{"id":1219,"date":"2018-02-28T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sufipedia.org\/?page_id=1219"},"modified":"2024-02-22T16:29:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:29:38","slug":"noorwegen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sufipedia.nl\/en\/personenregister\/noorwegen\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517562952751{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1381″ img_size=”medium”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Beorse (Bj\u00f6rset) Shamcher Bryn<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Oslo 26 april 1896 \u2013 Berkley 1980<\/p>\n

Norwegian mureed of Hazrat Inayat Khan from the Suresnes time in the 20s of the last century.
\nNOvember 1924: while being a student in the yoga tradition and a member of the Theosophical Society and the Order of the Star, he was asked by Sirkar van Stolk to translate the Murshid lecture in Oslo simultaneously in Norwegian. Then he was initiated by Murshid during a train journey; (see also Biography, page 491)<\/p>\n

SHAMCHER BRYN BEORSE: OTEC PIONEER, ECONOMIST, SUFI.
\nBorn Brynjolf Bjorset, April 26, 1896 in Christiania (Now OSLO), Norway. Died April 29, 1980 in Berkeley, California. With his wife, Evelyn Jones, the family included a son, Bryn Jr., and daughter, Daphne.
\nOriginally named Bryjolf Bjorset, and known to the Sufis as Shamcher, Bryn Beorse was a generalist, engineer and economist who was also a western mystic. Beorse was born in 1896 in Christiania, Norway. His family included his mother, Helga, his father Eivin Bjorset (Norway\u2019s chief hydrographer), and his two sisters.
\nENERGY AND ECONOMICS
\nFrom age 16 he had seriously studied psychology, sociology, world religions, yoga, and Sufism. Educated in Norges Telniske Hoiskole (Norway\u2019s MIT), in 1919 he graduated with honors as a \u201cdiplomingenieur\u2019 from Norges Teckniske Hoiskole (Norway MIT) with 0.1 (Outstanding) in economics. Then began a period of world travel in which he visited and lived in 67 countries, working in several of these and learning 12 languages\u2026
\nWORK AND WORLD TRAVEL
\nHe was a jackaroo, the lowliest hand on a sheep station in Australia, and an engineer in Dayakland, where he had an out of body experience when nearly attacked by a Dayak chief in what is now Borneo. While building ports and railroads in Turkey, he advised Saraguglu Shukri Bey, Secretary of the Treasury for the \u2018Young Turks\u2019 on the financial structuring of the new republic, when Kemal Attaturk took over Turkey, and also savoring of the teachings and music of the Mevlevis, a sufi branch in Turkey.
\nIn India and Indonesia he built irrigation works while continuing his Yoga studies. In Norway, while building factories and residences, he wrote \u201cAfter Us the Glut\u2019 at the request of Dr. Nygaard, President of Aschehoug publishers. This survey of world resources and how better to utilize them netted him a managing directorship of a new banking venture in which the Government cooperated. This system was\u201cNordic Clearing\u201d and is outlined in the book Distribute or Destroy.
\nIn the USA, from 1940, he worked as a director of a small company making dynamic balancing machines, while talking to bankers and economists about the Norwegian banking venture. This was brutally stopped by the Nazi invasion. A spy in WWII, Shamcher volunteered for many dangerous missions, saying that at 44 he had lived his life, and the younger men should be given a chance to do the same.
\nHe served in both World Wars, with the Coastal Defense forces in Norway in WWI and with the British Air Forces in WWII, attaining the rank of captain and serving with MI6, the Air Force Intelligence Agency. In 1943 he had planned, along with several German generals and the British MI5 and MI6 (the equivalent of the American CIA) to kidnap Hitler and \u201cplace him in a nice British apple orchard where he could spend the rest of his life munching apples and complaining to newshawks.\u201d Based on detailed information received at M.I.5, he drew, with M.I.6, this infallible plan to kidnap Hitler, and end World War II in the fall of 1944. All British, including the cabinet were reported supporting it enthused. F.D. Roosevelt turned it down (he was told): \u201cThe Germans must be beaten so they know it.\u201d Millions more died.
\nLater he commuted from the front to serve on a Norwegian monetary commission to plan recovery. His \u2018minority plan\u2019 was accepted, later, by the Norwegian congress. He was an official advisor \u2014 member of a government commission \u2013 to straighten out Norway\u2019s economy after the wreckage of World War II.
