Most of his works Tesla realized by using intuition. His projects started in his visual imaging, which he then committed to paper and as a last step – into practice. He was the master of a magical world. His first encounter with these magic powers occurred during his studies in Graz. During his entire life myths and legends about him were spun. On the creation of mental images Tesla commented: “If my explanation is correct, then in principle it is possible to project our inner pictures and visions on the screen and make it visible to everyone, like a movie is projected by using a film projector.” These experiences led him to think of constructing a robot, similar in action to a human mind.
Proper Diet:
Tesla was the advocate of vegetarianism as ethical, ecological, economical and healthy justified diet. In 1900 he said: “„It’s certainly preferable to grow vegetables and cereals, and I think that vegeterianism is a commandable departure from the established barbarous habit. Many nations that live on a vegetarian diet are much stronger and have better bodily conditions. Some seedlings, such as oats, are richer and more economical than meat and better for spiritual and bodily health… We have to make a complete cut as regards our food. All other opinions (of philosophers) about food are unnecessary.“
Tesla had an unusual relationship and a great love of animals, especially pigeons. He fed and took care of pigeons, and his particular relationship was with a she-pigeon with whom he communicated in unusual ways.
Tesla’s Love For A Dove:
Tesla fed and cared for several pigeons and a white dove with light brown tips on the top of her wings was singled out. According to John O’Neill, the author of one of Tesla’s biographies, Tesla loved that dove more than anybody else. Tesla said about the dove:
“This pigeon was the joy of my life, I loved her as a man loves a woman. If she needed me, nothing else mattered. As long as I had her, I had my life goal. It sufficed for me to think of her, to call her and she would fly over. I understood her and she understood me” spoke Tesla.
- “I have decided to devote my whole life to work and therefore I have given up love and company of a good woman; even more than that. I think that a writer or a musician should get married. In marriage they get the inspiration leading them to even greater success. But an inventor has such a violent nature, with so many wild, passionate characteristics that he should leave everything, give up his work and dedicate himself to a woman. And it’s a pity : we sometimes feel so lonely“, Tesla said. „A modern woman, who already now shows the progress of her sex in purely superficial phenomena, is just an external sign of something that is much deeper and more powerful maturing in the bosom of the human race.“
- He felt deep symphaty and sincere friendship for Katherina Jonson, the wife of his friend Robert. Some think that Katherina Jonson was in love with Tesla. Their correspondence is being kept in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
- The famous French actress Sarah Bernard was among women who wanted to attract Tesla’s attention. Marguerite Merington, a piano player, and later a journalist and a writer, was one of the women who made the deepest impression on Tesla.
- Boško Budisavljević, Tesla’s grandnephew, speaks about interesting facts from Tesla’s childhood. He thinks that he has solved the enigma who could be the only Tesla’s undestined love. He has read the notes of his mother Dana saying that Tesla remained a single man all his life because he loved a woman he shouldn’t have loved. Budisavljević thinks that this „fatal“ woman in Tesla’s life could be Milica Mandić, a daughter of Tomo Mandić, whom Tesla met in 1875 in Tomingaj when he was recovering of cholera.
Tesla and God:
It could frequently be noticed that Tesla in his description of natural phenomena used the terminology of the ancient Sanskrit language. As far back as 1891 he described the universe as a kinetic system filled with energy which can be reached from any point on our or any other planets. The nature of matter, anti-matter or the atomic structure is described in the Vedas in detail. There were few people who could recognize the traces of ancient Indian philosophy in Tesla’s texts. None of Tesla’s friends knew when this encounter with Vedic knowledge took place. Once when asked if he believed in God and to which religion does he belong, he answered: “In my heart I am deeply religious, though not in the orthodox sense of that word. I am dedicated to the belief that the greatest secrets of our being still remain to be explained.” Tesla studied the natural laws of the cosmos and arrived at new knowledge and discoveries, but he thought that the time was still not ripe to commit his discoveries to the public. He proposed to a famous artist, scientist and writer Walter Russell to lock their joint discoveries and hide them so that no-one could find them in the next 1000 years, until humanity becomes ripe enough to know them. Precisely due to new discoveries Tesla often said to other scientists: “Today is your day, my day is still coming. I am an inventor of the future.”
Strange Aversions:
He had an aversion toward female earrings, especially pearls. The smell of camphor caused him discomfort. He counted the steps when walking, calculated the volume of food. In his life, everything had to be divisible with 3. He therefore lived in room 3327 in the Hotel New Yorker, on the 33rd floor. He didn’t want to touch another person’s hair. Tesla used to say that in his desire to compensate to his parents the loss of his brother Danilo (some accused Tesla of his death) he subjected himself to a Spartan discipline. He trained his memory and telepathy even as a child. He had the capacity of visual memory to the smallest detail. When he was only three, he got acquainted with electricity by means of his tom-cat. When pulling him by the tail the back of the cat bathed in light. It was a new experience which will later lead Tesla to become a famous inventor. “Is nature one large cat? If it is, who is pulling her by the tail? It can only be God” concluded Tesla.
He had a theatrical approach when dining: arriving at dinner in an evening suit, at exactly the precise time, being escorted to his table, the service of the chief waiter, 12 napkins for wiping the hands and tableware. He regularly took a glass of warm milk.
Tesla inherited a deep repulsion towards wars from his father. Therefore, in various moments of inspiration during his whole life, he proposed technological ways to stop wars. Tesla said that „death rays“ could prevent wars by making the invisible Chinese wall around each country. Tesla was also thinking about the use of the rays for peaceful purposes, and one of his ideas was the long distance wireless power transmission. We can only speculate whether Tesla’s idea has ever been seriously understood. The opinion of the majority of modern-day scientists is that this idea can’t be realized.
Brain Control and Will:
Tesla’s success was achieved owing to his exercises in his childhood. Visualisation and self-control helped him in all his discoveries and inventions. In his autobiography „My Inventions“, Tesla says: „So I have unawarely developed, as I have thought, a new method of restoring invention related thoughts and ideas, the method which is radically opposite to a pure experimenting, and in my opinion, much faster and more effective. My method is different. I never hurry to start the practical work. When I have an idea, I immediately begin to build it in my imagination. I change the structure, improve it, make it perfect and already make it move in my thoughts. In this way I can develop and improve the idea without touching anything.“
Once I got the novel Abafi (Abe’s Son) written by a famous writer Josika. This novel woke up my sleeping power of willl and I began to exercise self-control. In the beginning by decision melted like April snow, but soon I conquered my weakness and felt joy as never before – I did what I wanted to do. As time went by, this powerful spiritual exercise became my second nature. In the beginning I had to repress my wishes, but in this way my wish was gradually identified with my will.“
Resources:
https://www.unt-genius.hr/EN/index.html
https://www.unt-genius.hr/EN/biography.html
http://www.teslacollection.com/Rudež, Muljević, Petković, Paar, Androić : Nikola Tesla – Explorer,Inventor,Genius