The Eternal Journey

By Peter Junell

Join Pierre's journey after the moment of death and on to life without body. His journey starts on earth where he sees life with other eyes and then continues to the "Non-physical world" where he experiences the soul, the meaning of life, and everything else from another perspective. I hope that "The Eternal Journey" will give you new perspectives on the soul, life and everything else.

/Peter


A few comments from readers of the novel

It is fascinating
/Cissi

It is good and different
/Ulrika

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Dec 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9789180279918

Peter Junell

Hej, Jag försörjer mig som IT konsult på dagarna och ägnar mig åt skrivande på fritiden. Men frågan är om det finns andra som uppskattar det jag skriver. Har därför publicerat denna diktsamling och ytterligare en diktsamling och en bok. /Peter Junell

Book preview

The Eternal Journey

Preface

The Circle

The end of the journey

The beginning of the journey

Farewell

The party

The bridge

The park

The settlement

The mountains and the valleys

The boat

Economic crisis

The Boyd Lender

The boundlessness of love

The old couple and their child

The beginning of the opening

The end of the bright opening

The bank of past lives

Leave everything except love

Examining the source

The teaching

The indestructibility of the force

Leadership

The real goal of power

Get a new body in the universe

Help others fulfil their innermost desires

The last house

The path choice

The returning

The breakfast

Even more evidence?

The shifting creature

The infinity of the physical and spiritual worlds

The image of a higher power

Compare infinity with the true religion

Start the meditation

To have a vision

Choose path

A creature I remember

Memories from the non-physical world

The meditation moves on

Cue

Thanks, from the author

Back Cover

Copyright

Preface

What happens in life you can to some extent plan for, but it’s not possible to have control over everything. Sooner or later things happens which you have not been able to foresee. The final, which is often not possible to plan for or have control over and which we can be sure of, is that we someday will die and what is left on earth is an empty body. We often do not know when, where and how it will happen. Some feel fear of death, other just shrugs and some are fascinated of it. But is that all or are there something more? Or do we just wish there is a soul, spirits, rebirth, and something more because the end is unthinkable? But if spirits exist, what do they do? Are there any connection between our world and the spirit world? It easily becomes many questions at once when you take your time to ponder.

Do you like me, like to wonder about questions of life, death and what happens then, please continue reading? But it is also okey to continue reading if there is something you are looking for, but you really do not know what. You might just have got tired of chasing the material world. I have tried to write down what I think seems logical and what I believe in.

But maybe, to be able to understand life and death you might first have to have a perception of the meaning of life. Why we exist and if there is any higher power or force and what it wants? It is maybe that everything is connected, life, death, and that after death. When we do not understand that everything is connected there is an unbalance which shows as a search or an emptiness. Maybe we have the wrong focus and emanates from that everything is what we experience with our bodies and then there is nothing more. If there would be anything more, then we will be aware the day we leave our bodies. But that is nothing we must think about or in any way consider during the time we live. But if you are in a constant search and feel an emptiness then you might have to shift your focus, from the outer to the inner and see if there is any difference. If we just try, we can see if there is any difference. Do we feel that we come closer to a goal in our search and reduce our feeling of emptiness? Nevertheless, if you are a seeker, want to feel less emptiness or just think that questions about being is interesting, then this book will be an interesting journey

It is possible that it is the spirit or soul which is real and that life on earth is an event or period in the life of the spirit. It can be that the time we have on earth now is something which have been chosen by the spirit to get experiences and the development which the spirit needs right now. The spirit wants to do this journey to get new experiences, share experiences, just being or to give love.

With this perspective you can see a development which stretches across many lives in many places and in many cultures. Personally, I believe that when you think in this way you get a completely new perspective and that it gives answers to many questions, and at the same time cause new questions, which slowly brings you forward. This also causes you to go on a journey into the unknown, were there are no knowledge yet, like a researcher which looks for new discoveries and searches for answers to the questions. It is like being a pioneer in the spiritual and inner world, were everything is new and discovered for the first time in this life. But the new which is discovered is familiar and is knowledge which you rediscovered in this life. The soul has already these knowledges, but for the soul to reach its goals in this life, it must rediscover them.

