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It has been over two years since I was last at this thread and so, belatedly, I will make a response to "the sharing of ideas and experiences." I have just finished a four volume 2500 page opus called 'Pioneeirng Over Four Epochs.' You can buy it for $2.98 at eBookMall. I won't post any of it...

Re: The Greatest Principle of Comparative Studies of Religions/Interfaith Dialogue It has been nearly two months since this thread began its existence in this piece of cyberspace. Already there is a lengthy discussion with many facets of the initial question surveyed, with opinions outliend in...

18 months ago, in mid-2004, I retired from part-time teaching; in mid-1999 I retired from full-time teaching after 30 years in the field and another 18 as a student. I am now 62 and happy to be able to devote my time to study. The academic study of religion is just one of the many fields that I...

First, I must apologize for not responding more quickly to the above comments on my original posting. Anyone who waits for 16 months to continue a dialogue is deserving of a reward for patience. Having just come across this thread in a casual surfing of the net, let me try and make a considered...

There are now, of course, after more than 160 years of Baha'i history or more than 200 years--if one takes that history back to the Bab and the two major precursors of His Faith--some excellent histories of the Baha'i-Babi Religions. I won't ennumerate all the books involved but the following...

Thanks for the beautiful poems which I just read on a backward look through this site's postings. I've always liked this piece too: Do not mock the wine; it is bitter only because it is my life. -Jalalu’d-Din Rumi With appreciation Ron

Discussion of the ego is a process of entering a labyrinth of ideas. As a person who writes extensively I have found Orwell's comment useful. George Orwell saw four reasons for writing: sheer egotism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political purpose.-Robert L. Savage et al, The...

There has been a tension in the Baha'i Faith for over 140 years. Tension is as much a part of religion and politics as apple-pie is part of American culture. There has been tension in all of the great religions since Adam ate the proverbial apple. There is a tension in marriages, in sport teams...

When my mother started to go to Baha'i meetings in 1953 there were about 200 thousand believers in the world. Now we get varying estimates from about 5 to about 7 million. So...a growth rate over 50 years at 25 to 35 times the number from a base line in 1953. Then there is the rate in the...

In this my first posting at the Judaism Forum under "Religion, Faith and Theology," nearly eight weeks ago now, I was playing--as I often do--poetically with my knowledge and ignorance of Jewish history and comparing and contrasitng it with ancient Greek history utilizing one of the famous...

sub specie pioneeringi Price knew he did not need to construct a new mythic base to replace the symbolic base of Western culture that had existed in Christianity. His religion provided that new mythic base, that new metaphysical frame for his vision, that new metaphorical basis of...

UNSUSPECTED BENEFITS It is a stupendous paradox that a god does not only fail to protect his chosen people against its enemies but allows them to fail....yet is worshipped only the more ardently. This is unexampled in history and is only to be explained by the powerful prestige of a prophetic...

sub specie pioneeringi Price knew he did not need to construct a new mythic base to replace the symbolic base of Western culture that had existed in Christianity. His religion provided that new mythic base, that new metaphysical frame for his vision, that new metaphorical basis of spiritual...

To use paganism to glorify and propagate Christian morality was a rather difficult task. Still, the Jesuits were confident enough to attempt it and succeed. In order to achieve that goal the Jesuits had to transform the ancient world, the world of Greece and Rome which had become in the...

A FORMATIVE AGE The highly varied social, intellectual, psychological, partisanly apolitical and artistic atmosphere of the Baha'i community deeply influenced Price and thousands of other Baha'is of artistic sensibility in the four epochs during which his pioneering story had its origins and...

CUPID AND PSYCHE Cupid was an emblem of the heart, in Greek mythology. Psyche was the personification of the soul and represented by the form of butterfly wings. Psyche suffered a great deal in her efforts to learn about love and faith. After much suffering, caused by the jealousy of her...

PERSIANS, YET AGAIN, AT THE PERIFERY In 404 BC Athens surrendered and the Athenian sea power, the Athenian empire, was at an end....As time went on dissention and discord increased among all factions. -Ron Price, Ancient History Notes: Greece 478 to 404 BC., Thornlie Tafe, 1992. As we watch...

Re: Boundaries and Sublimity: A Second Look Thank you both for your generous responses to my poem. Sublimity is not a subject that has occupied my prose-poetry directly and consciously as a subject very frequently, only occasionally in the 25 years of my writing. But in appreciation for your...

Apologies here to the voteries of Buddhism. This poetic intrusion--with its emphasis on Allen Ginsberg and the Baha'i Faith--onto this Buddhist sub-site under "Eastern Thought" at 'Religion, Faith and Theology' has its origins in a lifetime of watching Western religionists and non-religionists...

RENAISSANCE San Francisco as a literary frontier has been a contentious place....these tensions are worked out within the myth of a "city on a hill" that claims belatedness as a sign of divine largess. Because that community was founded late in the history of a corrupt world, it might serve...