Murshid Abraham Sussman was born in October, 1945, just after WW II ended. A child of the 60’s, he was a seeker and wanderer when he first met Samuel Lewis in San Francisco in 1969. Abraham had read many books about spirituality, and had had some visionary experiences of the inner life, but it was only in his becoming receptive to the transmission, in person, of a God-realized teacher that the journey of awakened consciousness began to be real for him. He took Bayat with Murshid Sam in early 1970, and was in awe (and still is) of the beauty and power of the community that had grown around Murshid Sam.