To SAM: Sufis, OTEC

12 October 1963
My dear Sam,
Your welcome letter came just as I was trying to find where Evelyn had hidden your former letter with your address. I was going to write you that your great success and following will be with other intellectuals than those with whom you now have battle, though the battle serves the [...]

To SAM: OTEC, and Vilayat

May 1963 (?)
My dear Sam,
Thank you for letter. Salt water conversion in desert interiors have not yet been solved satisfactorily — meaning not cheap enough. Even at the Sea Coast feasibility depends on certain natural conditions — temperature difference between surface and deep water — and slope of bottom.
It is a sad reflection on the [...]

To SAM: OTEC and Middle East, 2

21 November 1958
My dear Sam:
Yes, indeed, it’s about time Nasser had some expert advice on water. However, it may be the only place in the Middle East where specifically the thermal difference will be a cinch is at the Dead Sea. This is bordered jointly by Israel and — is it Jordan? Is any of [...]

To SAM: OTEC and Middle East

1 Aug 58
Dear Sam (but I ought to have noted your sufi name including Mullah, the enlightened one)
It was delightful to read you again (as the French say) and hear of your continued interest in water. Yes, you are so right, while the foreigner’s interest in the Middle East (most Europeans and to some extent [...]

OTEC

Very late in my life, in 48 when I was 52 years old… I had chosen engineering before I knew Inayat Khan. In fact, I didn’t know what I wanted to study. My father asked me and I said, “Well, something in the line of physics, medicine, geology, jusrisprudence, the whole lot.” [...]

OTEC Power Point

As today is Earth Day, I created this little slide presentation to introduce some of the ideas around OTEC, that Shamcher had worked so diligently on for decades.

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God, Spiritual Balance, Groups

From An Interview with Shamcher Bryn Beorse
J=Jelaluddin Boru, S=Shamcher
J: The Sufi path is supposed to be the path of direct experience. To me this means the acquiring of a sense of presence: the presence of God within you, the presence of God coming through your teachers within you, an awareness of the presence of [...]

It’s Not Enough to Sit There

Should we talk about it at all? Or should we keep meditating upon the light? One sufi, the same Sam Lewis, said, “In order to be a masterful sufi, in order to become really a light, you have to go into the darkness and fight the darkness.” Its not enough to sit there [...]

Nuclear Power is not an Option

Waste products, as they say, will not kill these people who sit in powerful postions today. They will not be killed, perhaps not even hurt. Their children, and your children and my children and the children’s children – they will not only be hurt they will be dying, but slowly, very very painfully. [...]

Shamcher in LA, 1980

From Rabbi Ivan (Raqib) Ickovits:
Dear folks:
Interestingly, many years ago, i had the privilege of hosting Shamcher when he came to LA to speak with some folks at a Rand Offshoot in Marina Del Rey. I think it was in early 1980 or 1981. I was a working physicist at that time working either for Jet [...]