June O. Leavitt’s study, The Mystical Life of Franz Kafka: Theosophy, Cabala, and the Modern Spiritual Revival (2012), throws a flashlight over the socio-cultural milieu of Prague in Kafka’s life and work as it emerges from both personal correspondences and diary entries. Intent on demonstrating a possible experiential, biographical link between Kafka’s literary output and mystical experiences, Leavitt goes to examine various possible frameworks that could have presented themselves to Kafka. Explorative in nature, her readings range over a large corpus of text, rooted in reflective reference to the historical sources we have of Kafka’s life and work in diaries, letters and acquaintances, inviting not only a multitude of possible avenues for further research, but producing a vivid picture of the Modern Spiritual Revival in Prague in its course. The book is premised on an observation from Kafka’s diary that when writing, from time to time, he admits to suffering from some form of altered states of consciousness that he titled clairvoyance which compromised his writing. Seeking help on this issue, he set up a meeting with Dr Steiner, the head of the German branch of the Theosophical Society. From this meeting onwards, chronicled on 28 March 1911, Leavitt’s narrative accumulates traces of occult, theosophical, cabalistic as well as masonic influences and interactions that could be read as foundations to the way in which Kafka presents his narratives. With a consciously broad set-up, focussed on the wealth of expression in the climate of the Spiritual Revival movement, Leavitt hopes to characterise the mystical nuances pervading Kafka’s texts outside of mainstream cultural paradigms, as well as pointing up directions for closer analysis of the various aspects her study indicates.