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Honey beyond Science

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Nicoleta Ciocîrlie

Submitted: 09 August 2023 Reviewed: 09 October 2023 Published: 03 January 2024

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1003932

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Melittology - New Advances

Muhammad Asif Aziz

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Abstract

The approach in this chapter is based on the interconnections expressed in Nature by Honey, Sacred Geometry, and Humanity. I come here with a holistic approach of Honey. (Holistic = characterized by the belief that the parts of something are interconnected and can be explained only by reference to the whole.) The role assigned and fulfilled by honey in relation to man is one of food (superfood), natural remedy, therapeutic agent, elixir, cosmetic ingredient, and many other roles, completed with the vital role of bees, as pollinators. Bees produce honey through impeccable teamwork, discipline, and commitment, and honey itself is a gift offered by all the flowers, harvested in honeycombs with a sacred geometry pattern, sealed with wax, and used by bees, other wild animals, and humans. The microbiological and physio-chemical characteristics of honey confirm its complexity and antimicrobial efficiency and highlight the uniqueness and perfection of honey and its benefit to humanity. Science also helps us detect fakes and the adulteration of honey, which can be identified through laboratory analysis. The benefit of honey is undeniable and can be explored from different angles: scientific or spiritual, food or medicine, resource or elixir, inspiration or delight.

Keywords

  • holistic honey
  • honey microbiology
  • honey physio-chemistry
  • honeycomb sacred geometry
  • hive sonic geometry

1. Introduction

Interconnection is a reality that we are not fully aware of. Even there are sayings that if a butterfly flaps its wings in the southern hemisphere, it influences the wind breezes in the northern hemisphere [1, 2] showing that the Planet Earth is our home and we, humans, are living in the same place in the Universe, we are not aware all the time about the hidden meanings, messages, and roles which everyone has for the whole and for each separately.

In the same approach, the Honey is more than we perceive with our senses and it’s more than we can classify and categorize based on our knowledge. If we take a look at the Maslow Pyramid of needs, at the bottom of it there are the basic needs of humans, the ones without life itself cannot exist, and there we can find Honey in the role of food. The Honey finds her place on the higher levels of the Maslow Pyramid when it is connected with Health and even on the highest level, through the connection with spiritual awareness.

We find the Honey in all the ancient books of knowledge and wisdom and in all the sacred texts of major world religions. The Honey was used as food, medication, gift, or traded as merchandise from the very ancient times [3, 4, 5].

Let us think from a different angle. Let us find out if there are reasons to consider that the shape influences the properties. The geometrical shape used by the bees for the storage of honey can influence somehow the “Power of Honey”- the beneficial properties. It could be. There are a lot of new advanced research tools that can help us to prove that. The shape, the sound, and the vibrations have an impact on matter. It is already known that honey demonstrates qualities that cannot be reduced to the sum of its components. There is something more, beyond the molecules and compounds identified by laboratory analytical methods. When humanity is ready, the results of more daring research, which come out of the strict patterns of science until now, also appear. This is what happened with the study of water and with the astonishing results obtained by Masaru Emoto’s research [6]. Is humanity ready to apply the same approach to Honey?

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2. Honey and humans

The unitary recognition by all kinds of specialists all over the world, from all times, of the benefits of honey for humans based on ancient wisdom, completed with its inclusion in certain ancient rituals, can make redundant any attempt to say more than is known but also it can make from any new approach another chance to discover new meanings, new angles of analysis, new ways to confirm what is written in the sacred texts of the world, how that honey is the nectar of the Gods and that it is the Elixir of abundance and the sweetness of Heaven.

All this exploration resembles an effort to take the necessary steps to validate or deny a hypothesis. It is like closing a circle confirming the hypotheses from the beginning: the ancient wisdom knew and wrote about honey and all the scientific research made in the meantime sought to verify and to demonstrate what the ancients knew. As scientific research tools become more and more sophisticated, more precise, and more efficient, honey is further studied, more carefully, more precisely, and more complex and the new generations receive new evidence that the ancient wisdom is valid and authentic.

2.1 Honey and sacred writings

In the ancient resources connected with the most important sacred texts of the world, the wisdom treasures of the mystic knowledge and the beliefs of the ancient were honored, preserved, hidden, and protected in different forms (symbols, texts, and ancient records), for thousands of years. Monks and scribes, from all major religions like Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and Christianity, made their contribution with humility and sacrifice so that we have access to today’s versions [7, 8].