It is not important which answers I find, rather how the answers affect me in my daily life. Does the pondering make me feel better, be happier, be a better person or understand life on earth here and now better?

If you answer yes to any or all those questions you can be sure of that you are moving in the right direction and you have to continue your development and explore life, death, joy, sorrow and everything else that life has to offer.

But sometimes life can be heavy with setbacks, sorrow and missing. To be able to meet this in the best way you should have acquired a balance between your inner and outer world. Where you let the inner control over the outer and not the other way around.

The journey you do in life affects your inner and with life as a base you do an inner development journey, where I believe that the goal is to be happier and a better human. But to be able to do a journey in life you also need to do an inner development journey to find your true inner, where the answers to all of your questions are, where security and meaning with life is found. When you have reached your inner knowledge, you also know what you should do in life to reach your goals. To be able to reach your worldly and spiritual goals, which both belongs together and interact with each other.

But now let the journey begin and I hope it can give you something to carry with you even after the last word is read. Let your inner adventure start where you select what you want to take with you into your everyday life.

The Circle

The circle is a symbol for orbit or a circulation where everything goes around in eternity. In life on earth there are many things that circulates in circulation. Water evaporates from the seas, rains down on earth and by the rivers gets back to the seas where the circulation starts again. Circulation is also important in production of the raw materials for our food. Where everything in the production chain must circulate so there won’t be any unbalance in earth where the raw material grows. When I was in school, I learned about the energy principle which describes the indestructibleness of energy, where energy never disappears and instead circulates between different kinds of energy.

The circle is a symbol which has similarity with the soul. Do we really know where a soul journey begins or ends? If the soul isn’t physical it isn’t affected by the law of physics, like for example time. If it isn’t affected by time a soul can live in different lives without chronological order seen from our time perspective. This means that a soul can live in present time during one life, past time in another and then a life in future. If you want to take the thought further, time doesn’t exist for a soul. If time doesn’t exist for a soul, then all life’s that soul lives must exist at the same time seen from the perspective of the soul.

But two returning questions are, what meaning has life and what is the meaning with a soul? Maybe we have the answers to the questions, but have we looked at the right place? We maybe find the answers to the questions inside of us, beyond the physical world since the physical anyway doesn’t exist after we have left our bodies.

My hope is to present new ways to look upon this. Sometimes when you get stuck in some way, it all gets simpler if you back a bit and change your perspective. What I touch in this book has often come to me as a feeling without words. The difficult part is to try to explain a feeling, so another human understands the feeling in the same way. Especially if the thing I try to explain to someone isn’t physical and cannot be measured or proven. But is the explanation really what is important? In the same way as if the question to where the beginning and the end of a circle really is important?

Maybe everything is just a journey, where the important is the journey and not the goal. Both the journey in the physical world and nonphysical world. Those worlds belong together, is together and is something we use when we do The eternal journey. I wrote a poem about The Eternal Journey, which I hope can give a clearer description of what I am trying to mediate.

The Eternal Journey

The journey of the eternal journey,

Takes you to the world of the eternal, infinite and creative force.

You start the journey of the eternal journey,

At the hearth of the eternal, infinite and creative force.

You end the journey of the eternal journey,

At the heart of the eternal, infinite and unmeasurable force.

No matter how much your journey is delayed by the physical world,

You will eventually be joined with,

the eternal, infinite und unmeasurable force.

I hope this poem gave the answers to the questions of the meaning of life and the meaning of a soul in a more comprehensive way. To see more clearly what it means for everyone, the simplest way is to search inside of you and do an inner journey to easier see the connection between the inner and outer world. When you see and understand this connection it’s easier to do your choices and choose roads. When you are in balance in your inner and outer the roads and the choices appear in a more natural way.

