Pioneering Over Four Epochs

This tapestry of statements/reviews/comments about various themes in the social sciences and humanities, about movies, directors, cinema, television, a list of subjects/topics too long to list---attempts to endow these themes with many layers of meaning and tries to evoke a complex range of responses in readers.

The author, a Canadian living in Australia, has evolved a style which is highly individual yet, by fusing together much from the humanities and the social and physical sciences, from his own life and his religion, appeals to both the novitiate, the veteran and people on a multitude of spiritual and secular paths.

There is, too, a certain and an inevitable autobiographical aspect to these bits of prose. In some ways they can be seen as one long diary, journal and commentary on life, my life, the life of my society and the ongoing narrative of the emergence from obscurity of the religion I have been associated with for over 50 years.