Bees, Connecting with Others, Talking Out Loud
Topics:
“Bees”
“Connecting with Others”
“Talking Out Loud”
Thursday, May 20, 2021 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Ben (Sumarian)
ELIAS: Good afternoon!
BEN: Hello, Mr. Elias – “Mister.” (Both laugh)
ELIAS: And what shall we discuss, my friend?
BEN: Today I made a list, but let’s start with something interesting that happened about two hours ago. What the hell was happening in my car? I was driving and thinking about the session, and this bee appears right in front of me on the windshield, and it got me to stop the car because I thought I was going to crash it. And I said, “Well, that’s odd,” and I came back home and the wallpaper on my computer, which changes every day, is showing me a very pretty bee. So, there is significance to this connection.
ELIAS: And your impression and assessment?
BEN: Because I know that I was thinking discussing the session, so I said it has to do with the upcoming session and with you, but that’s all I got. But you’re not the bee type!
ELIAS: Repeat?
BEN: You’re not the one to offer a bee right in the middle of my driving. That would not appear to be your energy.
ELIAS: I would agree. But I would say that it is interesting imagery that you have presented to yourself. And in that, I would say to you, now think about it. What would you say is the significance of bees?
BEN: I know for me, bees are very important because I interact with them quite often, and I know they’re pollinators. And recently I’ve been seeing dead bees on the beach and dead bees at the office, and it really gets me angry. I know I have a connection with bees, and I really like them.
ELIAS: And that is a significant part of why you presented THAT particular creature to yourself, because you already have an affinity with them, but I would say that it is imagery to be inspiring to you. Bees are significant. They ARE important, because in a manner of speaking, for you, they are life-giving.
BEN: Yeah, because of their role in nature. I just realize that all of these insects that we just easily stomp on, without them there’s no pollination, there’s no crops and there’s nothing.
ELIAS: Correct. And in that, a significant amount of your food source would be gone.
BEN: Why do I find them dead on the beach near salty water? It’s like their navigation has been screwed up. I find them at the office on the floor and I sometimes rescue them, but it doesn’t… Why would they appear lost to me?
ELIAS: And in a manner of speaking, they are. They are disoriented. And I would say that this happens sometimes, especially in developed areas. They don’t become disoriented as much in natural settings, natural to them. I would say that in urban areas, they can become disoriented much more easily. Bees seem to move in erratic directions, but they aren’t. They are very specific.
When bees move around and around and they seem to move in directions that are random, and they seem to move in circles and they seem to move in directions that are very odd and erratic, they actually aren’t. They’re actually sensing. This is the reason that they may make several passes in a particular direction, because they are sensing different scents in that particular area. And in this, it is how they map what they will return to and what is significant in their territory that they can be using themself.
Now, in that, sometimes in rural areas that are developed in relation to crops and insecticides, that can disorient them. And in urban areas, the different scents that are expressed and different expressions such as smoke and different pollutants in the air, those disorient them also, because they are so sensitive to any type of scent.
BEN: What about noise?
ELIAS: Noise can be disorienting to them. It isn’t as much, but it can be. Depending on the frequency of the noise and depending on the volume of it, it can be disorienting to them.
The problem with bees becoming disoriented is that they lose their sense of direction. And that is very important, because when bees are flying, they are mapping. Even when they fly in zigzag directions and they fly in circles, they are constantly mapping the directions. And in that, they register and remember every single movement, every single stop, every single turn that they make while they are in flight and while they are mapping. And in that, because they are aware and they have that tremendous sense of direction, they can repeat directions and they can follow directions in relation to what they are collecting for their food source.
Now, in that, the old idea that bees return to their origin in the exact same pattern as they generated moving away from their origin is actually not entirely correct. But it IS correct that if you were to, let us say, find a bee and it was resting, and you somehow capture it and pick it up, if you move it several feet in any direction away from where you found it, that will also disorient it considerably. And what happens in that situation is that then it takes them much, much, much longer to find their way back to their hive. They do it, but it is much more difficult and it exhausts them, and sometimes it exhausts them to the point that they die. But in this, I would say that the factors in the environment play a very significant role upon whether the bees are able to survive. And in that, there are many factors that contribute to killing them.
BEN: So, I would be better off, if I saw a bee, not to habitually pick them up and put them so they won’t get stomped on? Because you’re saying now I move them and I’m actually not helping them.
ELIAS: It depends on how far you move them. If you move them I would say less than a foot, if you move them simply a few inches away from where you found them, then they likely can find their way back to their hive without considerable difficulty, and—
BEN: That’s hardly ever the case, though.
ELIAS: Then I would say no, don’t – the reason being because they WILL eventually find their way back to their hives, but they will likely be exhausted doing it.
BEN: So even when I see them on the beach, just to let them be and trust that they know what they’re doing?
ELIAS: Yes.
