Lee Lozowick

Lee Lozowick (also known by the religious titles and Vaishnava Baul guru names and honorifics Khepa Lee and Lee Khepa Baul (also romanized Lee Kṣepā Baul); November 18, 1943 – November 16, 2010 ) was an American spiritual teacher, author, poet, lyricist and singer from Prescott, Arizona. He wrote over forty books on spiritual practice and parenting, many of which have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages. Some of the titles include: In the Fire, Conscious Parenting, The Alchemy of Transformation, The Alchemy of Love and Sex, The Only Grace is Loving God, and Enlightened Duality (with M Young). He presented himself as a representative of the "Western Baul" tradition.

Biography Lee Lozowick was born on November 18, 1943, to Ukrainian-American artist Louis Lozowick and Adele Turner, who had married in 1933 and lived in South Orange, New Jersey.

Interest in spiritualism

Lozowick became a student of Silva Mind Control in 1970 and became interested in the Human Potential Movement around the same time. With several of his students, he made a pilgrimage to India in 1977, where he met Yogi Ramsuratkumar. Lozowick subsequently became known to many people the world over as the "Heart-Son" of Yogi Ramsuratkumar after he wrote several volumes of devotional poetry containing over a thousand poems dedicated to his spiritual master.

Hohm community

Lozowick then formed a spiritual community called Hohm in New Jersey and began to gather disciples. Subsequently, however, the Hohm community did establish relationships with a number of Bengali Bauls, such as Sanatan Das and Purna Das. The focus of spiritual practice in Lozowick's teaching is guru yoga, "His public demeanor seems to be a technique for scaring away those who are only superficially interested in the spiritual path." The Hohm community also incorporates elements of the work of George I. Gurdjieff into their philosophy, particularly "in the Western Bauls' speculations about the existence of soul and especially in their adoption of his chakra system."

As of 2006, total membership in the Hohm community was "not much more than a hundred," in part due to the desire of Lozowick to keep the number of disciples down to a number where he could remain on a first name basis with all of them. Hohm community members incorporate music into their spiritual practice, and a few are in blues and rock bands, first started by Lozowick, principally (at present) Shri, and Lalitha, in Lumby, Canada. They are the only two who have "received permission to teach in his lineage."