Shamcher Bryn Beorse

Economist, engineer, generalist and western mystic, Bryn Beorse (Shamcher) (1896-1980) was the author of many non-fiction books, novels and articles, covering topics of energy, economics, full employment, and global awareness as well as yoga and Sufism. Born in Norway, he worked and travelled in over 65 countries in his lifetime, and he eventually settled in the United States. Fluent in several languages, his comprehensive worldview included the inner meditative life as well as the accomplishment of life in the world. As an economist, he was sent on a UN economic mission to Tunisia in the 1960's, and he helped to rebuild the Norwegian economy after WWII. Beorse also spent time in exploration, travelling to the Kumbha Mela in India, living as a beach bum in the dunes of Oceano, and going to China at the time of the revolution. An MI5 spy in WWII, he was part of the plot to kidnap Hitler. He was an advocate of the giro-credit economic system, and full employment. He brought the French OTEC technology to the US in 1947, working at the Univeristy of California. He spoke out against the stagnation of initiative due to hierarchical organization - whether in worldly endeavours or spiritual groups. An accomplished yogi and Sufi, Shamcher was instrumental in developing Sufi centres throughout the world, in the tradition of the great musician and sufi teacher, Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan. He devoted the last years of his life once again to promoting OTEC, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, the source of benign solar power from the sea.