Does the soul have a gender?

But if one shall take it from the beginning maybe one first shall ask:
– Have humans got a soul?

This question can very easily divide people into two different groups, the ones who think we have a soul and the ones who think that we only are a body. If you believe in the one or other often reflects which personal experiences one have had in life.

Thought i therefore should mention the clearest personal experience that I have had and which influences how I think…
It was one night when I and my wife was sitting and watching TV. I really don’t remember which TV program it was but this is irrelevant in this case. All the suddenly without reason or connection to what we were watching at I felt a shiver in my body. At the same time Anna jumped to beside of me and gave up an undefinable sound. She then said:
– It was grandpa. He said, Good bye Anna.
To the story it belongs that he had been sick for a while and was staying at a hospital. Anna called her mother and got to know that grandpa had passed away…

This undoubtedly makes one to think and ponder, at least it made me, and it becomes rather many thoughts that bounce back and forth. It can also be that how good one perceive  these kind of actions can be connected to how strong and close relation or connection one have had and how receptive one is at the moment.

Some people can feel this as unknown and frightening that there can be a lot of souls that is floating around after that they have died. Personally I think this feels calming and safe but everything is dependent of how one interprets the situation.

But if one suppose that the meaning of life is to get experiences and develop and reach a goal. Isn’t it then logical that a soul learns more things through different genders? It would therefore be limiting if the soul only had one gender and only could take one shape on earth.

But what is important is not what I think or write about this but rather what you think? All people are on a journey through life with their bodies and are also on an inner journey with their souls… If one believes in that. If one doesn’t believe in this, an inner development journey can at least make a person developing and treat their fellows in a better way.

But to be really honest it doesn’t matter if one believe that we have a soul or not.  It doesn’t either matter if one believes that the soul has a gender or not. However, what does matter, here and now, is how one lives one’s life and treat ones fellows. Of course can a belief in either one influence how one treat one’s fellows. But a belief in either one doesn’t automatically lead to how one treats ones fellows.



If you want to read about the inner journey I have made during thirty years, you can read about it in an e-poem collection, but it's only available in Swedish.
Den inre resan (iTunes)
Den inre resan (WHSmith)

I also have two poetry pages where I publish poems, aphorisms and other stuff:
Peter Junell writes on Allpoetery.com (In English)
Peter Junell skriver på poeter.se (In Swedish)

Bloggen är också tillgänglig på svenska:
Peter Junells Blogg

What is success?

Success can be measured in many ways but many things in our society are measured through economic success. Of course do all people need money to be able to live like buying food, clothes and somewhere to live. But when these three basic needs are catered what should one do with economic success?

The danger with economic success is that it’s easy to suppose that it is important and that it is the meaning of life. But do economic success bring a consisting lasting and unshakable joy and happiness?

The answer to this question must be an undoubtedly no. Isn’t the important in life to feel happiness and joy, and spread the happiness and joy and share the happiness and joy? Isn’t the biggest success in life to feel joy and happiness?  Unfortunately economic success is mistaken from giving happiness, although can economic success trigger a happiness. But this happiness is temporary and doesn’t last.

But when one feels joy and happiness it then regards to feel the feeling and try to live in the feeling even though the reason for the joy and happiness has disappeared. If one, through exercise, gets good at this then it will lead to that one more and more moves towards feeling joy and happiness. If one feels joy and happiness the adversities and problems one meets in life will feel less hard and will become easier to overcome.

Therefore is the greatest success one can do in one’s  life is to reach so far in one’s inner development that one, preferably always, feels a joy and happiness. Of course this will require practice and dump into adversities, but if one doesn’t even try to practice to feel joy and happiness but only chase for economic success to be able to feel joy and happiness then the joy and happiness will disappear more and more.

Because the true and lasting happiness isn’t connected to what’s in world, because it comes from inside of you and can be felt by you. When you feel joy and happiness  you will spread it in your life and more and more will feel from your joy and happiness.



If you want to read about the inner journey I have made during thirty years, you can read about it in an e-poem collection, but it's only available in Swedish.
Den inre resan (iTunes)
Den inre resan (WHSmith)

I also have two poetry pages where I publish poems, aphorisms and other stuff:
Peter Junell writes on Allpoetery.com (In English)
Peter Junell skriver på poeter.se (In Swedish)

Bloggen är också tillgänglig på svenska:
Peter Junells Blogg

What has Jesus, Buddha and Muhammed in common?

The simple answer to that question is that they have all through their lives made the base for three different world religions. But is this answer really the most important answer? Isn’t it important how they treated their fellow people and how much love they felt in their lives?  Isn’t the love they spread in their lives what’s important?

