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Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation's

Centennial Celebration Program of Speakers

CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY, NOVEMBER 15,1996

Attendees are invited to lake a few minutes during the conference to look at exhibits put together by high schools from around Western New York. The exhibits highlight art, history and technology related to the 100-year anniversary event.

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6 Effects of Testa's Life & Inventions

Andrija Puharich, MO, LLO circa 1985

SECTION ONE

From Birth to Arrival in the U.S.

Nikola Tcsla was bom under the Austro-Hungarian empire in the village of Smiljan in the region of Lika, in the mountains of present-day northwestern Yugoslavia. The simple little village looks very much today as it did some one hundred and twenty years ago. His father, Milutin, a priest of the Orthodox Serbian Church, and his mother, Djuka, received the newborn Nikola into this world at midnight between 9 July and 10 July 1856. Although young Nikola's life was idyllic up to the age of seven, he later wrote that during this early formative period, he was weak and vacillating, "a slender reed moved around by every emotional breeze." He lived in the great spaces of the mountains and benefited from his background in the "literary" world so that he was able to read and write at a very early age. I put the word literary in quotes because his mother had not been taught to read and write, which was the common lot of women in that day and age.

This phase of his life was abruptly ended by the death, due to injuries suffered by a fall from a horse, of his elder brother, Dane, age 14. So great was the shock to all in the family that Nikola's father could not bear the familiar surroundings of Smiljan and decided to leave the scene of the tragedy. The family moved to a nearby town, Gospic, which was noted as a market center of some 3000 people.

The shock of his only brother's death, and the departure from the cozy familiarity of nature had a profound effect on the seven-year-old Nikola. He suddenly became a recluse and began to live in his father's library, and in the local library, devouring every book that he could read and uderstand. It was during this unusual and early encounter with books that Tesla first became aware that he possessed unusual mental powers. Much later, he gives us a glimpse of thesepowers:

"In my boyhood, I suffered from a peculiar affliction due to the appearance of images, often uccompanied by strong flashes of light, which marred the sight of real objects, and interfered with my thought end action. They were pictures of things and scenes which I had really seen, never of those I imagined. When a word was spoken tome, 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, although 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 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 witnessed a funeral or some such nerveracking 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 effort, to banish it. Sometimes it would even remain fixed in space though I pushed my hand through it.

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