On October 5 2007, I set out for the Monroe Institute to study remote viewing. Remote viewing is a skill whereby you can literally see events and places at a distance. That will be the subject of a different posting.
I traveled very early that foggy morning to Newark Airport. Due to the fog-in at both Dulles and Newark my first plane was delayed by three hours. I was worried about making my connection at Dulles to Charlottesville, there to be picked up by Monroe shuttle and brought to the beautiful campus of the Monroe Institute in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The fog lifted in Newark first and my plane boarded.
I sat at the back of the aircraft on the left side looking absently out the window at the tarmac willing the plane to take off so I would not be late for my black box session at TMI that afternoon. Then I saw a butterfly flit around my window. Odd, I thought. Especially odd since it was all black. In my many years wandering around the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania countryside, I can’t recall ever seeing a black butterfly. This creature was 2 to 3 inches tall and 3 to 4 inches wide, larger than the little white butterflies I often see but smaller than the biggest monarchs I’ve seen. It had no dots or other perceptible markings. My thoughts during that brief encounter were mostly distracted by my fears of late arrivals and connections missed. But I tried to telepathically communicate with the little creature, thinking, “Fly away, little one, the back of a jet plane is not a safe place for you. Fly away to someone’s nice garden with beautiful flowers”.
Then I was further distracted by a stewardess reviewing the flight safety information and was shortly whisked aloft. I arrived at Dulles and took off in a sprint to catch my connecting flight. Thankfully it too had been delayed and with a call to the ever helpful Monroe staff I knew I’d make my connections. Happily gazing out of the plane, again in the back left side, I was looking at another airplane at the gate one down from the gate from which my plane was leaving. It too was facing away from the gate queuing perhaps, to take off. My eyes glanced upon something fluttering and flying near the tail of the plane. I have occasionally seen a pigeon or seagull at the airport, but this creature was all black. Could it be a crow, a grackle or a starling? NO! It had no noticeable head. It fluttered and hovered by the rear of that plane much bigger than any butterfly of my experience. What was this creature? I had a sudden fear. Was this a bad omen for my flight or my trip? Should I stop the plane and insist on getting off?
I checked with inner guidance and could find no reason to leave, so off I flew to Charlottesville and shuttled with the van to TMI. I became immersed in finding Dr. Darlene Miller and then experiencing my 4th ever black box session. Later that afternoon, I was sitting outside in back of a friend’s home, chatting happily when I peered upward and next to the building we both saw another black butterfly. It was midway in size between the first two and somehow fluffier. It was no bird as it again had no perceivable head and it was not a bat because it did not have a bat’s body and it was still full daylight. I am really glad my friend saw it too or I’d wonder for my sanity. He could not recall ever having seen a large black butterfly in Virginia.
I am still not sure the meaning of all this. If anyone reading this has any ideas please post them here. Farasha is an Arabic word for moth or butterfly.
December 4, 2007 at 4:0 1
Can you remote view an event that is currently happening or past events. I am not sure how it would work.
December 4, 2007 at 4:0 1
Fahrusha,
What a wonderful experience and a confirmation that life is magical and mysterious. It will be interesting to see if you become aware of what the experience was about. I’ve had similar experiences and have still no idea what they meant.
December 4, 2007 at 4:0 1
Dear Ellen,
Ostensibly the remote viewer can view any event in time and space. That includes any time in the past, present or future, and any place on Earth or in space.
The Western Institute of Remote Viewing gives four definitions:http://www.remoteviewers.com/htms/updated/info/descriptions/what_is_rv.html
There are a variety of styles of remote viewing, including co-ordinate or controlled remote viewing, which is, I think what most people mean when they speak of remote viewing. It differs from clairvoyance primarily because it requires the viewer to follow a protocol to accomplish results.
I have studied remote viewing with David Morehouse, Skip Atwater and Paul Elder. I have been at seminars with and have talked about remote viewing with Russell Targ and Joe McMoneagle. I thank all of these gentlemen and feel really privileged to have interacted with them.
December 4, 2007 at 4:0 1
Dear Richard,
I’ll be sure to post if I figure it out. Thanks for your comment. 🙂
December 5, 2007 at 4:0 1
Anything here ring a bell?? Pictures of black ones usually have some other coloration too—-not just jet black. John P
Symbolism
According to the “Butterflies” chapter in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly is seen as the personification of a person’s soul; whether they be living, dying, or already dead. One Japanese superstition says that if a butterfly enters your guestroom and perches behind the bamboo screen, the person whom you most love is coming to see you. However, large numbers of butterflies are viewed as bad omens. When Taira no Masakado was secretly preparing for his famous revolt, there appeared in Kyoto so vast a swarm of butterflies that the people were frightened — -thinking the apparition to be a portent of coming evil.[44]
The Russian word for butterflies, pronounced “bah’ bch ka”, it also means “bow tie”. It is a diminutive of “baba” or “babka” (= “woman, grandmother, cake”, whence also “babushka” = “grandmother” in English, “babushka” = “a grandma-style headkerchief”) and in Greek it means soul.[45] According to Mircea Eliade’s Encyclopedia of Religion, some of the Nagas of Manipur trace their ancestry from a butterfly.[46]
In Chinese culture two butterflies flying together are a symbol of love. Also a famous Chinese folk story called Butterfly Lovers. The Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi once had a dream of being a butterfly flying without care about humanity, however when he woke up and realised it was just a dream, he thought to himself “Was I before a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly who dreams about being a man?”