What unites a carpenter son, a merchant and a son of a prince? Can it be that their lives had different paths but lead to the same goal? Was it that their inner development journeys lead them to the same goal? Were they in fact not bigger or smaller people than us, but they developed to what they became.

Didn’t Jesus go through a development journey when he first said?
- I am the messenger of God.
Then he said:
- I am the son of God.
To finally say:
- I and my father is one.

Didn’t Buddha go through a development journey through his travel to avoid the suffering of life and which later on lead to enlightenment?

Didn’t Muhammed go through a development journey through the wandering of the caravan and then the revelations on the mountain Hira?

Can it be that the important is not what you are born to but what you are developed to? If the goal with everything is reached through an inner development journey and it’s nothing that a few chosen ones can do, it means that all humans have the same possibilities and rights to inner development. If we also add the aspect the universe, it means that all creatures in the universe are doing an inner development journey. An inner development journey where everyone has the same rights and possibilities.

The only thing that is needed to start an inner development journey is to move the focus from the outer to the inner. Important to emphasize now is that this development journey doesn’t mean that you have to put yourself in a cave and meditate. That is maybe the easiest way since you do not have to take anybody or anything else into consideration.

But if the goal with an inner development journey is to reach ones inner most, feel total connection and connectedness with everything, it is also important that this is spread through ones thoughts, words and actions to society. It’s very hard to spread anything when locked up in a cave ;-).

But where are the women’s? Why is it that only men have created world religions? This fact only reflects the society structure that has existed historically and still exists largely even today. ? But since both men and woman has the same possibilities and rights ta an inner development, there is also woman who has reached the same goal as Jesus, Buddha and Muhammed. In my world it feels a bit strange to even point this out since it’s so obvious for me.

What’s important to remember is that the important is not to establish a world religion but rather to reach the goal of the inner development journey. Who is really a winner? The one who rules the world or the one who has full connection to the force which has created the earth, the universe and everything else.



If you want to read about the inner journey I have made during thirty years, you can read about it in an e-poem collection, but it's only available in Swedish.
Den inre resan (iTunes)
Den inre resan (WHSmith)

I also have two poetry pages where I publish poems, aphorisms and other stuff:
Peter Junell writes on Allpoetery.com (In English)
Peter Junell skriver på poeter.se (In Swedish)

Bloggen är också tillgänglig på svenska:
Peter Junells Blogg

Time to scrap the pedestal?

If there is a force which existed before the universe was created, which then created energy and then created the universe through Big Bang. What need or desire will would this force have of being worshipped or prayed at?

Consider that if you were the absolute and have created everything. You have created everything and can destroy everything. You know that you are everything. What need would you then have of recognition? You already know everything, you already master everything and you are everything. What can everything give you that you do not already have or can create?

With this reasoning, it leads to one conclusion and that is that the force which has created it all has no need of being worshipped or prayed at. The force which has created it all has no needs, but is only in a state of being.

All religions and rituals have therefore been created by man for man. The force in itself doesn’t want to sit on a pedestal, being prayed at and worshipped. The force which has created everything and is everything enjoys when everything in the universe feels connection to and affinity with the force. This is because joy and happiness is the goal of the inner journey.

Isn’t the sweetest fruit joy and happiness? Doesn’t everybody feel best of joy and happiness? Isn’t therefore the greatest gift joy and happiness? The greatest and most lasting joy is the one which is inside of you, because there have the force placed what’s most precious in the whole of universe. 

Anyone who has reached through meditation, contemplation, philosophy or any other technique a connection with one’s inner most, where the only thing that exists is total being, knows what I am talking about. It’s in this state of mind of full connection that the inner joy, happiness, meaning and understanding can be reached.

Unfortunately this connection is so far very short and temporarily, at least for me. But during these experience’s there is a force and insight left even when the connection is broken. It’s a very might feeling to be in a state of mind of being and during a short moment feel a full connection with everything and reach a full understanding.

The only logical is therefore to take down God/the force/the higher being etc. from the pedestal and find it inside of you. The force which has created everything is not a person or religion but it is the inner most that is inside of you and all other creatures in the universe.

But in the same way as the sun is obscured by the clouds the inner world is obscured by the outer world’s anxiety and frustration.  But if in contact with the inner world the outer world’s anxiety and frustration is easier to meet. In the same way as the wind blows away the clouds the inner connection blows away the outer world’s anxiety and frustration.



If you want to read about the inner journey I have made during thirty years, you can read about it in an e-poem collection, but it's only available in Swedish.
Den inre resan (iTunes)
Den inre resan (WHSmith)

I also have two poetry pages where I publish poems, aphorisms and other stuff:
Peter Junell writes on Allpoetery.com (In English)
Peter Junell skriver på poeter.se (In Swedish)

Bloggen är också tillgänglig på svenska:
Peter Junells Blogg

What do you believe in?

