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Sufi Vision and Initiation:

Meetings with Remarkable Beings

by Samuel L. Lewis

Edited by Neil Douglas-Klotz

SELECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS OF Samuel L. Lewis


  • A moving personal history of how Sufism and Zen came to America...
  • The story of meetings with remarkable beings like Swami Papa Ramdas, Nyogen Senzaki, Shaku Soyen, Mother Krishnabai, Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, the Rev. M.T. Kirby and others who sought to bring East and West together through the universality of genuine mystical experience...
  • A sweeping and prophetic view of the last half-century of international relations with the East...


NORTHERN PAKISTAN, April 15, 1961: "One can almost say that someday the corrupt government in Afghanistan will be overthrown and we shall have another Czechozlovakia or Viet Minh. I hope you take this seriously. I am tired of predicting the mobbing of USIA libraries only to find it happening--or in the last instance to see it happening." (S.L.L.)


Political and religious turmoil in faraway lands ... Organic agriculture and seed exchange for peace ... The great mystics and sages of the 20th century...
All play a part in this story of an American scholar and scientist's search for truth.

$14.95 Sufi Islamia/Prophecy ISBN O-915424-10-X

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Reviews:

"I have no fonder memory of the 60's than the appearance of this strange-looking man, who said things which made me first laugh, then smile, then later pause in appreciation of a spiritual original, a pioneer."
--Dr. Jacob Needleman, author of The New Religions and Lost Christianity


"The Dances of Universal Peace ... came to stay, and so does the indelible memory of their pioneer, veteran in the art of carrying the experience of the meditation on the Divine attributes right into the body."
--Hazrat Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan


"Everytime I remember Sam, I end up laughing at myself. That's pretty good work for a dead-rascal-saint."
--Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now


"By being spiritual, Samuel Lewis expanded the range of being human; and by being human he deepened the meaning of being spiritual."
--Hazrat Pir Moineddin Jablonski, Spiritual successor of Murshid Samuel Lewis