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disappears to the left.
What is left is a dreary gray background,
they very quickly this changes
once more
into
a billowing
sea
of
clouds.
The clouds seem as if they are going to come alive.
It is
strange, before this latter scene appears,
I cannot add anything to
the
grey
background.
Every
time
before
I
go
to
sleep,
people,
things
and
scenes
continuously pass
before my
eyes.
When
I
see
these images,
I know
I am about to go to sleep.
If the images do
not
appear,
and
I
cannot make
them appear,
then
It means
that
I
will not sleep all night.
He was very sensitive.
He said when he was a child there were
a number of occasions when he was awakened by sound of flames and
was able to have neighbors rescued from a burning house.
When he
was over
40,
he was in Colorado conducting lightning experiments
.
He often said he could hear thunder 550 miles away while his young
assistant
could only hear
it
150
miles
away.
He could hear the
tick tock of
a watch three rooms
away.
A fly landing on
a table
would sound like
an explosion
in his
ears.
If
a horse and wagon
passed
by
several
miles
away,
it
would
cause
his
whole
body
to
shake.
A train whistle 20 miles away could make him feel like the
chair under him was shaking and hurt so bad he could not stand it.
The
ground under
his
feet was
always
shaking.
In
order to
find
some rest,
he always put a rubber mat under his bed.
He wrote
that
"the
sound
of
thunder even
far
away
often
is
like someone talking,
if
I cannot make out the sound very clearly,
it makes my hair stand on end.
If the sunlight
is intermittently
blocked out,
it is a strong blow to my brain and can make me faint.
When
I pass under a
bridge or other structure,
I go as
fast as
I
can, because
I feel like my head is going to be crushed.
When
I am
in a dark place,
I am like a bat.
Using hairs which stand on end
on my forehead,
I can make out things
feet away."
At this time,
his pulse would be beating very hard,
and when
slow it would be extremely slow,
and when fast
it could reach 260
eats
per minute.
His muscles would
keep twitching
and
jumping.
This
in itself
is almost unbearable.
Because
of
his
selfless
work,
Tesla
fell
into
a
protective
coma, and when he came to,
he had amnesia.
However, after a period
of
training
and
work,
he
gradually
recovered
his
memory,
and
prepared to visit his mother.
This was
in
the
early Spring
of
1892.
At
that
time
he had
still
not
received
the
great
numbers
of
invitations
for
him
to
present reports
in England and France.
Furthermore,
he was very
undecided,
and could not make up his mind whether or not to visit
his mother.
According
to
his
recollection,
he
later
"in
his
fog
of
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amnesia", there appeared a vision where he saw himself at the Peace
Hotel
in Paris
in
a chair
just waking from a very
strange
sleep.
In this "recollection",
he saw someone handing him an urgent letter
bearing news of
his mother's impending death.
It
is
strange,
but there was good cause
for him worry about
his mother's health.
A string of letters came from his home town
saying his mother was actually very ill.
At the same time,
he also
received
invitations,
honorary
degrees
and
"other
seductive
arrangements"
from
all
over
the
world
asking
him
to
visit
and
speak.
Finally he received invitations from London and Paris,
and
planned to go directly to see his mother afterwards.
On one occasion Tesla had just finished his final report and
said he was exhausted.
He immediately returned to his room at the
Peace
Hotel.
At this
time
a mailman delivered to him
a telegram
notifying him of him that his mother was dangerously
ill.
He immediately rushed to the train station and squeezed aboard
a train just leaving for Keluodiya (phonetic).
He then switched to
a horse cart, and when he finally reached his house,
he was just in
time to be with his mother for her last few hours.
It was
. almost
too much for him,
and he was sent to another house in the vicinity
to rest.
"There was nothing
I could do but just lie there," he wrote in
his
diary.
"I
thought,
if
I
could
not
be
by
her
side when
she
died, my mother would call me....
In London
I and a friend of mine
who
is
now deceased,
a William Klucks,
were
together discussing
spiritualism.
At that time,
i was completely infatuated with the
idea that it would be a good thing if it were possible to see into
the future.
My mother was a talented woman, and was more sensitive
than most people
.
He waited
expectantly all
that
night.
However by morning,
nothing
had
happened.
