A Letter from Father Francis in Assisi
Da'ud Dede would like us to share on this blog his memories and letter from Father Francis, a Catholic priest he met in 1974. This post was originally shared on the Rumi's Circle blog, which has many interesting articles from the community of Kabir Helminski: https://rumiscircle.com/2014/06/22/a-letter-from-father-francis/ Notes on the Letter In the Spring of 1978 my journeys brought me once again from London to Claymont Court in rural West Virginia, USA, a 90-minute drive from Washington DC. Claymont, a school of inner work based upon the teachings of GI Gurdjieff and JG Bennett, was where, exactly two years earlier in 1976, I had accompanied my beloved sheikh and murshid of the Mevlevi Sufi order, Suleyman Hayati Dede from Konya, Turkey, following an invitation for him to visit Claymont during his European and North American travels introducing the teachings of the Master Jelalud’din Rumi. Suleyman Hayati Dede, New York City, May 1976 In 1972, through a series of improbab