The philosopher and psychoanalyst William J. Richardson S.J. was born in Brooklyn New York on the 2nd of November 1920. He died at the Jesuit Campion Health Center in Weston Massachusetts on the 10th of December 2016. Inasmuch as William Richardson was a founding member of the Heidegger Circle (Penn State 1967) beginning indeed with the first major US conference on Heidegger's thought held in 1964 the editor was asked to gather these recollections on behalf of those interested in Heidegger Lacan and spirituality.