You can choose a pond near you, or the feature picture in this article. It is lit by the sun, golden reflections radiating, complex clouds and kaleidoscopic-deep coloured swirls, all around and through your larval body.

It’s an effortless place, suspended, weightless. And at the same time there’s a calling. That call is universal, a call to shift to embrace greater complexity, to see further, a desire to be in connection, to release yourself into so much more.

This is not an awareness, not yet. It is, however, a choice that is already made, a choice to expand, to be in and part of the world outside your world.

You feel yourself drawn towards the shallows as your body is preparing you, orienting for the new. There are urges to stretch and push, beyond the supportive watery confines, compelling you up nearby vegetation, away from your oxygen life support, fish out of water, into the air.

The dryness and unfamiliar movement, air-sharpnesses through you, trigger you out of impending asphyxiation, as you hang on, hold, and stay with the rushes, dizziness and nausea of all your internals redistributing. Body fluids whirl, the vortexes spin in you, your chest, head, legs and wings emerge. Your old larval skin shell starts to be pushed aside.

You harden, pull out by your belly, dry. You extend your wings, sense the multiple entities around you, set flight in a viscerally felt, quantum-ly different, vast space.

Expanding into all you can sense, you are grateful for that old skin shell, it kept you safe. And far more is here for you now, aliveness you feel, the fullness of all the space you are now: air, maturity, mating, territory. Connecting, penetrating, receiving and fusing.

You set wing into the air.

There’s a cognitive mirror of this too in our world: as humanity we are collectively preparing for metamorphosis, like larvae about to emerge from the water we are yet to be fully aware of it.1

The signs are all around. For example for a decade China has been a principle driver of oil consumption.2 This has now reversed. Peak oil for China is here and it is huge for our polycrises. So many facets of power, politics and inflicted pain globally revolve around oil. Reverse consumption, price falls, domination decentralises. That greatly assists us to re-pattern ourselves, redistributing wealth, resolving conflicts, distributing resources.3

The international group called IPBES, through a 3 year process, identified the science for transformation: what do we know, how and what are we already doing to reverse course, repair life support and let humans and nature thrive.

IPBES endorses spiritual reconnection between humans and nature as one of the major keys.4

This is radical. Some highlights include recognising:

• “collective imagining of fundamental changes in human-nature relationships… incorporating clarity, inclusion, creativity, flexibility are powerful and effective”

• “culture and ecosystems are integrated and co-evolving”

• “humans are part of and fully interdependent with nature”

This is legitimising a profoundly different space, preparing a metamorphosis of our modern day culture and its interdependent money / values systems.

Global government processes tend to prioritise order and rules. It’s safe, it is known. Just like the dragonfly larva is supported by the pond water leaving this environment is disorienting, takes courage, opens vulnerability and asks us to hold curiosity about co-created outcomes.5

Yet we did this.6 The governments and UNEP took themselves out of the current paradigm to recognise and honour the future we are creating.

That’s heady as a list. Consequently, I ground by feeling it. I invite you too as well. Feel as the dragonfly, newly able to fly, you’ve just metamorphosised. There is an entire new world around. You feel dimensionally liberated, take wing with me:

relaxing as openness, you can begin to feel that the appearance-realm in and around you is actually a world made of swirling, luminous consciousness, arising as a whole, including all selves, thoughts, emotions, objects, and the space between. As you practice, you can feel the pattern of the swirling currents moving you and others like leaves in the wind.
Waiting to Love, David Deida

These currents are profound. We can feel them through us, we commonly do. As we increasingly honour this, paying attention to our intuition alongside analysis, we can feel our multiple senses emerging:

when purpose dances with passion, and inner awakening meets collective transformation, 2024 revealed itself as a quantum leap – not just a year, but a portal where individual consciousness and systemic change became beautifully, irrevocably intertwined.
coauthor.studio, AI paraphrase of my, Simon Divecha, 2024 linkedin posts

This is an entangled space. Like the dragonfly that can now breath air and fly, it’s inviting us to feel all of what is around us, the many inputs from our multiple intelligences—felt, subtle, kinaesthetic, kosmic, cognitive, time, non-linear—while knowing deeply:

ultimate truth does not erase historical truth—they don’t cancel each other out. As with classical and quantum physics, both truths have their place. Nevertheless, it helps to know which truth a person is speaking from. Without being mindful that multiple views of reality exist, I get trapped in my limited perspective
Quantum Buddhas, Karen O’Brien

Wishing you all well with metamorphosis!