The Mind Of Tesla

A Serbian Genius

Nikola Tesla, born in the small village of Smiljan, modern day Croatia, on July 10, 1856, was more than an inventor or an engineer; he was a visionary, a luminary who had an extraordinary and unparalleled grasp of the unseen forces that power our world. His brilliant mind pulsated with a fervour for understanding and innovating that was truly ahead of his time, making him a significant cornerstone in the realm of scientific and technological discovery.

His ground-breaking work fundamentally reshaped the future, laying the groundwork for the electrically driven world we live in today. Tesla's understanding and manipulation of electromagnetism resulted in an astonishing array of inventions, including the Tesla coil, an essential component in radio technology, even to this day. His profound insights led him to the development of the alternating current (AC) electrical supply system, an innovation that serves as the beating heart of modern electricity grids, powering cities across the globe.

With his limitless curiosity, Tesla envisioned and explored possibilities in wireless communications, remote control, and even laser technology, long before these concepts were fully realised in the mainstream.

Many of his inventions were never fully realised during his lifetime or are the subject of controversy and speculation. Some of these include:

• Wireless Transmission of Energy: Tesla's work on the Tesla Coil led him to experiment with the wireless transmission of energy. He envisioned a global system of wireless communication and power transmission, which he attempted to realise with his ambitious but ultimately unfinished project, the Wardenclyffe Tower.

• Radio: While Guglielmo Marconi is often credited with the invention of the radio, Tesla had been working on similar concepts around the same time. In 1943, shortly after Tesla's death, the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of Tesla's radio patents, recognising that his work predated that of Marconi.

• X-rays: Tesla's work with high-frequency currents and electromagnetic fields led him to experiment with what he called "shadowgraphs", similar to what Wilhelm Roentgen later identified as X-rays.

• Earthquake Machine: Tesla once claimed to have developed a small oscillating device that, when attached to structures, could set off vibrations that mimicked those of an earthquake.

• Death Ray: Tesla said he had invented a directed-energy weapon, a so-called "death ray," that he believed could end wars.

• Rotating Magnetic Field: One of his pivotal contributions, the rotating magnetic field is a fundamental principle in physics and is used in nearly all devices that use alternating current.

But how did Tesla come up with these inventions? How did his mind work?

When he was a boy he suffered from a peculiar affliction due to the appearances of images, often accompanied by strong flashes of light, which marred the sight of real objects and interfered with his thought and action.

They were pictures of things and scenes which I had really seen, never of those I imagined. When a word was spoken to me the image of the object it designated would present itself vividly to my vision and sometimes I was quite unable to distinguish whether what I saw was tangible or not. This caused me great discomfort and anxiety.

The theory I have formulated is that the images were the result of a reflex action from the brain on the retina under great excitation. They certainly were not hallucinations such as are produced in diseased and anguished minds, for in other respects I was normal and composed. To give an idea of my distress, suppose that I had witnest a funeral or some such nerve-racking spectacle. Then, inevitably, in the stillness of night, a vivid picture of the scene would thrust itself before my eyes and persist despite all my efforts to banish it. Sometimes it would even remain fixt in space tho I pushed my hand thru it.

To try and stop these appearances he started concentrating his mind on something else he had seen. The problem was he continuously had to conjure new images which he found exhausting. He had seen little of the world and so had to reuse images which started to lose all its force.

So he moved on to things away from his small world and started to create new scenes.

These were at first very blurred and indistinct, and would flit away when I tried to concentrate my attention upon them, but by and by I succeeded in fixing them; they gained in strength and distinctness and finally assumed the concreteness of real things. I soon discovered that my best comfort was attained if I simply went on in my vision farther and farther, getting new impressions all the time, and so I began to travel—of course, in my mind. Every night (and sometimes during the day), when alone, I would start on my journeys—see new places, cities and countries—live there, meet people and make friendships and acquaintances and, however unbelievable, it is a fact that they were just as dear to me as those in actual life and not a bit less intense in their manifestations.

He did this every day until he was about seventeen when his mind turned to inventing. The mental training he had undertaken in his youth allowed him to visualise whatever he wanted, without the need for models, drawings or experiments.

When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance. There is no difference whatever, the results are the same. In this way I am able to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form this final product of my brain. Invariably my device works as I conceived that it should, and the experiment comes out exactly as I planned it. In twenty years there has not been a single exception. Why should it be otherwise?

Interestingly, his mental skills allowed him to develop his powers of observation which led him to discover a truth of great importance. He noted that the appearance of images was always preceded by actual visions of scenes under peculiar and generally very exceptional conditions. Each time he tried to located the original impulse.

