Environment Warning
Belinda is a professional woman of 54 with an increasing interest in environmental issues. Recently, while staying with her elderly parents in a country town, she had this powerful dream.
Dream report: Bee Colonies
I dreamed that I was at an informal evening gathering in a large room in the country. We had come to hear a senior woman scientist, an expert on bee colonies throughout the world. She told us that in some countries bees would be extinct if they did not import hives. I had an image of a wooden beehive, painted whitish, in a home orchard, with bees coming and going. The audience asked her questions and she answered them fully.
Then I was talking to my father about this, and the full impact hit me – the realization that not only our food chain but most plant life will not be regenerated. I was horrified.
I woke with anxiety in my gut, a feeling of urgency, knowing this is an important message and I need to act. I went to my father and told him my dream, expecting him to know about the issue. He knew it intellectually, but he hadn’t taken it seriously before. He agreed with me, but he didn’t know what to do.
About 6 months before the dream, I had read a news article about a pesticide that kills bees by accident, but I hadn’t taken it seriously myself, thinking more about the varroa mite. My dream woke me up to the urgency of this issue.
Belinda is thinking about ways to follow up her dream, to raise public awareness.
This dream raises a serious environmental issue, of concern to all of us. There was indeed an article in the Dominion Post on 7/5/11 about the threat to NZ's food chain if our colonies of honeybees collapse. The Beekeepers' Association reports new collapses already in Canterbury and Poverty Bay, not from Varroa mite, which is coming under control, but from neurotoxins in certain insecticides which are already partially banned in several countries overseas. Belinda's dream is a prophetic warning of possible consequences if we do not take action soon enough.