Sunday, August 10, 2003

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Start with today. A butterfly flew in through my study window duringa thunder storm. By a strange coincidence, Dave aasked me last night what happens to butterflies in the rain. It is remarkable how instances of synchronicity seem to be mediated by animals. The famous example used by Jung was the arrival of a scarab beetle in the room where he had just been discussing a dream about scarabs with a patient. The day before yesterday I found a wasp dying on the window sill. I had been reading about how bees, wasps and ants control insurrection among workers by eating the eggs of the rebel and holding them down for days at a time making movement impossible. With all these pointers, it seems this is the story I should tell.