Soon I became aware, to my surprise, that every thought I conceived was suggested by an external impression. Not only this but all my actions were prompted in a similar way. In the course of time it became perfectly evident to me that I was merely an automaton endowed with power of movement, responding to the stimuli of the sense organs and thinking and acting accordingly.

If Tesla was ever greatly exhilarated or found himself in dangerous or distressing situations, he would see flashes of light. “In some instances I have seen all the air around me filled with tongues of living flame”, he said.

When I close my eyes I invariably observe first, a background of very dark and uniform blue, not unlike the sky on a clear but starless night. In a few seconds this field becomes animated with innumerable scintillating flakes of green, arranged in several layers and advancing towards me. Then there appears, to the right, a beautiful pattern of two systems of parallel and closely spaced lines, at right angles to one another, in all sorts of colors with yellow-green and gold predominating. Immediately thereafter the lines grow brighter and the whole is thickly sprinkled with dots of twinkling light. This picture moves slowly across the field of vision and in about ten seconds vanishes to the left, leaving behind a ground of rather unpleasant and inert grey which quickly gives way to a billowy sea of clouds, seemingly trying to mould themselves in living shapes. It is curious that I cannot project a form into this grey until the second phase is reached. Every time, before falling asleep, images of persons or objects flit before my view. When I see them I know that I am about to lose consciousness. If they are absent and refuse to come it means a sleepless night.

When he was a boy, Tesla came across the novel “Abafi” (the Son of Aba), a Serbian translation of a well known Hungarian writer, Josika. Tesla says this book awakened his dormant powers of will and he began to practise self-control.

At the outset my wishes had to be subdued but gradually desire and will grew to be identical. After years of such discipline I gained so complete a mastery over myself that I toyed with passions which have meant destruction to some of the strongest men.

As mentioned above, through Tesla’s observations he believed humans to be automata, entirely controlled by the forces of the medium being tossed about like corks on the surface of the water but mistaking the resultant of the impulses from the outside for free will. He believed the movements and other actions we perform are always life preservative and although they seem independent, we are all connected by invisible links.

So long as the organism is in perfect order it responds accurately to the agents that prompt it, but the moment that there is some derangement in any individual, his selfpreservative power is impaired. Everybody understands, of course, that if one becomes deaf, has his eyesight weakened, or his limbs injured, the chances for his continued existence are lessened. But this is also true, and perhaps more so, of certain defects in the brain which deprive the automaton, more or less, of that vital quality and cause it to rush into destruction. A very sensitive and observant being, with his highly developed mechanism all intact, and acting with precision in obedience to the changing conditions of the environment, is endowed with a transcending mechanical sense, enabling him to evade perils too subtle to be directly perceived. When he comes in contact with others whose controlling organs are radically faulty, that sense asserts itself and he feels the "cosmic" pain.

As UAP/UFOs are the current zeitgeist, perhaps what is being witnessed it actually Tesla technology.

When I was a student at college I conceived a flying machine quite unlike the present ones. The underlying principle was sound but could not be carried into practice for want of a prime-mover of sufficiently great activity. In recent years I have successfully solved this problem and am now planning aerial machines devoid of sustaining planes, ailerons, propellers and other external attachments, which will be capable of immense speeds and are very likely to furnish powerful arguments for peace in the near future. Such a machine, sustained and propelled entirely by reaction, is shown on page 108 and is supposed to be controlled either mechanically or by wireless energy. By installing proper plants it will be practicable to project a missile of this kind into the air and drop it almost on the very spot designated, which may be thousands of miles away. But we are not going to stop at this. Telautomata will be ultimately produced, capable of acting as if possest of their own intelligence, and their advent will create a revolution. As early as 1898 I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgment. But my proposal was deemed chimerical at that time and nothing came from it.

Nikola Tesla, through his extraordinary life and prolific work, strode like a colossus across the threshold of modern science and technology. As an inventor, he crafted concepts and innovations that were so far ahead of his time that they still ignite imaginations and fuel scientific advancements today. As a thinker, he dived into the realms of science and philosophy, giving us a glimpse into the infinite depths of human potential. Tesla's unique combination of brilliance, insight, and relentless determination enabled him to transform his visionary ideas into concrete realities, fundamentally changing the course of human history.

Tesla's fascinating mental process, backed by his intense powers of concentration and visualisation, allowed him to dream, design, and virtually test his inventions in the depths of his own mind before their physical realisation. His capacity for internal innovation showcases the extraordinary power of the human intellect when harnessed with precision and control.

From Tesla, we learn that the only true limits are those we impose upon ourselves, and with an open mind and unwavering curiosity, the wonders we can uncover are boundless.