In the Bible—the Holy book of Christianity, Honey is associated with wealth and symbolizes prosperity. Honey is an image of the Promised Land that shows God’s love and care for his people and is also connected with the perception of luxury and delicacy. The Bible uses the sweetness of honey as a metaphor for delight.

The Quran mentions honey that is a “healing for mankind,” in Surah 16:68–69, where The Quran describes the Honey-producing process by the Bees and the medical values of all the Bees’s products, including Honey. The Surah 47:15 shows how Honey maintains its sacred value in the afterlife being mentioned as a gift to the righteous who believe in Allah.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are five elements of acupuncture which represent the quality of Qi energy (the five elements are: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth). Honey is considered a major component of Earth and is linked to the spleen meridians of the human body [9].

2.2 Honey and its place in the hierarchy of human needs and the scale of levels of consciousness

In order to better understand the behavior, psychology, and evolution of humanity, we have brand specialists who managed to launch valid theories beyond their time. Among them are Abraham Maslow [10] and Dr. David Hawkins, who formulated an analytical and hierarchical approach to people’s needs in correlation with their evolution and also a scale of levels of consciousness. Of course, there are many other tools that calibrate the degree of fulfillment and well-being of man, but I will limit myself to these two: the hierarchy of human needs (Maslow) and the scale of levels of consciousness (Hawkins) [11].

Maslow’s theory of human needs includes a hierarchy of them, starting with the basic needs that ensure the survival of the human body (the need for food and water) and continuing progressively, step by step, with physiological needs (that ensure health) then continue with needs for safety, love, self-esteem, and culminating with the need for self-actualization which is at the top of the pyramid. In this algorithm, honey takes place on the level of basic needs but even higher, in the group of needs for optimal physiological functioning, ensuring health. Honey is mainly used as a food, but recent research intervenes with evidence regarding its beneficial role in health. Another step in the hierarchy of needs can use honey, which is also helpful to man and to fulfilling his need for love, esthetics, beauty, and integration, because it is included in numerous cosmetic products that contribute to maintaining the beauty and cleanliness of the body. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs can still be applicable in today’s culture. The system of values appreciated by each human being influences the way they set their own priorities. There are extremely many variables that determine the way an individual relates to the whole, how he identifies his needs, and how he sets and fulfills his goals. All this complex mechanism is reflected in the originality of each of us [12]. The highest level in the hierarchy of needs refers to self-actualization. As everything is dynamic, the problem arises of updating Maslow’s approach. Thus, it is considered that in the process of becoming the Self and in the journey toward the higher levels of the pyramid of needs, one goes through successive stages that belong to the individual with the valences of intimacy, and autonomy that lead to interactions and relationships, through the processes culminating in Affiliative Relationships. On this progressive upward dynamic of awakened and conscious humanity, the need immediately following the fulfillment of the current one, as individuals, communities, and indeed as a species, is Interdependent Actualization [13].

Interdependency is the concept that involves a balance of self and others recognizing the importance of approaching meaningful and appropriate ways to meet each other’s needs. Bees have always worked in groups. If human evolution has reached the moment when we realize that the meaning of being together brings added value, the bees already apply this behavior from the beginning.

The Map of Consciousness was created due to Dr. Hawkins. Conventional physicochemical analysis findings that the perception systems and the value systems to which the human being relates determine the quality of life, physical and mental health, emotional balance, and value in society through results and harmony in relationships with others. Bees in the process of honey production are acting on high levels of consciousness and offer humanity examples and models of harmonious interactions and beneficial results for the environment in which they live. Depending on the place occupied on the scale of levels of consciousness, people observe and apply the model of bees, or not. This Scale of Consciousness ranges from low to high, the lower levels are shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, and pride, and then it comes to a threshold that makes the difference between the involuted state of beings and marks the step toward evolution. This threshold is the state of Courage, after which are evolutionary states of consciousness. Beyond Courage there are steps of consciousness that lead to advanced states of consciousness and make a difference for the better in society, starting with neutrality, then willingness, acceptance, and reason, arriving at the consciousness of love, joy, and peace, and reaching enlightenment [11].

