Nikola Tesla Books
- CHAPTER ELEVEN We walked in silence, then Dave faced me again. 'Was it all a metaphor this business of power towers which could link the earth?â I understood at once what he meant; in fact, it had been on my mind for the past few days but I hadn't wanted to bring it to consciousness. - 'Yes, I think so,' I nodded. 'It all comes back to Jung again, doesn't it?" We both laughed and I began to tell Dave how I felt about it all. 'You see, Tesla was always talking about linking the world with energy. His whole life was obsessed with electrical power. with motors, generators, transmitting power. Think what it must have been like, seventy, eighty years ago. Electricity was a mysterious and dangerous power, you couldn't hold it or see it. It came out of the very heart of nature. But Tesla spent every waking hour wrestling with this dark force; he had to tame it. Remember how he even passed high voltages through his body. Then in the end he speaks of finding an inexhaustible source of the power from within the earth.' Dave nodded to encourage me: 'Yes, you're getting there. It's all making sense.' I went on, 'The next thing he does is build these towers - he wants to stretch out this power. He wants to reach across the continent, right across the globe. He's going to link the whole world with this force. Everything will be crossed by this network of power and look what sort of a world it's going to be... Peace and harmony, no more war, no more want, no friction because there is enough power to do anything the world wants. It's a sort of universal brotherhood brought about by this dark force of nature which Tesla had tamed.' We had both stopped on the path and I realized that we were becoming quite animated. Dave reached out with his hands and asked, 'And this force? What was it really?" 'Yes, that's it. What did he cut from his own nature as a young man - love, friendship, sorrow, hatred, hope and fear? He thought that if he could throw away everything that was emotional and confusing and disturbing to his logical mind then he would achieve greatness.' We began to walk on together. 'You know when he got older he became a complete recluse he even developed a phobia about germs. He was supposed to ask for a whole set of napkins when he went out to eat and - 102
