What Do Reincarnation and Karma Mean to Contemporary Life?

The first lecture in the important cycle contains many practical karma exercises, and the second is a subtle comparison of the results of such exercises with ordinary memory. Unlike normal "representational" memory, which is lost to the life after death, the intuited higher self "remembered" as a result of karma exercises in more of a feeling nature, and it is something much closer to what can be experienced in the life after death. The third lecture is the broadest, arguing the absolute centrality of reincarnation and karma to anthroposophy. Indeed, some of Steiner's assertion are quite surprising in this regard.