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[RonPrice]

One can appreciate the archaeology of human knowledge and the way in which the Baha'i Faith and the postmodern fit into this archaeology, by a closer look at the missions, methods and effects of each epoch. The Baha'i teachings provide not only quite a precise definition of the epochs we are living in, but also the goals, the purposes and the contexts for these epochs. Knowing as we do that each human being has a different idea about how reality is organized and how knowledge should be pursued, we can easily appreciate that each of us has a different perspective on the knowledge process. The quest in these postmodern epochs, in this tenth stage of history, is for knowledge about self and how this self might best fit into the world as it is or as it could become. All knowledge requires intersubjective understanding: words, ideas, theories, and social life worlds cannot exist separately in the minds of human beings. Knowing, speaking, thinking and communicating is a collective, not an individual activity. The Baha'i Faith provides that collective, that global, that community perspective for a useful archaeology of knowledge.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 14 November 2002.



I really had little appreciation
back then in the fifties
when baseball, passing exams
and making it with the girls
kept me pretty busy
with my small life
in Canadian summers
by that big lake
and in Canadian winters
gripped intransigently
in a drama of death,
with the Rockies always there
in a gargantuan aloofness
far off to the West.

Little did I know in 1959
when Yuri Gagarin went into space
that I had joined a Movement
which defined my world
as precisely, as logically,
as coherently, as sensibly,
as it possibly could be defined
and I had unobtrusively laid
a foundation for an archaeology
of knowledge that would build
a world civilization: epoch by epoch.

Ron Price
14 November 2002.