Sufi Vision and Initiation: Meetings With Remarkable Beings

This is the second (1987) printing of the original first edition (1986), with notes and chapter introductions by Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz.

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, 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 Mideast and Asia.

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 mystic and scientist's search for truth in the 1920's-1970's.
'Murshid Sam was surely one of the pioneers in the movement of experiential comparative religion--one that may yet transform Western culture.'
--Andrew Rawlinson, The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions