Amavi le Arte

Whole

This line will stand for a whole complete,
A whole, a whole, so strong and neat.
A whole, a whole, a whole you see,
One whole for you and one for me.

Halves

A whole, a whole, here it stays,
One-half, one-half, equal ways.
One-half, 1 whole side by side,
Back to one whole along for the ride

Thirds

A whole, a whole, still complete,

Now into thirds so fair and neat.

Two-thirds here and one-third there,

One-third, one-thirds, equal share.

two-thirds now, almost done

one whole complete the form was fun

Attachment can make abundance feel like scarcity

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognise him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.

He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.

She said yes.

Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.

Then he bred them.

The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.

Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.

A second-grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations 💛

If you want to read the full lecture.

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA295/English/AP1997/19190823d03.html

6. The Upbringing of Children. Karma. - GA 95. At the Gates of Spiritual Science - Rudolf Steiner Archive Rudolf Steiner Archive: An electronic Library and Archive site for the over 6000 collected works of the Austrian philosopher and founder of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner