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Unsorted, unedited autobiography and stream-of-consciousness reflections, as uploaded by Mr. Price.

Poetry, autobiography, and essays by Ron Price

  1. Ron Price. 10th Stage of History: The First 50 Years: 1963-2013, The: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII Poetry (2006). In 1953 Shoghi Effendi outlined a ten stage sequence or framework for the study of contemporary history from a Bahá'í perspective. In this framework the 10th, and final stage, began in 1963. All of my pioneering life has taken place in this stage.
  2. Ron Price. 275 Years of the Creative and Performing Arts: 1740-2015: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII Poetry (2006). Music, theatre, dance, dramaturgy, the graphic arts, cartooning, the performing arts, film, publishing, galleries, museums, and the visual arts have played an important part in the life of humankind--and in my poetry.
  3. Ron Price. Account of 72 Years of My Experience With Bipolar 1 Disorder: Part 1: A Personal-Clinical Study: A Chaos Narrative (2010). This is Part 1 of a 140,000 word (350 page font-14 or 400 page font-16) longitudinal, retrospective and prospective account of my experience with bipolar disorder, & some other mental health problems, over 72 years:October 1943 to March 2016.
  4. Ron Price. Account of 72 Years of My Experience With Bipolar 1 Disorder: Part 2: A Personal-Clinical Study: A Chaos Narrative (2014). This is Part 2 of a 140,000 word (350 page font-14) longitudinal, retrospective and prospective account of my experience with bipolar disorder and some other mental health problems over 72 years:October 1943 to March 2016.
  5. Ron Price. Arc Project: A Poetic Experience, The: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII Poetry (2006). In the late 1980s I began to write more and more poetry as the construction projects on Mt. Carmel proceeded and the unfolding magnificence of the Terraces came more and more into view at the Bahá'í World Centre
  6. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 1995: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 12-17 (2004). After writing poetry very occasionally for thirty years,1962-1992,I began to write it seriously in that Holy Year, May 1992-May 1993. By the end of 1995 I had written some 2000 prose-poems. The prose-poems in this collection come from the year 1995.
  7. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 1996: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 17-23 (2004). This poetry comes from the fourth year of my writing poetry extensively. By extensively I mean some 500 poems per year, for the most part autobiographical.
  8. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 1997: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 23-28 (2004). The poetry on this document was written in 1997 when I was age 52-3 and living in Perth Western Australia. I had been a member of the Bahá'í Faith for 38 years.
  9. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 1998: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 28-33 (2004). This is the fourth year, beginning in 1995, that I have put poetry on this site. The previous 15 years(1980-1994)of my poetic writings are not on the web only in my personal files in my study in Tasmania.
  10. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 1999: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: 1999: Booklets 33-40 (2003). These poems were written in 1999 and are part of an annual series of prose-poetry I began sending to Bahá'í Library Online in September 2003. The first year in this series contains poetry I wrote in 1995.
  11. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 2000: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Poetry Booklets 40-43 (2004). This poetry was written during the year 2000, the twentieth year of my writing poetry. I wrote four booklets of poetry that year, numbers 40 to 43. They are all part of Section VIII of a larger work also entitled: Pioneering Over Four Epochs.
  12. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 2001: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Poetry Booklets 44 to 47 (2004). The poetry in this collection I wrote during 2001. It is part of a larger collection begun in 1980 and part of, section VIII of an autobiography entitled: Pioneering Over Four Epochs.
  13. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 2002: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 48-51 (2004). After 30 years of writing occasional pieces of poetry(1962-1992), I have now written poetry 15 years much more extensively and intensively(1993-2005). The poetry here comes from just one year, 2002. It does not represent all the poetry I wrote that year.
  14. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 2003-4: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII: Booklets 51-53 (2004). The poetry in this section was written during the two years 2003-4 and is part of Section VIII of a larger autobiographical work: Pioneering Over Four Epochs. The type of poetry I write is known as prose-poetry, arguably the most common type of poetry.
  15. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry 2005: Booklets 54-57: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII:Poetry (2005). The first poem that I wrote was at the start of my pioneering life in 1962, but I did not keep any of my poems until 1980. I now have 27 years of poetry in my collection. The poetry here is from the 25th year of this collection of poetry--2005.
