Nikola Tesla Books
IN SEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA additional equipment, but before he could return Arigo was dead. I had been told that Puharich had been deeply distressed by Arigo's death, for he felt that the key to a medical revolution had slipped through his grasp. With the Brazilian healer dead, Puharich had lost his chance to make detailed recordings and analyses of what he felt to be 'medical miracles'. After Arigo's death he had moved to a study of Geller and now, it appeared, to an attempt to resurrect Nikola Tesla. The picture I began to piece together was of an obviously clever man who was concerned with the 'leading edge of science'. Puharich had obviously pursued this field of myth, legend, elusive fact and half truth with incredible energy. As I looked through the PACE proposal, I realized that a theoretical explanation of Tesla's energy transmission had been written by Puharich himself. What sort of theory would a man of such diverse interests and talents compose? It seemed to me that PACE had more than its fair share of brilliant eccentrics. 39
