The Sacred Bee - Part 1

Catalogue Number: RTV086
Producer: RESEARCHTV INC.
Producers: Couto, Oliver
Directors: Couto, Oliver
Producing Agencies: Patterns of Civilizations Productions
Subject: Documentary, Guidance, Health, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Sciences, World History
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2012
Running Time: 57:02
The Sacred Bee film series offers a ground-breaking paradigm that gently unites the world’s major faiths, using the mental construct of the honeybee and her exemplary life, transposed as a model of excellence in the approach to the spiritual life. Designed for world religions classes but also useful for philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, theology, chaplaincy, thanatology, spiritual studies, meditation/yoga groups and adherents of all major faiths.
What does the honeybee do? It takes the essence from each flower. We visit major world religions and, using the model of the honeybee, identify their hallmark qualities and virtues. Whatever was said about the honeybee or her products is mirrored in that spiritual tradition. Upon analysis it reflects that faith’s major qualities.
Part 1 introduces apitherapy, the medicine of bees, and explains the importance of a sacred attitude, the importance of honeybees and the fascinating mirror analogy of honeybees in the Judaic, Christian, Buddhist, Islam, and Hindu faiths and the Esoteric and Initiatic Science traditions. Bees are shown to be the model adherents of each faith symbolically.
Patterns of Civilization Productions.
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