BEN: Oh. That’s good to hear. (Laughs)
ELIAS: And if they die, then they were already either disoriented enough or they were already affected enough by the environment that it wouldn’t matter that you moved them anyway.
BEN: You know that I saw the same thing with those red beetles with the black spots, in the same location on the beach, large amounts of them. Some of them were dead, some of them were just zombies. I think it’s the same issue.
ELIAS: Yes.
BEN: Oh. That’s too bad.
Okay. Something else that happened two or three weeks ago: two individuals that I knew casually died. Now, those were two individuals that had cafes or small outdoors restaurants. They were partially aware of each other, and they died within about a week of each other. Now, the interesting thing about it is that one of them died on the day which is my birth date, and the other individual, I saw a photo taken of him riding his horse for the last time and it was also dated my birth date. So, there’s something here like a triangle, and there’s significance here. And the only thing common about these two individuals is they got a lot of people together around them, around their restaurants, and they were very well known and liked, and they were like public figures. But where do I come into this? I really don’t know entirely, except the fact that I’ve frequented both establishments all the time.
ELIAS: I would say also that once again, this is another expression of inspiration for you, and—
BEN: Okay.
ELIAS: An example of individuals that were engaged in connecting with other people and doing so in a manner that was not only sociable but also encouraging and inviting. And I would say, in this, that it is an inspiration for you – or an offering of an inspiration for you, since you were paying attention to that imagery – in relation to connecting. Sometimes you have a tendency to isolate yourself. That doesn’t mean hermitize yourself, but that you isolate yourself in relation to not actually interacting or connecting with other people as much.
BEN: Which I thought would be a natural tendency for a soft individual. I’ve done that for years.
ELIAS: Sometimes, yes. But I would say that it’s also something that yes, soft individuals do do this, but it’s an expression that you can become, AS a soft individual, very accustomed to that and then express a tendency to isolate more.
BEN: Because you know to balance that, what I have been doing for quite some time now is I wander about a lot. And as I wander about, I meet all kinds of people in cafes and I sit with the owners, and for me it feels like I’m actually connecting and contributing to the interconnectedness. So, I think that part of what I do is really, really cool.
ELIAS: I agree. I agree. But I would also express that in relation to health and longevity, it is important that you be interactive and connecting with other individuals. Therefore, I would say that it isn’t that you don’t ever do it; I am merely expressing that this imagery that you presented to yourself with these two individuals was an encouragement for you to be connecting.
BEN: You know, one thing that does come up that I know is that I don’t have too many friends for the past couple of years, and I used to have more and now it’s almost like I’m too busy and too curious about my own direction, and I really can’t see how I can connect with people when I’m having sessions with Elias or looking at this thing and going in that movement, going in that direction. And that’s why sometimes I say, “You know what? I can’t have both of these things.” So maybe I can.
ELIAS: Yes, you can.
BEN: I just don’t see how.
ELIAS: I would say it’s simply a matter of practice. You don’t have to spend tremendous amounts of time with other individuals in which you develop friendships, but that you are developing that connection and that intimacy with other people.
BEN: Yeah, and that’s something that I definitely don’t have now. I know that I always had at least one person, and now there’s zero. And I know that it’s not healthy, and that’s why you mentioned longevity.
ELIAS: Correct. Correct.
BEN: I don’t know why this changed like that. I mean, at work we have 200 people, and I can’t find really anybody that I would want to get closer or meet outside of the workforce.
ELIAS: Then look in a different direction.
BEN: Hm.
ELIAS: Think about things that interest you, go to places that interest you, and that will actually give you a beginning point, because any other individuals that are at that place also have an interest; therefore, you already have something in common.
BEN: That’s what I used to do previously. For example, I used to hike a lot, so then I started escorting groups that hike with kids and with music, because I know that I meet people on the way while I’m doing things that I like. But I thought, I’m always doing things that I like and then I say, “So why aren’t you meeting people right now?” when I feel really good, and I feel free and I move in my own direction. So why am I not drawing people? So there’s a reason for that.
ELIAS: Because you aren’t paying attention, because you aren’t making that important. You’re only paying attention to you and what you want to do, but you aren’t actually making it important to be connecting with other people.
BEN: Oh. That’s actually very, very accurate. Huh. (Laughs)
ELIAS: Therefore, it is simply a matter of altering your attention, and therefore whenever you are doing what you want to do and being where you want to be, paying attention to the other people that are around you in that place and then moving in a direction of connecting with them, or connecting with some of them.
BEN: But I thought I was doing that when I hang out in all kinds of places, but I think you’re implying a connection that’s more ongoing, not just chitchat at a coffee shop with somebody that happens to sit next to me.
ELIAS: Correct.
BEN: Because I do that all the time, but that’s not exactly intimate connections.
ELIAS: That’s NOT an intimate connection.
