Whoever looks at a beehive should actually say with an exalted frame of mind, “Making this detour by way of the beehive, the entire cosmos can find its way into human beings and help to make them sound in mind and body.”
–Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture on honey bees Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. –Opening lines of Antonio Machado’s Last Night as I was Sleeping Drawing upon the canary in the coal mine narrative, one might say that the honey bee serves the same purpose for humanity as a whole. Disappearing honey bees are an omen of our disappearance as well. But the honey bee is more than an early warning system or an alarm. This humble creature that has been on the planet for 150 million years is responsible for pollinating at least forty percent of the fruits and vegetables that are part of our diet. In 2007 the media was all abuzz (excuse the pun) over disappearing honey bees, something that was posited as a kind of mystery. After seeing the powerful documentary “Queen of the Sun: What the Bees are Telling Us?”, the only mystery will be why the mainstream media could not have uncovered the source of the looming disaster without delay. Its failure to do so reminds us of the need for alternative sources of information, starting with the experts and activists who are featured in this film directed by Taggart Siegel. Featured prominently in “Queen of the Sun”, beekeeper Gunter Hauk states that the crisis of the disappearing bee is “More important than global warming. We could call it Colony Collapse of the human being too.” full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/queen-of-the-sun-what-are-the-bees-telling-us/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
