“The last person to talk about this died in 1943, and his name was Nikola Tesla.”
Ellis Oswalt stated on Radio Belgrade.
A free event at Belgrade’s Ada Mall with musical performance by Sister’s Gobović, sponsored by Alex Pertini.
The young American author traveled to Serbia to speak about the visions that plagued Tesla for his entire life, and the new book, Tesla’s Words. A few days before, he said something similar on live television for K1 Morning:
“A lot of people get angry and think I’m making this up, but it comes directly from Nikola Tesla. These are his words, not mine.” Oswalt explained:
“It is often said that Tesla had a photographic memory, and he could ‘see things in his mind’ but there are many of his quotes I can use to show he was also seeing things ‘outside’ his mind. In other words, hallucinations. He has this quote saying he would wave his arm and watch his hand go right through a hallucinated object he was seeing.
So, when people say he 'saw things in his mind’—I have no doubt this was also true, but he is telling us that he also sees things outside, in his direct field of vision.
Hallucinations.
At one point, Tesla even uses this word to describe it.”
A quote from Tesla about his “affliction.”
Source:
Electrical Experimenter (magazine)
February, 1919
My Inventions: Part I
By Nikola Tesla
(Read it here for free)
A quote from Tesla about his hallucinations.
Source:
Electrical Experimenter (magazine)
February, 1919
My Inventions: Part I
By Nikola Tesla
(Read it here for free)
At a press center on Knez Mihailova, Ellis gave more detail in an hour-long lecture Nikola Tesla: Decades of Wisdom from his Interviews in American Media:
“One reason this is always brushed aside is because people say this was only for a short period of time in Tesla’s childhood. Well, I can show this is not true… according to Nikola Tesla. He did say it was most intense in his childhood, but he speaks about this at all stages of his life. Let’s take a look at this quote from his autobiography.”
A quote from Tesla about his visions.
Source:
Electrical Experimenter (magazine)
February, 1919
My Inventions: Part I
By Nikola Tesla
(Read it here for free)
Oswalt chimes in with helpful commentary, saying:
“Notice at the beginning of this quote he says ‘when I close my eyes.’
This is present tense. He is writing this at the age of 62 in the year 1919.
'When. I. Close. My. Eyes.'
Not 'When I closed my eyes as a young boy.’
He is talking about himself now, at the age of 62.
This is his life’s experience.”
A quote from Tesla about his visions.
Source:
Electrical Experimenter (magazine)
February, 1919
My Inventions: Part I
By Nikola Tesla
(Read it here for free)
With another audience at American Corner Belgrade, he humbly admits:
“I am not a historian or a scientist. I don’t have a Ph.D. But I searched through every book and film about Tesla in the English language trying to find more information, and no one has ever talked about this. I don’t know how this is possible. I don’t even know what any of this means…
I became a small expert on Tesla in the process, and I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Australian Associated Press when they needed help to identify if a quote was a fake or not.”
The author explained that Nikola Tesla’s autobiography is unique compared to his abundance of other writings:
“Tesla was a superb communicator. His other writings are easy to follow. But the six magazine articles that make up his autobiography are oddly disorganized. According to a book published by the Belgrade Tesla Museum for Tesla’s 150th birthday, these articles were rushed during production. The editor was frustrated by Tesla’s inability to meet deadlines, and Tesla himself was concerned, obsessively, with matters of science.”
He adds:
“I had been working on this project for years already, and when I found this book published by the Tesla museum suggesting that there is something rushed about his autobiography, I said,
‘Ahh, I knew it!’ ”
Tesla’s autobiography was written in 1919, but it a difficult reading experience, almost on par with works of Shakespeare’s time. There are a myriad of strange obstacles making the text demanding for a casual reader, but Oswalt notes forgotten clues scattered all throughout the document.
Tesla’s Words serves this on a silver platter for the reader in the form of a story. This unique 200-page novella sheds new light on history’s best super-genius.
what people are saying:
“A startling peek into the mind of a true genius.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Ellis is an extraordinary talent. His communication skills are fascinating.”
—Dr. Branimir Jovanović
Nikola Tesla expert, author, & aerospace engineer
“…Reading of this book was a spiritual experience.”
—Dr. Vujo Knezević
Neurosurgeon;
Tesla Forum of Western Australia
5/5 stars
"TESLA’S WORDS is a short book… yet readers will learn as much about Tesla from this as they might from a scholarly 600-page biography."
—IndieReader
“Tesla in his own words. Great read by Ellis Oswalt.”
—John Nosta
WHO Roster of Experts; Google Health Advisory Board;
former Chief Creative Officer & Chief Strategic Officer of Ogilvy CommonHealth
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Serbian poet Maja Herman-Sekulić PhD (middle).
Ilustrovana Magazine
Fr. Oliver Subotić PhD (left) author of Tesla: Spiritual Character.
Serbian author Maja Cvetkovic-Sotirov PhD (left).
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Oswalt signs copies of Tesla’s Words for Serbian journalist Aleksandra Otasević.