Everyone has sometime in life been faced with the question:
- Do you believe in God?

What your answer is to this question very much depends on what kind of experiences you have got in life. If you have experiences of much grief, missing, disappointments and/or how much happiness, joy, love etc… The answer to the question can also depend on which experiences you have had in life, on growing up or which kind of society you grow up in.

What’s interesting, I think, is not if you say that you believe in God or not. What’s interesting is which definition you have of God or if you like, which picture you have of God.

The first questions you should ask are which shape have God, What is God? What is also important to remember when talking of the definition of or picture of God is that no one has got patent on God. I.e. no one can say what’s right or wrong regarding the shape of God.

Is God a person or a force? If he is a person and that person has already lived, then it’s sorry for all of you that lives now, Bad Timing ;-). But if he/she (that was very modern or irritatingly written) is a force, you can ask the question what is and where is this force?  What can this force? What does this force want?

With my background and interest in technology, IT, Energy etc., I see a more logical explanation which leans more to the force direction with some similarities with energy. As you maybe already know energy is indestructible and only changes shape.

If we assume from the definition of God as a force then it’s logical that this force like energy is indestructible and only changes shape. If we further add the parameter that this force created universe then a bit more thoughts appears in one’s head. If this force is like energy you can see it like the force was in the singularity that was before Big Bang and then created the universe.

If one wants to move it up another level you can also see the force as non-physical and that it existed before the singularity. This force then expressed itself in the physical world through Big Bang which emanated from the singularity.

Many thoughts and issues it becomes, but it’s important to remember that no one has patent on God. This makes that one purpose with “The inner journey” is to create one’s own picture of how it all is linked together.

Which is your picture of God or what you call some higher being or force? Please share your own experiences and make comments, have an opened mind, ponder, piece out, discuss and see where the road leads.



If you want to read about the inner journey I have made during thirty years, you can read about it in an e-poem collection, but it's only available in Swedish.
Den inre resan (iTunes)
Den inre resan (WHSmith)

I also have two poetry pages where I publish poems, aphorisms and other stuff:
Peter Junell writes on Allpoetery.com (In English)
Peter Junell skriver på poeter.se (In Swedish)

Bloggen är också tillgänglig på svenska:
Peter Junells Blogg

Hi and welcome

Do you like to travel?

Personally, I think it is fun to travel and ideally to a nice sunny and warm place. But the most important journey is not the one our body makes rather the journey we make in our inner. All humans make a journey in their inner consciously or unconsciously through the journey they make in life. Therefore can a journey made with the body also affect our inner journey. But it's up to each person to decide how our life journey will affect our innermost.

During our life journey we collect information to our brain through our senses, sight, vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste. The brain affects our emotions when interpreting the information we get from our senses and the emotions in there turn affects how we feel in our inner.

Our life journey can be made alone or in company with other humans. But our inner journey is always made alone and has for all humans the same goal. The goal is to reach your innermost kernel and express it in your daily life.

When we reach our innermost kernel and are connected to it the daily life becomes easier. I don't say that all troubles will go away in a second, but our attitude towards them will change. The attitude will change in a way that we have easier to look upon problems from different angles and also have easier to find solutions to them

When you do your inner journey one way is to ask many questions to yourself and here are some you may ask.
Who am I?
What do I want?
Where am I going?
When you do your inner journey it's good to be inquisitive and in that way get to your innermost. For my inquisitiveness is natural and I remember a secondary teacher who ones said:
- Good, Peter has understood everybody has understood, then we can move on.
I can add that he said it with twinkle in his eye.

Now when we have reached this far I thought I should mention that I do not have patent on "The inner journey", I just write on the blog to share my experiences and like to get some feed-back.

This is my first post in this blog and I only have a very rough sketch of what I shall blog about. I will initially throw myself into interesting subjects like The meaning of life, Religion, God, Atheism, Love, Hat, Happiness, The force, Innermost kernel etc, as soon as I have written something down. I am not absolutely sure in which order I will be addressing the topics or if I will come to think about something else I rather want to blog about.

I think this will be enough as a first post and do share your own experiences or give feed-back. The feed-back posts can even be like:
- I don't believe in "The inner journey" drivel because of...
Only that one has an incentive to one's position and are willing to discuss it.



If you want to read about the inner journey I have made during thirty years, you can read about it in an e-poem collection, but it's only available in Swedish.
Den inre resan (iTunes)
Den inre resan (WHSmith)

I also have two poetry pages where I publish poems, aphorisms and other stuff:
Peter Junell writes on Allpoetery.com (In English)
Peter Junell skriver på poeter.se (In Swedish)

Bloggen är också tillgänglig på svenska:
Peter Junells Blogg