>I find it a bit amusing that you mention Carlos Castaneda as a source of guidance. 

Thanks, Pete.  I knew I could count on you to miss the point and change the subject.  

The subject was "heart" and I could have chosen a passage from the Torah, the Bible, the Qu'an, Harry Potter, or The Wizard of Oz saying essenially the same thing, but maybe less poetically, and somebody, somewhere would have questioned the authenticity or applicability of the source and even suggested that the writer never actually was there.

No matter.  Our lives are inspired largely by fiction and poetry, sometimes fervently believed and/or held as a mass delusion in the entire society, but fiction nontheless.

The point I was trying to make here is one that that is almost entirly mysterious to non-beekeepers: the secret-society aspect of this cult of insect-worshippers, and how central the activity becomes to the lives of those who enter.  

Because possibly of its very difficulty, unpredicability and incomprehensibility, beekeeping becomes a way of life rather than a job.

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