  16. Ron Price. Autobiographical Poetry Volumes 1 to 5: Pioneering Over Four Epochs (2004). This document contains poetry, prose, interviews, essays, pages from my memoirs, indeed, a pot pourri of material from the years 1995 to 2001.
  17. Ron Price. Bahá'í Administration: 1953-2003: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII Poetry (2006). Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
  18. Ron Price. Comments On The Print and Electronic Media: 1844-2044: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII Poetry (2006). Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
  19. Ron Price. Essays on Poetry: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry (2005). The essays on the subject of poetry are, for the most part, introductions to my 78 booklets of poetry. My intention is to place as many of the essays I have written on the subject of poetry in this document.
  20. Ron Price. Film, Television, Media and Poetry: Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Section VIII Poetry (2006). The poetry here deals with some of my experiences with the arts and humanities as well as the print and electronic media as a backdrop to an analysis of my own poetry.
  21. Ron Price. From: Ron Price's Epic Autobiographical History: Pioneering Over Five Epochs: A History of The Bahá'í Faith in The Northern Territory and Adjoining Regions of Australia: 1947 to 1997 (2001-2004). This Bahai Library Online document contains The History of the Bahá'í Community in the Northern Territory of Australia and adjacent regions: 1947-1997. This history is written in some three dozen short instalments totalling about 10000 words.
  22. Ron Price. Interviews With Ron Price About Poetry: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII (2005). Interested readers will find a series of 29 interviews held in the 20 years between 1996 and 2015. These interviews are essentially about my poetry and prose. The interviews, 1.4/year, concerned what I wrote during the years 1992 to 2015.
  23. Ron Price. Bill Washington, ed. Letters of Ron Price: 1960-2015, The: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VII--Letters (2005). This document attempts to place in a general perspective the approximately 10,000 letters, emails and internet posts I have written from 1960 to 2016. None of the collected letters of any Bahai, thus far in the Bahai Era, have been published.
  24. Ron Price. Nature Poetry: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VII Poetry (2006). Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
  25. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography: Part 2.1 (2008). This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
  26. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography: Part 2.2 (2014-02). This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
  27. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study In Autobiography: Part 3.1 (2009). This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
  28. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study In Autobiography: Part 3.2 (2014-02). This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
  29. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII - Poetry - The Heroic Age: 3rd Epoch: 1892-1921 (2007). Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
  30. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry - The Formative Age: 1st Epoch (1921-1944) (2007). Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
  31. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII: Poetry (2007). Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
  32. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII: Poetry 2006 (2007). Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
  33. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Sections X.I Photographs and XI Memorabilia (2005). I have added some photographs going as far back as 1908 and a brief literary-historical sketch of my family history going back my great-great grandparents' lives in the 1830s and 1840s, the beginning of Babi-Bahá'í history.
  34. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: A Century of Precursors: 1743-1843: Section VIII Poetry (2007). There were four epochs from 1844 to 1944 and a precursor period which, here, I define as 1743 to 1843. The poetry in this document is related to that century before the declaration of the Bab.
  35. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study: Poetry and essays (1944-2013). Table of Contents for a memoir of six decades of teaching & international travel, an extensive personal account of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch, 1944 to 1963, of the teaching Plans.
  36. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Eight Prefaces: Subtitle of document: A Study of Autobiography (2010). This autobiography of a Bahai over six decades of teaching and consolidation, travel-teaching and social activism is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch of the Formative Age(1944-1963)
  37. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Literary Work As Epic: Epic Poetry, Epic Narrative and the Epic of Bahá'í History (2005). In the ten year period September 1997 to September 2007 the concept, the organizing principle, the basis for my magnum opus Pioneering Over Four Epochs, as epic, found its first shaping.
  38. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Notebooks-Section IX: Autobiography: Section IX (2005). The Notebooks I now possess were collected over a thirty year period, 1980 to 2010, from the age of 35 to 65. This collection of some 300 Notebooks is in the form of two-ring binders, arch-lever files & plastic ring-bound booklets.
