Nikola Tesla Books
IN SEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA and insight we have moved into conjectures of parallelism between matter and mind, and from that vantage point hinted at some deeper ground from which matter and mind are born. From this lofty pinnacle, Tesla's gifts of insight and vision seem to dim when placed beside the potential of the whole human race. To return to the specific, however, it now seems possible to gain some insight into how Nikola Tesla received his visions of mechanical devices. As a young man, he was given to pondering the movements of nature in wind and waterfall. He also experimented with simple mechanical devices and, as a boy, produced his first crude inventions. Then followed a period of intellectual activity at polytechnic and university where Tesla set himself the problem of an improved electrical motor which could operate without direct current connections. He had already learned the language of mechanics and electricity; he had taken the necessary intellectual steps to define the problem. By the time he left university, Tesla had set forth specific scientific boundaries around the problem as his unconscious mind learned to paint nature's patterns. All that remained was for Tesla to allow the ideas to move along some implicit level until that moment, during his walk, when the idea unfolded before him. The vision was complete and dramatic: in some sense it had always been with him, but it required that final moment of acceptance and sensitivity before it could burst into his conscious mind like a fully-formed flower. So here the story ends. Or does it? As I was looking over this manuscript before taking it to my typist, a pamphlet with the title My Life Depends on You! came through my mail box. I flipped it open and began to read the opening sentence: I know what I am about to tell you will sound bizarre, almost beyond belief RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] surreptitious testing of a telepathic amplifier that works with microwaves to control people's minds and bodies, voices in the air, spy schools, interrogation, toxic gases - I know how crazy it all sounds. I smiled as I read on...after all isn't this where we came in? 143