\nAfter WWII he went to France to work on engineering studies, during which he was introduced to Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion while working for the French company Energie des Mers on the design and construction of the Abidjan (Africa) OTEC plant in 1947. After the war he wrote books on economics and worked on research for this promising OTEC system of benign solar power from the sea. He brought this system to the United States in 1948, marrying Evelyn Jones and settling in Berkeley, California. Here he did pioneering work in seawater conversion and ocean thermal power at the Seawater Conversion Laboratory of the University of California, where three laboratory OTEC models were built. He joined the University of California in 1950 as a research engineer, first in desalination, later in air pollution, and a close and precious liaison with students.
\nIn 1954, he submitted to the chancellor at Berkeley, as a result of discussion with Dr. Eugene Burdick, a plan for comprehensive energy research, linked to student participation. Everybody saw the coming energy shortage even then. Beorse worked with several foreign governments on an OTEC desalting process which he claimed \u201ccould operate on only a 9 degrees C total thermal difference and with only a fourth of the energy input of any other distillation desalting project.\u201d Beorse had several talks on OTEC with Prime Minister Nehru in India in 1959, and continued his correspondence with Indian energy advisors as recently as later 1979. Similarly with the National Research Centre of Cairo on utilizing the hot brines of the Red Sea through OTEC technology.
\nDuring his eleven years at the University he had been farmed out to other tasks, one year with the X-15 experimental plane, particularly the nitrogen cooling system, two years with Boeing 707 jet and Bomarc Missile, one year as assistant to President Hans Hosli of the Hispano Suiza Rocket Factories in Geneva, Switzerland, working on strategic and technical matters.
\nHe tried at one time to leave the world and to retreat into a meditation cave, only to find it already inhabited. Upon hearing a sound from within, Bryn reached into the darkness and grabbed a handful of bristly fur, resulting in another sound he said he\u2019ll never forget. \u201cA Himalayan bear told me to get out of there and go back to work on OTEC,\u201d he said, \u201cso here I am back in the world.\u201d
\nJust before completing his term at the University of California, he began working with Arthur Schlesinger and Seymour Harris of the Kennedy Administration on a multi-survey project that was hoped to lay the foundation for continuous full employment. Dr. Harris was Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury. The work gained momentum until a comprehensive meeting was planned \u201cas soon as the President would return from this political trip to Texas.\u201d The assassination paralyzed the project. Later he joined Dr. John H.G. Pierson, retired economic advisor to the United Nations, in his thirty-year long fight for full employment, working to establish Guaranteed Full Employment in the United States and other willing countries.
\nLater, while working as a Value Engineer at the Keyport Torpedo Station of the U.S. Navy, he took advantage of a 15-year right-to-work rule in the Civil Service. He avoided mandatory retirement from the Navy until December 1976, when he became one of the oldest civil servants in the US at the age of 81. Returning as emeritus to the University of California at Berkeley, he again took up his major goal: the development of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. At 77 he said, \u201cMy age, 77, is a bare minimum for understanding our present complex civilization and environment.\u201d
\nDr. Jacques Menetrier, the Paris universal genius (medic, physicist, author, artist) tried his new device on him in 1961. \u201cBryn,\u201d he said, \u201cYou are 35, just a baby.\u201d He replied that he was 65 at the time. \u201cNo, no,\u201d the doctor said, \u201dI mean, your most overworked organs are 35 years old, the rest younger. You will live happily, actively, till you are 120 calendar-wise.\u201d
\nBryn Beorse passed away on April 29th, 1980 at the age of 84, following a stroke. His last 30 years were persistently dedicated to OTEC, with his daily behind-the-scenes efforts consistently bearing fruit. As he was never a glory-seeker, his efforts over many decades toward seeing OTEC implemented are generally unknown and unheralded. Some of his efforts are outlined in Mansur Johnson\u2019s book, Shamcher: a Memoir of Bryn Beorse and his Struggle to Introduce Ocean Energy into the United States. Bryn Beorse was still working as a research associate at the Seawater conversion Laboratory of the University of California in Richmond at the time of his death. At his request his remains were donated to the University of California at San Francisco for scientific use.