  39. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Part 1.1: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography (2011). Abstract: This autobiographical, memoiristic, work is that of a Bahai over 7 decades of teaching & international travel. It is one of the few extensive accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch(1944-63)of the Formative Age
  40. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Part 1.2: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography (2014-02). This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
  41. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VI.1 Essays: Unpublished Essays (2003). This is section VI.1 of my autobiography: unpublished essays. I wrote some 300 essays as a student, as a teacher-lecturer, as a Bahá'í-publicity officer writing items for the media, as a poet-writer and simply as a person with literary needs and interests
  42. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section X.2 Diary or Journal: Section X.2 Journal (2005). I began the process of diary and journal making on January 19th 1980, nine years after my international pioneering life began, eighteen years after my homefront pioneering life began and twenty-seven years after my association with the Bahá'í Faith began.
  43. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: The Heroic Age: The 2nd Epoch: 1853-1892: Pioneering Over Four Epochs Section VIII: Poetry (2007). The prose-poetry in this document involves, in various ways, the Person of Bahá'u'lláh, His life and teachings. I try to bring that Life into my own time and life in this poetry by means of the metaphorical nature of Bahá'í history.
  44. Ron Price. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: The Heroic Age: The First Epoch: 1844-1853: Section VII Poetry (2007). Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
  45. Ron Price. Poems On the Afterlife: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VII Poetry (2006). In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as I approached the age of 40, I began to take a serious interest in the afterlife. This was largely the result of personal trauma and difficulties. I began to seek the assistance of holy souls by means of intercession.
  46. Ron Price. Poetry About Philosophy: Section VIII: Poetry: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry (2005). The poetry in this section is concerned with various aspects of philosophy in the western tradition and Bahá'í philosophy in particular. The concept of the manifestation of God is pivotal to Bahá'í philosophy and to this poetry.
  47. Ron Price. Poetry on the Seven Year Plan: 1937-1944: Pioneering Over Four Epochs Section VIII: Poetry (2006). The poetry in this section has a wide range of relationships with the first Bahá'í teaching Plan launched in 1937. I was born in the summer of 1944,when Shoghi Effendi celebrated the completion of that Plan with the publication in August of God Passes By.
  48. Ron Price. Poetry on the Ten Year Crusade: 1953-1963: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry (2006). The poetry here is related to the 10 Year Crusade: 1953-1963. I began my pioneering life during this period and this poetry brings together secular, Bahá'í and personal history.
  49. Ron Price. Prose-Poetry of the Five Year Plan: 21 April 2006 to 21 April 2007 (2007). Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
  50. Ron Price. Prose-Poetry of the Five Year Plan: 2006-2011: Part 2 (2007). This is the 2nd in a series of prose-poetry selections written during the Five Year Plan (2006-2011).
  51. Ron Price. Reflections on a Culture of Learning and Growth: Community and Individual Paradigm Shifts: Part A: A Contemporary, Historical, Futuristic and Personal Context (2008). The building of the community & administrative structure of this new world Faith was at the core of Bahai programs & policies, goals & game-plans, so to speak, from 1921 to 1996, a period of 75 years, and as far back as the last years of the 19th century.
  52. Reflections on a Culture of Learning and Growth: Community and Individual Paradigm Shifts: Part B: A Contemporary, Historical, Futuristic and Personal Context (2014). The building of the community and administrative structure of this new world Faith was at the core of Bahai programs & policies, goals & game-plans, so to speak, from 1921 to 1996, a period of 75 years, & as far back as the last years of the 19th century.
  53. Ron Price. Reviews Of: Books, Articles, Creative Activities and Community Functions: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Sections V & VI: Published & Unpublished Work (2006). In my pre-pioneering and pioneering life as a Bahá'í(1953-2007) I wrote: reviews, commentaries of books and community activities, summaries of media programs and live performances. Those posted here were written in the 4th and 5th epochs of the Formative
  54. Ron Price. Unpublished Essays: Autobiography: Section VI.1 (2005). After 58 years of association with the Bahá'í Faith, 1953-2011, I had collected some 200 unpublished essays written during the 4th and 5th epochs (1986-2011). I wrote many essays in epochs 2 & 3(1944-1986), but they are virtually all lost in times sands.
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