I felt safe because I was talking to them and I hadn’t seen any guard bees at all. As you’re guessing I was about to learn something and well … I did!

I learned something because guard bees came to the do and quick as a flash before I could spring back they sprung forward. Either they were psychic and I expect they could be telepathic or they had seen me from inside and had decided what they were going to do before they came to the door.

One promptly landed on my head and I was very still, though still only a metre from the front door. I sung HU ( a spiritual word meaning GOD and sung as a love song to GOD) and the bee considered its mission. Bless its Soul it heard the HU and that in service to all, the hive, and myself, and knew I needed it’s ultimate gift. It neatly stung me in the centre of my head, and I thanked it.

It had to be a greater purpose because it had kindly stung me in the name of God since that is what I was singing when it did (the HU being a spiritual exercise that makes sure only what is in the best interest of all concerned happens).

While I raced for my homeopathics I also wondered for what greater purpose all this was happening.

What I heard was the bee was keen to show its devotion and purpose to the community by giving its life for the hive and that I was going to learn something else too.

The next day I did. I learned that my reactions to bee stings could now be normal. Instead of spreading out over my body a day later like the last three stings had done (even with homeopathics) this one just went mild red for about a centimeter.

Now its has been recommended that I introduce myself telepathically to the Queen when working near the hive.

As is written in “Be A Deva” I would give my life for a bee and how could it be otherwise because a bee is Soul too, and just as important to the world as “I”. This time my life was not asked for, and I was gently given the wisdom of a sting and all the healing that it brought. For that I wish the bee well and support it on its journey, as Soul.

The Story

Yesterday I forgot to imagine a protected space around me,  which bees would veer around.  A honeybee promptly flew straight into my eyelid. I thanked the eyelid for making such a quick executive decision and closing faster than the bee approached. After its head-on collision the little honey sprialled around me in Check-Out Mode: This intruder could be a bother to the Hive. Deciding I was since I was such a moving brick-wall it landed and got caught up in my hair. Helping a bee with its stinger at the ready get out of your long hair is not easy and when it was liberated it went for the nearest patch of skin. Its single focus on doing this took picked out just the right spot on the side of my neck where I couldn’t see it to get the stinger out.

It’s sting cost it its life for the good of the hive and successfuly encouraged me to put quite a bit of distance between me and the rest of the hive.

In fact I moved fairly fast to my cabin to get Apis and AllerMed Relief Spray before the reaction set in.

Though it was only one bee out of the hive of thousands this morning as my neck swelled up and got achy, I started to think that maybe the hive needs to be moved because “it” has stung me before, and none of the others had. But when they had arrived as a wild swarm and settle in one of our empty hives they had proceeded to sting me agressively whenever I got anywhere near them or though about it. At that time  I had said if a child bites you give it a chance to change its behaviour. Lets just move them further away to a low traffic area. There they can stay at Harmony, and settle in.

So we moved them to a different area, just like you send kids to their rooms, to consider their actions.

Later when the hive was opened and checked it was marvellous how quiet like our other bees they had become. None attempted a sting while the lid came off and frames were moved around. Very different from when they had just moved themselves in and as much as saw me looking at them or approaching THEIR hive!

Our place is known as Harmony Forest so I say that when creatures co-operate they are “harmonised”.  Harmonising happens when they talk things through and decide on a common good, a working agreement that lets them and all creatures live and die together.   In truth all who choose to stay at Harmony are in Harmony.

As the neck swelled, got really itchy and ached this morning and I wondered if it would be best for them to leave I read about L. about her claiming her space and I realised that I hadn’t claimed my mine. I had done this many times around all hives since my stings from the wild-ones (mentioned above) and now I had forgotten. I was thankful to realise yet again that the responsiblity is mine to do so. No-one else can claim my space for me, not even a bee.

Once again I am reminded by the sting to not only claim the air space around me as mine, but to always remaind grateful to the insects for staying out of my house and body spaces.

These of reminders that make the stories of relationshiop with All Beings at Harmony asked me to put into our  e-Guide “Be A Deva“. Maybe in the next revision I need to mention that gratitude is remembering to always be grateful; for as soon as we forget to appreciate what others give us we  find we no longer have it.

Thankyou L. and bees for helping create the story written here, and many others planned to become the sequel to “Be A Deva“. Many such stories of relationships with all the beings one meets in “one’s kingdom”.

Many will continue to be posted here.

Thankyou

David

Beautiful Possum in the Sun

I greatly appreciate these visits and taking the photo I was only about 60cm (2ft) away!

Earlier today I had assumed my appointments schedule was full, then later I looked at an appointment time and thought someone’s late, why have they not come.

At 12:30 I phoned the next client in my diary and asked them where they were. She graciously said her appointment was at 1:15 and after a minute I realised that I’d been so convinced by my assumption that I hadn’t noticed the time marked in the diary.

She decided to come early as she had just finished dealing with people all morning, and liked the idea of having the session with me before dedicating the afternoon to focusing on paperwork.

She felt supported by God, and accepted the change as a gift. She wondered how others who don’t believe they are supported by Spirit get by thinking that all the support they are given is mere co-incidence – nothing to be grateful for.

I was grateful to the client for being gracious, and for the extra time I received to focus on an event that happened after they left.

Spiritual Exercise:

Trust is a spiritual exercise. Try it!

So I talked to the pain in the left thumb tip, acknowledging it, accepting it, and telling it I still needed to do massage. I often talk to my body this way when doing the deep tissue and trigger point massage that I do.  I also listen to what it says and together we get through all the difficulties of the day. I am sure our conversations mean I recover quicker too when I get to rest.

