10.7.24 - Day 5: Same holiday

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Haji Maimunah

Le Pool

An Linn

Mé
An leabhar agus peann

Ithean sé ramen agus muceoil


Yesterday was very chilled but also incredibly productive. We got the club and the cards done. And then we got the filofax inserts in Kinokuya. BUT I also got a Princess Mononoke folder and yes, stationery do be my Achilles Heel... it's bad. Because you can ALWAYS justify stationery.

I also finished reading the Atlantis lectures by the pool. I always knew it, but I REALLY UNDERSTOOD IT, how much our education in Steiner was a mystery school traditional and teachers teach accordingly. We are challenged to come to grips with the curriculum and therefore also journey with the children to discover human evolution. 

What else can I talk about? This morning, Ghin and I talked about the universe and how incredible it was living on the planet Earth. How was all this possible? Ghin then said, you have no idea how many times I have had this conversation, but mostly when I was drunk.

Then he said, his generation was going to just screw it up, and make it bad for the next one and I said, well, no, you guys are gonna sort it, right? And he said, No. We know the problems but we are too lazy to solve them. It's too hard. Yes, I agreed, it is very hard. But it can be done.

Interestingly, this lead us back to Steiner education and the main purpose of the Sun initiates was to show that it need not necessarily be all about the materialism. The lost world of materialism. That we are also spiritual beings and we do not develop the best way, the most satisfying way if we do not recognise and then work towards or on it.

More than ever, I am fascinated by the premise of Atlantis... and I am going to reread this book. WHILE reading the Irish and Norse myths...

We are greater and better than this, this stuff which we think is the be all and end all of things.

Meeting Leon later and then I'll do lots and lots and lots of admin, probably at the club's study room. And i'll do it till it is done.

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