Materials and Resources

Note: Most articles and papers listed on this page are available for download as enhanced content for mentored Dance leaders who log in to this site.

Articles & Papers

A Deeper Side of Dance (Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz)
Background and Purpose of the Walks (Wali Ali Meyer)
Dancing with Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti) (Wali Ali Meyer)
Group Dance as Transformational Movement (Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz)
Spiritual Dancing (Samuel L. Lewis)
Steps Toward Peace Through Spiritual Dance and Walk (Samuel L. Lewis)
Ten Keys to Dancing (Wali Ali Meyer)
The Dances and Sacred Transmission: Nurturing Growth for the Coming Generations (Saadi Shakur Chishti)
There Is No Sufi Here (Tasnim Hermila Fernandez)
What Did Murshid SAM Seek to Accomplish with the Dances? (Moineddin Jablonski)

Books

An Unfinished Life (Ruth St. Denis)
Blessings of the Cosmos (Neil Douglas-Klotz)
Bowl of Saki Commentary (Inayat Khan and Samuel L. Lewis)
Complete Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan (Inayat Khan)
Desert Wisdom (Neil Douglas-Klotz)
Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis (Suzanne Shelton)
Genesis Meditations (Neil Douglas-Klotz)
Hidden Gospel (Neil Douglas-Klotz)
In the Garden with Murshid SAM (Samuel L. Lewis)
Introduction to Spiritual Brotherhood: Science, Mysticism and the New Age (Samuel L. Lewis)
Jerusalem Trilogy (Samuel L. Lewis)
Like a Dream, Like a Fantasy (Nyogen Senzaki; dharma talks and poetry edited by Eido Shimano)
Lotus Light (Ruth St. Denis)
Mentoring – The Tao of Giving and Receiving Wisdom (Chungliang Al Huang and Jerry Lynch)
Murshid: A Personal Memoir of Life with American Sufi Samuel L. Lewis (Mansur Johnson)
Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the 99 Names of Allah (Wali Ali Meyer, Faisal Muqaddam, Bilal Hyde, and Shabda Kahn)
Prayers of the Cosmos (Neil Douglas-Klotz)
Siva Siva! / Crescent & Heart (Samuel L. Lewis)
Spiritual Dance and Walk: An Introduction to the Dances of Universal Peace and Walking Meditations of Samuel L. Lewis (Samuel L. Lewis; edited by Neil Douglas-Klotz)
Sufi Vision and Initiation: Meetings with Remarkable Beings (Samuel L. Lewis; edited by Neil Douglas-Klotz)
The Music of Life (Inayat Khan)
The Sufi Book of Life: 99 Pathways of the Heart for the Modern Dervish (Neil Douglas-Klotz)
The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan (Inayat Khan)
- Vol. 1: The Inner Life
- Vol. 2: Cosmic Language
  - Music
  - The Mysticism of Sound
- Vol. 4: Health (on Breath)
- Vol. 9: The Unity of Religious Ideals
Wisdom Comes Dancing: Selected Writings of Ruth St. Denis on Dance, Spirituality and the Body (Edited by Kamae A Miller)

Esoteric Papers

The following Papers were written by Murshid Samuel L. Lewis, copyrighted by the Sufi Ruhaniat International, 1978. They are available to all members of the Leaders Guild who log in to this website and also through the Ruhaniat.

201 Suras on the Breath: An Original Sangatha
Bestowing of Blessing
Book of Peace
Spiritual Dancing
The Metaphysics of Sound

Other Resources

Eat, Dance & Pray, DVD
Foundation Dances and Walks Manual, with CD — compilation of 101 “Mantric” Dances, Original
Dances of Murshid Samuel L. Lewis, and five sets of Walking Concentrations. Also included are
short essays addressing attunement to the major spiritual traditions and atmosphere of sacred
phrases.
Guitars of Universal Peace, guitar instruction by Anahata Iradah
Musicianship for the Dances of Universal Peace, paper by Munir Peter Reynolds

CDs

Available from Abwoon Resource Center: www.abwoon.com:

Dancing with the Aramaic Jesus: The Beatitude Way (Neil Douglas-Klotz)
Keeper of the Heart (Wali Ali Meyer; short stories, attunements and Dances)
Native Middle-Eastern Cycle: Seasonal Invocations of the Goddess (Neil Douglas-Klotz and Kamae A Miller)
Prayers of the Cosmos (Neil Douglas-Klotz)

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