Nikola Tesla

[Deb]

4. ON UNIVERSAL PEACE:
"We begin to think cosmically. Our sympathetic feelers reach out into the dim distance. The
bacteria of the "Weltschmerz" are upon us. So far, however, universal harmony has been
attained only in a single sphere of international relationship. That is the postal service. Its
mechanism is working satisfactorily, but—how remote are we still from that scrupulous
respect of the sanctity of the mail bag!"

From "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires as a Means for Furthering Peace,"
1905.

More quotes here:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51617/13-nikola-tesla-quotes-his-birthday

[inavalan]

From "My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla"

• "There was another and still more important reason for my late awakening. In my boyhood I suffered from a peculiar affliction due to the appearance of images, often accompanied by strong flashes of light, which marred the sight of real objects and interfered with my 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. None of the students of psychology or physiology whom I have consulted could ever explain satisfactorily these phenomena. They seem to have been unique altho I was probably predisposed as I know that my brother experienced a similar trouble.
  
  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.
  
  If my explanation is correct, it should be able to project on a screen the image of any object one conceives and make it visible. Such an advance would revolutionize all human relations. I am convinced that this wonder can and will be accomplished in time to come; I may add that I have devoted much thought to the solution of the problem.
  
  To free myself of these tormenting appearances, I tried to concentrate my mind on something else I had seen, and in this way I would often obtain temporary relief; but in order to get it I had to conjure continuously new images. It was not long before I found that I had exhausted all of those at my command; my "reel" had run out, as it were, because I had seen little of the world—only objects in my home and the immediate surroundings. As I performed these mental operations for the second or third time, in order to chase the appearances from my vision, the remedy gradually lost all its force.
  
  Then I instinctively commenced to make excursions beyond the limits of the small world of which I had knowledge, and I saw 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".

[Deb]

I have to say Tesla fascinates me. I've read a couple of short biographies about him and I think he was as close to tapping into what Seth describes as F2 and beyond than anyone could possibly be.

He's come up here quite often. Here's something from an old post that describes how he got his knowledge and understanding...

Tesla was amazing, he said he got his ideas from the universe as downloads of packets of knowledge (my paraphrase)—entire diagrams for devices and a complete understanding of how and why they would work. He had a lot of health problems growing up and in his younger years, migraines and strange fugues. Weird phobias. I think his brain was put together differently than the rest of ours, his "filtering mechanism" was altered, which is most likely why he could tap into greater knowledge.

I've added the book you mentioned to my Wish List. It's newer than the two I read back in 2013.

[inavalan]

I have to say Tesla fascinates me. I've read a couple of short biographies about him and I think he was as close to tapping into what Seth describes as F2 and beyond than anyone could possibly be.

He's come up here quite often. Here's something from an old post that describes how he got his knowledge and understanding...

Tesla was amazing, he said he got his ideas from the universe as downloads of packets of knowledge (my paraphrase)—entire diagrams for devices and a complete understanding of how and why they would work. He had a lot of health problems growing up and in his younger years, migraines and strange fugues. Weird phobias. I think his brain was put together differently than the rest of ours, his "filtering mechanism" was altered, which is most likely why he could tap into greater knowledge.

I've added the book you mentioned to my Wish List. It's newer than the two I read back in 2013.

I was interested in that book especially because it is an autobiography, and I wanted to read Tesla's own words, to see how he was thinking.

The description of his visions and visualizations offers some useful tips.