Can a correlation be made between the consumption of honey and the level of human consciousness? If we choose to pay attention to honey in correlation with the way it is produced by bees and if we observe the bees and the way they are organized in the hive, the raw material from which honey is obtained, the nutritional quality of honey, we surely find the meanings behind the appearances. But for that, it takes openness and availability to think and perceive outside of material limitations and restrictions. The scale of levels of consciousness can be applied in any situation and actually reflects the way in which we, humans, relate to a situation. The more we act from a higher level of consciousness, the more we manifest wisdom, love, joy, and peace and bring harmony. We are like the Honey of God, as the sacred texts wrote.

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3. Holistic honey

In terms of the Simple Truth, Honey is produced by bees from bloomed flowers. The season when this happens is in the warm and bright seasons, when the plants and trees are blooming, when Nature shows many colors, and when the cycle of life on the planet is expanding, prosperity, flourishing, joyful, and optimistic time. We cannot talk about honey without including bees and flower nectar or other sources from which bees produce honey, the blooming Nature, the Sun, Life, the existence on Earth.

Holistic Honey is about interconnection. Everything is connected with everything, as the word is explained in the dictionary: Holistic = characterized by the belief that the parts of something are interconnected and can be explained only by reference to the whole [14].

And there is the word and its meaning. Since Honey has been valued since ancient times, we can start our approach with the word. Applying the ancient Essene Numerology system to the word

debhash (Honey in Hebrew language—the sacred language from some of the sacred texts) we have to find the number for the word. In this system, each letter has a corresponding number. If we add up the numbers corresponding to each letter that forms the word, we get the number 9. The meaning of this number according to this ancient system of Essene wisdom is: “Completion and Wisdom, Companion, Perfection. The number 9 is connected to the power of action… 9 sets processes in motion and is a catalyst for movement… 9 is involved in the great cycle…is good in assessing wholeness…”. [15]. Every word is correct for the bees and for the Honey.

The Honey is stored by the bees in honeycombs whose shape is hexagonal, with angles of 120 degrees between the sides. We can think about many possible answers to many “how” or “why” questions about this shape. How can be understood the influence of this shape on the beneficial quality of Honey? How can manage the bees to build these honeycombs with such perfect precision? Why hexagons and no other shape?

If we explain the honeycomb hexagons from mathematical and logical perspectives, we can fall into the trap where the Logic prevents us from seeing the big picture. The engineering approach to understanding how bees build honeycombs can direct us toward minimizing and limiting the perspective. Miracles do not really happen in the precise world of exact sciences. “The interpretation of the honeycomb architecture as the result of blind physical forces rather than biological engineering can lead to state that there does not seem to be much room left for the honey bees ‘engineering prowess’” [16].

There is a mathematical truth behind the geometric shape of the honeycombs, with no gaps or small spaces between the units, and they do not need additional wax for patching. The scientists proved that “there are only three geometrical figures with equal sides that can fit together on a flat surface without leaving gaps: equilateral triangles, squares, and hexagons” [17, 18, 19]. The “conjecture”—and that’s what it was, a mathematical guess—proposed that a structure built from hexagons is probably a wee bit more compact than a structure built from squares or triangles. A hexagonal honeycomb would have “the smallest total perimeter.” The antic author of this theory could not prove it mathematically, but that’s what he thought [20]. The geometrical pattern of honeycombs is impressively symmetrical. Compactness matters. Wax is expensive. A bee must consume eight ounces of honey to produce a single ounce of wax. The hexagon is the shape that most efficiently breaks flat space up into little units making honeycombs that hold the most amount of honey while using the least amount of wax. Darwin agreed that “The Honeycomb is absolutely perfect in economizing labour and wax.” Thomas Hales, a mathematician at the University of Michigan, produced in 1999 the mathematical demonstration of Varro’s theory: a hexagonal structure is indeed more compact [21].

The hexagons are also studied in interior design, analyzing the impact of the geometric shapes in the room on the mood of the person. It is considered that this naturally occurring shape, this geometric wonder induces a feeling of well-being, and an openness to collaboration and communication because at subliminal level our brain makes the association with bees and everything they represent (their teamwork the ability to work in teams, the cooperative nature). Not only our mind is stimulated by the sacred geometry of the honeycomb shape, but also our emotions are triggered in a good way and we can feel connected with the community, our creativity receives an activation impulse and a sense of balance becomes obvious, and all these are just a few of the feelings evoked by. This positive energy makes it an attractive fit for creative industries. They are combined with the shape of diamonds that symbolize clarity, knowledge, and quality. They were also originally said to be symbols of immortality and, to this day, still communicate excellence and sophistication. Using hexagons alongside diamonds can go a long way when bringing a space to life and serves as an attractive focal point of the room [22].

