Reshad Feild is an English mystic, author, spiritual teacher, and musician.
Education
As a young, upper-class Englishman, Feild was educated at Eton and served in the Royal Navy, where he had a particularly undistinguished career. He studied spiritual healing, and was involved with the Alice Bailey community. Feild studied with Bulent Rauf, a Turkish author and translator descended from a line of Sufi masters going back to the Andalusian mystic Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (1165–1240).
Career
Feild was influenced by the spiritual teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff, P. Doctorate. Ouspensky, and others He established the Beshara Centre at Swyre Farm in Aldsworth, England, in 1970. A description of events at this center is given in the books I, Wabenzi and Beshara and Ibn "Arabi: A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in the Modern World, by Rafi Zabor.
While there, he met former sheikh, Suleiman Dede.
In 1972 Feild resigned his role in the Sufi Order. In 1973, he resigned his role leading the Beshara Centre and went to Los Angeles, Tepoztlan, Mexico, and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where he taught on his own.
Since then, Feild has taught 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 autobiographical novel The Last Barrier, he gives a fictionalized account of how he met Bulent Rauf.
He is the father of the actor JJ Feild.
Membership
In the early 1960s, Feild was a founding member of the British folk trio The Springfields.