Secrets of the Aether

[Bob Smith]

With regard to Tesla's off the scale sensitivities, it may be worth taking into consideration his Serbian Orthodox heritage. Tesla's father was a Serbian Orthodox priest. The Orthodox spirituality acknowledges a parallel set of spiritual senses which in a sense provide a counterpart to the regular physical sensory arenas (i.e., auditory, tactile, visual, taste, smell).  The Orthodox are quite at home with this realm of spiritual sense, just as are certain indigenous cultures like the Australian Aborigines or shamanistic traditions.  The gift of second sight, as Tesla seems to have had from accounts of his visions, can also be a heavy burden. It may be possible that Tesla's spiritual senses were so highly developed to aetheric perceptions that the torment he experienced (as explained in Fatbird's the above link) was very real.  Consider "Joe" of Joe Cell fame, and how he can supposedly tell from the end of his driveway whether stainless steel tubing brought by a visitor will be conducive to aether spin which draws in orgone, making the cell effective or not. 

[hansvonlieven]

Tesla, though a genius in many ways was also a nutcase similar to Howard Hughes. He was afraid of germs and refused to shake hands with almost anyone for fear of getting contaminated.

There is more, but this will give you some sort of an idea what you are dealing with.

Hans von Lieven

[scotty1]

H all.
G'day Hans.
Here is some quotes from a Tesla book I have.

I realised that my parents had been making too great sacrifices on my account and
resolved to relieve them of the burden. The wave of the American telephone had
just reached the European continent and the system was to be installed in Budapest,
Hungary. It appeared an ideal opportunity, all the more as a friend of our family
was at the head of the enterprise.
It was here that I suffered the complete breakdown of the nerves to which I have
referred. What I experienced during the period of the illness surpasses all belief. My
sight and hearing were always extraordinary. I could clearly discern objects in the
distance when others saw no trace of them. Several times in my boyhood I saved the
houses of our neighbours from fire by hearing the faint crackling sounds which did
not disturb their sleep, and calling for help. In 1899, when I was past forty and
carrying on my experiments in Colorado, I could hear very distinctly thunderclaps
at a distance of 550 miles. My ear was thus over thirteen times more sensitive, yet at
that time I was, so to speak, stone deaf in comparison with the acuteness of my
hearing while under the nervous strain.
In Budapest I could hear the ticking of a watch with three rooms between me and
the time-piece. A fly alighting on a table in the room would cause a dull thud in my
ear. A carriage passing at a distance of a few miles fairly shook my whole body.
The whistle of a locomotive twenty or thirty miles away made the bench or chair on
which I sat, vibrate so strongly that the pain was unbearable. The ground under my
feet trembled continuously. I had to support my bed on rubber cushions to get any
rest at all. The roaring noises from near and far often produced the effect of spoken
words which would have frightened me had I not been able to resolve them into
their accumulated components. The sun rays, when periodically intercepted, would
cause blows of such force on my brain that they would stun me. I had to summon all
my will power to pass under a bridge or other structure, as I experienced the
crushing pressure on the skull. In the dark I had the sense of a bat, and could detect
the presence of an object at a distance of twelve feet by a peculiar creepy sensation
on the forehead. My pulse varied from a few to two hundred and sixty beats and all
the tissues of my body with twitchings and tremors, which was perhaps hardest to
bear. A renowned physician who have me daily large doses of Bromide of
Potassium, pronounced my malady unique and incurable.
It is my eternal regret that I was not under the observation of experts in physiology
and psychology at that time. I clung desperately to life, but never expected to recover. Can anyone believe that so hopeless a physical wreck
could ever be transformed into a man of astonishing strength and tenacity; able to
work thirty-eight years almost without a day’s interruption, and find himself still
strong and fresh in body and mind? Such is my case. A powerful desire to live and
to continue the work and the assistance of a devoted friend, an athlete,
accomplished the wonder. My health returned and with it the vigour of mind.
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I have dwelt on the circumstances of my early life and told of an affliction which
compelled me to unremitting exercise of imagination and self-observation. This
mental activity, at first involuntary under the pressure of illness and suffering,
gradually became second nature and led me finally to recognise that I was but an
automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the
forces of the environment. Our bodies are of such complexity of structure, the
motions we perform are so numerous and involved and the external impressions on
our sense organs to such a degree delicate and elusive, that it is hard for the average
person to grasp this fact. Yet nothing is more convincing to the trained investigator
than the mechanistic theory of life which had been, in a measure, understood and
propounded by Descartes three hundred years ago.
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[Bob Smith]

The book "Spiritual Emergency" by Grov has a chapter detailing how certain persons exprience what seems to be a nervous breakdown as a doorway to extraordinary perception akin to what Tesla relates. These breakdowns are more properly termed "breakthroughs," however, the price of breaking-through is often a collapse of one's understanding of oneself and of the world as one knows it. To outside observers, such an individual appears to have gone mad.  What she/he may in fact be experiencing is a collapse of one way of knowing under the pressure of a new way of knowing, which over time must be integrated into the personality.  Perhaps this is what happened with Tesla, and like every gift, this keen form of perception beyond the physical sensory realm also had its burdens.

[turbo]

Here is a Pdf file with the histort of electricity and magnetism. 

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item227

Marco.