From the sacred geometry to the sonic geometry is just a step. The next step in the holistic approach to Honey. The research in Sonic geometry shows that “Geometry reveals Harmonics,” considering that we can play the numbers of the geometry, the total sum of the angles, as frequency (120 degrees × 6 angles = 720). It seems that it is not easy to find these frequencies in other places than in Nature. The 720 Hz frequency (the sum of the angles from the geometric hexagonal shape in the honeycombs) helps to increase intuition and to see the interconnectedness of all things. The musical harmony of the hexagons is C# 216 Hz, 1 octave below 432 Hz [23].

There are research works on the sound frequency in a hive and this can be an important tool for assessing the status of the bees in the hive, the health, or the swarming period. The acoustic methods based on labeling the sound in the hive to predict the swarming was studied for the beekeepers who consider this as a honey loss. It was observed an increase in the power spectral density and approaching to swarm the sound augmented in amplitude and frequency to 300 Hz, with occasionally rapid changes to 500 Hz [24, 25]. Another team of researchers from Mexico found that the sound signal from a beehive with a queen shows a characteristic pattern around 400 Hz (it could be 432 Hz—the sacred sound of Nature) (Table 1)[26].

SignalFrequency range (Hz)Signal patternSenderSignificance
Recruit200–350Pulse SequenceForagerIndicate the existence of a quality food source
Tooting300–500Pulse SequenceQueenSubset of piping. Prevents hatching of further queens
Quacking300–350Pulse SequenceQueenSubset of piping. Indicates viability of confined, mature queen
Worker piping300–550+Single pulseScoutTriggers colony hissing to prepare to swarm
Hissing300–3600Single pulseColonyGeneral warning/defense signal. Occurs during swarming, hive attacks, and other adverse events

Table 1.

The acoustic signature of honeybee’s colonies (from Amro Qandour & col, [25]).

We need more research with accurate methods to identify the sound associated with a certain status of the beehive (varroa mite infections, size bee’s population, pre-swarming behavior), to be able to identify by sound frequency the health status of a colony [27]. The medical research also studies the correlation between different frequencies of sounds with the activity of the cerebral cortex [28]. The harmonic geometry of sound is only at the beginning of scientific exploration, but it is already known that the frequency of the sound in the hive indicates the status of the bee colony (dynamics, health), and the frequency and harmony of the sounds in nature influence the human condition. The studies carried out on water clearly showed how its structure changes depending on the sound frequency [6].

The proof of the harmonic nature of life is all around. Honey as food, medicine, or remedy is more than we can touch and feel with our senses! It’s connected with everything in many ways.

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4. Science of honey

The necessary explanations for the logical understanding of the beneficial properties of honey are provided, according to the level reached, by science. Chemistry comes with a detailed approach, with in-depth analysis of the chemical compounds in different types of honey. The specialized scientific literature abounds in resources, results, research, and conclusions. For the most part, all these researches show results that converge toward a common conclusion, the same conclusion decreed thousands of years before, in all ancient writings and sacred literature. The truth emerges, regardless of the angle from which we look at the situation.

The presence of honey in sacred writings but also the definitions from the national and international regulations (Codex Alimentarius), together with all available resources dedicated to honey as food or medicine, addresses aspects that are confirmed by science. The simple version of the conclusions of the chemistry research on honey is that honey is sweet and beneficial to health.

The scientific approach comes with the perception of complexity. Therefore, from simple to complicated in the study of honey we can analyze definitions and find out details. Having its roots in scientific expertise, the definitions for honey appear, both in dictionaries and in regulations applicable to food and medicines.

The European Council Directive relating to Honey gave this definition in Annex 1: “Honey is the natural sweet substance produced by Apis mellifera bees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in honeycombs to ripen and mature” [29].

4.1 Honey chemistry

If we talk about the chemical composition of honey, the same European Regulation, in Annex 2 considers that “Honey consists essentially of different sugars, predominantly fructose and glucose as well as other substances such as organic acids, enzymes and solid particles derived from honey collection” [29, 30, 31]. According to Codex Alimentarius and EU Regulations, there are values established for each composition criteria for Honey: Moisture content, Sucrose content, sum of Glucose and Fructose content, water Insoluble Solids content, Hydroxy methyl furfural content, Acidity, Diastase Activity (Schade Scale).