When my body has pains while working I always assume that they are important to have when I have them and that they will allow me to continue working. When I have them the day before a day of massages, I appreciate the body for processing the health issue before I need it fit for something else.

I appreciate my body’s timing because the body knows what I need to do, when I need to do it, and what I need to be able to do it. If it cannot give me the muscles, fingers and thumbs that I think I need to do a particlar job, it teaches me how to use other ones to still do the massage well.

Just as you need to put the likes of a coat on to go outside, Soul puts on each body like it is putting on a coat when it enters each plane.

Soul’s coats are kept outside. Soul puts on the intutive body as it enters the edge of the intuitive plane and takes it off just as it leaves to re-enter the pure worlds of Soul. A mental body is put on over the intuitve to enter the thinking plane. A causal, memory body is put on over the mental body to enter the memory plane. A feeling body is put on over the memory body to enter the astral plane of the emotions. And finally a physical goes over the feeling body to operate in the physical, below the feeling world.

We have taken off and put on the coats that allow us to operate at each level so many countless times that we don’t even notice we are doing it.

We shift our consciousness as Soul back and forth between all the different planes with such ease that we don’t notice the shift, and think that all these are part of just one physical body. The planes are actually one smooth continuum, a steady graduation across the levels that is so subtle it is not noticed until Soul finds it is operating under different laws (rules) and sees different landmarks. The one major shift is the void between the intuitive and Soul planes, where Soul leaves behind everything.

When you find yourself outside some days with your coat on, and not remembering you put it on, you have been on one of these other planes, in one of these other realities, while doing it and haven’t remembered.

Being their was real and easy enough that you thought nothing of it. You were just thinking, but you were really thinking somewhere else. Your focus moved elsewhere.

As all the lower bodies have degrees of matter, energy, space, and time it is easy to think that we are just the lowest of the ones we are in at a particular time, then as Soul we learn to shift consciously. We don’t have to always do so with full awareness, but we know that we are operating in all these levels, and can consciously choose to shift our focus whenever we need to.

Soul cannot be damaged by anything, anywhere, but it does need to fit the conditions (parameters) of where it is, and each coat allows it do so

Going upwards and inwards we have a physical body, an emotional feeling body; a causal, memory body; a thinking body; and closest to soul an intuitive body. Each is of more energy, higher frequency and vibration, and less material, less matter. Each is equally as solidly real to us when Soul’s consciousness is at that level.

We dream and the dream seems just as real, however different rules apply to each place, and we may may find things change quicker, or we can do things such as fly.

If our consciousness is one more than one plane in the same moment, as in thinking and feeling at the same time, we can have dual consciousness, or more than dual consciousness if in more than two places. It can also be in more than one place at the same time in the same plane.

To consciously be anywhere as Soul is to put attention there. Spiritual exercises are those in which Soul shifts its focus to Soul Travel within the worlds and planes from physical to intuitive.

Be A Deva appropriately launched the new Unity Conscious websites on the 17th of July, 2010, the day of Conscious Convergence, the beginning of Unity Consciousness.

In this exciting time we are becoming aware of the supra-physical and astral worlds around us, in which elementals and devas help look after our gardens, our homes, and our planet.

Be A Deva helps you work consciously with these fairies, gnomes, salamander, undines, devas, guardians and spiritual masters, and is a great help to everyone enjoying their environment. Working with them, in well chosen exercises, you will never be alone in your gardens, or anywhere again; and your plants, pets, animals, and body are much healthier.

More than 80 exercises help you form conscious working relationships with the devas and elementals at your place, including those that help look after the world around you. You may even become a deva, while still a human, if you wish!

As a spiritual ecologist, the author, David Baillie, brings an holistic perspective of many years as a professional forest gardener; teacher-practitioner of naturopathy, rebirthing, and massage; and co-guardian of Harmony Forest to his writing.

Enjoy this book. See the interesting contents, informative excerpts, and inspiring exercises at: Unity Conscious.

Takes spiritual ecology to a new level by including the elemental kingom and the universal hierarchy.

Become a Deva!

A few days later a lot of activity at both hives suggested that bees from the large hive were visiting the small hive, and I wondered if they were taking honey from it, which they already had much more of.

A week later the honey’s came flying around us to say thankyou for being loved and would I listen to them. They stopped coming and we got on with tea.

The following morning during a spiritual contemplation exercise I listened to their needs and explained that Harmony was a place of conscious loving relationship with all beings. The strongest hive said it was their nature to rob the weak. Whether or not they had really been doing so I didn’t know, and they didn’t say. It just looked like it and I didn’t ask or accuse. I repeated that at Harmony we take responsibility for our needs, and ask if we want help: we co-operate.

Two Friendly Hive Neighbours

The two Queens said they wanted to work with chi to channel their energy constructively. So lessons were arranged and they brought key personnel from each hive. Many a bee was to be seen doing the moves in their first session. and they looked cute. I’d love to include a picture here but I don’t have an inner planes camera that talk physically to this computer!

When the hives first arrived a local wasp was  always keen to get in, and  would often come to the entrance, see a bee and decide it wasn’t worth it. The guard bees didn’t seem to do much, just the sight of them was enough.

After the first of their Chi lessons I went back to see how they were and there was the wasp. Only this time the Chi Guard Bees came out and went right up to it. It flew away and came straight back for another go. Now two Guard Bees came out and climbed over it. They gave it the shove off;  it really got the message.

In fact so did I. This was a demonstration of the Chi. Those guard bees had really started to master the chi.

I had a feeling they were wanting to tell me something so I had Lorraine bring out her Braislford wisdom cards which include the Kereru.  She starts to read and one just happens to stop eating and looks at us, listening until she is finished. It seems it is about Harmony, trust, and going to new places together.

Let the adventure begin!