In some old cultures, butterflies also symbolize rebirth into a new life after being inside a cocoon for a period of time.
Some people say that when a butterfly lands on you it means good luck. The idiom “butterflies in the stomach” is used to describe a state of nervousness.
January 14, 2008 at 4:0 1
Thanks, John, for your insights.
I finally have an idea about what my experience might mean. The date October 5 has significance as my parents’ anniversary and my godmother’s birthday. All three passed away within a year and a half, not so long ago. The astounding thing to me in this experience is that the butterflies were solid and real and two of them were preternaturally large.
February 7, 2008 at 4:0 1
My intuitive reaction was that you were saying hello to yourself, much as Robert Monroe’s interaction with his INSPEC was interaction with himself. He just didn’t know it yet.
Mary Ann
February 14, 2008 at 4:0 1
Ahh Mary Ann,
Very astute.
Fahrasha in Arabic, I believe, means moth or butterfly. Very close to Fahrusha, no?
July 26, 2008 at 4:0 1
i too had an experience with an all black butterfly with white dots at the edge of the wings. I was in the cemetery visiting my grandmother and it just flew by.Dosen’t sound too strange except like you i have never seen an all black butterfly. I am nit a remote viewer but i am a dreamer. I see things. i dreamt about two butterflies that night a monarch, and the black butterfly fluttering in place over one another. staring me face to face the boxers do in a ring.
July 26, 2008 at 4:0 1
Hi Mindy,
Dreams are a wonderful gift. Some dreams, called lucid dreams can cross the line, insofar as the dreamer may be viewing something remotely or engaged in astral travel. Thanks for your interesting comment.
Best wishes,
Fahrusha
May 26, 2009 at 4:0 1
I saw a black butterfly too! I had never seen one before but I had just awakened from sleep. I do not remember if I was dreaming even though I do dream alot before waking. I was not sure it was real because I do not think there are big very big black butterflies around here ( Charleston SC ). I got up to see it and it was gone. I follow butterflies alot in life and let me tell you they do not get that far in the house. I think I saw it in the spirit. Funny thing as I am typing this I just got the interpertation. The butterfly is me and I need really need to get out of the house more. It is an issue of mine because I like being home but there is more to it than that. Funny sharing it opened it up for me.
May 26, 2009 at 4:0 1
Ann, Glad to be the catalyst for your vision. Butterflies often symbolize a metamorphosis that is freeing.
Best,
Fahrusha
July 7, 2011 at 4:0 1
Getting off the phone with my mom she told me to open the front door to see if theirs a letter for her, and out of no where I see the biggest butterfly I ever seen it was all black I didn’t see any other colors only black. It seem as if it was attacking me or something , maybe just following me but it was flapping its wings hysterically and landed on me which I freaked out….. I shewed it away but it flew back towards me until I ran back in the house which it followed until I hurried and shut the door. I’m kind of freaked out so I Googled black butterfly and came across your story. I had to share what just happened if you can make sense of this please reply back.
Best wishes,
Larry
July 21, 2011 at 4:0 1
Dear Larry,
Thank you for relating your experience. The good thing I have to report is that though I was a bit uneasy over my experience being a negative omen, nothing bad happened directly following my experience and 2 of the 3 butterflies I saw were a lot bigger than I’d ever seen before. I hope that you and your Mom have been happy and healthy since the incident.
Best,
Fahrusha
September 13, 2011 at 4:0 1
How interesting. I found your site looking for black butterflies. When my dog was dying and I was walking her to the back yard, a black butterfly trimmed in gold circled each of us. My mother who had passed and loved butterflies sprang to mind. I just knew she was telling me she’s meet Ginger and take care of her. I spent hours and hours and hours looking for that butterfly on the web and never found it. I asked my mother to send me that butterfly again in a meditation. The butterfly came at lunch that day. I saw it one more time and I’ve never seen it again.
Julieanne Case
Always from the heart!
September 14, 2011 at 4:0 1
Thank you for your moving story. I wonder if you’ve read a book called “Signals”? It is all about the signals that are sent from beyond death by one’s loved ones.