\nSUFI
\nAs a pupil of the great sufi musician and teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan Shamcher Beorse attended Summerschools in Suresnes in the 1920s, and was first active in the Sufi centre in Christiania (now Oslo.) His work as an engineer and economist took him throughout the world, where he performed Universal Worship and encouraged Sufi activities in over 65 countries. Shamcher, with his dear friend Sam Lewis (Murshid SAM) ( the founder of the Dances of Universal Peace or Sufi Dancing) and his colleague Paul Reps (author and teacher), may have been only original pupils of Inayat Khan active in the Bay Area during the 1950s.
\nHe was instrumental in encouraging Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan to take his role as head of the Sufi Order as well as encouraging the connection between Murshid SAM and Pir Vilayat that produced a flowering of universal Sufi activity in North America in the late 1960s and 1970s. He was also close to Pir Hidayat Inayat Khan, the musician and composer, who later became the leader of the Sufi Movement. Connections include American mystic Joe Miller, Shahabuddin David Less, and many others too numerous to mention.
\nAn accomplished yogi and Sufi, Shamcher was instrumental in developing Sufi centres throughout the world, in the tradition of Inayat Khan. He had particular fondness for the Sufis in Canada, and he guided and inspired Sufi Centers in Edmonton, and throughout Western Canada.
\nHe taught that Sufism was older than Islam, and was not held within any one particular religion. Shamcher always said he didn\u2019t believe in a hierarchical teacher\/disciple relationship, yet he was devoted to Hazrat Inayat Khan his whole life, and had many loving students, often with widely divergent views and affiliations.
\nAs an elder and Sufi, Beorse taught and guided many younger people of the day to find the inner guidance that would help them develop their life\u2019s purpose. He was insistent that the time for one-sided passive meditation was no more, and that the inner spirit of guidance, our intuition, was to be awakened and developed to serve humanity. Just as technology is the application of science, so is serving humanity the natural application of the meditative life. Beorse referred to the yogis who do not identify themselves with their bodies but see the whole environment, the whole planet, as themselves.
\nLIFE AS A DUNITE
\nIn the late 1920\u2019s and 30s the coast of California was dotted with spiritual communities, temples and metaphysical groups, each dedicated to alternative lifestyles ready for the coming \u201cAge of Aquarius\u201d, The New Age. The community in the Oceano Dunes required nothing at all from anyone who wished to join in the dunite way of life. The dunes were a place of total independence and self sufficiency. Some dunites were social, others were hermits, never seen for weeks or months, either meditating or hiding from the law. It was the perfect place to disappear from the world. This utopian community of radical individuals was a decentralized independent association of hermits and hermeticists, of yogis and boogeymen.
\nBeorse\u2019s book, Fairy Tales are True features one of the rare accounts of life in the Dunes of Oceano, where he lived on and off during the late 1930\u2019s. Much of his description of the Dunes is true, with only a few names changed and situations condensed. For example, \u201cDreamwood\u201d really existed: he was the artist Elwood Decker. \u201cHugo\u201d is the poet and early dunite,Hugo Seelig.
\nIn the Dunes of Oceano mystics, free-thinkers, poets, painters and photographers mingled freely with drifters and others on the fringes of society, in a place so pure and beautiful it was photographed over and over again by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and many others. Those iconic American images were not inspired simply by sand dunes alone, but by the remarkable community there. The loosely connected group called the \u201cdunites\u201d was expanded and stimulated by the astrologer Gavin Arthur (grandson of US President Chester Arthur). Here the Irish mystical folklorist and friend of the Faeries, Ella Young, named Gavin\u2019s cabin Moy Mell (after the poets\u2019 Pasture of Honey in the Gaelic afterlife). Bringing with him the legacy of Whitman and Carpenter, Gavin Arthur openly embraced life in loving compassion, nurturing an independent, inspiring and stimulating environment for all who wished to participate. Later, in San Francisco, Arthur helped nurture counterculture through the decades of both the beat and hippie movements, retaining connection with Murshid SAM and Shamcher.
\nDuring the Great Depression, economic theories were hotly debated in the dunes, forging a new way of thinking. Not confined to only socialism and communism, active discussion of new concepts ranged through Social Credit, barter, giro-credit, and other economic innovations. In the mid-1930\u2019s Shamcher\u2019s well-received economic book, Distribute or Destroy, had been published, and was quoted in the book by sometime dunites Luther Whiteman and Samuel L. Lewis, Glory Roads: The Psychological State of California.
\nAUTHOR
\nBryn Beorse was the author of many books, primarily on various aspects of energy and economics, philosophy and knowledge gleaned from his many years of travel, association with extraordinary individuals, and years of dedicated meditation. He was a proponent of the application of meditation to action, and of following inner intuition to solve the problems of life.
