Reshad Feild

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Reshad Feild (born 1934 as Richard Timothy Feild) is a British mystic, author, spiritual teacher, and musician. He is the author of more than a dozen books about Sufism and spirituality and has exercised a huge influence amongst western seekers over the last forty years.

In the early 1960s Feild was a founding member of the popular British folk trio The Springfields.

Feild was influenced spiritually by the teachings of, among others, G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky. During his numerous journeys to the Middle East, India and America he met with different spiritual teachers. One of them was a Sufi sheikh from the Mevlevi order of Dervishes in Konya (Turkey), who gave him the task to bring the sacred ceremony of the whirling dervishes to the West in the early 1970s. Reshad Feild consequently assisted in introducing this ceremony – which was declared a cultural world heritage by UNESCO in 2004 – to America and Europe, thereby opening it up for the first time in history to women as well as non-Muslim participants (i.e. students).

Since then, Reshad Feild has been teaching the essence of the universality of Sufi teachings, making them available to people of all religious and spiritual backgrounds. He has published more than a dozen books, some of which have been translated into many languages. In his best selling autobiographical novel The Last Barrier he gives an account of how he met the most important among his teachers, the Turkish-British author and translator Bulent Rauf, who himself stemmed from a long line of Sufism going back to the Andalusian mystic Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (1165–1240).

[edit] Published works

The Last Barrier : A Sufi Journey (Autobiographical trilogy part I) ISBN 0-906540-52-6
To Know We're Loved : A Time to Love and a Time to Die (formerly "The Invisible Way: A Time to Love - A Time to Die" ISBN 0-906540-04-6, Autobiographical trilogy part II) ISBN 0-89556-154-9
Steps to Freedom: Discourses on the Essential Knowledge of the Heart (Autobiographical trilogy part III) ISBN 0-9625412-1-4
Going Home - The Journey of a Travelling Man ISBN 1-85230-878-8
The Alchemy of the Heart ISBN 1-4208-3110-0
Here to Heal ISBN 0-906540-80-1
Reason Is Powerless in the Expression of Love ISBN 0-9625412-0-6
Footprints in the Sand ISBN 1-85230-027-2
A Travelling People's Feild Guide ISBN 1-85230-003-5
The Inner Work ISBN 3-905272-21-0
Breathing Alive: A Guide to Conscious Living ISBN 1-85230-050-7