Human Encounters and Karma

This marvelous book begins to unfold a path of community -- an interhuman spiritual path -- and shows how we can begin to resacralize our everyday lives by bringing an awareness of past and future karma -- our full humanity -- into our relationships with others. Beginning with the moment before the encounter, the author shows how from that moment on we can enter a process which parallels that of the Mass: annunciation, sacrifice, transubstantiation, and communion. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner's many indications, Floride shows us this social ritual as a profoundly spiritual path, one perhaps closer to us than any other. The second half of the book deals with this process of by encountering a poet through his work. Taking Victor Hugo as his example, Floride shows how profound such a meeting can be.