9.7.24 - Messing around in boat

It has been a very chilled start to the holidays. Yesterday we were on Sentosa looking at this boat which was very lovely but kinda unnecessary. The more I look at the life which people are supposed to envy, the less interested I am in it. But it was very nice to be on such a boat and I did enjoy it.

Then it was one of the large malls for what we hoped with be oysters, but it turned out the oyster place had closed and we settled for uni sushi instead. Which as far as substitutes go, is pretty good.

Then it was back here... and dinner with Ghin was Srisun again... the second time of the day for me. Then a quick nip around My Village for some bread and then back to the house.

I've been reading Steiner's lecture series on Atlantis, which was very fashionable back in the day. Atlantis and Lemuria. The idea of this lost land was huge in the late 19th century and Steiner was not immune to its effects. Colonisation and the exotic East was something which radicals of the day were getting acquainted with and clearly having fallen out of love with their version of Christianity, the WASP, Catholic version, they began to try and make connections between Eastern mysticism, Gnosticism and Romanticism... being interwar also made Europe feel like a basketcase. People were looking for answers. It is interesting how quickly people forget what being poor is like. It only takes them half a generation of some kind of status and work to make them feel like they know better.

Anyway, there are many fascinating things about Steiner's take about Atlantis which I can get on board with... I'm kinda reading it, not as fact, but as an allegory. All of these ideas which Steiner received in a sort of semi trance like state, since he says it was the Akashic records, which means he must have downloaded it in a sort of mediumistic session, I am just picking over to see what rings true for me. The evolution of leadership. The development of thought. The tension between egotism and service to the divine... all of those things, I understand. That he wraps it up in the Atlantean evolution... I would love to do a PhD on the traditions of Atlantis in world literature... that would be a fun PhD. In all of world history and mythology, there has always been an Atlantis like metaphor - a place where we had it good and then we ruined it. Human beings and our tendency to ruin good things... This is why we can't have good things...

The days are cool and pleasant. It has been raining since we arrived and we have seen practically no sun. That's alright, as far as I'm concerned. It's not very July, but you know, I can live with that. The weather can otherwise be too hot and this, cool, grey, perfect days - this I am good with. It is now quarter past eight. I have all these days and all this time. I know they will go swiftly, so I should just slip into the things which I want to do. 

Truth be told, I have not felt hungry since I arrived here. My eating has become minimal in the past year as well. I generally eat small amounts and my life does not revolve around food. Also the ulcer has just put a cap on the eating, which since I am not running is not a bad thing. Again, I have had no alcohol since I've arrived and with the rest which I've been getting, I'm feeling more and more energetic.

Right. Atlantis... notes are to be made here... thoughts and to be thought here... here we go...