Message from Bee: "...Or Not to Bee"

Ah, the sweet magnificence of the collective Bee! It's no coincidence that they make honey and encourage us to seek the bee-ing of our experience via more than just one reference to Shakespeare and Romeo. Lots of links in this one.

https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/rose-by-any-other-name/
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Trained-honeybees-better-than-dogs-at-sniffing-1096794.php
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/specially-trained-honeybees-forage-for-land-mines-66843356/
https://www.biography.com/artists/vincent-van-gogh-biography-facts
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56965/speech-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question
https://whatsinaname.hmnh.harvard.edu/bees
https://www.perfectbee.com/learn-about-bees/the-life-of-bees/
https://answer-all.com/technology/how-did-the-bee-get-its-name/#:~:text=How%20did%20the%20bee%20get%20its%20name%3F%20Bee, neighbor%20in%20need%3A%20sewing%20bee%2C%20quilting%20bee%2C%20etc.
https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/31/cu-boulder-honeybee-swarm-study-finds-applications-to-human-world/

Transcript

I'm Lizanne Flynn. I'm a master healer who works with both Animals and humans, individually and together in reuniting body and soul. I am

the bridge for relationships between Earthlings of all species so that the ripple effect of energetic shifts by each is deeply honored and valued.

I'm an animal communicator, medium, and medical intuitive, and  I use the tools of shamanic journeying and soul retrieval 

to support all Earthlings in their recovery from past trauma. I'm certified as a Reiki Master Teacher and as a canine massage therapist. This is the Animals' iView 

podcast.

It's the absolute truth that when I was pondering the overall essence of Bee when putting together these podcast notes, it was the line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet about roses

that came in first which wasn't really that much of a surprise. Because that told me that Bee was online with me, if you will, and was offering a validation from their end of what their

being is all about - smelling and being attracted to the sweet scent of Rose in particular. Although I have a hunch that that was being used as a metaphor because the line from the play

 in question is "What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". So Bee was affirming that there are so many more flowers than just Rose to which

they are attracted and gives in just that one metaphor an astonishing view of the depth and scope of their presence on our shared planet. A bit further into these luminous points of 

connection via the language of Energy in my conversation with Bee was my doing a bit of research and learning that the sense of smell for Bee is some 50 times stronger than the sense

of smell for Dog! Imagine what that would be like as a being in human experience to have a sense of smell that could detect cancer or diabetes or the difference between Rose and

Daffodil for instance. I honestly didn't think my own purple head exploding emoji for having the Dog's sense of smell for just 5 seconds in my human experience could get any better and 

along comes Bee. I'm putting a link in the podcast notes about a rather dated article from 2002 - although I don't think Bee has changed much since then - about research done by the

University of Montana that indicates not only are Bees easier to train than Dogs they are also more accurate and harder working. There was a second article I found on the interwebs from

the Smithsonian magazine from 2013 that reaffirms the trainability of Bee and to sniff out TNT for landmines the link to which is in the podcast notes.

To this I relay that both Dog and Bee protest their 

comparison to each other stating one of my own (and known to them) favorite lines - "comparison is the thief of Joy" that has been attributed to several people. And I think their point is

well taken because, they say, "only humans rank us against each other; we both of us know where we lie in the web of planetary design and have no desire to take away that place from

the other." Ah, the wisdom of Animals just gets me all of the time - I hope you find it just as magical. Because in this rather profound statement the feeling of balance and partnership

within inclusive diversity are the words "the web of planetary design". They're not going to question what feels right just because they can, like we do. They just be who they are designed

to be.

At this point in my conversation with Bee there was a mini side step into Shakespeare once again and the ever-present energy of words because we started out with Rose, right? There was

this one client - as so many of my stories start out - who were guardians of a Cat whom they had named Van Gogh because, they said, he acted crazy since he was a kitten. I'll pause here

for just a minute so you all can perhaps find your own nanosecond resonance with the artist Van Gogh who wasn't famous for his artwork until after his transition. And whose most famous

painting - Starry Night - was done after he had admitted himself to a back=in-the-day called insane asylum. Certainly you might think of his work focusing on the beauty of flowers overall

and at the other end of the spectrum might be his partially severed ear lobe and not the whole ear as the story goes that he allegedly presented to a prostitute. Wherever your

frequency resides, I think it's part of human species to make fun of the contrast in others so as to level out what we may perceive to be our own contrast. So as it goes with kittens they

grow up to be Cats - (thanks to Ogden Nash for that one) and this cat was proving to be a bit more than the guardians could handle as he'd outgrown his kittenish antics and the 