BEN: Exactly. Okay. Okay, so I get it. I’ll pay attention to that, because I knew that that was going on but I just figured… It’s about laziness, maybe. (Both laugh)
ELIAS: I would say congratulations, my friend. That is an accurate assessment. (Laughs)
BEN: Yeah, we’re all lazy at the things that we don’t like.
ELIAS: Or that aren’t important to you.
BEN: Yeah.
ELIAS: But some things it is significant to make important. Some things it is significant to make not important, and some things it is significant to make important.
BEN: Wait. So, when you mentioned that interconnectedness in relation to longevity, that would be connected to regeneration too?
ELIAS: Yes, it would.
BEN: Oh. Oh boy. (Both laugh) Okay, so that has become important to me, regeneration, so therefore that element of connecting should become important for me.
ELIAS: Yes.
BEN: In light of my agenda.
ELIAS: Yes.
BEN: Okay. Something you mentioned I think in one of the recent sessions, and you said that thinking only uses one hemisphere at a time and therefore it’s incomplete. Does that work as designed? Is that the way thinking works?
ELIAS: Yes. Because it isn’t an avenue of communication – it’s a translating mechanism, my friend. It doesn’t create your reality. It isn’t an avenue of communication. It simply translates. And therefore, it isn’t necessary for your thought mechanism to use both hemispheres of your brain, because all it’s doing is translating.
Now, in that, I would say that this is the reason that when you are processing something, let’s say that you have an equation that you are attempting to solve, or you are trying to figure something out, it is much more beneficial and advantageous for you to speak it out loud than it is for you to think about it. You will notice thinking about something, you can loop around and around and around and you can think about something, you can think about the same subject over and over and over again, and not actually come up with a solution.
BEN: Yeah, that’s actually true. You can go crazy from thinking about a subject.
ELIAS: Yes, you can. And in that, I would say that then that same subject you could be thinking and thinking and thinking about and not give yourself an answer or a solution, and then you can talk to someone about that same subject and perhaps within five minutes you will have a solution.
BEN: Because now you’re speaking and the senses are engaged, and now both hemispheres are actually working.
ELIAS: Correct. Correct.
BEN: Well, that’s very— Okay.
ELIAS: In that, you don’t have to actually talk TO someone, because the same thing happens if you are simply speaking and you are talking, regardless of whether you are talking to yourself or you are talking to someone else. In that, the only difference is that many times when you are talking to yourself, you aren’t actually paying attention to what you are saying. But if you ARE paying attention while you are talking to yourself, if you are aware that this is an action that helps you to process, then you will listen, and you will actually give yourself answers much more quickly, and more accurately.
BEN: And you’re saying talking to yourself out loud, you mean? Not talking to yourself in your head, which everyone does.
ELIAS: Talking to yourself in your head is thinking.
BEN: Oh. Okay, that’s a good definition. Okay.
ELIAS: Talking out loud is different.
BEN: That’s something that’s been discouraged from whenever, in kids and in grownups. (Laughs)
ELIAS: Of course! I am aware. And as I have expressed recently, that yes, it has been discouraged, and you are led to believe that if you are talking to yourself that this is sign of lunacy. No, it’s not.
BEN: (Laughs) I do it a lot when I’m on my own. And you know, when I started doing it sometimes when I’m at a supermarket and I realize it, nobody even pays attention. Nobody cares. So I said, “You know what? Great.”
ELIAS: You’re absolutely correct.
BEN: I mean, it’s one thing to run around in a screaming rampage, but just talking to yourself quietly out loud, nobody’s going to notice.
ELIAS: You are correct. They don’t.
BEN: Kids do it all the time.
ELIAS: Yes.
BEN: It seems like there’s a lot to be learned from kids’ behaviors and actions. That’s what I always know.
ELIAS: I would agree in many situations, yes.
BEN: Huh.
We’ve just got a little bit of time left. I was wondering: I think I’m going to have another session because I have other stuff, but Mary appeared in dream imagery.
[The timer for the end of the session rings]
Michael appeared about two weeks ago, and I think there was a significant change in my behavior. I think I untangled myself in certain directions that are associated with differences. And I remember Michael appearing in the dream and showing me something, and I was wondering if you were assisting me during that time?
ELIAS: Yes! And I would say congratulations.
BEN: It was a significant change, right? Because I woke up in the morning and it felt like World War II was over.
ELIAS: (Laughs) I would express a definite encouragement to you and a validation. Yes.
BEN: Wow. That’s was intense, but definitely worth it. It’s really nice to know that you were with me.
ELIAS: Always, my friend.
BEN: All right. Since the buzzer went off, we’re going to end for now. And I will pay attention to this interconnection, because it’s really not natural for me to be not intimate with anybody. It’s really bad for me.
ELIAS: I agree. (Laughs) Very well, my friend. I shall greatly be anticipating our next meeting, and I express tremendous encouragement and support to you.
BEN: All right, Elias.
ELIAS: And in wondrous love always, my friend, au revoir.
(Elias departs after 32 minutes)
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