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Honoring the Elders

Posted on Aug 25th, 2006 by CalmEagle : pilgrim CalmEagle

On a pod I am in (The Visionland) I discovered today that Barin, the moderator, knew of a man I met back in the early 70's in SanFrancisco, "Sufi Sam".  Small world! Here's a bit from the page about him I found, and you can read more if you like!

"I had heard of the Sufi Samuel L. Lewis a long while before I met him. He had been described to me by a not-so-reliable source as an old man who went after young chicks, and "got them all hooked on dervish dancing." I'd not passed judgment based on a rumor, but wondered how a man in America who called himself a Sufi, could actually be one. It would be like a man calling himself "pure"; a pure man probably would not do such a thing.

More than a year later I met two disciples of "Sufi Sam"-otherwise known as Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti in Sufi circles of Pakistan, India, and Egypt, or as He Kwang in the circles of Zen Roshis. I was greatly impressed by their bearing and thus was led to a meeting with the man himself. "


Murshid Sufi Sam Lewis

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about 7 hours later
Peggy J said


Very small world indeed. I lived in Sufi SAMs home in San Francisco, The Mentor Garden.
I have been an initiate in The Sufi Ruhaniat International for many years, the order that grew out of Sufi SAM's work. Sufi SAM's home.

Peggy Joyce

CalmEagle : pilgrim
1 day later
CalmEagle said

Peggy ~

Hello, it's good to see you. I was a student in the Holy Order of MANSeminary amd Sufi Sam had a close friendship with the founder, Earl Blighton known as Fr. Paul.
here's a pic of them together

Small world indeed.

affectionately, CalmEagle

5 days later
Peggy J said

Again & again the universe trys so hard to show us that we are all one, how long will it take before we really live it…..  :)

Most affectionately, Sisterly,
Peggy Joyce

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