Kabir Helminski is the author of Living Presence: A Sufi Way
to Mindfulness and the Essential Self, as well as the
translator of numerous books of Sufi literature and especially
Rumi. He is the codirector, with his wife, Camille Helminski, of
the Threshold Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to
sharing the knowledge and practice of Sufism. As the publisher of
Threshold Books for some twenty years, he was largely responsible
for making Rumi the most widely read poet of our time. As a
producer and writer of Sufi music, he has gained recognition for
numerous recordings, including his own Garden within the
Flames. He is a representative of the Mevlevi tradition
founded by Jalaluddin Rumi.
Camille Helminski is codirector, with her husband, Kabir Helminski,
of the Threshold Society of Santa Cruz, California. She holds an
honorary doctorate in Arabic from the University of Damascus and
the World Union of Writers (Paris).
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