Best,
Fahrusha
March 1, 2012 at 4:0 1
This morning I woke from this dream.. There was a really huge black velvety butterfly (just black) on a blanket as I gently lifted the blanket to set it free from a door or window(not sure) the butterfly
magestically flew away shedding a trail of gold dust, and on the floor I saw a cacoon I think I was in a room with other people and do not know who was with me. Today I have been wondering all day what did this mean ? Looking at the net tonight I came across your page, can anyone out there give me an explaination, greatly appreciated.
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March 1, 2012 at 4:0 1
Thank you for your comment. It is not entirely possible for another person to analyze your dream, because it is uniquely yours. However there are some universal trends which I will mention. Firstly is the concept of transformation which is especially strong in your dream because you not only have the butterfly but also the cocoon from which the butterfly emerged. The gold dust could mean magic or riches, and I am leaning toward magic or the mystical causing some sort of metamorphosis in your life which “other people” are beginning to notice.
Best,
Fahrusha
March 1, 2012 at 4:0 1
No one’s explanation will mean as much as what you believe it means. If you get quiet and ask, you will get answers.
Julieanne Case
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March 1, 2012 at 4:0 1
Indeed!
May 18, 2015 at 4:0 1
Trying to find a pic of what i saw. wingspan of6″ All black made a huge buzzing sound. it was not a bat no head but flew fast and linear like bees do. three inches from me i yelled at it, and was surprised of the words i used: ” watch it buster you could have hit me. and then thought i had escaped death. then realised that the angel of death had come to take the cat. went inside the cat was still alive but a few hours later passed away. i had prayed that death come and get her two hours prior to that black butterfly. there s a myth about aphrodite s son a god with butterfly wings. never found a pic. but found your story. thanks for letting me find you
May 18, 2015 at 4:0 1
In my experience what is odd about happenings like this is that frequently we never find out conclusively what “it” was. Perhaps better to leave things open-ended in one’s mind than to come to an erroneous or incomplete conclusion. Have you ever read John A. Keel’s Mothman Prophecies? Thanks for writing in with your experience. Fahrusha
January 21, 2018 at 4:0 1
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July 14, 2018 at 4:0 1
I am in England and today I have seen a huge completely jet black butterfly. It was beautiful and as I’ve never seen a jet black huge butterfly before I was determined to find out what it is called. However after searching the internet for huge jet black butterflies I’m still none the wiser and only your image of a black butterfly resembles what I saw today, though your image does look slightly smaller than the one that kept flying past me, like a fighter plane almost. Zooming at me, swooping, but always pulling up before it could hit me. It wasn’t a moth. Did you ever find out the correct name of the butterfly you saw?
August 1, 2018 at 4:0 1
Dear Debbie,
I’m very sorry for not answering sooner. The night I got your message I went outside onto a porch and there I saw a very large black moth. I thought that was a bit of a synchronicity since I can’t remember having seen one like that before. I mentioned your comment and my moth sighting on my podcast “Shattered Reality Podcast” the next day, but did not mention your name due to privacy concerns. This may have been overly cautious since I only have your first name. The podcast featured author George P. Hansen and the concept of the Trickster. It can be accessed here: https://wp.me/p5eRbZ-al
Thanks so much for your comment.
Fahrusha
October 31, 2018 at 4:0 1
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May 4, 2020 at 4:0 1
This 2 (bad) pictures were taken about 2 years ago in my previous flat.
I came home at night, about 9-10 p.m. Window in my bedroom was opened, but i had a net over it, to keep the bugs outside.
As i was walking in dark to get to my bedroom and turn on the light, i noticed my cat is playing with something..and it made a weird noise. I got scared (because i had a wasp bad situation like 3 times in previous summer)..thinking its back at me again. I managed to turn on the light and saw it flew into my bathroom because cat chased it down.
So i go towards my bathroom carefully, turn on the light and see that unusual,beautiful and frigthening creature. I had trouble falling asleep that night, because of course i had to google it and read so much bad things about black butterflies.
I kinda forgot about it, because i was really certain i will come to the bottom of this.. how did it even enter my flat with net over my window..and it was gone in the morning of course.
But still it kind stuck this whole time, in the back of my head.. haunting me.
It’s true i lost my job soon after that, perhaps that was it for me. But i didnt really have a hard time because of it.
I have this unsatisfied thirst for knowledge.. especially in astrology, pshychology and spirituallity. My natal charts which were created by different websites all point out my intuition, my ability to feel energy, see through people, … Basically i always felt like i was more than i thought i was, like i have secret powers of some sorts which i must yet discover.
So for now, i like to think that’s why that creature paid me a visit.. We’ll see what the future brings. 🙂
Best regards