Before leaving for the conference as I entered the chemistry school elevator next to the teaching labs she kissed me passionately three times while I was in a hurry saying goodbye.
Someone said, ‘wow good on ya.’
I was thinking nice but there’s nothing I can do about it she’s engaged plus I wasn’t being selfish.
Then to Indonesia,
To a beautiful tropical island for the conference. I went to the beach with a Max-Damon fusion and another guy. The three of us would share a room at the conference hotel. The beach was hot and there I was on the beach wearing my red travel jumper. I was hot. I had to go back to my room to pack my jumper away.
And the water was freezing with there being (once again) a ‘cold’ channel between our island and the neighbouring island. The water flowed through this channel like a freezing stream. There was a bald man in that channel. The cold water was up around his waist.
The conference hotel was at the beachfront. I went inside the hotel to the ground floor restaurant that looked like a cafeteria.
‘Free coffee?’ a staffer asked.
I ignored the question. I’d make an instant coffee in my room.
I made my way through the restaurant to the hotel lobby and then to the elevator. It was a huge glass elevator and inside it I met my friend Tina. I looked at her key and the number written on it. We were staying on the same floor. Level 12. Her room was number 9. Mine was 69. Her room was next to the elevator. I checked her room out. It was huge really long and industrial like the Robinson lab. Her roommates were James and Jake, I made them so.
‘Everyone has a room for themselves in here,’ James said.
‘What about the other rooms?’ I asked.
This was a beautiful dream. I went down the rational elevator and then up the fragile as glass feminine elevator. In between was Indonesia. I went there once for an education conference, in my dreams (May 2021).
I call the chemistry school elevator the rational elevator since science is to a large extent a rational discipline. She kissed me when I left. That aspect of the feminine was enticing me to stay in the rational domain. I said no I had to leave. She belonged to the rational function and I knew that I did not belong there with her. So down and out I went. Down from self-constructed heights to the ground floor to what is base and can be roamed.
To arrive in Indonesia,
This is the second time I’ve been in Indonesia, in my dreams. I’ve never been there in the waking world. I’d like to travel there one day. Its Australia’s other the European Russia (March 2022). We deal with it by ignoring it. No one knows the language and apart from Bali which isn’t really Indonesia no one goes there. Me, I’d like to travel across Java on public transport. One hundred and forty million people live on that tiny island. That fact alone blows my mind. And then there are volcanoes. Lots of them. They’ve been blowing on the news.
Of course Indonesia was a perfect dreamtime tropical paradise more like Sumatra than overpopulated Java. Tropical island clichés die hard in the unconscious. Or was that my unconscious bigging up Indonesia? Conference roommate buddies. Thank God those days are done. Max and Damon Damon used to share a room back in the day. How sad. Talk about an odd couple. In my dream there were three guys sharing a room, a Max-Damon fusion, a featureless shadow guy and me. No feminine no fourth (February 2022). And then there was that bald guy in the freezing stream. That bald guy was Damon Damon Proselytiser of Rationalism. The stream represents the unconscious. It was cold because rationalist by default reject what they cannot see or measure. To such a mindset the unconscious is frozen like it was for me when I walked Damon Damon’s hallowed halls.
I found the fourth the feminine my friend Tina in a glass elevator going up with her and not down alone like I did when I left the chemistry school.
See, I had to go down in order to go up.
Tina and I fell out years ago. Greg’s covid catastrophe bought us back together. Tina is fragile like glass like the feminine fragile like glass.
So up we went to level 12 that being 1+2 which again equals 3. Tina’s feminine made it four. Her room was number 9. According to the Internet the number 9 symbolises completeness and in Greek mythology the number 9 also symbolises the Goddess, the highest personal fulfillment of the feminine psyche. Her room was like the Robinson Laboratory at the chemistry school. That is the room looked like a shell with wires and junk and walls that did not reach the ceiling. Furthermore I placed James and Jake in there as they were in my student days. I would call Tina’s room a reconstruction zone. It’s as if I’m looking for a way to reconcile my rational education with the irrational unconscious and the idea of totality. That follows on to my room. Number 69. The number 6 is 3+3 incomplete and doubled down and to compensate for that we have the feminine number 9 the same upside down a complementary whole and therefore one.