Reshad Feild

Reshad Feild, Richard Timothy Feild bourgeois ( born April 15, 1934) is a British mystic, writer and musician. He is primarily known for his books about a universal perspective of Sufism, with whom he has won a wide following in the Western world.

Career

Strongly influenced Reshad Feild was by the teachings of Georges I. Gurdjieff and PD Ouspensky, moreover, he was very interested in Tibetan Buddhism. With extensive travels through India, America and Europe he met Tibetan lamas, North American shamans and finally to various Sufi masters, of which a sheikh of the Mevlevi Tariqa from Konya for many years was to be his spiritual teacher. From this he was commissioned in the early 1970s to bring the legendary Persian mystic Rumi ( 1207-1273 ) declining ritual ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes for the first time from Turkey to America and Europe and accessible they thus also for women and for non-Muslims to making.

Since then gives Reshad a religiously neutral, informal access to the " inner essence" of Sufism. In Europe, the Foundation and the Chalice Chalice publishing work to keep the teachings and the books Feild available. In German-speaking Europe, there are about a dozen groups that meet regularly and work according to the teachings of Reshad Feild.

His literary output includes some 20 works translated into many languages ​​. His first, the best seller I went the way of the dervish, describes his meeting with his most important spiritual teacher, Bulent Rauf alias " Hamid " who taught Sufism along the line of the Andalusian mystic Ibn Arabi ( 1165-1240 ).

Works ( in German )

  • Autobiographical Trilogy: Part One: The last barrier - I went the way of the dervish. Diederichs, Dusseldorf, 1977; Chalice, Xanten 2014, ISBN 978-3-942914-11-6
  • Second part: knowing that we are loved - The Seal of the dervish. Diederichs, Munich 1980; Chalice, Xanten 2014, ISBN 978-3-942914-12-3
  • Part Three: Heading home - Every journey begins with a question. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main, 1997; Chalice, Xanten 2014, ISBN 978-3-942914-13-0
  • Volume I: Chalice, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-905272-21-0
  • Volume II: Chalice, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-905272-22-2
  • Volume III: Chalice, Xanten 2011, ISBN 978-3-942914-01-7
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