Bees live in wholeness. They dedicate themselves to working within the hive in a way we humans don’t grasp because we have individual personalities. Bees have the hive, and each individual pours love into the care and keeping of the colony.

Although individual bees die, the Bien is capable of living forever. In their world beyond the hive walls, bees bring life, song, and spirit to all they touch, making their larger community a more vibrant, abundant place.

They are beings who carry memory and meaning through time. While each bee lives a short life, the hive itself continues on and carries the wholeness of its expression through time. They use the word memorist, which was new to me the first time I heard it, to describe the hive’s collective memory.

Science describes a honeybee hive as a superorganism — a single entity made up of tens of thousands of individuals working together and functioning as one living being.

Within this holy landscape of the Bien, bees work with flowers, trees, minerals, water, light — the full spectrum of Creation — to bring about the highest good for our earthly environment. Unknown to most humans, bees also work intimately with the unseen realms of nature spirits, elementals, and faeries. All actions are both for the good of their

Our first thought is always of the hive,

Imagine if we woke each day asking ourselves: How could we better the world? How could we sing ourselves into aliveness? Who would we be if we understood that we are all connected, that our individual efforts have great value when we undertake actions that better the world whole?

Each member of the hive community dedicates 100 percent effort to all interactions. That’s quite an interesting idea to me because I was raised with the idea that fifty-fifty is the goal for a two-person relationship and that, in larger human groups, each person giving a little bit is enough to carry a group forward. The hive model of 100 percent

Imagine if we did that. Imagine if each day we put our best self forward and did whatever it is our community — local or global — requires to keep the world going in a way that supports all life. Could we be so brave and generous?