Bugs 'N Such...But NOT Parasites!

There may be a better placement for this post...but since it is related to a post I submitted a few threads below (RE: ROCKS IN POCKETS) I thought I would put it here.

As I said in that previous post, I have a collection of mojo...much of which is natural...and most of which I found...or rather it found me!

Over many years I noticed that when I was going through a difficult time, I would discover dead bugs...yep, you read right!!! But these weren't just any bugs...although I have some of those, too (butterflies, for instance)...I mean unusual bugs that I had never seen before! Strange beetles, unusual winged creatures, bugs with amazing colors!!! Like I said...I found them already dead...so no insecticde was involved, LOL...and often in the strangest of places! On the sidewalk while walking down a crowded city street, for example... completely intact, although very dead!!!

Initially I didn't think much of it...although I did have a 'sense' that I should save them...for no reason that I understood...and so I began my collection in a special treasure box. I've learned to follow my intuitions...even when they make no apparent 'sense'...and just trust that there is a reason for it, albeit a mystery to me. Over the years this collection has grown significantly...with an ever expanding selection of species...and I began to realize that there was a pattern to this and my discoveries would always occur when I was facing major life challenges. And as I realized this pattern, I also had the 'sense' that there was good reason for me to have saved all these bugs...and that they had some form of 'power' that could benefit me. I have no idea for what or how...just a 'feeling' that they would.

LOL...OK, I know this sounds pretty wacky...and can only imagine what folks are thinking and imagining as they read this!!! But bare with me here...

I know that in Traditional Chinese Medicine, insects and small animals are used in some healing formulas. In fact, even poisonous critters are used...spiders, snakes and scorpions, for example. I also know that a basic premise of homeopathy...Law of Similars...is to administer a minute dose of a substance in order to heal a condition brought about by that same substance in a larger, problematic quantity...say nicotine to quit smoking, or histamine to address allergies.

Before any of you get scared for me...I am NOT going to eat my dead bugs...LOL!!!

But I am very curious about this...and would love to hear people's thoughts! Has anyone else developed a personal relationship with the deceased insect world...LOL?! Or been 'compelled' to collect something for reasons unknown to them? Does anyone know about the 'power' of natural objects...aside from crystals and the like?

I have a hunch that indigenous cultures may have some insight to this...Native Americans, Aboriginies, Mayans, Aztecs, etc., etc....any shamans or medicine folk out there?

Thanks in advance,
Pam (PTree)