Inspiration

This page is a place to write your innermost thoughts. At its core it is a diary, but secondarily it is optimized for the meditative discipline of contemplative writing. This is a silent place, to sit with your thoughts in meditation.

This kind of writing leads to deeper self-knowledge and greater confidence because you come to know your beliefs in a new way, and through that self-knowledge a more peaceful and non-reactive life. Our inner self is the source of all wisdom. Practiced over time, contemplative writing lets this wisdom emerge. The more you write and ponder the self, the easier it flows from the core of your being. Contemplative writing is traditionally a devotional practice, where one contemplates God and existence.

Mission Statement

Multi-Journal is not social media. It is not Substack, Facebook, or Reddit. Facebook was named after the face you show the world, it values looks over depth. Multi-Journal is for everything behind the facade, the depths of your soul. It is a Heartbook.

The monthly price is modest and fixed at around the price of a physical paper notepad. Multi-Journal is an independent product without corporate backing, and the subscription fee will work to ensure its continued existence. There are no algorithms, feeds, reactions, or engagement metrics. Nothing on Multi-Journal rewards you for being productive, visible, or impressive.

This is intentional. Multi-Journal exists for a different reason. The mission is to return writing to its original form. Writing is not only a way to transmit ideas, it is a way to think. Multi-Journal is a digital monastery, a place for solitude and retreat. Here you can write anything. A question or a reflection. A fragment of a thought you don't yet understand. You can revisit your thoughts and ideas, refine them, or simply watch how they change and evolve over time.

It is for getting to know yourself. It is for meditation through writing. It is for poems. It is for existential questions. It is for heart-breaks and for real moments of joy. It is for your life. Here, you are not treated as metrics and as a product, but as an individual. No one here judges you. You simply write and see what it becomes. You don't need to have something to say. You just need to begin.

Perhaps you are capable of writing something that can change the world. To be able to write freely is valuable. It lends itself to genuine thinking and insights. Writing your thoughts freely invites self-reflection. Writing is thinking out loud.

Imagine writing a half-formed thought on a Tuesday. Returning to it Friday when something you read connects to it. Drawing that connection explicitly as a Chain of Thought. Watching, over months, as a pattern emerges across dozens of entries that you couldn't have seen from inside any single one of them. That's not journaling. That's thinking made visible.

There is a felt lack of meaning in this world. Rediscover meaning through writing from the heart.

If any of this resonates, you already know whether you belong.

By joining and beginning to write, you help restore meaning to the world and to yourself. That is not a small thing. And if you want to share your thoughts, you can do so through your own blog space from where you can share your curated writing to anywhere.

About this blog

This is the creator's personal journal and journey, their spiritual and philosophical understanding developed over many years of contemplation made public for free. Since the content spans years, this constitutes an evolving understanding and some entries may feel less evolved than others. The writing explores social commentary, consciousness, religion, theology, magic, various philosophy and writing as an art form. Your journal could be about cooking, parenting, fitness, travel, creative writing, or anything else. The platform doesn't define what you write about - you do. This blog is made public to demonstrate what one person's authentic writing space might look like when it is used to think and contemplate the nature of reality and the self. All of these posts, with few exceptions were previously available on Reddit and Facebook but was moved to their permanent home here where they do not have to compete for attention. The creator of this website does not expect that everyone will agree with the sentiments and views expressed in the blog. And that's fine. It's your space. You're allowed to explore your crazy here, as the writer has explored theirs and hopefully emerged a saner person. Every design choice is carefully made to preserve the sanctity of your space.

Nihilism and Meaning

People struggle with the perceived lack of meaning in the universe. This struggle expresses itself in ideologies like nihilism, they say "Nothing matters, the universe is completely indifferent and you are but a speck of dust in the infinitely large".

Others struggle with the perceived meaning in everything. Every breath we take, means something. Changes something. Affects the all. Every action we take ripples through the all and causes changes. This struggle expresses itself through ideologies like Christianity, with its heaven and hell, the ultimate consequences.

In actuality however both are true. The universe is entirely meaningless. And everything matters immensely.

The struggle people experience, is with the nature of the self. Your nature is dual and every opposite exists in equal measure. Within your human form, and in the totality of your being.

You are neither angel nor demon, yet you contain both. Try to deny one, and watch the opposite rise in rebellion within. Have you ever wondered how people who identify as good, is so capable of doing evil and remain blind to their actions? That is the rebellion.

But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.

Would you say "raca" to the demon within? Would you take the role of the court and condemn a part of yourself? If you would, there is suffering.

But if you can come to understand both, embrace both.. both the infinite meaning and the infinite meaninglessness at once..
Then the struggle ceases and these ideologies start to look somewhat immature to your eyes. That is the non-dual position. It can not be definitely proven that the universe is meaningless and nothing matters. Nor can it be proven that everything matters and nothing is meaningless. As long as we attempt to decide if one or the other is true, that which is true evades us and we are divided.

Truth is not one side of the opposition. It is the capacity to contain both without dividing

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Price

30 day trial period for free, subsequently 39 NOK subscription fee per month (approximately 4$, subject to conversion rates). Cancel at any time.

When you sign up, you get your own publishing area which looks precisely like the blog page you are browsing now, where you can publish your own works

Android App

Journal This is the official Multi-Journal mobile app and it brings the core Multi-Journal workflow to Android, so you can write and organize your thoughts wherever you are.

The app supports focused journaling, voice transcription, journaling your current location, media capture, and syncs seamlessly with your account. Voice transcription requires an online connection, but the other modes works while offline, and your entries will be synced when connection returns.

You can capture moments quickly on mobile and continue refining them later in the full desktop workspace, including the Chain of Thought workflows.

Use it for daily reflections, travel notes, dream capture, research snippets, or private long-form writing on the move.

The voice transcription mode can be useful for people who wants to journal, but have disabilities that prevent them from easily typing their thoughts, as well as for busy people on the go

Download Journal This for Android

You need an account on Multi-Journal to use the app. It is available for trial users

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