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Tesla, Nikola - His less than rational moments
Identifier
003197
Type of Spiritual Experience
Invisible input - wisdom
Invisible input - inspiration
Hallucination
Background
There is nothing to say that Tesla’s hallucinations were caused by the electrical equipment he invented and played with, but the evidence – though circumstantial – is interesting as a possibility.
A description of the experience
Internet The Pioneers website - Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tesla loved electricity, and was fascinated with lighting, speaking often of some future world filled with electric light. In a determined effort to prove the safety of his new alternating-current lighting system, Tesla would often light lamps by using his own body as an electrical conductor, to the somewhat muted cheers of an uneasy audience……………..
In the best tradition of mad scientists, Nikola Tesla had his less than rational moments. To be blunt, Nik's cheese quite often escaped his cracker.
Totally incapable of understanding even basic finances, this was also a man with a germ phobia of which Howard Hughes would have been proud.
He suffered from hallucinations, night tremors, and a terrified loathing of women wearing earrings.
He also had the rather anti-social habit of spending his time at dinner parties calculating the cubic contents of his plate. Okay, so Nikola Tesla was as loopy as they come - he was also the most brilliant fruitcake that ever existed.