Nekyia

1. A young boy lost his father.
2. The boy was so much attached to his father that he continued seeing him in his dreams.
3. However his departed father from the underworld watched his child suffering and having hallucinations about him.
4. Thus he decided to descend to the living world to help his offspring.
5. But because he couldn’t make his presence physically perceived he visited his son in his dreams.
6. There he told him: “Dear son, it is me your father. You should stop thinking of me and seeing me in your dreams because you have to keep on with your real life.”
7. His son was so impressed and persuaded by the credibility of the experience that he never saw his father in his dreams again.
8. Here rises the following paradox: Living people are not supposed to know about the existence of the netherworld since the dead are prohibited to return to the living world. Vice versa living people cannot enter the netherworld.
9. But the child’s father, due to his son’s suffering, decided to temporarily violate the prohibition for the sake of his offspring. After the visit the son never dreamed of his father again.
10. However if the boy had been thinking that his dreams, before his father’s apparition, were real, how could he be persuaded that his father’s retrospective apparition was real, instead of another hallucination?
11. And if the boy was convinced by his father not to dream of him again, how can he tell and convince anyone that his experience was real?
12. Although we have a vague idea about the afterlife, we can never prove by definition its existence.
13. Therefore although logically the afterlife is an impossibility, spiritually we behave as if it were real.
14. This is a sort of double paradoxicality through which an impossibility becomes real by its mere existence- otherwise it wouldn’t have even been thought of.
15. But finally what is more real? Is the underworld a mere projection of our everyday expectations, or is our everyday life the real product of a world of ghosts?

1/25/2020

Image: NEKYIA, René Tazé

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