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February 17, 2002

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After high school I went out to live with my uncle in Montana. I worked on his ranch for a while and got a job working for a guy that owned a honey business. He had bee colonies on other people's properties, spread out over about 100 miles in every direction.
The honey bee is quite an amazing creature. Click here for some past daily pictures [000822.htm] [000328.htm] I learned a great deal from working around them. Here in this picture you can see me blowing smoke at the bees. When the bees smell the smoke they think that there must be a fire so they instinctively and quickly drink as much honey as they can, to try to save the honey from the fire. Unfortunately, this is actually a problem and detrimental because they will fill up with so much honey that they are too heavy to fly. This is why bee keepers blow smoke at them. If they are too full to fly then it keeps them from swarming as much. Then we would used special chemical that smelled really bad and put it on top of the hive. The bees didn't like this smell either so they would travel down inside the hive and out the bottom to get away from the odor. You can see a previous picture showing this [000822.htm] Once they had evacuated the hive we could take some of the top crates full of honey and load them up on the trailer. This would keep most of the bees out of the crates when we took them back to the shop to extract the honey.
Although the suit was quite secure I still got stung about a dozen times a day. I got use to it after a while and it didn't bother me much more than a mosquito bite.
Back at the shop we would take the slats of honeycomb out of the crates, scrape the wax off the surface and put them all in a huge centrifuge where it slung all the honey out of the slats and kept the wax intact, ready to take back to the bees so they could fill them up again.
The honey then went through a big heated tank where the pieces of wax in the mix would melt and be strained off. The honey was then pumped into a huge tank where we could fill 55 gallon drums to be shipped off. The wax was also sold for a good sum as well as new queens that were extracted from hives.

The Glow
I know most of you have heard before not to run from bees or show that you are afraid of them because they might sting you. This is true but can they really read our mind? But then why would they sting you if you are afraid? You are certainly no threat at that point.
Well here's some experiences and theories to hopefully explain this.
While working with a hive on my uncle's ranch I caught a mouse that had been making a nest under the hive and shredding the wax and making a mess of things. I asked my uncle what to do with the little perpetrator and he told me to kill it. Well I didn't want to hurt the little thing until he was quite stern with me about it. The exact moment I decided to kill the mouse I was immediately swarmed by the bees, stinging me through my suit numerous times. They almost totally covered my face screen.
It was then that I realized that the bees aren't really using their sense of particular emotions for their defense tactics. I believe that they, as well as many other animals and creatures can see and/or sense energy emitting from our bodies. Happiness and contentment and pleasure emit a positive energy while fear, hate, and anger may tend to emit dark, negative energy. The bees may not have the capacity to determine what type of dark energy they are dealing with. They simply use their natural instincts to defend themselves and their hive. I then practiced very careful use of my emotions while working with them and seldom got stung after that.
Since that experience I have experimented with many other types of animals and noticed remarkable differences in their behavior, depending on how I was feeling.

This is also apparent in humans. Many people posses a better insight into other people while some of us remain totally oblivious.
However, I'm sure that almost all of us have had that strange, uncomfortable feeling around some people while we can feel totally at peace around others. Sometimes I think that we need to trust our heart in order to protect ourselves but more importantly practice controlling our emotions and we might make others around us feel more comfortable. Happiness is contagious and infectious.
Choose your attitude. Glow brightly, and maybe make somebody else's day a little brighter.

I'm not certain how much distance this energy can travel and/or what boundaries might contain it but when you get that strange feeling that a relative or a friend needs you don't hesitate to call them.
And always
Glow