Johanna Arven
author
I have loved fairy tales since I was a child. During the Corona lockdown from March 2020, almost all appointments and orders were cancelled. So I took up my started fantasy novel "PUNJA & TASHI" again. With Punja, the little Tibetan perfumer, you dive into the sensual world of fragrances that rarely appear in the media. I had only written about 30 pages in the last five years; only a vague idea of the story, a wish.
Now from spring 2020, during the Corona crisis, I really immersed myself in the world of the enchanted Tibetan siblings. Suddenly the pages almost wrote themselves. And not only once did the characters in the novel surprise me!
The author can be seen in the picture in the early 1990s, after she and her partner at the time - coming from Munich - had just moved near Neuschwanstein Castle.
The author lives in seclusion in a small hamlet near Neuschwanstein Castle. You can contact the publisher:
post@arven-verlag.de
Johanna Arven found Buddhism at the age of 22. In the following years she was fully integrated, meditating and studying within a school of Tibetan Buddhism. Then a time began in which she began to be more interested in her own roots again - those of a Christianity in which she had grown up - but also the pre-Christian, Nordic cultural influences.
Ethics are more important than religion.
We are not born members of any particular religion. But ethics are innate in us. Johanna Arven is concerned with a more secular ethic beyond all religions. Albert Schweitzer called the same concern "reverence for all life".
More essential than religion is our basic human spirituality. This is a human tendency towards love, kindness and affection - regardless of which religion we belong to. Johanna Arven can fully underline these statements by the Dalai Lama.
community
However, we humans also need community, beyond our family ties. As free individuals, we either form new ways of being together or we integrate ourselves into existing structures. Whether these are based on a closeness to nature or religion or another ideal orientation, it is always about these topics:
Together we usually create more than an individual, but only if we don't "completely perish" here as personalities in this community (ideology, institutions...).