The researchers agreed that Honey is a complex composition of sugars, minerals, vitamins, enzymes, proteins, amino acids, organic acids, and bioactive substances made by Bees in honeycombs, from the nectar of flowers. There are different variations between the types of honey and there are many factors that influence its chemical composition, but even so, about 80% of the physical and chemical composition is common. Changes in composition could result from the type of bee that produces the honey, the environmental conditions, and the floral source. Such variations would lead to different colors, viscosity, taste, and properties of the honey [32, 33, 34].

About 78–82% of the honey’s composition is represented by carbohydrates, the bulk of which (75%) is made up of the monosaccharide glucose and fructose. Fructose is usually more abundant than glucose with some exceptions (honey from Brassica napus and Taraxacum officinale) [35, 36, 37]. Analyzing different samples of honey from different regions of the planet, it was identified more than 20 types of carbohydrates. [38] The principal carbohydrate that existed is fructose (28–40%) followed by glucose (20–35%), and the disaccharide and trisaccharide concentrations are around 5,2 and 1, 1%, respectively [37, 38]. The most identified disaccharides are sucrose, maltose, turanose, maltulose, and nigerose. Small amounts of a few trisaccharides were also identified such as isomaltotriose, ketose, psopanose, erlose, centose, and panose [34].

Honey contains also vitamin traces, among which are Riboflavin, Pyridoxine, Niacin, Pantothenic acid, Ascorbic acid, and Thiamin, as well as minerals such as Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium, Phosphorus, Copper, Chlorine, Sodium, Iron, Sulfur, selenium, arsenic, barium, silver, chromium and Manganese.

The mineral content influences the color of the honey, so dark honey has a mineral content of 0.2% compared to light honey, which has minerals in a proportion of only 0.04%. The most abundant mineral element in Honey is Potassium. In even smaller amounts, there are other macroelements and microelements that may also be present in honey: iodine, zinc, lithium, cobalt, nickel, and cadmium [39, 40, 41].

Honey can also contain proteins (0.5%) that are present both in the form of enzymes and in the form of amino acids. The most common enzymes in honey are diastase or amylase, invertase or sucrase or α-glucosidase, CAT, and glucose oxidase. The individual amino acids in Honey are proline (the most important one), arginine, glutamic acid, cysteine, and aspartic acid. Carbohydrate metabolism involves the activity of certain specific enzymes and the biochemical analysis of honey highlighted their presence in the analyzed honey samples such as diastase, glucose oxidase, glucosidase, invertase, and catalase. Diastase concentration may also be used as an indicator of honey quality, with higher-quality honey usually containing more diastase [42, 43].

Another important biochemical compound of honey is represented by organic acids that are present in smaller amounts (the average value identified in honey being 0.57%). The most abundant organic acid in honey is gluconic acid but there are also present aspartic, acetic, butyric, formic, citric, lactic, malic, propionic, gluconic, fumaric, galacturonic, butyric, glutamic, glyoxylic, succinic, glutaric, 2-hydroxybutyric, α-hydroxyglutaric, isocitric, α-ketoglutaric, malonic, methylmalonic, 2-oxopentanoic, pyruvic, quinic, shikimic, tartaric, oxalic, levulinic, and formic acids, among others.

The chemical groups responsible for the smell and aroma of honey include diverse volatile compounds, such as C13-norisoprenoid, benzene derivatives, monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, and, to a lower content of esters, superior alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and fatty acids. The polyphenols and volatile compounds in honey are connected with the beneficial health effects of honey, but more research is needed to demonstrate the mechanisms of these beneficial effects on the human body [44, 45].

The importance of honey for human health is also analyzed in detail. The chemical, enzymatic, polyphenolic, and volatile compounds of phytochemical substances in honey are connected with the anticancer, antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory activities of honey [31].

The authenticity of the honey and its quality, the identification of adulterations, comes to the attention of the competent control authorities. The report of the JRC “Round Table” (European Commission) confirms analytical techniques to authenticate honey [46, 47, 48].

