The Mystery of Meeting

A book about relationships as a path of discovery and a key element in our fulfilment. These relationships exemplify what the author calls an existential tension between individualism and group identification where the challenge is to create healthy relationships between increasingly self-directed human beings. A key theme running through the book is that of thresholds, including those of intimacy and work, where encountering another is a threshold experience involving both developmental challenges and opportunities for personal development in terms of perceptions, attitudes and behaviour. The book finishes with an inspiring quotation from Owen Barfield where he states that love is the force at the core of all human conscious experience; it cannot be spoken of but we can attempt to live it.