He found the order of the Whirling Dervishes to enable people to dance themselves out of pain, out of uncertainty and separation, into ecstasy. ‘I don’t know how to identify myself,’ he wrote. ‘I am neither a Christian nor Jewish, neither Pagan nor Muslim. I don’t come from the East or from the West. I am neither from the land nor the sea. I am not a creature of this world.’
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