With Gifts of the Honeybees, Karsten Massei presents the fruits of years of careful intuitive research into the spiritual and elemental reality of honeybees. Karsten’s sharing of his ongoing dialogue with the inner being of the bees gifts us with surprising insights, giving us the opportunity to look at the world of bees, and ourselves, with different eyes.
There has been a great deal of research and speculation about the reasons why bees are dying. The causes are varied, but there is no doubt that all causes ultimately lead back to human activity. Technical and economic development that began in the nineteenth century has increasingly led to dealing with the beings of nature disrespectfully and in a way that is destructive to life on earth.
The spiritual beings that are connected with the life of bees, and whose messages are shared in this book, unequivocally voice that the plight of bees is actually the plight of human beings. They ask us to finally “wake up” to the spiritual reality of our world and the already evident consequences if we do not.
Gifts of the Honeybees is a translation from German of Die Gaben die Bienen (Futurum Verlag, 2014). Cover art by Karsten Massei: Honeybees as Messengers of the Spiritual World.
Karsten Massei was born in 1963 in Berlin. He started out by studying political science and then decided to train in Switzerland as a curative, or therapeutic, educator and is now a class teacher in a curative day school. He also gives courses and seminars on the practice of suprasensory perception and leads tours focusing on the experience and care of the many kinds of landscapes and life spaces of the Earth. In addition, Karsten Massei is active with biography and life counseling and supports therapists with suggestions to improve their work. He currently lives in Zurich. Karsten Massei was born in 1963 in Berlin. He started out by studying political science and then decided to train in Switzerland as a curative, or therapeutic, educator and is now a class teacher in a curative day school. He also gives courses and seminars on the practice of suprasensory perception and leads tours focusing on the experience and care of the many kinds of landscapes and life spaces of the Earth. In addition, Karsten Massei is active with biography and life counseling and supports therapists with suggestions to improve their work. He currently lives in Zurich. Alex Tuchman is a beekeeper, educator, farmer, author, and student of nature. As the Director of Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary in Virginia, Alex has a wide variety of responsibilities on the farm, with the bees, in the classroom, and in administration. Alex began work at Spikenard in 2014 following three years as the Farm Manager of Loyola University Chicago's Student Farm in Woodstock, Illinois, his home state. He teaches regularly at conferences in the U.S., around the world, and online. Alex's book, A Lively Hive (2021), outlines the basic biodynamic beekeeping methods practiced and taught at Spikenard Farm. Franziska van der Geest was born in 1959 in Basel, Switzerland. Since her childhood she has engaged in intensive contact with nature beings and beings of the higher hierarchies. This enables her, on the one hand, to have deep knowledge of the many-sided connections in the sphere of life. On the other hand, out of this developed extensive biographical and business counseling work. Since 2001 she has traveled extensively through Europe and the Americas. These journeys are dedicated to the research of the spiritual geography of landscapes and to the healing of the Earth. During her travels, Franziska paints. In her paintings, in which she captures the astral and etheric movements related to places and landscapes, the suprasensory happenings there become visible. The wishes of the beings connected with each respective location are expressed. The pictures contain messages for human beings. Above all, these are beings of the elemental world that support the process of painting. On the paper, colored lines and forms are shown to her, which she then draws and paints. Over the years, a rich and varied work has come into being in this way.
