{"id":3003,"date":"2011-07-31T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2011-07-29T08:03:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T12:03:39","slug":"the-bee-priestess-and-the-tears-of-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/07\/the-bee-priestess-and-the-tears-of-ra.html","title":{"rendered":"The bee-priestess and the tears of Ra"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sometimes it is quite impossible to avoid sensing an intelligence \u2013 or multiple intelligences \u2013 at work in the riffs of synchronicity. Here\u2019s another personal example, from a weekend workshop at a wilderness center in the Northeast.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In the morning discussions, two themes came up that stayed with me as I took a walk across a meadow in bright sunshine during the break. One was the Egyptian god-name Ra. The other was the fact that \u201choneybee\u201d \u2013 Melissa in Greek, Deborah in Hebrew \u2013 was an ancient name for a priestess.<\/p>\n

Now I am strolling in the sunshine in a rural location where there is no signage \u2013 no words of any kind \u2013 in sight in any direction. And across the field I see two letters more than a foot high, daubed in white paint on some weathered gray wood. The two letters are \u201cRA\u201d. I quicken my stride until I am running across the field, eager to see what the words are painted on. And I find that they have been painted on an old beekeeper\u2019s box, with the remains of honeycombs still inside.<\/p>\n

It was hard to believe that this synchronistic discovery had not been staged \u2013 but not by anyone with conscious intent that day – because the paint on the box was old. I could all but hear the laughter of a merry spirit ringing out from the other side of the obvious.<\/p>\n

The incident led me to do some research and I found that, in an Egyptian myth, honeybees are the tears of Ra.<\/p>\n

The sighting of Ra\u2019s bee-box set something buzzing. The next weekend, at another site, a woman previously unknown to me told me that she found my dream books \u201cquite Egyptian\u201d, explained that she had been born inEgypt, and urged me to lead a group on a dream odyssey to that country. I said I would think about it. As I walked away, a man who could not possibly have heard our conversation rose from the far side of the room. A careful, intellectual Princeton psychologist, he apologized profusely for \u201cneeding\u201d to tell me something that had just come to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what it means and I don\u2019t want to sound like one of those people who come up and say, \u2018I\u2019ve got a message for you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really okay,\u201d I encouraged him. \u201cJust give me the message.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told to tell you that you have the blessing of Ra.\u201d<\/p>\n

I heard it again, that laughter off-stage, beyond the curtain of the obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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