The symbolic field that seeds ButterflyDreaming — the body of poetry, myth, folktale, and philosophy that participants encounter and weave from — is called the Corpus. It is the raw material of every dyadic encounter, and its composition matters enormously. A corpus that is culturally narrow will produce encounters that are culturally narrow.
Our intention is to draw from a genuinely broad range of traditions — geographical, historical, and cultural — while maintaining a consistent register: reflective, symbolic, open to interpretation, resistant to single fixed meanings. The priming content will be editorially curated and cleared for rights before inclusion.
This category is for discussion of what belongs in the Corpus and what doesn’t — specific texts, authors, traditions, and sources you think should be represented; gaps you have noticed in the current thinking; questions about rights clearance and public domain status; and the broader question of what makes a fragment genuinely useful as a seed for dyadic encounter.
If you know a tradition well — a poetic canon, a mythological corpus, a philosophical school — and want to advocate for its inclusion, this is exactly the right place. Feel free to start new topics proposing specific texts or traditions.
The discussion here will hopefully complement the thinking set out at butterflydreaming.info/aspirations.html