He
said
that
in
something
almost
like
a
dream he
saw
"a batch
of clouds,
and on the cloud
sat
a group
of
beautiful
angels.
One
of them was watching me very closely,
and
gradually
the
face
of
the
angel
became my mother's
face.
This
vision slowly floated through the room and disappeared.
Then there
was the sounds of beautiful singing, waking me from my dreams.
At
that
moment,
I
had
a
thought
that
is
impossible
to
describe
in
words,
I
knew
my
mother
had
just
died.
This
was
really
the
C3.SG »
•
•
•
What
are
the
objective
factors
of
this
type
of
obvious
premonition?
This question was no small thing to him,
because he
maintained his belief that mankind is nothing more than "flesh and
blood"
.
In
his
autobiography
he
offers
the
following
"explanation"
.
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"After
I recovered,
I spent a great deal of time investigating
objective factors of this strange phenomenon.
I found a great del
of consolation, because after several months of fruitless labor,
I
finally
found
it.
I
had
seen
a
painting
of
a
master,
he
had
metaphorically
depicted
a
season.
There
were
clouds
in
the
picture,
and
on
the
clouds were
a
group
of
angels.
It was
like
they were floating
in the
air.
This picture moved me very much.
What
I had seen in my dream was just like this painting.
The only
difference was my mother's
face.
The
sound of music came
from a
nearby
classroom.
At
that
time
they were
holding
Easter
early
Mass.
The reasons were clear,
and were completely consistent with
scientific facts."
This
happened
a
long
time
ago,
and ever
since
I
have
never
changed my views toward those psychological and spiritual phenomena
for which there
is
no evidence.
I
believe
that
belief
in
these
phenomena is the natural result of the development of intelligence.
People
no
longer
believe
in
the
dogma
of
orthodox
religion.
However, everyone has to believe in some sort of higher power.
All
of
us must have an ideal to restrict our own actions and to
find
satisfaction.
However,
this
ideal
plays
the
role
of
a
non
materialized
power.
It
is
not
material.
It
can
be
a
type
of
religion or it can be art,
science or any other thing.
For all of
mankind to live in peace,
it is necessary to have a common concept
acceptable to everyone."
He
said
that
if
other
people
harmed
his
own
friends
and
relatives
by
some
special
means,
then
he
would
have
a
certain
feeling.
He called this "universal" pain.
The source of this sort
of pain
is that the structure of human bodies
is
similar,
and the
are
also
similarly
susceptible
to
outside
influences.
He
wrote
that
"say
there
was
an
extremely
sensitive
person who
was
born
already highly developed and with
a perfect body who was able
to
adapt perfectly with the constant changes of the surrounding world.
He
had
the
ability
to
a
priori mechanically
sense,
so
he
could
avoid those difficulties which are too small to be directly known.
When he came into contact with other people whose control
organs
were
lacking,
the
a priori mechanical
sensing would be manifest,
and he would sense "universal"
pain.
This was not the only time in
his life that Tesla foresaw or
had non sensory knowledge.
However, on each occasion he found some
way
to
use mechanical methods
to
explain
these
phenomena.
From
objective facts
he would find a basis for this.
For example,
his
sister Angelina became very ill.
He sent a telegram from New York
stating,
"I saw before my eyes a vision of Angelina appear and then
disappear.
I
sensed that something is wrong."
As Tesla's nephew
remembers,
this
inventor
talked
to
him
about
this
premonition.
However,
the inventor was
not completely
serious.
He
said Tesla
was
a
sensitive
receiver
that
was
capable
of
recording
any
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interference.
There was nothing mysterious about this receiver.
"He
claimed,"
said
his
nephew,
"that
everyone
was
like
an
automatic
piece
of
machinery
that
reacted
to
every
objective
impression."
However,
in
later
discussions,
he
avoided
talking
about
exactly what
it
was
that
gave
him
the
ability
to
foresee
things.
He told his nephew about something that happened in Manhattan.
That was in the 1890's.
One day he held a large dinner,
and after
the dinner was over,
the guests were getting ready to bard a train
to
go
home
to
Philadelphia.
Tesla
came
up
with
"an
extremely
urgent
request".
He insisted they
stay the
night,
and would not
let them board the train.
As
it happened,
the train flipped over
and many of the passengers were killed.
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