kindschenschema (remember that oldie) was long gone. So the Cat Van Gogh told me that the guardians were big fans of Shakespeare and that they owned several of his works and that

this particular cat wanted to be renamed. The name that he chose - what's your guess at this point even if you don't know Shakespeare you might have a ping of a guess. Well, he wanted

to be renamed as Romeo, the quintessential vibration of love for humans. We think of Romeos has being romantic (thus the word romance) and all things associated with love. The guardians

were convinced to do a renaming ceremony and a few weeks later emailed to say that Romeo had turned out to be a very loving cat after all. Because before the guardians energy resonance

was focused mostly on the crazy of the words "Van Gogh" that is what was communicated to their cat via the language of energy. So the cat Romeo rolled their eyes a bit, I emailed

back to say "how wonderful and congratulations" and "all's well that ends well." That side step then turned into the naming by humans of Bee and the message from Bee today of "or not

to Bee" spelled Bee. It was a clairsentient ping, this renaming of Romeo via the Shakespeare connection that Bee wanted me to now get pointed in another direction. 

Phew - that was a bit of a winding journey I just took you all on and truth be told on the inside it was just as clear as day because I've learned

that following their lead without having to know why works out beautifully for everyone. It usually doesn't go well if I get on my high horse and think I know exactly what's coming in and 

why because that's not the language of Energy. And plus for me it's fun because I don't get frustrated with the "not knowing" as I understand at some point everything will be revealed. 

Here, there and everywhere just like the Animals understand and embrace.

I'll insert here the "to be or not to be" soliloquy from the play Hamlet and I would encourage you to reach it in its entirety from the link in the podcast notes: 

"To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause—there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life."

In layman's terms, this is a guy contemplating his own life and wondering whether it's better to be alive or dead and the interwebs suggests that our pal Hamlet decides that even though

his thinks his own life doth stinketh, the fear of the unknown of death is far worse for him. Which to a certain extent may be a bit reassuring that our human experience structure still

sees transition and what happens after transition as either a great unknown or some version of heaven, hell and purgatory. This last is according to Catholics; feel free to substitute your

own religion or upbringing for this one. To follow the message of Bee in the "not to Bee" let's move to how the Bee got its name which was brought to us courtesy of Romeo, a very loving

cat who left his craziness behind once his own energy environment reflected his true essence - the way of Animals everywhere. He decided to make a better life for himself which is no

doubt the reason why we're all here.

How did the bee get its name? Bee is derived from the Old English bēn (bayne) meaning “a prayer, a favor” and modern day boon, something that's helpful or beneficial. 

By the late eighteenth century, bee had become commonly associated with the British dialect form, been or bean, referring to the joining of neighbors to work on a single activity to 

help a neighbor in need: sewing bee, quilting bee, etc. So all in all, a good thing indeed. Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish taxonomist gave science the modern system of naming organisms, which

is binomial nomenclature. He was the one who designated Bee as Apis melifera linnaeus. And although Bee has been softly gathering at my sides and all around really, now is the time

that they would speak. It's interesting because their collective voice is a mix of multiple tones and feels multi-gendered as well; I don't sense one Queen speaking for all and truly, that is

the power of the hive in that 'all speak as one and speak for one, meaning the hive and at the same time each one of the Bees." They continue: each one of us is born into a different role 

that means each one of us has different roles to serve as one. None is above the other and all are focused on bee-ing." 

 means that there are several different life cycles for Bee within a hive depending on the job that

you are born to do. So, the Bee-ing is about the overall health of the hive first and foremost and then how each of the individual roles within the hive support that design. Which isn't

dissimilar to the ingenious octagonal shape of the hive, how individual cells are shaped and how each member of the hive tends to their Queen. Because it is upon her shoulders that

the forward movement depends yet it's actually the worker bees as a collective who can make or break the Queen at the moment and any future queens. In other words, it is the majority

of the hive members who work together in unison to support each other and other smaller diverse groups as well such as the drones and the group of one who is the Queen. Bee invites

us to take just a moment to understand a bit more about how they work together and how each member's specialty if you will lays the foundation of the hive, how everyone is fed and

how all beings are given shelter - together. 

The queen's job is to lay eggs, mate, and get fed and  waited upon by other bees. If towards the end of her life cycle there is more than one queen bee waiting to 

hatch, whichever one hatches first is the new Queen of the hive and she can choose to either stay in the hive or leave and take some of the other bees with her - that's called a swarm

and non-coincidentally, the newspaper article that I saw about swarms having applications to the human world - what a surprise. More on that in just a minute. 

