The Most Disturbing Quote By Franz Kafka That Will Leave You Speechless
A mind-blowing theory of reality.
Kafka lived for a long time, torn between his love for literature and his passion for Felice Bauer.
Until the early morning of August 11, 1917, when he began to cough up blood.
In the form of illness (tuberculosis), fate devoted himself to writing.
As he was ill, he went to spend some time in the countryside, at his sister’s house, Ottla, in the town of Zürau (Czech Republic).
There, he tore up some notebooks into small pieces of paper. In pencil, he would write disturbing metaphysical reflections that were super hermetic and difficult to decipher.
I tried to decode them, and what came to my mind blew my mind.
Here is the most disturbing one I have ever come across.
Kaftka’s most disturbing aphorism.
“The expulsion from Paradise is in its main part eternal: so the explusion of Paradise is final, life in the world inevitable; but the eterminadity of the process makes it possible, however, that we may not only remain in Paradise durably, but that we are in fact there durably, whether we know it here or not.” — Franz Kafka.
After turning this cryptic sentence over and ending up with a headache, I think Kafka meant that we are — at least — two-dimensional beings.
We live in the real world (3-D dimension) and another dimension (ideas or spiritual) but do not realize it.
In the same way, a 2D video game character (if he had consciousness) would not know that the 3D world exists because, in his video game, nobody knows what height is. Without height, there are no three axes (XYZ); therefore, there is no third dimension in space (only XY).
In conclusion, the video game character of the 2D video game belongs to our 3D world but doesn’t know it :-)
Note: Ants believe they live in a two-dimensional world.
The same thing happens to us, according to Kafka.
Kafka suggests that we live in several dimensions.
The physical 3D and a spiritual one, at the same time
He does not say that we will inhabit this spiritual dimension in the future, after death, as many religions suggest.
The novelty is that Kafka, in his aphorism, is telling us that we are already in heaven and on earth simultaneously.
Boom!
Assuming Kafka is right
We are mind, body, and spirit; the mind connects human and spiritual worlds.
Our thoughts and ideas come from that spiritual dimension. They are downloaded into this functional and mobile computer called the body, which acts as an avatar in 3D reality and allows us to interact.
Using the Christian mythology used by Kafka in his aphorism, it is as if a part of us lives in paradise where time does not exist because it is eternal.
Another part, our 3D projection or shadow, following the myth of Plato’s cave, has been banished to a place where time does exist, the reality we know.
So, we inhabit two worlds.
The 3D reality
And the spiritual realm.
In the 3D reality, there is time.
In the spiritual reality, time does not exist because it is infinite.
Ergo, we are ephemeral and eternal beings at the same time.
Boom!
Which leads me to think of something alarming.
Our physical reality is a shadow of our spiritual reality.
That would explain why we can create everything we can imagine sooner or later: in the spiritual dimension of ideas, it already exists; otherwise, we would not be able to imagine it.
In this sense, to imagine would be like looking through a peephole into that spiritual realm.
Ergo, to imagine is to see what already exists in the spiritual dimension of ideas, and to create it is to produce its reflection or shadow in this 3D world.
Imagining would be like seeing a YouTube tutorial for something that already exists in the dimension of ideas and that, when we have the necessary technology, we can materialize in the real world.
Therefore, if you can imagine it, is that 1) that idea can exist in the real world, and 2) you are one of those people/portals through which that idea can project its shadow to this 3D world.
You only have to set it in motion and trust your spiritual self to work harmoniously with your 3D self.
A virtual hug
AG
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