\nPUBLISHED WORKS
\n\u2022 Efter Oss Kommer Overfloden (after us the glut). World economic survey. Aschehoug Publishers, Oslo Norway 1934
\n\u2022 Distribute or Destroy economic overview, Alpha Glyph Publications, 2015, (previously Nott, London,1936)ISBN 978-0-9783485-6-4
\n\u2022 Fra Kriser til Kredit Kontrol (From Crises to Control of Credit), with co-author, Grundt Tanum Publishers, Oslo Norway 1937
\n\u2022 The Future is Ours, Analysis and proposals for USA Economy, Forum Publishers, Boston 1948
\n\u2022 Man and This Mysterious Universe: the Authorized Edition, a survey of Western and Eastern sciences, Alpha Glyph Publications Vancouver 2015 ( previously Philosophical Library New York 1949) ISBN 978-0978348571
\n\u2022 A State of Almost Happiness, a \u2018factual novel\u2019 from China and Tibet Manyland Publishers, New York 1972 (in process of republication)
\n\u2022 Planet Earth Demands: Energy, Economics, Employment and Our Inner and Outer Environments, Alpha Glyph Publications, 2014, ISBN 978-0978170592
\n\u2022 Every Willing Hand: Community, Economics and Employment, Alpha Glyph Publications, 2014, (previously Hu Press, 1979) ISBN 978-0978348540
\n\u2022 Fairy Tales are True: Silent Reach from the Dunes to the Kumbha Mela, Alpha Glyph Publications, Vancouver 2014, (previously Hu Press, 1978) ISBN 978-0978348557
\n\u2022 Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill (1974-1977), Alpha Glyph Publications, 2012, ISBN 978-0978170554
\n\u2022 An Interview With Shamcher Beorse, with Jelaluddin Boru, Alpha Glyph Publications, 2007, ISBN 978-0978170585
\nREFERENCES
\n1. \u201cShamcher Archives\u201d.
\n2. Johnson, Mansur (2006). Shamcher:A Memoir of Bryn Beorse and His Struggle to Introduce Ocean Energy into the United States (PDF).
\n3. \u201cSufi Message of Inayat Khan\u201d.
\n4. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan. East-West Publications. 1979. ISBN 978-0856920110.
\n5. Johnson, Mansur (2006). Murshid: A Personal Memoir of Life with American Sufi Samuel L. Lewis. Peaceworks. ISBN 978-0915424160.
\n6. Sokoloff, Carol Ann (2000). New Sufi Songs and Dances. Ekstasis Editions. ISBN 978-1896860756.
\n7. Bennett, Clinton; Ramsey, Charles (2012). South Asian Sufis Devotion, Deviation and Destiny. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781441151278.
\n8. Beorse, Shamcher Bryn (2011). Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill. Vancouver, BC: Alpha Glyph Publications. ISBN 9780978170554.
\n9. Beorse, Shamcher Bryn (2014). Planet Earth Demands. Vancouver BC: Alpha Glyph Publications. ISBN 9780978170592.
\n10. Hammond, Norman (1992). The Dunites. Arroyo Grande, Ca: South County Historical Society.
\n11. Beorse, Shamcher Bryn (2014). Fairy Tales are True (2 ed.). Vancouver, BC: Alpha Glyph Publications. ISBN 978-0978348557.
\n12. Hammond, Norm. Elwood: Spirit of the Dunes. Amazon.
\n13. \u201cDune Forum\u201d. South County Historical Society. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
\n14. Whiteman, Luther; Lewis, Samuel L. (1936). Glory Roads: The Psychological State of California. Thomas Y. Crowell.
\n15. Beorse, Shamcher Bryn (2015). Distribute or destroy (2 ed.). Vancouver, BC: Alpha Glyph Pubilications. ISBN 978-0-9783485-6-4.<\/p>\n

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Visited the summer schools in the 50s in the Netherlands. From 1947 she was National Representative of Norway. No further data available yet.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1382″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”right”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517562952751{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1384″ img_size=”medium”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Egeberg, Akbar <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Norwegian, mureed from 1924. Center leader of Oslo. National Representative of Norway from the mid twenties until probably 1931.<\/p>\n

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Norwegian actor. National representative of Norway from 1932 to 1935. Visited the Summer Schools in Suresnes during the nineteen thirtees.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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