Samuel Lewis - Sufi Sam

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Sam was living in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1960s. Although born into a Jewish family, he had an early interest in Eastern Philosophy and World Religions. Lewis' father Jacob Lewis was a vice president of the Levi Strauss jean manufacturing company.

At age 23 Sam he moved to Fairfax, CA to live and work with a community of Sufis. They were studying and practicing the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, a Sufi teacher and musician from India. Samuel was profoundly effected by these teachings throughout his whole life.

In the early 1920s Sam began to study Zen Buddhism with Sogaku Shaku and later with with the Zen monk Nyogen Senzaki. In 1930 Sam received Dharma Transmission from the Zen teacher Sokei-An Sasaki. He experienced a prophetic vision of the world's future, including the rise and fall of Germany and Japan.

At age 27, he received spiritual initiation from Hazrat Inayat Khan, the first person to deeply awaken his heart. He was appointed "Protector of the Message" by Hazrat Inayat Khan after receiving appearances by all the prophets, culminating with Mohammed. His primary teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan died the in 1927.

In 1956 he began travelling overseas visiting Japan, India, Pakistan and Egypt while seeking the company of other mystics and teachers.

After returning to the US Lewis travelled around California developing and teaching the Dances of Universal Peace. These dances drew on all the spiritual traditions he had encountered.

In 1967 Sam Lewis began to initiate his own Sufi disciples. He had a dream in which he was proclaimed to be the "spiritual leader of the hippies." Then he began teaching mysticism and the dances which later evolved into the Dances of Universal Peace. Of course what better place in the 1960s than San Francisco area to reach the hippies. At some point Sam visited Lama Foundation, a spiritual community, in the mountains of New Mexico above Taos. At the time Ram Das was also heavily involved with Lama Foundation and the two became close.

The movement he created is alive and well in 2008. Before he died Sam formed a society which in now known as the Sufi Ruhaniat International. The Anniversary of his death or Urs is the 15th of January and his life is celebrated on that date annually. Also another organization sprung from Sam's work called the Dances of Universal Peace.


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Murshid - A Personal Memoir of Life with American Sufi Samuel L. Lewis

Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sharing from the Heart
By W. Tardy

Rarely is someone invited to share a journey of such depth, intimacy and openness of heart. As the book unfolds, the reader is taken on a journey that leads to laughter, provocative thought and poignant moments of human encounter. I can only offer heartfelt thanks to the author who so enriches us by the sharing of a portion of his 3-year personal journey with Murshid Samuel Lewis.






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Sufi Vision & Initiation

Travelogue of a Real Live Wire
By Myron Makewater

I love Sufi Sam, and I'd love for the opportunity to arise to make a pilgrimage to his tomb in New Mexico.

The value of this collection of his writings, including his records of his travels and some of his spiritual experiences, is not easy to define or quantify, but the writer's sense of humor and his frank insights are genuine and contemporary...

...after all, Sam was trying to broker a peace between the Islamic and the Western granfaloons decades ago, with some success. Because he was recognized early on as a Buddhist master and a Sufi shaikh (and a humble horticulturalist), he represents the universality of the path, and the reality of the path.

As Trungpa said--"This is very real, sweethearts."

Happy travels!

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