Between Honey and Pain:
Colony Collapse Disorder
and the Colonization of the Wild
~ by Bonnie Bright, M.A.
The written work appears in the 2010 anthology "Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled", edited by Craig Chalquist PhD, and published by World Soul Books
Click here to listen to a 22-minute presentation on this work by Bonnie Bright, delivered April 15, 2011, at JFK University in Pleasant Hill, CA.
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Summary
Control and colonization in the name of culture has led to a loss of soul and a disconnection from both inner and outer nature. Athough the root of "cultivate" means to tend, honor or cherish, our tendency to tame, control, and avail ourselves of the natural "other" takes us further from teh wild potentiality of nature (and human nature) than ever before.
Our pathological estrangement from wilderness has led to increasing objectification, colonization, and even violence in the name of creating culture. |
| Humankind’s history with honeybees is a story representative of our human tendency toward objectification, colonization, and enslavement of nature, animals, and even our fellow human beings: one that may well end in crisis and an ultimate colony collapse of our own. |
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"The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall”
--(Carl Jung, Collected Works 16, para. 227) |
