Helgi Pjeturss

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Helgi Pjeturss (also Helgi Péturss ; born March 31, 1872 as Helgi Pétursson in Reykjavík ; † January 28, 1949 ibid) was an Icelandic geologist and philosopher .

life and work

Helgi's mother, a piano teacher, came from a family of poets and scholars. His father was a police officer and city ​​treasurer of Reykjavík. After Helgi Pjeturss had studied natural history and geography in Copenhagen from 1891 to 1897 , he took part in an expedition to Greenland . As a result of lack of sleep, he suffered a nervous breakdown . With his Copenhagen dissertation on the geology of Iceland , Helgi Pjeturss was the first Icelander in 1905 to do a doctorate in this subject. He dealt with the influence of glaciation on the formation of palagonite . From 1901 to 1905 Helgi Pjeturss (as the successor to Benedikt Sveinbjarnarson Gröndal ) was chairman of the Icelandic natural science society Hið íslenska náttúrufræðifélag .

From 1912 he developed a teaching in which he combined his ideas about the nature of sleep and dreaming with theories about extraterrestrial life . According to Helgi Pjeturss, people are charged with life energy from external sources while they sleep; Dreams arise through other persons who evoke them in the sleeping person - and these persons are often beings from other planets. Every person possesses a so-called "life radiation " (lífgeislan) , which contains his innermost being and his personality and can cross the universe independently of space and time. Sleep is a form of trance and as such is of the same kind as the trance of a medium . In sleep you share the consciousness of another person (on another planet). Helgi was of the opinion that the earth was a "dark planet" whose inhabitants could achieve a better life through "correct contact" and "harmony with life in the stars". Helgi's first work on these theories appeared in three volumes from 1919 to 1922 under the title Nýall . Five more book publications followed.

Stefán Einarsson compared Helgi Pjeturss' synthesis of science , religion and occultism with the spiritualism of Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran , from whom Helgi differs, however, in that he is "super- nationalist " in that he makes the Icelanders the "chosen people" - because it produced him, Helgi Pjeturss, the "intellectual savior of the world".

effect

Helgi's teachings received a certain amount of attention in Icelandic society and were valued by well-known personalities as an independent Icelandic philosophy. After the death of Helgi Pjeturss, a society for the dissemination of his teachings was founded in 1950, other societies followed.

Works (selection)

  • Om Islands geologi. Diss. København 1905.
  • Nýall. Nokkur íslenzk drög til heimsfræði og líffræði. Guðm. Gamalíelsson, Reykjavík 1919–1922 (3 vol.)
  • Ennýall. Bokkur íslensk drög to skilnings á heimi and lífi. Reykjavík 1929.
  • Framnýall. Björgun mannkynsins and aðrir aldaskiftaþættir. Guðjón Ó. Guðjónsson, Reykjavík 1941.
  • Viðnýall. Afmælisrit. Guðjón Ó. Guðjónsson, Reykjavík 1942.
  • Sannýall. Saga Frímanns eftir að hann fluttist á aðra jörð og aðrir Nýalsþættir. Guðjón Ó. Guðjónsson, Reykjavík 1943.
  • Þónýall. Íslensk vísindi and framtíð mannkynsins and aðrir nýalsþættir. Guðjón Ó. Guðjónsson, Reykjavík 1947.

literature

  • Jóhannes Áskelsson: Dr. phil. Helgi Pjeturss in memoriam . In: Náttúrufræðingurinn . 19th year, no. 3 , 1949, pp. 97-109 ( online at timarit.is ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helgi Pjeturss - Biography. Helgi Pjeturss Institute, accessed January 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Stefán Einarsson: A history of Icelandic literature . Johns Hopkins Press, New York 1957, pp. 272 .
  3. ^ Helgi Pjeturss - Studies in Cosmobiology. Helgi Pjeturss Institute, accessed January 27, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Formenn frá upphafi. Hið íslenska náttúrufræðifélag, accessed April 14, 2018 (Icelandic).
  5. ^ A b c William H. Swatos Jr., Loftur Reimar Gissurarson: Icelandic Spiritualism . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ 1997, ISBN 1-56000-273-5 , pp. 212 .
  6. ↑ Stefán Einarsson: A history of Icelandic literature . Johns Hopkins Press, New York 1957, pp. 273 .
  7. ↑ a b William H. Swatos Jr., Loftur Reimar Gissurarson: Icelandic Spiritualism . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ 1997, ISBN 1-56000-273-5 , pp. 213 .
Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Helgi Pjeturss
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helgi Péturss; Helgi Pétursson (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic geologist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1949
Place of death Reykjavík