The Bees Looked Out For Me

After having read Mystical Mountain I was reminded about a similar encounter I had years ago when hiking in Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona.

I remember walking down a side trail - and I had never had any problems walking down that trail but suddenly I had a very insistent bee encouraging me I felt, to go elsewhere - and generally speaking when I have such an encounter I am not as afraid of a sting as I am concerned about the surroundings.

So I retraced my steps and when I got back to the main trail the bee hovered - meaning was sort of hanging around the branch trail and was joined by another bee and this was unusual because normally a experience like that ends rather quickly because the bee is either involved - meaning there's something that the bees are doing ahead and they do not wish to be disturbed or the bees are warning me about something.

Often when bees do this kind of thing they are giving warning as they might give to anyone - but bees kept hanging around and I took a couple of steps back on the trail I had been on, the main trail, and the bees kept hovering nearby but they did not approach me.

Finally I took about twenty or thirty steps back and I waited...and while I was waiting the bees left but I stayed where I was and looked around at my surroundings more closely. Off in the distance was a very old cabin in a falling down state of condition.

I don't recall the reason the cabin had been maintained except that I believe it may have been at one time the home of a famous artist or writer - but don't quote me on that - and as I waited I saw something moving in the distance.

I stepped back a little bit further very slowly so that I would have cover. I was about perhaps, maybe two hundred yards away and before I could say Jack Robinson I saw a bear moving about in the bush there.

I continued to, naturally, retrace my steps slowly so as not to arouse concern by the bear until I got well out of the bears sight and then I managed to pick up the pace a bit back to the car ;-) without running.

I got back to the car and I remember that after my initial recollection that this was bear country, though I had not seen one before in that part of the world, I felt a lingering gratitude to my bee friends who had made such an effort to assure my safety.

Goodlife.

The Welcoming

Where have all the beautiful creatures gone? There has been concern for some time now about many different animals and plants species dying off. Recently - on news programs has been reported an alarming decrease in the number of bees.

This is something I have known about for some time. We all know that bees can be a little bit annoying sometimes and for some people actually dangerous and yet when you consider how, by their very needs and existence, they provide food for us by pollinating plants that we eat and through that pollination gather what they need to keep their fellow bees going and new generations to arrive we can see how valuable they are for us and simply to live in existence with each other.

How can we encourage the bees that we welcome them - this is the key.

If we are going to experience a thriving plant community so that we can eat and that other species can thrive because of the interconnectivity we have with bees and other species we must learn how to welcome them.

It is not sufficient to simply say - well, there are Africanized bees and they frighten us. We cannot simply dispose of whole colonies of bees and groups of other animals simply because we do not understand how they fit into our lives.

What can we do though - I am not here to point fingers at anyone saying that they are bad. What can we do to welcome the bees?

This is what I recommend - you have perhaps been welcomed somewhere or you have welcomed others to your home, to your office or to your life.

See if you can capture that feeling - meaning imagine being welcomed or imagine welcoming as you have welcomed before.

Hold that feeling within you and while you maintain the feeling - it is vital that you maintain the feeling - simply say, "I welcome all species of beings on this planet who are interdependent with human beings and with whom human beings are interdependent with."

It won't be easy because you will have to speak while you maintain a physical feeling. The words do not have to be precise but it is helpful.

I do not recommend that you have a picture of a bee or you imagine a bee. It is more important to say some version of the words while you maintain the feeling.

Now - in order to do this in the best possible way I recommend that the words be said outdoors where bees in energy might live, if not in the season that you are in, perhaps you are experiencing winter - then at some point.

If there are bees or other stinging creatures around and you are concerned for your well being you can say it indoors - that's also alright. This is what I recommend though in the case of bees.

Now there may be other animals or even plant species that you feel a kindred spirit with or that you feel because of their no longer being, many of them, that you feel their loss. You can do the same thing but you see - the need to do it may not be necessary there.

The request that you are making out loud and the feeling of welcoming welcomes all species. So I'm going to say that it will work for all species for which the species themselves might be interdependent with human beings but also and perhaps more importantly here in this case, for which human beings are dependent upon.

Give it a try, see if it works for you. Goodlife for you all and goodnight.