I am not the one who enjoys the Ruhi class personally for basic reasons as it seems like an grade school approach to learning about Baha'i religion..

For some it is more of a test as they force them self to participate in activities that lack intellectual challenge.

To be honest and frank, I am one of these people. And because community life is gathered around activities like this I find myself more in an alone journey than wanting to join.

I still struggle within this, between a mission of 'self' (I'm an artist, I have a 'calling' if you like through a singular activity that involves spending a lot of time alone doing it, thinking and performing or acting through it) and the collective, greater-than-self.

I see and hear the 'new world' being built, but I also think of Baha'u'llah's words, in a literal and metaphoric senses, of His revelation being world embracing, and Baha'i being the "spirit of the age"; to me all are immersed in the subtle reverberations and conditions of it, Baha'i surrounds, interpenetrates, influences everything, not the other way round. So the communities I am already in, through work, through learning, are part of this (I take art classes in a mental health ward in a hospital, I work out of a free community arts centre that has an open door policy, which creates a place for those who would be on the streets, in depression at home alone, or in the hospital. I'm also attending a university, within an art school environment, academia. All of these are nurturing human resources, potential, developing and valuing the 'gems' hidden inside peoples human realities, as well as being immersed in worship; I am as if in a temple in all of these environments. This is probably more accurately my community. But one expression of an orientation and perspective in a multifarious world of difference)..