn't know about what it is to be a caterpillar (I could be wrong maybe a caterpillar knows full well its unfolding plan for ascension)... but either way WE CAN KNOW 'something' about the caterpillar by simple observation.... it lives... it makes a pod.. it dies... goes no where that I can see.. then pops out... 'transforms' into a somewhat different looking, behaving, lifeform with less legs ... that is now AIRBORNE with WINGS... as a butterfly. (hmm less shoes has got to be a plus there)COULD it be that the question is WHAT is the 'purpose-of-surviving-the-journey' NOT just get good at the journey itself?
Come to think of it... What is it with that...
should it really have pushed to get better at being a grub? More legs? Less legs? More color? More juice? Fatter? Be a better meal? Feed more Raven? What was the purpose of being the grub? Get 'better' OR survive to 'transform' and 'ascend'?
Quicksand where you can lose yourself quickly
High narrow paths just the width of your foot and a 1000 foot drop either side
Hall of mirrors where you cannot tell if its ego or the soul your spirit is seeing, feeling, hearing right now