The job of the drone is to find and mate with the queen so that she can lay fertilized eggs which are the female worker bees and the

interesting thing about this is that there isn't any fighting among the drones - they just wait to see who's gotten the job done. And our queen doesn't keep herself just for one drone -

nay, she may mate with many drones to ensure as broad of a diversity of sperm from other colonies as possible - which is smart, right? If they haven't been successful in mating during a

season which we would know because they die after what sounds like a pretty violent hooking up, they hang out in drone collectives, into which our Queen Bee may wander when she's

ready to mate. The worker bees are all female and compared with the drones they do quite a bit more than just mate and perhaps in a bit of turnabout, any dead drones are pushed out

of the hive by them at the end of the season. Worker bees could be nurse bees tending to the young Bee larvae and feeding the queen as well as making and capping the cells in the hive.

The worker bee goes out and collects the nectar from the flowers - a rose say for instance - and changes into honey which feeds the entire hive, so in short - they work their little stingers

off their entire lives which as it turns out is only about 6 weeks. Here comes the gentle Bee collective again - "we are many, we are one, there are none among us who think of themselves

as individual yet that perhaps is the key. We do not think in the way that the human animal so prizes for themselves. Everything that we do, all that we Bee (spelled Bee) is done for the

whole hive, our whole species and those that come after us taking great care to make sure that those who came before us are alive within our very Bee-ing in all of our moments. For what

else is there except the Bee-ing? You have forgotten how to just Bee, how to submerge yourselves in the very Bee-ing of how you serve each other and are meant to serve us and the

planet. In this place of calm peacefulness, you will remember who you are and how to just Bee." Their humming has gotten temporarily more intense and just as suddenly subsides. There's

more to come, I'm sure. 

I'm reminded of a beekeeper that I follow on Instagram - @texasbeeworks - whose work to relocate either swarms or hives that have been built in lots of interesting places such as

attics, composting bins or backyard playgrounds is so inspiring and really fun to watch - so check it out. I talked briefly about a swarm of bees that leave the hive because the older

Queen is on the lookout for a new place to live and they'll find a new place to call home pretty much anywhere it seems. Of course, that may not work well for other species such as ours

so, beekeepers are just so important to support and notify if you happen to come across a swarm. The article that I mentioned earlier was entitled - "Swarm study finds applications to

human world" which as far as titles goes is actually fairly neutral which both the Animals and I like! The research came out of the University of Colorado right here in uh - Colorado - 

and to quote from the article - "bees have an almost intuitive understanding of the physics and mechanics of that (structure) and they respond to it. It seems like they are paying attention

to mechanical forces." A - ha! Eureka! Someone is paying attention to the language of Energy it seems and beginning to bee-come literate in that language as well as the human 

verbalization of it - our physics. The structure to which they're referring is the swarm itself which exists outside of a hive and yet even this irregular shape as compared to the clear 

mathematical shape of the hive itself still has the same foundational pieces of stability and soundness as the hive itself. Hmmm - so that means that perhaps Bee could live anywhere?

This seems to be the conclusion of this research and why our frenemy science is so intrigued by this concept. What if humans could learn how to live anywhere and design from the inside

out as it were the structures around us? Certainly Bee creates these structures because of their need to keep themselves and most importantly their Queen warm. The article goes on - 

"there isn't a leader telling the bees what to do. The bees are actually making (gasp! - my insertion) - their own decisions based on the information they have about their nearby 

environment." Be that an abandoned wooden barrel, or a sturdy tree branch or a piece of equipment or even a the hood of a car they understand how to work together to ensure that all 

are cared for, each can fulfill their duties and the survival of the hive is utmost for everyone. And here comes Bee with the rest of their message for us:

"Can you possibly dare to feel how it would be to intuitively as your scientists say live within the resources around you so that all are taken care of and all have what they need to not only

survive but to thrive because they are serving the whole of the species? Can you possibly dare to dream of the time when each of your incredibly special and vibrantly diverse members of

the human animal species takes such tender care of each other that it causes a massive ripple effect of energy to cascade downward and out to all other species? So that all of us feel

how united you are in your thrival and not just your survival and at the expense of all others? Can you feel? Do you feel? That of course is the question about to Bee or not - it is only in

the deep resonant feeling of each other that this bee-ing will possibly occur. Until then, each small at odds group see the other as "Other" capital "O" and that weakens not only the

other members but the whole of the species as well. For our sake and yours - Bee-gin anywhere to just Bee." And with that, Bee gives me a soft kiss on the cheek, fly in a counter-clockwise

circle around me, up my body and away. A deep sigh on my part for having felt their essence as their Ambassador and at least, that's how Bee sees it. 

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