{"product_id":"9780988177857","title":"Sufi Vision and Initiation: Meetings with Remarkable Beings","description":"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, Sokeian Sasaki, 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....\u003cp\u003ePolitical and religious turmoil in faraway Iands, organic agriculture and seed exchange for peace, the great mystics and sages of the\u003cbr\u003e20th century--all play a part in this story of an American scholar and scientist's search for truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" - \u003cb\u003eDr. Jacob Needleman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Religions\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everytime I remember Sam, I end up laughing at myself. That's pretty good work for a dead-rascal-saint.\" - \u003cb\u003eRam Dass\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBe Here Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By being spiritual, Samuel Lewis expanded the range of being human; and by being human he deepened the meaning of being spiritual.\" -\u003cb\u003eMoineddin Jablonski\u003c\/b\u003e, spiritual successor of Murshid Samuel Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sufi Ruhaniat International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017760358640,"sku":"9780988177857","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780988177857_p0.jpg?v=1764105328","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780988177857","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}