The end of the journey

Yesterday had been good. I had felt well and have had almost no pains at all. I had strength, felt energy, and have had almost the same feeling as the day before I had a real cold. The day before I had a cold, I usually had such an energy as if I could do anything. Yesterday my mood had been on top, and I had been joking and have had fun with my near and dear. Everyone had been gathered and we had felt that everything had been as good as it could during the circumstances. Food had been fetched from a restaurant outside the hospital area with my favourite food. We had all been eating, been talking and been happy and there had been a feeling in the air. A feeling that everything would sort out no matter what happened. Everyone had found an acceptance to what was coming and got used to the thought.

Today everything was completely different. The pains were severe and unbearable even though I got full pain relief and all I wanted was to get away from the pains, if it was supposed to be like this, then there was no point in living. Even breathing was hard and it felt as if my body was drained of it last powers. I stuck with life, not because of desperation or fear of death, rather because I wanted to feel that my near and dear was ready. That it was the right moment for them because I had been ready for a long time now. They had hastily come back to the hospital and gathered around me. When I looked around and thought about each one-off them, I felt that they were ready, as ready as they ever could be. I took my last breath and disappeared from my body with a smile on my lips. The pain was finally ending, and I left the body I have had for the last 85 years. The doctors determined that death had occurred on the 7:th of May 2015 at 11:53 AM.

I slowly left my body and raised up towards the ceiling, it was a similar feeling as you can reach in deep meditation, but it was bigger, stronger, and more complete. I left my body and felt how I was filled by something that made me warm. It was a large inner embracing warmth I felt. After a while I turned around in some way and could see my near and dear that was gathered around me in the hospital room when I left my body. I could see the room from above, I could see how they that was in the room went to the bed and looked at my body. When I saw this from the above, I was struck by how beautiful this sight was and how beautiful everyone was that was gathered around my body. I could see all the beautifulness and felt even more warmth and joy. I felt such joy over sharing my life with my near and dear even now when I was leaving my life. I saw my family, my near and dear that I had shared almost my whole life with. They took the hands of my body into their hands and said goodbye and have a happy journey. I had a feeling of sorrow from them, but also happiness that the pains were gone. I felt their love and warmth when they held my bodies hands in theirs. It was as if all their feelings of relief and sorrow streamed from them through my hands, to my body and from the body up to me, which looked on them from above. When I felt their love, I felt how I in some way embraced them all and said goodbye see you again. I felt how this made them feel a shiver and how they heard the words inside of them and how they felt the embrace. I could see and feel how everyone exchanged glances with each other and how they understood what had happened, that I said goodbye to them.

The last step in life, which all humans sooner or later will get to, had now happened to me. There was now silence, which gave space for afterthought and reflection. I could feel the ones which had gathered around my death bed and how they felt. Their joy, sorrow and love were loud and clear so was their strengths and fears. Thoughts came and went inside of them, I couldn’t grasp the content of the thoughts, but could perceive how the thoughts affected their state of minds. When they started to feel sorrow, fear, missing or loneliness I wanted to embrace them of love and warmth. When I got this feeling of wanting to embrace them, I felt how my energy of easiness and joy radiated towards them. The energy in my embracing lead them to thoughts which instead made them feel strength, joy, and love. No one could see or hear me in my shape, but they could perceive my presence and love. I could see and feel everything in the physical world without a physical body. But the feeling was so different in comparison to when I had my physical body.

When I was in the body it was as if, so much of what I had felt and experienced was tied to it. Focus then was on the body and the bodies cooperation with the physical world, but now it was different. I wasn’t physical any longer but could be in the physical world without that they, which were there could see or hear me. But the ones who had been close to me in the physical world could perceive me. They could perceive me as a shiver when I embraced them. They could also perceive my presence after that I had left my body.

I had no comprehension of the time which had past, but could after a while see how they, one by one left the death bed, hugged each other, and left the room. But before they left the room many of them turned around and looked up on me. I could feel how they said, goodbye and good luck on your new journey, hope to see you soon again. Don’t forget us and watch over us if you can. At the end I was alone in the room and looked at the body I had had for so long but now left. I felt how it became colder and colder and finally felt ice cold, distant and foreign. Think that something that recently was so familiar and obvious now had become so cold and foreign.

