Description: Mystical Life of Franz Kafka : Theosophy, Cabala, and the Modern Spiritual Revival, Hardcover by Leavitt, June O., ISBN 0199827834, ISBN-13 9780199827831, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In a long-overlooked diary entry, Franz Kafka admitted to suffering from ''bouts of clairvoyance.'' These bouts of clairvoyance can be seen in his writing, in moments when the solid basis of human cognition totters, the dissolution of matter seems imminent, and objects are jarringly severed from physical referents. June O. Leavitt offers a fascinating examination of the mystical in Kafka's life and writings, showing that Kafka's understanding of the occult was not only a product of his own clairvoyant experiences but of the age in which he lived. Kafka lived during the modern Spiritual Revival, a powerful movement which resisted materialism, rejected the adulation of science and Darwin, and idealized clairvoyant modes of consciousness. Kafka's contemporaries - such theosophical ideologues as Madame . Blavatsky, Annie Besant, and Dr. Rudolph Steiner - encouraged the counterculture to seek the true, spiritual essence of reality by inducing out-of-body experiences and producing visions of higher disembodied beings through meditative techniques. Leaders of the Spiritual Revival also called for the adoption of certain lifestyles, such as vegetarianism, in order to help transform consciousness and return humanity to its divine nature. Interweaving the occult discourse on clairvoyance, the divine nature of animal life, vegetarianism, the spiritual sources of dreams, and the eternal nature of the soul with Kafka's dream-chronicles, animal narratives, diaries, letters, and stories, Leavitt takes the reader on a journey through the texts of a great psychic writer and the fascinating epoch of the Spiritual Revival.
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Book Title: Mystical Life of Franz Kafka : Theosophy, Cabala, and the Modern
Number of Pages: 224 Pages, 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Mystical Life of Franz Kafka : Theosophy, Cabala, and the Modern Spiritual Revival
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: European / German, Mysticism, European / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 16.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: June O. Leavitt
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion
Item Length: 6.3 in
Item Width: 9.4 in
Format: Hardcover
