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: to “insist ‘that Sufis. are
“definitely not. ‘members of a
cult-< or sect.

My initial surprise about Reshad Feild was s his.
appearance. He looked so ordinary. 7

I'd tried to approach him For, as he pointed. out to.
free of preconceptions but it me during our conversation
was clear I obviously hadn’t of the ‘ensuing _ couple of:
completely dispelled - the hours ‘‘it. is the’ underlying:
guru idea as 1 approached truth we look for, rather: than’
the house tucked away in the - the form.”"
woods. in- Lynn. Valley “and . aad a es

repared to meet a sheikh of. eR ah haebenuad
a e Whirling Dervishes. ee Whereas the- background S

" “A's sect implies something
-exclusive and. Separate. Look
at this terrible disaster in
South. America,” he. says,
referring to the mass suicide
of. the. People’ s Temple
followers i in, Guyana.
of - Dervishes and Sufism. --. |
“the way of life practised. by.
- Dervishes -- is from Turkish:
roots, Reshad, as with the
other Sufis of the Vancouver ~
Turning society he founded, -
‘refrain generally from wear-
; ing their traditional clothing.

. He explains. that because
-of that ghastly event he very
nearly. cancelled: my inter-
‘view with. him  ‘‘People
automatically’ ‘say _ this
(Sufism) must be: another one
of those (cults). But’ it’ S not
another one of those.”

Among the few times they. ©
make an exception is for their -
annual Sema, when they do
- their whirling -- or turning --__
in public. This week will see
~ such an occasion when ‘the ©
~'Sufis: celebrate their. Sema
aa Friday and Sunday evenings
‘There is nobody in the ~-at~ Vancouver’s Russian —
Sufi tradition who is nota © Community Centre.
complete believer in

Chris?’ | _ _ INCONSPICUOUS |

“Hes ‘Says of the reasons he
decided to go ahead with the
a interview: “Not one person

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I was a Itttle, taken aback | _ As for the rest of the year,
by the man who greeted me + it would be difficult to spot a_
at the door with asmile anda Sufi from anyone else on a -
handshake, who introduced street, for they remain
himself as Reshad. ee deliberately i inconspicuous.
lt would have beeti had | sti SS
for anyone to appear less “I disagree intensely with o “THE SACRED DANCE takes a at t least 1,001 days to master. It is said to transform the |

conspicuous in this North imposing on an. already _ turner .from man’s lower nature to. the higher and, as Sheikh Reshad says, “at is
Vancouver setting. existing. culture another - definitely riot é a way of of getting high.” 27 |
— culture,” says the Sheikh. - ne oe oe .

of recreation vehicles
- in Br tish ) Columbia

He was balding, dressed in
a black rollneck sweater and

He feels it is fine for
ortoucly Englich, ‘was . very people to wear whatever they

like in the privacy of their ©
own homes but says:

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wearing orange robes and . §
pretended to be Hindus or.
something, that, to me,
would stick out like a sore

. _ thumb and I can’t see any.
- Yet things so often bear point in it.”’

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ance. This same man was

lieutenant in the Royal Navy
and has worked as a
stockbroker, antique dealer
and travelling folk guitarist.

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