Another moment passed and then came the hospital staff in and started to roll away my body to the morgue. When I saw this, I felt a bit of missing and started slowly to move back into my body. When I slowly came back into my body, I started to feel the pains again and the lightness disappeared. I could feel how the focus once again moved back to the body and how the warmth was replaced by cold. The pains, the disappearing of lightness and the warmth’s replacement of cold made me bounce back from my body. I once again saw the body from above and how the body was wheeled away to the morgue. My body was finished, it was used and had filled its purpose. I said goodbye to my body and thanked it for the time I have had with it. I could feel how the body slowly started to break down and the energy in the body started to return to the soil. I saw my body as the fulfilment of a circle and how its indestructible energy slowly returned to earth. Nothing in the universe disappears it just changes shape. I had changed shape and have once again a shape which I hadn’t had for more than 85 years. But it felt like yesterday, and I felt at home in the shape and felt nothing but warmth, lightness, and joy.

In my new present, but familiar shape, I felt that this was a beginning of something new, a beginning of a new phase. I had been in this shape before, and it felt in some way safely since I knew it from before. I didn’t remember everything about this shape and what I had done when I had it before, but it gave me lightness, warmth, joy and a feeling of happiness and love. The hospital room had been emptied of my body, all machines and everything else which had been around me during my last days. The room had been cleaned and a new bed had been moved in and the light had been turned off. I remained in the silence of the room without knowing for how long. But then I felt how a light was radiating and it came from the windows. It was a new day which had started to dawn, and I felt the strong light which was even more beautiful now then I had ever seen before. In my body I hadn’t always felt strong light as beautiful, but in the shape I had now the strong light that came from the window was so beautiful. It was something new that started after what had just ended and I was ready for this new journey.

The beginning of the journey

I turned my eyes to the hospital rooms window and outside I could see a tree. I moved slowly towards the window and felt how I came out to the tree and saw all the beautiful flowers that was is bloom. I recognized the flowers, it was cherry blossoms, and I could see and feel inside of me how beautiful they were. When I looked up in the tree, I could see birds which sat and chirped. Their chirp felt stronger and expressed a strong feeling of presence, which I only had been able to perceive in the body I just left. But now without body the feeling was so clear and bright. I could also see and hear how the tree expressed this strong feeling of presence. At the same time as I saw, heard, and felt the expression of this feeling of presence the sun raised slowly into the sky. I could see it raise up over the horizon, more beautiful than I had ever seen before. I felt how it radiated in a different way, I felt the energy, the inner warmth and love which the sun radiated and not only the physical heat or UV-radiation. I could also hear how the sun raised up above the horizon and it was beautiful music. I understood that the sun was something more than a burning fireball, which during many times had been worshiped by humans on earth as a higher being or God. I could feel the energy which the sun radiated as a part of me. The energy which my shape now had, had, and was made of, was also present in the sun and would also be released one day when the lifecycle of the sun was ended. The sun shone without dazzling me and it was a beautiful day in May. I could have my focus directly on the sun without getting hurt by its beams. The sun shone this day as it had done during billions of years and would do many more billions of years to give life to everything that is on earth. The sun shone without wanting something back from earth, since what I had now seen in the sun was the love with which the sun gave life to earth. I felt no time, and everything just felt like now. I felt such a strong connection to the tree, the birds, the sun, and the earth in the shape I now had. This strong connection that is inside of us is beyond the physical world and unites all living on our earth. My shape made it easier for me to feel and understand this connection. I don’t know how long I was by the tree with the birds and saw the beautiful sun raise, but it was a wonderful first moment on the journey I had just started.

When the sun stood high, I moved my gaze from the tree with the birds and could see how three children and their father bought ice cream in a shop and enjoyed the beautiful day. Everything was exactly how I had ever whished it to be, and I felt all creatures and plants energy, inner warmth, and love. Everything felt so different now, than it had done before I left my body. I felt beside warmth, easiness, joy, and happiness, also a wish to give without getting anything back. I tried to send this love to the father and the children. When I sent the love to them, I could see how they received it in their thoughts. When the love had