Pioneering Over Four Epochs

Pioneering Over Four Epochs is a tapestry of poetry and prose which attempts to endow various themes and a wide range of social science and humanities subjects with many layers of meaning. I try, too, to evoke from those who join me to read and/or interact a complex range of responses in relation to the themes at this BootsnAll site. As initiator of this prose-poetry project/blog I have evolved a style which tries to fuse together material from academic subjects, from my own life and my religion, the Baha’i Faith. It is my conviction that the Baha’i Faith has a significant role to play in the growing unification of the planet. It is my hope, too, that what I write resonates with both the novitiate, the veteran Baha’i and others on a multitude of paths along which we all travel. There are only a few pages of autobiographical poetry, narrative,essays and prose of other genres which now functions as my blog. In some ways my site/my blog, my prose-poetry can be viewed as one long diary or travel journal. It is my hope that readers will enjoy, will find some delight, in reading my pieces of writing. And, finally, I welcome any dialogue in relation to my postings at this blog. ______________ That’s all folks! The Baha’i teachings, wrote someone on behalf of the Guardian just after WW2, could be likened to a sphere. “There are points poles apart, and in between….thoughts…that unite them.” I trust readers will find here some of the more unific aspects of the teachings while at the same time find some degree of perpetual motion back and forth from pole to pole, what some call dialectic, and across all points in order to, as Bahiyyih Nakhjvani writes, “convey the fullness of this sphere to any soul.”(Baha’i Studies, Vol. 10, p.17) Such is my aim and, inevitably, I will fall far sort as virtually all of us do. For to attain to “the necessary qualification of comprehensive knowledge”(SDC, p.36.) that ‘Abdu’l-Baha enjoins on us is a mighty problem in these days of the knowledge explosion. And to acquire all of the virtues is impossible. But we must strive. My prose-poetry is an expression of my striving.