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SUPREME REALITY AND ALLEN GINSBERG The poems in this volume(1953-1960)...mostly lack the desperately earnest cry for truth and the snug-tension accuracy of Ginsberg at his best. -A.R. Ammons, "Ginsberg’s New Poems"(published 1964) in On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde, editor...

AT LAST CONVERGING Literature dwindles to a mere chronicle of circumstances, or passionless fantasies and passionless meditation, unless it is constantly flooded with the passion and beliefs of the past and, of all the fountains of passion and beliefs of the past, Baha'i history has again and...

Thanks folks for your welcoming notes. I probably went over the top as they say in introducing myself six months ago. But I don't get to this site very often so perhaps a little excess now and then will compensate for the relative dearth most of the time.-Ron:o

AMBIGUITY’S GAP The poet’s experience: the matter, the soil, the flora and fauna which inhabit that experience; the feelings, images, desires and fears, mediated through the poet’s language which express that experience and the image the poet has of himself which he offers to us in his...

O KING! Some visitors to Haifa tell us that Shoghi Effendi was tired and worn out by 1941, twenty years after assuming the helm of leadership of the Baha'i Faith. Ruhiyyih Rabbani informs us, in the last lines of her book The Priceless Pearl, that by his last years Shoghi Effendi was "called...

BEYOND FRAGMENTATION AND SUBMICROSCOPIC PARTICLES Trying to find the actual Jesus is like trying, in atomic physics, to locate a submicroscopic particle and determine its charge. The particle can not be seen directly.......history is more complex than physics...the intervention of unknown...

THE BIRTH OF SUBLIMITY Beautiful works of art serve our underlying purposes in both cognition and morality in a way uniquely characterized by the freedom of the imagination. When it comes to the sublime in art there always lurks the abyss of the unsayable, the larger sea of the ungraspable...

The dust of reviews has settled on this film and so: the time has come, perhaps, for a more dispassionate, a more considered, a more reflective, little review. Perhaps review is not quite the right word; perhaps what I have written here is just a comment, but it is no less provocative than the...

Dear Alexa I got the name wrong. it's William Hatcher not John. they are actually brothers. William is a science man and John is into literature. They are both professors at universities. I'd give you a net site if I could but everything I have is in books and journals. Let me say, though...

PROGRESSIVE EMANCIPATION Reading Colin Wilson’s summary of H.G. Wells’s thoughts on the freedom of the mind to work at creative and intellectual pursuits gave me some useful perspectives on writing poetry. Wells speaks of our entanglement with life and he craves release from the bothers...

Brian, There is no rush; when you have time let me know (if and when) where you'd like me to put pieces of autobiographical study. Happy to not put any of it anywhere, if you decide to go that way in the end. Yours, Ron Price, Tasmania.

It's been about six weeks since I made this posting. "I,Brian" suggested I contact him with a proposal on submitting my autobiography as a series of articles. So, for starters, can I suggest we post it in a series of chapters. I have thirty in my book. I'm happy to follow any pattern or idea you...

Question: My Favorite Movie?///Answer: Try This Response on for Size....... Rather than give you one of my favorite movies for, like books, the list is endless and I'm not sure what purpose such a list serves(no matter how many items there are on the list), I will give you a review I wrote...

I am a 60 year old man who joined the Baha'i Faith in 1959. I am not going to attempt to answer a question like yours in this small space. But let me say the Baha'i literature is extensive; the websites are burgeoning and the Baha'is more than eager to discuss their Faith with you. I just...

Thanks, Art, I'll put a little of my background here to respond to your question--you might find over-the-top. But so as not to reinvent the wheel and give you a more comprehensive picture, a picture that often feels like a mural large enough to fill a proverbail building. The story is long and...

Just checking the reply process. This looks like a rely to myself but, since I've been talking to myself for years, this should be no problem: PUBLICATIONS :LIST It is useful for people to have some idea of what others have published, if anything. It is not a crucial variable but, like...

Summary of Experience of Ron Price Ron Price has been associated with the Baha’i Faith for fifty years. He has served on eight LSAs, in eleven localities and groups and published three books on the Internet. He has been an international pioneer from Canada to Australia since 1971 and served...

THAT OLD WORKHORSE 'RELIGION' In the mid sixties I took an elective unit at university, while I was studying history and philosophy; it was in comparative religion. According to Carl Raschke in his article "Theorizing Religion at the turn of the Millennium," the study of religion only emerged...

I have been associated with the Baha'i Faith for 50 years(1954-2004). Recently, I have taken an interest in autobiography, autobiography of any kind: those of people with commitments to organized religion, causes of various kinds, experiences in various fields, contemporary and historical. Only...