1. Early 1930s: Samuel Lewis meets Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn in Hollywood, Los Angeles and participates in their Denishawn school, where he dances while St Denis talks about how to pick dances from the akashic sphere. Samuel Lewis begins to call Ruth St Denis his "fairy godmother."

2. Late 1930s: Samuel Lewis writes "Spiritual Dancing," as an informal commentary on Hazrat Inayat Khan's "Art: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." The book also references his time at the Denishawn School and includes ideas of Ruth St Denis.

3. March 1962: Samuel Lewis visits the tomb of Selim Chishti in Fathepur Sikri, India and receives a vision of the "Dance of Universal Peace." See excerpt of letter below. He reports this two years later to Ruth St Denis, who says that she and Ted Shawn received the same vision while they were there.

4. September 1963: First Walks shown to Paul Reps. Murshid SAM begins to instruct his god-daughter and first Khalifa Saadi Khawar Khan in them via correspondence, in preparation for S.A.M's return to Pakistan and his teaching them to children there.

5. May 1964: Murshid SAM meets with Ruth St Denis for an hour and presents his vision of "the Dance of Universal Peace."

6. Spring 1967: Walks classes begin on Saturday for the few early mureeds, including Mansur Johnson, Moineddin Jablonski and Fatima Jablonski.

7. March 16, 1968: First small Sufi dance class for mureeds. (See transcribed recording from March 13, 1968 and subsequent letter and diary entries from May 1968 about classes in "Dance of Universal Peace.")

8. June 24, 1968: First public Dervish Dances presented.