Nikola Tesla Books
IN SEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA been standing on his balcony in New York City one night when he saw a glow appear and grow around a power station. The glow continued until the station experienced a blow-out. 'They were ionizing the air around the transformers. I could see it from my balcony,' he said. There were a host of questions and Puharich began to explain how important it was for the Government to realize what was going on. The Russians had new and highly sophisticated weapons based on Tesla's inventions. Not only could they beam energy anywhere in the world and modify the weather, they could also direct a beam to the heart of any city. 'You have got to act right away before it's too late,' he said, looking around, 'but, in fact, it's too late already.' He went even further and explained that the same radiation could be used on civilian populations in a city to control behaviour. The Russians could use 'riot-inducing' frequencies to precipitate violence and looting. I turned away; I did not like what was going on and I realized that there was little chance of talking seriously with Puharich that evening. Later that night I realized how much Puharich's remarks had angered me. It seemed that so much of what I had heard from Tesla's supporters was tinged with fear or paranoia. First, it had been secret Russian experiments to disrupt the weather, rumours of spies and secret agents, and now scientists, at work in far-off laboratories, who were supposed to be affecting our brains, inducing riots and blackingout city power. I had seen others gripped by occasional paranoia but nothing of this magnitude. Was it really necessary, I wondered, to invoke secret weapons and the threat of mindcontrol in order to draw attention to Tesla's name? On the other hand, if Puharich saw himself in that long tradition of adepts to hidden knowledge then he was certainly behaving true to form. It seems axiomatic that those in pursuit of occult secrets act from time to time in quite arbitrary ways and preach the most disturbing nonsense to their students. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff's followers flocked to his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France only to be met with hard work, strict discipline, profound psychological insight, layer upon layer of mystification, revilement, requests for money and, in the case of female acolytes, rapid seduction. 121
