Samuel L. Lewis also known as Sufi Sam and Sufi Ahmed Murad Chistiwas an American mystic and horticultural scientist who founded what became the Sufi Ruhaniat International, a branch of the Chishtia Sufi lineage. After a lifetime of spiritual study with teachers East and West, primarily Hazrat Inayat Khan and Nyogen Senzaki, Lewis was recognized simultaneously as a Zen master and Sufi murshidby Eastern representatives of the two traditions. He also co-founded the Christian mystical order called the The Holy...
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