4.2 Honey microbiology

The physicochemical parameters of honey and the presence of natural antimicrobial substances are not favorable for the growth of microorganisms. Honey has a diverse microbiome, most of which originates from pollen, flowers, soil, air, dust, and the honeybee digestive tract. Additionally, some secondary microbial contaminants may be introduced into honey during human processing. Water activity (aw) is one of the very important parameters that influence many biochemical interactions in the living world and also the growth of microorganisms. In general, microbial development occurs in the water activity range of 0.620–0.995, osmophilia yeasts develop at 0.60–0.65, xerophilic molds between 0.65 and 0.75, halophilic bacteria between 0.75 and 0.85, and all other bacteria between 0.91 and 1.00. The water activity parameter of honey is between 0.50 and 0.65. The chemical reaction is generally acidic, with pH ranging from 3 to 5 due to the presence of organic acids. All these physicochemical properties of honey are influencing microbial growth. In addition to the inhibitory effect on microbial development given by the low water activity and low pH, honey contains naturally antimicrobial components (including antimicrobial peptides, hydrogen peroxide, and antioxidants). The only organisms that can survive the osmotic stress of honey are some spore-forming bacteria and yeasts. Most of the bacterial species identified in honey were osmotolerant, xerotolerant, and acidotolerant [49].

The scientific evidences and advanced research that explained the mechanisms underlying the antimicrobial effects of honey, through various phytochemical factors or as a result of osmotic effect, acidity, and hydrogen peroxide, prompted a comprehensive review of numerous reports of the antimicrobial activities of honey. The antibacterial activity of honey was proved in some instances where antibiotics were ineffective. The bactericidal effect of pure honey has been shown against many pathogenic microorganisms including Vibrio cholerae, Shigella spp., Salmonella spp., other enteropathogens like Escherichia coli, and other Gram-negative and Gram-positive organisms [50].

All the research works done with the purpose of a better understanding of the antimicrobial capabilities of Honey have developed new areas of interest and made discoveries not initially intended, but which have proven extremely valuable for the knowledge of environmental effects on microbial biodiversity and ecosystems associated with different types of honey. All these investigations on the microbiome of honey and other bee products brought new information about Bee diseases that cause significant ecological and economic damage, such as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Even though the presence of pathogenic microbial DNA may not directly correlate with honeybee diseases, using advanced metagenomic tools to determine the relative abundance of these pathogens can provide information on possible hive diseases and overall beehive health [49].

Future studies should continue the series of investigations that can limit until eradication the important bee diseases that are triggered by ecological imbalances or miscalibrations of the bee microbiome, with unwanted implications on honeybee diseases and overall bee colony health.

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5. Conclusions

  1. Science can prove things according to our ability to understand and our openness to look at from different perspectives. “Ninety- nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable” (R. Buckminster Fuller).

  2. Science has advanced tools for the study of honey, both physical-chemical and microbiological.

  3. The medical sciences deepen the research through which the beneficial effects of honey on health are understood (honey acts as medicine or intervenes in the prevention of the installation of pathological manifestations).

  4. The research carried out on the microbiology of honey can clarify important aspects of the health of bee colonies.

  5. The geometric shape of honeycombs, the hexagon—is studied both by scientists specialized in physics and mathematics as well as by specialists in music and sonic geometry, establishing the interrelationship of these parameters with human well-being.

  6. Honey is identified in the ancient sacred writings and recognized before the development of science, as being valuable and beneficial for man and humanity. The application of an Essene numerological system in the analysis of the word named honey reveals qualities that correspond to both honey and bees.

  7. Honey can be understood in a holistic context and finds its place on several levels of the hierarchy of human needs, the old texts show an association of honey with high states of consciousness (love, joy, peace).

The new trends to a holistic approach to our reality, correlated with all the advanced analytical techniques and with the Digitization of everything, the involvement of Artificial Intelligence in all areas of interest of humanity will gradually bring to the attention and consciousness of humanity the indisputable evidence of the interrelationship and non-separation between Nature, Divinity, and Humanity. Bees are exemplary masters and models of functioning at the highest levels of Consciousness. They lives in colonies, groups, and teams, maintaining harmony inside the colony and outside the hive, in peace and harmony with everything that surrounds them. They are our models of discipline, respect, and beneficence, and they have been available to humanity since ancient times, waiting with peace and patience for man to understand and apply in society, in communion, the sweet lesson of Honey Bees, conceived from the sun, flowers, sacred geometry, harmony, and unity with the divine and with the planet that hosts us generously.

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