Yesterday I watched the beginning of a program on the sunken island of Atlantis. It was an episode of Mysteryquest. As the program just started the word "Bimini" popped into my head. Several minutes later the investigation began in the Bimini Islands.

Though I likely had knowledge of this somewhere in the past, it was one of those surprise pop-ups that I take as precognition. And perhaps it was only a precognition that the program's investigation would begin in Bimini. But maybe it was validation that Atlantis is below the waters of Bimini.

I was not able to watch the rest of the program (had work to do), but the thought of Atlantis intrigued me so I stated [to the universe], I want to know about Atlantis. I want to see it. I had a twinge of fear having said that. For some reason it scared me a bit.

I figured any answer would come in the night as usual. So as I began drifting to sleep last night, I began to receive information. I remember hearing something like, You'll have to be a good underwater subterranean spelunker! I surfaced to consciousness for a moment, which is likely why I remember that bit, and I felt uncomfortable about the idea of being underwater and in caves under water! I can't remember what happened after that. Sadly about 95% of what I learn I can't consciously recall, so I often cling to that 5%.

I remember waking up in the wee hours from unsavoury dreams. They all were based around the theme of money and the corruption of worshipping money. In one of the dreams I was with some relatives. We were staying at a resort. I had some money in my room. It was some extra money I had. My relatives would come in and pinch some of it now and then. I knew they were doing it, but I couldn't accuse them of it because this just wasn't acceptable. So in irritation at the unjustness of their ability to pinch from me, I decided I should pinch back from them. Even though I didn't like the idea of stealing, I justified it to myself that it was really mine as they had taken it from me. (Though part of myself said that once it was in their possession it was now theirs, so it was still stealing).

The time together was coming to an end at this resort and we were all packing up to go. The relatives tried to sell me some of their trinkets. These were little statues with jewels and gold on them. I knew they were made in large part of cheap material. And yet they wanted an exorbitant amount of money for them. Highly inflated, greedy, deceptive, profiteering... It didn't matter if a person could easily afford these statues, the point was it was wrong, greedy. So I didn't buy any. And it all made me feel bad.

Then as I was cleaning up the kitchen in our suite the crockery kept breaking and chipping if I bumped them at all. The platters looked made of clay, like proper pottery or terracotta, but truly they were made of broken glass held together by papier mache. I wondered if the resort would then charge me for the broken platters, if it was part of a plan to get extra money from guests. It seemed another deceptive money gouging scheme.

As I woke I had all of these realizations of people worshipping money, losing their concern for the welfare of each other and worrying only about winning and money. I had visions of gambling as well.

Though it was the early hours, I decided to wake and look up the ancient writings regarding Atlantis. I found this site which contains Platos description of Atlantis. It was fascinating reading and validated my dreams. Apparently, the god Poseidon was given the area of Atlantis, which was rich was abundance, and he divided it between the children he had with a mortal woman. These children thrived and had children and so on. It seems that as the "godliness" was watered down and the "mortality" increased, these children of Poseidon no longer handled with ease and fairness the great wealth they inherited.

At this point, Zeus, seeing the plight the Atlanteans were in decided a punishment was in order and assembled the gods to present his ideas. Unfortunately Plato doesn't finish the story and it ends there where Zeus is about to speak to the gods. Arrrgh!

Still, I guess it is obvious what was decided and what happened based on other accounts of Atlantis. In some way it was sunk into the sea (earthquake, volcano, ).

I also couldn't help but see and feel the similarities between Atlantis and current civilization.